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Easy Plum Compote

31 October 2025 at 08:44
A quick and easy plum compote with a hint of cinnamon. This easy plum compote is incredibly simple and easy to make with only a few ingredients. It is the perfect topping for.your desserts, pancakes, waffles, cakes,  ice cream and more.
Easy Plum Compote

This homemade plum compote is bursting with fresh plum flavor! It is sweet, slightly sour from the natural sourness of plum and lime, and a beautiful flavor from cinnamon. This plum compote is so delicious and all you need are a few ingredients and less than 15 minutes to make this delicious plum compote.

Create a cozy fall treat with this delightful plum compote. Enjoy it warm or chilled as a delicious topping or filling to your favorite breakfast or dessert.

This easy plum compote is made with fresh plum, sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon and water. This easy 5 ingredient plum compote is sweet, chunky, and bursting with beautiful flavor. It’s a perfect topping for pancakes, cakes, waffles, yogurt, ice cream and more.

If you’ve not yet tried or attempted to make your own plum compote, you can try out this recipe and I am sure you will love it!

INGREDIENTS TO MAKE EASY PLUM COMPOTE

This section explains what all ingredients is used in making the easy plum compote, how to use or choose certain ingredients and substitution options. For measurements, see the recipe card below.

PLUM –  Fresh plums are used here, but frozen berries will work just as well. You can use any variety of plums available with you.

LEMON JUICE – Freshly squeezed lemon juice is used.  It also add a bright flavor as well as a boost of natural pectin to help thicken the blueberry sauce.

CINNAMON – I’ve used cinnamon powder. You can also use cinnamon stick. You can discard the as stick once the compote is ready. Cinnamon gives it a nice hint of spice that’s great for fall.
SUBSTITUTION – You can use vanilla extract or essence or can totally skip it.

SUGAR – Sugar is used to slightly sweeten the sauce and balance the tartness from the lemon and the plum. You can add the sugar as per the sweetness of your plum, especially if the plums are off-season and not very sweet.
SUBSTITUTION – You use maple syrup to sweeten the compote but you can also use honey for a non-vegan version if you’d like.

WATER – Very less water is used to cook the plum.

HOW TO MAKE EASY PLUM COMPOTE

This section shows how to make blueberry sauce with step-by-step photos and details about the technique with video tutorial. For full ingredients measurements, see the recipe card below.

I made a simple video of this easy plum compote recipe for my readers which I have shared below. Please do watch to know how I made this delicious recipe. If you liked the video please do SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t yet. Also like, share and comment on it! It will mean a lot to me and really motivate me to come up and shoot more videos for my readers. As always I’m looking forward to your feedback!

STEP BY STEP PICTORIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO MAKE EASY PLUM COMPOTE

Wash the plum and pat them dry with clean kitchen towel.

Plum sauce recipe

Now roughly chop the plum into medium pieces.

Chop plum

Add in the plum pieces, water, sugar and cinnamon powder in a sauce pan. Bring it to a boil over high heat.

Reduce the heat to medium and cover the pan. Cook for about 8-10 minutes or until the plum is tender and mixture is syrupy. We prefer the compote with some chunks.

Plum Compote preparation

Note: If you prefer a mashed texture, use a potato masher or the back of the ladle to mash the plum as it cooks.

Add in the lenon juice and give a quick stir.

Remove pan from heat and allow to cool down completely.

Transfer the plum compote onto a sterilized jar. Store in a refrigerator for longer shelf life and use a clean spoon on every serving.

Indian Plum

NOTES:
● You can also use frozen plums.
● Lemon juice is optional.
● Use beautifully ripe plums as you’ll get the best flavour that way.
● Use sugar as per the sweetness of your plums. You can add more if your plums are not very sweet.
● A pinch of salt can he added to enhance the flavor of the compote.
● Cinnamon is optional
● You can also use maple syrup or honey for the sweetner.
● You can also add some lemon zest for the extra punch of flavor.
● Refrigerate the compote for longer shelf life.
● You can follow the same recipe and make other fruit compote – blueberry, cranberry, raspberry, black currant, mulberry etc.
● Store in clean jars and refrigerate for longer shelf life.

