Make homemade raspberry sauce (aka raspberry coulis) for your desserts or breakfast using fresh raspberries with this simple 4-ingredient recipe. When raspberries aren’t in season, you can use frozen raspberries instead.

This raspberry dessert sauce is wonderful to have on hand, because you can use it to finish so many recipes, like cheesecake, brownies, pound cake, lemon cupcakes, or chocolate mousse pie. A selfmade 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 would even attempt mixing it with some glowing water, or embody it in a cocktail—the chances for this selfmade berry sauce are infinite!

Right here’s Why You’ll Love This Raspberry Sauce

• Contemporary-tasting, a bit tangy, & not overly candy
• Simply four straightforward substances plus water
• You should use recent or frozen raspberries… so handy
• Lower than 10 minutes on the range
• Pressure it or hold it thick & chunky
• Like salted caramel & lemon curd, it’s extraordinarily versatile and can be utilized on many dishes
• So good on straightforward cheesecake pie!

Seize These Substances:

1. Water & Cornstarch: Cornstarch frivolously thickens the sauce. You don’t want a lot, however you could mix it with a bit water earlier than utilizing, in any other case you’ll have lumps of powdery cornstarch in your completed sauce. Cornstarch is usually combined with water to make a “slurry” earlier than utilizing in sauces; see strawberry topping sauce for instance.
2. Contemporary or Frozen Raspberries: You’ll love that you may whip this sauce up within the summertime when berries are recent in season, or in the course of winter because the snow falls outdoors. I really love this sauce with frozen raspberries as a result of they’re sometimes frozen at their peak freshness and sweetness.
3. Sugar: An excessive amount of sugar can masks the pure berry flavors, so persist with just one/four cup (50g) on this recipe. In case your raspberries are extraordinarily tart, enhance to 1/Three cup (67g). This isn’t jam, so we don’t want an onslaught of sugar.
4. Lemon Juice: The sauce wants *one thing* to steadiness the berry and sugar, and lemon juice supplies that trace of freshness. Don’t depart it out or the sauce will style fairly flat. You can even add a splash of vanilla extract as soon as the sauce comes off warmth. (Vanilla is optionally available, however tasty!)

Raspberries are so handy—no chopping or peeling required.

Simply four Steps to Make This Raspberry Sauce

This raspberry sauce cooks on the range in slightly below 10 minutes. It’s much like the swirl recipe we use in these white chocolate raspberry cheesecake bars.

1. Mix substances collectively on the range.
2. Boil combination whereas stirring often.
3. Non-obligatory: Press the combination by means of a fine mesh strainer, to take away the seeds.
4. Let cool.

Strained vs. Preserving the Seeds

When strained, this sauce is on the skinny facet, as sauces go, and nice for drizzling. This strained model is often known as a raspberry coulis. When you’d choose a thicker sauce and don’t thoughts the seeds, you possibly can skip Step Three 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 fine mesh strainer:

Or hold it chunky:

This recipe yields about 1 cup of raspberry sauce if straining, or about 1 and half of 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 below are many recommendations:

• Take pleasure in drizzled on scones, crepes, muffins, waffles, or whole 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 food 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 beneath)
• Unfold on homemade biscuits, croissants, and toasted English muffins
• Stir a couple of spoonfuls into whipped cream or whipped frosting and use as garnish on desserts

What’s going to you utilize it for?!

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