You will love how easy it is to make this sweet Blueberry Sauce. It’s a wonderful topping at breakfast or dessert!
This is a wonderful sauce to have in your repertoire! It’s delightfully sweet and a delicious accompaniment to breakfast dishes like pancakes, muffins and crêpes. It also plays quite nicely with desserts, like spooning some over vanilla ice cream, or layering it in a parfait.
This is the Blueberry Sauce I use in many desserts, including Blueberry & Toasted Marshmallow Milkshakes, Blueberries & Cream Rustic Mille Feuille in Cinnamon Blueberry Icebox Cake. It’s just so versatile!
Why you’ll love it
Just as appealing as its versatility is that this sauce is really easy. Throw everything into a pan and in fifteen minutes or so you have this fruity sauce. Your hungry fans will cheer, and maybe even do that dramatic slow-clap-building-to-fast-clap for you.
It’s a wonderful way to put fresh blueberries to use if you’ve picked some or found them on sale at the store – and if you don’t have fresh berries, you can make this sauce with frozen blueberries. Easy!
How to make this Blueberry Sauce
Step 1: Put everything in the pan
Stir together blueberries, sugar and lemon juice in a medium saucepan, and bring it to a simmer over medium heat. Cook the berries for about five minutes until it starts to thicken.
Step 2: Let it cool
Let the sauce cool for about five minutes. Serve it warm or chilled depending on the dish.
Tips
- To chill the sauce for a later use or to store it, let the pan of sauce sit until it is at room temperature. Transfer the sauce to a mason jar or other container and cover.
FAQs
Keep the blueberry sauce in a sealed container in the fridge for up to two weeks.
Enjoy Blueberry Sauce on ice cream, pancakes, waffles, crepes, French toast, cream puffs, on a spoon, over fresh fruit, swirled into quick bread batter or muffins, blended into milkshakes, layered with pastry and cream, over pound cake… really, anywhere you want a burst of rich blueberry flavor!
The recipe is below. Use the sauce in Toasted Marshmallow & Blueberry Milkshakes and spooned over flaky pastry in Blueberries & Cream Mille Feuille. And find more blueberry ideas here:
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Easy Blueberry Sauce
Ingredients
- 3 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
Instructions
- In a medium pan stir together the blueberries, sugar, water and lemon juice.
- Bring the mixture to a simmer over medium heat. Cook the sauce at a low simmer for about 5 minutes, continuing to stir often, until the mixture has thickened. Use the back of your spoon to smush some of the berries (do this carefully – don't get splashed) to help thicken the sauce. Remove the pan from the heat and allow the sauce to cool for 5 minutes. Serve while warm.
- To chill the sauce or to store it, let the pan of sauce sit until it is at room temperature. Transfer the sauce to a mason jar or other container, and cover. Store it in the fridge for up to one week.
- Makes 2 cups of sauce.
Notes
- To chill the sauce for a later use or to store it, let the pan of sauce sit until it is at room temperature. Transfer the sauce to a mason jar or other container and cover.
- Keep the blueberry sauce in a sealed container in the fridge for up to two weeks.
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