Strawberry, many favorite berry, is full of vitamins. You can enjoy it fresh, or you can make sauce from it. In the article we will consider several recipes for sauces.
Of course, it is best to use a fresh product, then the sauce will be more aromatic, but frozen berries can also be used.
Classic sauce recipe
To prepare it, we need half a kilogram of fresh strawberries, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, and the same amount of sugar.
Before preparing the sauce, strawberries must be peeled and thoroughly washed. At the next stage, add sugar and lemon juice to the berry. We mix all the ingredients with a blender. The resulting mixture must be wiped through a sieve and mixed well. We put in the refrigerator for cooling. Everything, the strawberry sauce is ready.
It can be used to prepare not only desserts, but also meat, fish dishes.
Cheesecake Strawberry Sauce Recipe
Take a pound of strawberries, two tablespoons of starch and one glass of sugar. Now mix 250 g of strawberries with sugar and send to a slow fire.
Those berries that remain must be grated with a blender and also sent to the pan. Now the whole mass must be brought to a boil. Reduce the fire and boil the strawberry sauce for about 5 minutes. Next, we dilute starch in 50 ml of water. Starch is gradually added to the sauce, stirring constantly. After that, the strawberry sauce is ready and they can be watered with cheesecake.
Light sauce with strawberry flavor for meat
To prepare it, we need 150 g of red wine, 2 tablespoons of brandy, about 20 pieces of medium-sized strawberries, half an orange, a pinch of cinnamon, 2 pieces of cloves, one lemon, as well as one lime, 1 teaspoon of mustard and the same amount of butter , a pinch of brown sugar, 4 tablespoons of water.
We begin the cooking process. Pour red wine, brandy into the pan, add cinnamon and cloves. Mix the mixture, bring to a boil and leave on low heat for about 10 minutes. We squeeze out juice from all citrus fruits (orange, lemon, lime). Then add mustard to the pan. Mix the whole mixture and bring to a boil again. Boil no more than 5 minutes. Cool and filter the sauce.
In the next step, cut each strawberry, mix with brown sugar and fry in butter. Do not forget to add water, otherwise the strawberries will burn. After we add water to the strawberries, keep it in a pan for no more than 1 minute.
Now put the third part of the strawberries to the side, and send the rest to the pan to the rest of the ingredients, mix everything with a blender until a homogeneous mass forms, which we pour over our meat. With the laid strawberries on top we decorate the dish.
Strawberry Panacotta Sauce
Cooking this sauce is not difficult. For six servings of dessert, you will need half a cup of boiled water, 3 tablespoons of sugar, 2 cups of strawberries.
Water must be mixed with sugar and put on fire. Bring to a boil and boil for about 3 minutes. Next, add pre-washed and chopped strawberries to the syrup. Cook until the berries are soft. Cooked strawberries need to be passed through a blender, add the remaining fresh strawberries. When serving dessert, strawberry sauce can be garnished with a mint leaf on top. This will give Panacotta a touch of freshness.
Spicy berry sauce
To date, you will not surprise anyone by the combination of seemingly completely incompatible ingredients in one dish. So, strawberry sauce with the addition of hot chili peppers has long been used by many culinary specialists in their dishes.
For a pound of strawberry, you need to take 10 g of chili pepper (dry chopped). We will also need three types of vinegar 170 g each: white and red wine, as well as balsamic. Prepare about 450 g of fine sugar, 10 g of fine salt and chopped ginger root. For lovers of spicy, you can still add 4 cloves of garlic. All ingredients are simultaneously placed in a pan. It is advisable that the pan has a thick bottom. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce heat and leave it on the stove for another 45 minutes. Remember to stir constantly. After the sauce has cooled, it must be passed through a blender. Then it can be bottled and sent for storage in the refrigerator.
The sharpness and sweetness of the sauce can be adjusted independently, depending on your own preferences. This sauce is perfect for meat, poultry. It can also be served with various types of green salads.