RECIPE CARD

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Easy Plum Compote

A quick and easy plum compote with a hint of cinnamon. This easy plum compote is incredibly simple and easy to make with only few ingredients. It is the perfect topping for.your desserts, pancakes, waffles, cakes,  ice cream and more. 
Course Condiment
Cuisine American
Keyword filling for cakes, sauce, spread
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes
Servings 300 Grams
Author Akum Raj Jamir

Equipment

  • sauce pan

Ingredients

  • 300 Grams Plum
  • 60 ml Water (¼ cup)
  • 50 Grams Sugar (¼ cup)
  • ¼ Teaspoon Cinnamon powder Or 1 medium stick
  • 1 Tablespoon Lemon juice (15 ml)

Instructions

  • Wash the plum and pat them dry with clean kitchen towel.
  • Now roughly chop the plum into medium pieces.
  • Add in the plum pieces, water, sugar and cinnamon powder in a sauce pan. Bring it to a boil over high heat.
  • Reduce the heat to medium and cover the pan. Cook for about 8-10 minutes or until the plum is tender and mixture is syrupy. We prefer the compote with some chunks.
  • Note: If you prefer a mashed texture, use a potato masher or the back of the ladle to mash the plum as it cooks.
  • Add in the lenon juice and give a quick stir.
  • Remove pan from heat and allow to cool down completely.
  • Transfer the plum compote onto a sterilized jar. Store in a refrigerator for longer shelf life and use a clean spoon on every serving.

Video

Notes

  1. You can also use frozen plums.
  2. Lemon juice is optional.
  3. Use beautifully ripe plums as you’ll get the best flavour that way.
  4. Use sugar as per the sweetness of your plums. You can add more if your plums are not very sweet.
  5. A pinch of salt can he added to enhance the flavor of the compote.
  6. Cinnamon is optional
  7. You can also use maple syrup or honey for the sweetner.
  8. You can also add some lemon zest for the extra punch of flavor.
  9. Refrigerate the compote for longer shelf life.
  10. You can follow the same recipe and make other fruit compote – blueberry, cranberry, raspberry, black currant, mulberry etc.
  11. Store in clean jars and refrigerate for longer shelf life.

HOW TO USE PLUM COMPOTE

Speaking of serving, plum compote can be used in many ways. You will love homemade plum compote with many recipes too. It’s the perfect topping for so many things! Here’s are some listed below. But I’m sure you’ll find lots of other ways to enjoy it as well.
● Use as fillings in tarts, apple pie, cinnamon rolls, buns etc
● Pour it over ice cream, pancakes, waffles, toast etc.
● Drizzle it over cakes
● Spread it over cake filling in layer cakes and pastry cakes.
● Stir it into milkshakes.
● Drizzle it over brownies and cakes.
● Layered it in trifle.
● Pour into decorated jars and give it as a gift for the holidays or just like that.

WHAT IS THE SHELF LIFE OF THIS EASY PLUM COMPOTE ?

This easy plum compote will last for upto to 3-4 weeks in refrigerator. You can store your homemade plum compote in a sterilized jar preferably glass jar in the refrigerator. Use a clean spoon everytime you serve them.

MORE SIMILAR RECIPES:

Blueberry Sauce
Strawberry Sauce
Caramel Sauce
Mango Jam
Apple Sauce
Peanut Butter
King Chilli Sauce
Chocolate Sauce
Chocolate Ganache

Well, if you make this easy plum compote recipe I’ll be glad if you take out some time and rate the recipe and leave a feedback in the comments box below. You can also snap a photo and tag Akum Raj Jamir on Facebook and akumrajjamir on Instagram with hashtag #atmykitchen. I would love to see your creations.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog. I hope you liked the recipe. Your valuable feedbacks are always welcome, I love hearing from you guys and always do my best to respond to each and every one of you.

Plum Compote

Green Chilli Sauce Recipe

By: Aarthi
27 October 2025 at 01:40

Green chilli sauce is a spicy and flavourful dipping sauce made with green chillies, onion, garlic and vinegar. It is a popular Asian condiment that adds a burst of flavour when paired with noodles, fried rice, spring roll, manchurian and momos. Whether you're using this for marinating meats or using it as a dipping sauce,...

