Make home made raspberry sauce (aka raspberry coulis) on your desserts or breakfast utilizing contemporary raspberries with this straightforward 4-ingredient recipe. When raspberries aren’t in season, you need to use frozen raspberries as an alternative.
This raspberry dessert sauce is great to have readily available, as a result of you need to use it to complete so many recipes, like cheesecake, brownies, pound cake, lemon cupcakes, or chocolate mousse pie. A home made raspberry sauce may even flip a easy bowl of vanilla ice cream right into a guest-worthy dessert. And don’t overlook breakfast like pancakes, waffles, oatmeal, or yogurt!
You might even attempt mixing it with some glowing water, or embody it in a cocktail—the probabilities for this home made berry sauce are limitless!
Right here’s Why You’ll Love This Raspberry Sauce
- Contemporary-tasting, a bit tangy, & not overly candy
- Simply 4 simple components plus water
- You need to use contemporary or frozen raspberries… so handy
- Lower than 10 minutes on the range
- Pressure it or preserve it thick & chunky
- Like salted caramel & lemon curd, it’s extraordinarily versatile and can be utilized on many dishes
- So good on simple cheesecake pie!
Seize These Elements:
- Water & Cornstarch: Cornstarch frivolously thickens the sauce. You don’t want a lot, however you could mix it with somewhat water earlier than utilizing, in any other case you’ll have lumps of powdery cornstarch in your completed sauce. Cornstarch is often combined with water to make a “slurry” earlier than utilizing in sauces; see strawberry topping sauce for example.
- Contemporary or Frozen Raspberries: You’ll love you could whip this sauce up within the summertime when berries are contemporary in season, or in the midst of winter because the snow falls exterior. I really love this sauce with frozen raspberries as a result of they’re sometimes frozen at their peak freshness and sweetness.
- Sugar: An excessive amount of sugar can masks the pure berry flavors, so follow just one/4 cup (50g) on this recipe. In case your raspberries are extraordinarily tart, enhance to 1/3 cup (67g). This isn’t jam, so we don’t want an onslaught of sugar.
- Lemon Juice: The sauce wants *one thing* to steadiness the berry and sugar, and lemon juice gives that trace of freshness. Don’t go away it out or the sauce will style fairly flat. You may also add a splash of vanilla extract as soon as the sauce comes off warmth. (Vanilla is elective, however tasty!)
Raspberries are so handy—no chopping or peeling required.
Simply 4 Steps to Make This Raspberry Sauce
This raspberry sauce cooks on the range in slightly below 10 minutes. It’s just like the swirl recipe we use in these white chocolate raspberry cheesecake bars.
- Mix components collectively on the range.
- Boil combination whereas stirring sometimes.
- Non-obligatory: Press the combination by a effective mesh strainer, to take away the seeds.
- Let cool.
Strained vs. Conserving the Seeds
When strained, this sauce is on the skinny aspect, as sauces go, and nice for drizzling. This strained model is also called a raspberry coulis. In case you’d want a thicker sauce and don’t thoughts the seeds, you may skip Step 3 altogether!
Right here is a photograph evaluating the 2 consistencies:
Combination could be very scorching proper off the range:
Pressure the nice and cozy combination with a effective mesh strainer:
Or preserve it chunky:
This recipe yields about 1 cup of raspberry sauce if straining, or about 1 and 1/2 cups if not straining.
Makes use of for Raspberry Sauce
There are such a lot of methods to take pleasure in this raspberry dessert sauce, and listed here are many recommendations:
- Get pleasure from drizzled on scones, crepes, muffins, waffles, or complete wheat blueberry pancakes
- Stir into yogurt, cottage cheese, or oatmeal
- Use as a filling for lemon cupcakes or lemon blueberry cupcakes
- Use as a topping for cream cheese pound cake, ice cream, angel meals cake, or pavlova
- Serve with chocolate treats like brownies, chocolate cake, and flourless chocolate cake
- Drizzle on choux pastry cream puffs or cheesecake, no bake cheesecake, and cheesecake pie (pictured under)
- Unfold on home made biscuits, croissants, and toasted English muffins
- Stir a number of spoonfuls into whipped cream or whipped frosting and use as garnish on desserts
What’s going to you employ it for?!
Description
This raspberry dessert sauce topping is contemporary, fast, & simple and provides desserts and breakfast dishes that little one thing additional! You need to use contemporary or frozen raspberries.
- Whisk the cornstarch and water collectively till all of the cornstarch has dissolved. (I simply use a fork to combine—very simple.) Mix cornstarch combination, raspberries, granulated sugar, and lemon juice in a small saucepan over medium warmth. Utilizing a wood spoon or rubber spatula, stir the combination, frivolously mashing the raspberries as they start to warmth.
- Carry to a boil and let it boil for 3 full minutes, stirring sometimes. Take away the pan from warmth and—if desired for a richer taste—stir in vanilla extract.
- Press the nice and cozy sauce by a effective mesh strainer to take away the seeds, if desired. I take advantage of the again of a spoon to press the liquid by the strainer, held over a bowl. It takes a pair minutes to actually squeeze all of it out.
- Be at liberty to serve heat over heat desserts, however it ought to be cooled to actually thicken up. Cool the sauce utterly at room temperature or within the fridge. The sauce will thicken barely because it cools, however the strained model remains to be liquid and ideal for drizzling.
- Cowl and retailer for as much as 1 week within the fridge.
Notes
- Freezing Directions: After the raspberry sauce cools utterly, freeze in a freezer-friendly container for as much as 3–6 months. Thaw on the counter or within the fridge. Heat up within the microwave or on the range, if desired.
- Berries Are Tart: In case your raspberries aren’t very candy, you might wish to enhance the sugar to 1/3 cup (67g).
- Thicker Sauce: In case you’d like a thicker sauce and don’t thoughts the raspberry seed texture, you may skip Step 3 utterly, and even attempt pureeing the combination in a blender as an alternative of straining.
- Different Berries: You’ll be able to substitute different berries corresponding to blueberries or blackberries with no adjustments to the recipe. Or do this strawberry sauce recipe.
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