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Strawberry Rhubarb Sauce

Our fresh Strawberry Rhubarb Sauce is the perfect dessert topping for cheesecakes, ice creams, crepes, and any other desserts that you need a delicious fruit topping for. This sauce is easy to make from your fresh or frozen rhubarb and strawberries, and can be stored long term as a strawberry rhubarb sauce canning recipe if you wish.

If you love a chunky strawberry rhubarb sauce you can add extra bits of chopped strawberries and rhubarb for additional flavor and texture. This is an excellent idea if you are using the sauce in a crisp, crumble, or similar dessert.

Strawberry Rhubarb Sauce

You can easily grow rhubarb In your garden or even a small flower bed. This beautiful perennial bush arises every spring with huge leaves and delicious crunchy fruit.

We have a lovely big bush of it full of delicious red and green stalks, ripe for the picking. 

Can you freeze strawberry rhubarb sauce?

We have frozen three quarts of rhubarb and made a batch of this delicious dessert sauce. It is the perfect compliment to our scrumptious lemon cheesecake tarts. Freezing is a great way to preserve your fruits and any sauces or jams you have made with them.

This sauce will freeze well if not thickened. Be sure to omit the cornstarch if you are planning to freeze the sauce, or set aside any that you will be freezing before adding the cornstarch and enjoying.

  1. After the un-thickened sauce is cooked, cool it to room temperature
  2. Ladle the sauce into ziplock freezer bags and push all of the excess air out
  3. With an indelible marker label the bags with the date and name of the sauce
  4. Place the bags flat on a baking sheet and freeze solid
  5. Now your sauce is easily stacked frozen
  6. Freeze for up to 6 months

A look at the recipe

Prep the Rhubarb stalks:

  1. Cut off the leaves and discard. Rhubarb leaves contain oxalic acid which is poisonous
  2. Wash the rhubarb
  3. Cut into 1″ chunks
  4. Set aside additional cut rhubarb if you want a chunky sauce

Prep the Strawberries:

  1. Wash the strawberries and dry on a towel
  2. Remove the stems
  3. Cut each strawberry in half
  4. Set aside additional cut strawberries if you want a chunky sauce

Making the sauce

  1. Set all the sauce ingredients, except the cornstarch, in a 4 quart pan and bring to a boil on medium heat
  2. Reduce the heat to simmer and allow the sauce to low boil until the rhubarb and strawberries are broken down
  3. If you’re going to freeze the sauce remove from heat now and allow to cool to room temperature
  4. If you are serving the sauce immediately, thicken with cornstarch
  5. Allow the sauce to cool and serve 
  6. Store in the fridge in an airtight container up to one week

We recommend you add cornstarch sparingly so your sauce doesn’t become a jelly after cooling

The best thing about homemade? You can adjust the ingredients to suit your own family’s tastes. If you are looking to make a strawberry rhubarb sauce no sugar recipe, simply use your favorite sugar substitute or use pure maple syrup or raw honey as a healthier, natural sweetener.

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Enjoy this sauce over vanilla ice cream or yogurt

What flavor combinations go with rhubarb?

If you are looking to elevate this sauce and really make it stand out, consider adding additional flavor extracts or spices. Fruit sauces can quickly become overly sweet and somewhat one note, extra flavors will add depth and complexity to your sauce.

Orange and lemon compliment both rhubarb and strawberry without overpowering their flavors, or adding too much sweetness. Vanilla and almond can be used to bring warmth and depth to the sauce, while coconut brings a slightly tropical flair that would be excellent for summer desserts.

Pear is an often forgotten fruit, but would add a lovely sweetness that balances the tart rhubarb and compliments the acidity of strawberries. Some other flavors to play with would be ginger, rose, or even lavender.

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This sauce can easily be stored by canning

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Strawberry Rhubarb Sauce
Yield: 4

Strawberry Rhubarb Sauce

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes

Enjoy spring’s bounty with Strawberry Rhubarb Sauce. This delicious sauce is easy to make from your fresh (or Frozen) rhubarb and strawberries.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups rhubarb-sliced fresh or frozen rhubarb (for frozen, defrost and drain liquid out but do NOT squeeze the rhubarb)
  • 3/4 cup sugar(to taste)
  • 2 cups fresh strawberries, sliced (to taste)
  • 2 Tablespoons Cornstarch
  • 1/2 cup water as needed

Instructions

  • Place prepared water, rhubarb, sliced strawberries and sugar into a 2 quart pot on the stove on medium.
  • Bring it to boil. Add extra water if necessary to keep it from sticking.
  • Reduce heat to simmer and Boil 10 minutes stirring constantly.
  • When the rhubarb and strawberries are broken down the sauce is ready.
  • Thicken it by adding 2 Tablespoons cornstarch to a small bowl and mixing it with 2 Tablespoons water.
  • Add to your boiling rhubarb sauce and boil another minute or two until the sauce turns from milky to clear.
  • Remove from heat. Cool in the fridge until needed.

Notes

TO FREEZE: Do NOT freeze the thickened sauce if you use cornstarch per our instructions.

  1. INSTEAD freeze the sauce before thickening in heavy duty freezer bags.
  2. label the bags clearly
  3. freezes well for up to 6 months

To Use the frozen sauce: Defrost and set to boil in a two quart pan. Now add your thickener if you prefer per instructions.

Nutrition Information

Yield

4

Serving Size

1/2 cup

Amount Per Serving Calories 58Total Fat 0gSaturated Fat 0gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 0gCholesterol 0mgSodium 5mgCarbohydrates 14gFiber 3gSugar 5gProtein 1g

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