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Five Great Barbecue Sauces for Porktober!

Sauce is the lifeblood of American barbecue. Without it, Kansas City-style ribs would lack the sticky sweetness that keeps you licking your fingers. Carolina pulled pork would simply be a pile of shredded cooked Boston butt.

Traditional American barbecue sauces have always had an air of mystery. The lengthy ingredient lists. The complex layers of flavors. The secrecy bordering paranoia surrounding the recipe. The mythical pit masters who vow to take their secret sauce recipe to the grave.

Well, we’re about to break the code of silence. In honor of Pork-tober, here are five of our favorite barbecue sauces. Equally terrific on pork chops, tenderloin, ribs, and pork butts.

What’s even better: three of the sauces require only three ingredients. You read that right three ingredients!

So get out your saucepan and get cracking!

We at Barbecuebible.com wish you a happy Pork-tober!

Five Barbecue Sauces for Pork

North Carolina Vinegar Sauce

North Carolina Pulled Pork

Makes 2 cups.

This mouth-puckering condiment was America’s original barbecue sauce, and while a watery mix of cider vinegar, hot red pepper flakes, and salt and pepper may not seem like barbecue sauce to most Americans, North Carolina-style pulled pork just wouldn’t taste right without it. The vinegar counterpoints the fatty pork, while the black and hot peppers crank up the heat. In the western part of the state, ketchup is added for sweetness—a practice I’ve made optional here. Note: Some pit masters add liquid hot sauce in place of (or in addition to) hot red pepper flakes. Others add water to diminish the vinegary bite.

2 cups cider vinegar
1 to 2 tablespoons hot red pepper flakes
Salt and pepper (about 1 tablespoon of the former and 1 teaspoon of the latter)
2 tablespoons ketchup (optional)

Place the ingredients in a jar with a tight-fitting lid and shake until the salt dissolves. Alternatively, place the ingredients in a mixing bowl and whisk until the salt dissolves. To serve, mix with or spoon over pulled pork (smoked shredded or chopped pork shoulder). It’s also great with shredded barbecued chicken or duck.

South Carolina Mustard Barbecue Sauce

South Carolina Mustard Barbecue Sauce

Yield: Makes 2 cups.

South Carolina’s contribution to regional American barbecue is mustard sauce. BBQ buffs in these parts understand the wonders that mustard can work on pork; how the spice enhances the meat’s sweetness, while the acidity cuts through the fat. A good mustard sauce is a study in balance: the bite of mustard and mouth-pucker of vinegar offset by the sweetness of honey or brown sugar. Tradition calls for using ballpark-style mustard, which I’ve always found to be jarring on the taste buds. Call me a heretic, but I prefer the suaveness of Dijon-style mustard or a grainy mustard from Meaux in France.

2/3 cup Dijon-style mustard
2/3 cup dark brown sugar
2/3 cup cider vinegar
Salt and freshly ground black pepper (lots of pepper) to taste

Combine the ingredients in a saucepan and whisk to mix. Simmer for 3 minutes, then let cool to room temperature for serving.

Alabama White Barbecue Sauce

Big Bob Gibson's Pulled Pork Sandwich with White Barbecue Sauce

Visit Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q in Decatur, Alabama, and you’ll find a barbecue sauce unlike any on the planet. Created by a railroad man-turned-pit master in the 1920s, this piquant mixture of mayonnaise, vinegar, and black pepper has accompanied barbecued chicken for five generations of pit masters. Well, let me assure you, this singular sauce is equally delicious on pork. I know the mayo thing sounds strange if you’re not from Alabama, but take my word for it, it’s awesome.

Makes 3-1/2 cups.

2 cups mayonnaise
1 cup cider vinegar
1/2 cup prepared white horseradish (optional)
Freshly ground black pepper and salt (you’ll need about 2 teaspoons of the former and 1 teaspoon of the latter)

Place the ingredients in a deep mixing bowl and whisk until smooth. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Pineapple-Chile Salsa

Recipe courtesy of Cooking Light Magazine.

Pineapple Chile Salsa

Serve at room temperature over grilled pork or fish.

