Selfmade Blueberry Sauce comes collectively in only a few minutes. Strive a spoonful together with your morning yogurt or spooned over a stack of recent, scorching pancakes for a scrumptious deal with!
It’s not fairly spring right here in Ohio, however this weekend’s ample sunshine may have positively fooled you into considering we have been properly on our approach to blooming tulips and bike rides. Nonetheless, one step outdoors, made you rapidly notice that the air remains to be fairly darn chilly, however all of the sunshine had me craving spring flavors and fortuitously our fridge was stocked.
As I’ve talked about earlier than, we subscribe to the grocery supply service, Door to Door Organics, and earlier this week, I by chance ordered far too many half-pint containers of blueberries. I blame it on drowsily adjusting my order at 2 o’clock within the morning whereas we have been up with our sick little babe.
I considered freezing the blueberries for smoothies or snacking, however realized I already had a number of frozen luggage within the freezer. Since I had no plans of consuming blueberries with each meal, I made a decision to whip up a batch of home made blueberry sauce for our Sunday morning pancakes. And since I doubled the batch – see I instructed ya, I ordered manner too many – we have now loads leftover.
Selfmade blueberry sauce comes collectively on the stovetop in lower than ten minutes with only a few staple components: recent or frozen blueberries, water, sugar, lemon juice and cornstarch. And it’s completely scrumptious spooned over absolutely anything from pancakes and waffles to ice cream and cheesecake. We additionally love stirring a spoonful into vanilla, Greek-style yogurt with a sprinkle of granola for enjoyable and engaging afternoon snack.
Whether or not you’re serving this sauce up with breakfast, dessert or a noon snack, it’s certain to please the blueberry lover in your life and get you within the temper for spring!
Should you’re searching for extra breakfast concepts, you should definitely try my Olive Oil Banana Walnut Muffins and these unbelievable Lemon Raspberry Scones.
This Selfmade Blueberry Sauce put up was up to date from the archives. It initially appeared on My Baking Dependancy in 2011.
Selfmade Blueberry Sauce
Yield: about 8 servings
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook dinner Time: 5-10 minutes
Whole Time: quarter-hour
Substances:
- 2 cups recent or frozen blueberries
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons recent lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch, combined with 2 tablespoons chilly water
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Zest of 1 lemon (about 1 tablespoon), elective
Instructions:
- In a medium saucepan over medium warmth, mix the blueberries, 1/2 cup of water, sugar and lemon juice. Stir steadily, and convey to a low boil.
- In a small bowl, whisk the cornstarch with 2 tablespoons of chilly water.
- Slowly stir the cornstarch into the blueberries, taking care to not crush the blueberries. Simmer till the home made blueberry sauce is thick sufficient to coat the again of a metallic spoon, about 5 minutes.
- Take away from warmth and gently stir in vanilla and lemon zest.
Notes:
- The quantity of sugar that you simply use will depend upon the sweetness of your berries, merely alter the quantity to suite your style.
- If this sauce is simply too thick for you, slowly add in water till you attain the specified consistency.
- No lemons available? This home made blueberry sauce recipe tastes actually nice with orange juice and zest.
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