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Homemade Strawberry Sauce – strawberry sauce easy recipe

I’ve made this strawberry sauce so many times I could probably do it blindfolded—though I wouldn’t recommend it. What’s better than a sweet, jammy drizzle over warm pancakes or ice cream that didn’t come from a squeeze bottle? Exactly. This strawberry sauce is shockingly simple, but it makes you feel like you’ve got dessert on lock. We’re talking about the kind of sauce that turns store-bought cheesecake into 'Oh wow, did you make this yourself?' It’s thick but not goopy, sweet but not cloying, and it smells like early summer at a roadside farm stand. And you can make it with fresh or frozen berries, depending on your level of fridge ambition. If you’ve got about 15 minutes and a saucepan, you’re halfway to dessert greatness. Let’s make something so good, you’ll start looking for excuses to drizzle it over everything. Yes, even toast. Don't knock it till you try it.
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Total Time15 minutes
Course: Desserts
Cuisine: American
Keywords: air fryer cookies easy recipes, butter swim biscuits easy recipes, cheesey potatoes easy recipe, chicken stirfry easy recipe, easy recipes for dinner, easy recipes ninja creami, strawberry sauce easy recipe
Servings: 6 servings
Author: Elena

Ingredients

  • 2 cups strawberries, hulled and halved (fresh or frozen)
  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 tsp cornstarch mixed with 1 tbsp water (optional, for thickening)

Instructions

  1. Toss the strawberries, sugar, and lemon juice into a small saucepan. Turn the heat to medium.
  2. Stir occasionally as the mixture begins to bubble and the strawberries soften—this takes about 8–10 minutes.
  3. Want it thicker? Stir in your cornstarch slurry and cook for another minute or two.
  4. Let it cool a bit before you start spooning it over literally everything in sight.