Stir together 2 cups finely chopped fresh pineapple (about 12 oz.), 2 thinly sliced scallions, 1 seeded and finely chopped red Fresno chile, 1/2 seeded and finely chopped serrano chile, 1 Tbsp. chopped fresh cilantro, 1 tsp. lime zest, and 1/4 tsp. kosher salt in a medium bowl. Serve immediately, or store covered in refrigerator up to 2 days.

Chipotle Molasses Barbecue

Chipotle Molasses Barbecue Sauce

Smoke and fire are what make barbecue barbecue and they’re about to electrify the sauce to go with it. The smoke comes from chipotles—Mexican smoked jalapenos. The fire comes from the chilies, plus Sriracha and horseradish mustard.

2 cups ketchup
1/4 cup Sriracha
1/4 cup horseradish mustard or Dijon-style mustard
1/4 cup bourbon whisky
1/4 cup molasses
2 tablespoons brown sugar (light or dark—your choice), or to taste
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon Sambuca
1 tablespoon minced chipotle chili with can juices (or to taste)
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Freshly ground black pepper

Combine the ingredients in a heavy saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce the heat and gently simmer the sauce, uncovered, until thick and richly flavored, 10 minutes. Correct the seasoning, adding pepper or sugar as desired. Let the sauce cool to room temperature for serving. Store in clean jars away from heat or light. Refrigerated, the sauce will last for at least a week.

Whether you like your pork tangy, sweet, smoky, or spicy, there’s a sauce here that hits the spot. Each one tells a story from a different corner of American barbecue, and every spoonful adds its own twist to the meat we love most. Fire up the grill, grab your favorite cut of pork, and taste your way through these classics.

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Passions-to-Profit: True Made Foods

5 September 2025 at 06:00

Passions-to-Profit: Celebrating the Barbecuing Entrepreneur

As the traditional end of summer, Labor Day also serves to celebrate the American work force and their commitment to productive, inventive and important contributions to our society. In this spirit of honoring America’s hard-working heroes, we’d like to dedicate the entire month of September to applaud the entrepreneurs who’ve applied their talents to making your barbecuing adventures more engaging…and tasty!

First-in-a-Series: True Made Foods; Family Legacy and Serendipity Converge

Ryan Mitchell grew up in barbecue. He was prepping hogs and tending the coals alongside his dad, Pitmaster Ed Mitchell, for as long as he could remember. While barbecue is in his blood, growing up alongside it was a constant chore. The unrelenting work around barbecue pits initially made Ryan want to forge his own path. Ryan earned a scholarship to play football at East Carolina University, and after graduation, went into investment banking. The 2008 financial crisis then changed everything for him—Ryan was given the choice of taking a severance or moving to Singapore. He chose the severance and turned the experience into a growth event. He took a look at his life and realized that his heart and heritage was really back in barbecue.

Ryan Mitchell

Planting the Seeds with a Perfect Partnership

We (the Mitchell family) have primarily been restauranteurs, but we’ve always wanted to launch our own BBQ Sauces and Rubs. We suffered a number of set-backs and prejudice when trying to launch our BBQ Sauces the first time in the 2000’s and kind of gave up on the idea for awhile. But then our current business partner, Abe Kamarck, reached out to us in 2017. He had launched a no sugar, all-natural ketchup brand, True Made Foods, and wanted to expand into BBQ Sauces and was looking for a Pitmaster partner. It was the perfect fit, since at the time my dad (Ed) had just been diagnosed as pre-diabetic and we have always wanted to bring BBQ recipes back to their roots and do something different from the wall of junk you currently find in the grocery store.

Ed and Ryan Mitchell - True Made Foods

Design Serves to Solve Challenges

We are still overcoming those obstacles! We’ve had lots of false starts and challenges along the way, too many to list here. The CPG space is brutal, probably tougher than the restaurant industry! One problem we have recently overcome was our labels. We let our old labels be influenced too much by the natural foods industry, so they did not represent the BBQ culture that is core to our identity. We have recently redesigned our labels to better represent our heritage. Yes, our products have no added sugars and are all-natural, but that is because we are true Pitmaster representing hundreds of years of family legacy. Our tradition and culture should lead and be the core message on our labels.

