Strawberry Compote

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Find out how to make this light and lovely strawberry compote recipe and boost breakfast, lunch and dessert with this most delicious of summer fruits.

Servings: (makes about 2 cups)

Author: Helen Best-Shaw

Prep Time3

Cook Time10

Ingredients

400 g strawberries - 1
3 tbsp caster sugar
2 tbsp lemon juice - fresh

Optional

1 tsp cornflour/cornstarch

Metric - USA Cups

Instructions

Wash the strawberries and remove the leaves and hulls. Cut the berries in half, or into quarters for larger fruit.
400 g strawberries
Put the strawberries in a saucepan and add the sugar. Then juice the lemon and add the juice to the pan.
3 tbsp caster sugar, 2 tbsp lemon juice
Bring to a gentle simmer, stirring all the time. Stir gently, as you want a compote with pieces of fruit and not a smooth puree.
The strawberries will release their juice and this will combine with the sugar to make a thick syrup. This takes about 5–10 minutes.
If the compote does not thicken, you can use a little cornflour (see notes).
1 tsp cornflour/cornstarch
When you are happy with your compote, transfer to a storage container, cover and store in the fridge once cold.

Notes

1 - When buying strawberries make sure they are red all over, with no unripe white fruit around the stalks. Turn the punnet over and look at the ones at the bottom too, as these tend to go bad first. Our of season use frozen strawberries.

2 - I use golden caster sugar - white or golden granulated is also fine.

Storage

Fridge – Cover your strawberry compote and move it to the fridge as soon as it is cold. Stores for about five days.

Freezer – Once cool transfer to a watertight container and freeze. Because of the sugar the sauce will not freeze solid so keep the container upright or the sugary juice will slowly leak out and make the everything beneath it sticky.

Defrost overnight in the fridge to use.

Hints and tips

Treat your strawberries gently, restricting the heat to a very gentle simmer and stirring carefully to dissolve the sugar without breaking up the fruit. You want a compote and not a strawberry coulis or sauce.

• Please note that the nutrition information provided below is approximate and meant as a guideline only.

• Unless stated otherwise cup conversions have been made with an online tool. For accuracy please check with your favoured conversion tool. We recommend buying inexpensive digital kitchen scales.