Description
This 15-minute easy homemade strawberry-blood orange sauce is a super tasty way to top all your favorite cheesecakes, pancakes, french toast, strawberry shortcake scones, and ice cream sundaes. Avoid buying storebought syrups or sauces which can be full of preservatives and loaded with sugar because all you need is fresh (or frozen) strawberries a single Sicilian blood orange (or a good Florida or California variety) and a little sugar to make this really delicious sauce. The best part — you get to control the sweetness and it tastes great on just about everything (even by the spoonful♡). Double the recipe and freeze it for an easy dessert or pancake topper for Easter Brunch, or Mother’s Day. For anyone who may be new to cooking (or for little kitchen helpers), I’ve included step-by-step photos at the end of the post.
Ingredients
- 5 ounces strawberries (about 10 medium to large strawberries), sliced (150g)
- 3 1/2 ounces flesh only from 1 Tarocco blood orange, supremed (100g)
- 3 1/2 to 4 tablespoons granulated white sugar, or more to taste (45g)
Instructions
- Measure the ingredients. In a small heavy-bottomed pot, add the strawberries, blood orange flesh, and sugar.
- Cook the sauce. Heat the mixture to a boil, reduce the heat to a simmer, and cook stirring frequently to avoid scorching for 15 to 20 minutes or until the strawberries are mostly broken down and the mixture coats the back of a spoon (as seen in the berry sauce photo example below). Remove it from the heat and allow it to cool completely if you desire a chunky sauce. For a completely smooth sauce, use an immersion blender to break up the fruit, or add the sauce to the bowl of a food processor, Vitamix, or another blender and process until smooth. You may refrigerate or freeze the jam sauce once it has cooled to room temperature. Enjoy!
Notes
- You may add a little zest from the blood orange, but it may make your sauce a tiny bit bitter. However, the zest from regular Navel oranges and other typical grocery store varieties usually don’t have bitter zest. I’ve just noticed with Tarocco blood oranges (which have super sweet and not bitter at all flesh), sometimes have bitter zest.
- When the sauce is ready, it will coat the back of a spoon and when you swipe a finger through it, the swiped area should remain clean without any sauce dripping down into the “clean” just-swiped area.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Sauces + Spreads + Dips
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/4 cup