Ed and Ryan Mitchell with Sauce

The Difference is in the Details: Wholesome Ingredients

Our No Sugar BBQ Sauces are authentic, regionally-inspired recipes that date back to when before high fructose corn syrup and cane sugar became the major ingredients in every BBQ Sauce in the grocery store. We make BBQ Sauces for people who know.

True Made Foods

Our BBQ Sauces and Rubs are 100% natural with NO HFCS, Added Sugars, Stevia, Monk Fruit or any other non-nutritive sweeteners. Instead, we make our BBQ Sauces the way our ancestors did, with all natural, puréed spices, fruits and vegetables, providing real flavor and better performance on proteins and on the smoker.

Quite simply, they’re America’s basics, made better!

Recipe

Mama Mitchell’s Oven-Cooked Barbecued Shoulder

During the Holiday season and winter months the grills sat idle but grandmas oven cooked pork shoulder would always bring the backyard BBQ feeling inside. Savory spices, crushed red pepper vinegar sauce and crispy crackling pieces was a taste of heaven. I’ll never understand how one black pot could hold so much love!

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Strawberry Sauce / Easy Strawberry Sauce / Homemade Strawberry Sauce

6 February 2023 at 23:36
This strawberry sauce is incredibly simple and easy to make with only 3 ingredients. This homemade strawberry sauce is bursting with fresh strawberry flavor! It’s sweet and delicious and seriously takes less than 15 minutes to make.
Strawberry Sauce

This easy strawberry sauce is one of my favourite sauces to have on hand, especially when strawberry is in season. This strawberry sauce is amazing over anything from desserts to pancakes, waffles, pie, cheesecake, ice cream and many more!

3 ingredient homemade strawberry sauce is smooth, saucy, bursting with sweet strawberry flavor and it’s ready under 15 minutes. This is our favorite and easiest way to make strawberry sauce.

It is so satisfying to make something so simple. Sauces made from fruits are often so simple and quick to make with no artificial flavor and colour. They are bright with fresh flavor and amazing texture. They are wonderful with almost all dish!

Most importantly this strawberry sauce is so versatile. It can be used as a sauce, glaze, topping and filling. Isn’t it amazing? Whether you want to add a sweet strawberry touch to your cheesecake, ice cream, cakes, pancakes, waffles or any dessert, this versatile strawberry sauce is the perfect recipe to have on hand. It only requires three ingredients to create a delicious, fruity sauce that you’ll want to put on everything!

You can make a sauce with just about any berry the same way.

Strawberry glaze

WHY YOU ’ll LOVE THIS HOMEMADE STRAWBERRY SAUCE

● Only 3 ingredients
● Super simple and easy
● Quick and ready under 15 minutes
● No artificial flavor and colour
● No preservatives
● No thickeners required
● Made from fresh strawberries
● It’s versatile, can be used in almost everything

USES FOR STRAWBERRY SAUCE

There are endless uses for strawberry sauce. The sky is the limit! Such a gorgeous and insanely delicious strawberry sauce that’s so versatile. It really is as good as it looks – bursting with fresh strawberry flavor! Let me know how you serve your strawberry sauce.

● Cheesecake, no-bake cheesecake, cheesecake pie, mini cheesecake, cheesecake jars.
● Use as a flavouring for milk shakes and smoothies.
● Use as a filling and topping in cupcakes.
● Use as a filling in cake layers.
● Use it to add color and flavor in whipped cream and cream cheese frosting.
● Serve over pancakes, waffles, icecreams, yogurt, overnight oatmeal, oats porridge etc
● Spread over sandwich bread and buns
● Filling for homemade crepes
● Use it in cake batter to make strawberry sponge.
● Serve it over a panna cotta
● Use as layer in trifle and parfait
● Use to flavor custard
● Topping for tea cakes, pound cakes and muffins
● Pour it over tarts and tartlets 
● Serve with strawberry cake
● Freeze it to use as popsicles or as sorbet

Homemade strawberry sauce

INGREDIENTS YOU NEED TO MAKE STRAWBERRY SAUCE

This section explains what all ingredients is used in making the strawberry sauce, how to use or choose certain ingredients and substitution options. For measurements, see the recipe card below.

STRAWBERRIES: Coarse pureed fresh strawberries is used in this recioe. You can also use frozen strawberries.

LEMON JUICE: It helps to keep the flavor bright and also helps in longer shelf life. You can skip it as well.

SUGAR: We need sugar just enough to sweeten the sauce without taking away from the strawberry’s natural flavor.

HOW TO MAKE STRAWBERRY SAUCE?

This section shows how to make strawberry sauce with step-by-step photos and details about the technique with video tutorial. For full ingredients measurements, see the recipe card below.

I made a simple video of this strawberry sauce recipe for my readers which I have shared below. Please do watch to know how I made this delicious recipe. If you liked the video please do SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t yet. Also like, share and comment on it! It will mean a lot to me and really motivate me to come up and shoot more videos for my readers. As always looking forward to your feedbacks!

Strawberry Sauce Video Tutorial

STEP BY STEP PICTORIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO MAKE STRAWBERRY SAUCE:

Take the strawberries, rinse, pat dry with clean towel and diced them.

Fresh strawberries

Add them onto the hand chopper and make a coarse puree. You can use food processor to do this.

Fresh Strawberry Puree

In a sauce pan or heavy bottom pan add in the strawberry puree, sugar and lemon juice.

Place over medium heat and bring the mixture to a boil stirring occasionally. As it come to a boil the mixture will become thin and runny.

Put on the lid and cook over low-medium flame until the mixture thickens.

It will take approximately 10-12 minutes. Stir the mixture occasionally. Please note that the sauce will thicken up more as it cools down and even more after refrigeration.

Remove from heat and allow to cool down completely. Store in a sterilized airtight jar in refrigerator.

Making of Strawberry sauce

NOTES:
● You can also use frozen strawberries.
● Lemon juice is optional.
● Use beautifully ripe strawberries as you’ll get the best flavour that way.
● Use sugar as per the sweetness of your strawberry. You can add more if your strawberries are not very sweet.
● You can add 1-2 tablespoon cornstarch (cornflour) if you like. Make a slurry with little water and add in.
● You can follow the same recipe and make other fruit sauces – blueberry, cranberry, raspberry, black currant, mulberry etc.
● Store in clean jars and refrigerate for longer shelf life.

RECIPE CARD

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Homemade Strawberry Sauce

This strawberry sauce is incredibly simple and easy to make with only 3 ingredients. This homemade strawberry sauce is bursting with fresh strawberry flavor! It’s sweet and delicious and seriously takes less than 15 minutes to make.
Course Condiment
Cuisine American
Keyword homemade sauce, sauce, strawberry coulis, Strawberry topping
Prep Time 2 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 12 minutes
Servings 300 Grams
Author Akum Raj Jamir

Equipment

  • sauce pan
  • Spatula
  • hand chopper

Ingredients

  • 300 grams fresh strawberries
  • 2-3 tablespoon  sugar
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice

Instructions

  • Take the strawberries, rinse, pat dry with clean towel and diced them.
  • Add them onto the hand chopper and make a coarse puree. You can use food processor to do this.
  • In a sauce pan or heavy bottom pan add in the strawberry puree, sugar and lemon juice. 
  • Place over medium heat and bring the mixture to a boil stirring occasionally. As it come to a boil the mixture will become thin and runny. 
  • Put on the lid and cook over low-medium flame until the mixture thickens.
  • It will take approximately 10-12 minutes. Stir the mixture occasionally. Please note that the sauce will thicken up more as it cools down and even more after refrigeration.
  • Remove from heat and allow to cool down completely. Store in a sterilized airtight jar in refrigerator. 

Video

Notes

  1. You can also use frozen strawberries.
  2. Lemon juice is optional.
  3. Use beautifully ripe strawberries as you’ll get the best flavour that way.
  4. Use sugar as per the sweetness of your strawberry. You can add more if your strawberries are not very sweet. 
  5. You can add 1-2 tablespoon cornstarch (cornflour) if you like. Make a slurry with little water and add in.
  6. You can follow the same recipe and make other fruit sauces - blueberry, cranberry, raspberry, black currant, mulberry etc.
  7. Store in clean jars and refrigerate for longer shelf life.
Easy Strawberry Sauce

HOW TO STORE STRAWBERRY SAUCE?

Store strawberry sauce in an airtight container in the refrigerator. You can serve it warm or cold.

The sauce may thicken more in the fridge, so if it’s too thick to pour straight out of the fridge, you may want to warm it up a little bit in the microwave or on the stove.

WHAT IS THE SHELF LIFE OF THIS STRAWBERRY SAUCE?

It will go for upto 2-3 weeks provided it is handled carefully, highly recommend to use clean spoon in every servings. Store it in an airtight container in the fridge.

HOW TO FREEZE STRAWBERRY SAUCE?

It is very easy to freeze and store this strawberry sauce for later use when strawberry goes out of season. You can make a big batch of strawberry sauce and freeze some for easy use. This is how you can do it: Let the strawberry sauce cool down completely. Put the strawberry sauce in airtight containers or zip-top freezer bags. Freeze for up to three months (freeze the zip-top bags flat). You can even them in ice cube tray. Once freeze, unmold and store in ziploc bags in freezer. Thaw in the fridge overnight, then serve warm or cold.

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Thank you so much for stopping by my blog. I hope you liked the recipe. Your valuable feedbacks are always welcome, I love hearing from you guys and always do my best to respond to each and every one of you.

Happy Cooking!
Love Akum

Homemade strawberry sauce

Sweet Tasting No-sugar and Low-sugar Virginia-style Barbecue Sauces

No-sugar Shack Sauce, Low-sugar NOVA Sauce, Low-sugar Central-VA Sauce
At around the turn of the 20th century, sugar prices were affordable and manufacturers figured out that the sweet stuff makes just about everything taste better. Though controversial among barbecue purists in those days, increasing amounts of sugar were beginning to be added to barbecue sauces. 

Nowadays, the most popular commercial barbecue sauces are extremely sweet often including high fructose corn syrup, honey, brown sugar and molasses. Many people have developed a taste for sweet barbecue sauces but due to dietary changes for losing weight or other health reasons, they have had to give them up. If you are one of those people, here are some suggestions for sweet barbecue sauce recipes that you might find suitable. One of these Virginia-style barbecue sauces is tangy rather than sweet and contains no sugar or sweeteners. The other two sauces are sweet, low-sugar or no-sugar variations of Virginia-style sauces.

The first sauce is my extremely popular Shackleford Pounds barbecue sauce, or "Shack sauce" for short. This barbecue sauce was inspired by a 19th-century Virginia barbecue cook named Shackleford Pounds who lived in Pittsylvania, Virginia. You can read about his amazing story in my book Virginia Barbecue: A History. It is in the southside Virginia-style of sauce and contains no sugar whatsoever. You can find the recipe by clicking here.

The second sauce is of the the Northern Virginia-style. It is a low-sugar alternative to the sweeter sauces found in that region of Virginia that also contain fruit.

Low-sugar NOVA Barbecue Sauce

1/2 Cup Shack Sauce
1/2 Cup Low Sugar Ketchup
3 Tablespoons No Sugar Added Peach or Apple Jelly
Splash of Worcestershire Sauce
Juice of 1/2 a Lemon
Stevia to taste (optional)

Add all ingredients to a saucepan except the lemon juice. Whisk while heating over low heat. Do not boil. Heat the sauce while whisking it long enough for the jelly to melt. When the jelly has melted into the sauce, remove from the heat. Add the lemon juice and mix well. If you use artificial sweeteners, optionally you can add Stevia (or your favorite artificial sweetener) to taste.

The third sauce is a low-sugar sauce similar to what you will find in central Virginia.

Low-sugar Central Virginia Barbecue Sauce

1/2 Cup Shack Sauce
1/2 Cup Walden Farms Balsamic Vinaigrette
1/4 Cup Low-sugar or No-sugar Ketchup (optional)
3 Tablespoons of Worcestershire Sauce
Juice of 1/2 a Lemon
Stevia to taste

Mix all ingredients well. Add Stevia (or your favorite artificial sweetener) to taste.

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