Easy Roasted Strawberries
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Looking for a fresh way to use strawberries this strawberry season? Use those fresh strawberries to make these luscious Roasted Strawberries, you won’t be sorry! Use them anywhere you might use fresh strawberries like on a smoothie bowl or in a strawberry shortcake. The long slow roast on these berries brings out a refreshingly different flavor in strawberries, they have more depth than most strawberries ever have.
Do I need a lot of sugar to roast strawberries?
One of the best parts of this recipe is that you use very little sugar, about 2 teaspoons per quart of berries. That’s not much sugar at all. Roasting strawberries brings out their natural sweetness and an intense strawberry flavor so you don’t need a lot of sugar.
If your berries are super sweet you can cut down that sugar to a teaspoon of sugar. And if they’re anything like the storebought berries we get here in Alaska they’re probably going to be more sour than sweet. In that case, add a little extra sugar.
Wondering how to tell if your berries have enough sugar? Add the sugar a teaspoon at a time to the cut-up berries. Then simply taste one. If it’s sour add a bit of extra sugar. It they taste just about right then you know you’ve got enough on them.
Remember roasting amplifies their sweetness so you really don’t need too much. And because you’ll be watching them the entire time you can taste them for sugar and add more to the berries anytime.
What do I need to Make Roasted Strawberries?
- fresh strawberries, you can even use slightly overripe strawberries
- granulated sugar
- salt
- medium bowl
- rimmed baking sheet
- parchment paper
Want to Change Them Up?
You can use
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You can also split the bean and scrape the seeds into the sugar, this makes a very aromatic
You can also add up to a teaspoon of
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What To Do with Roasted Strawberries?
- Serve them over fresh yogurt
- serve them over ice cream
- use them instead of jam on toast or anywhere you use jam
- make fruit on the bottom yogurt cups for lunch or snacks in small mason jars
- PB&Roasted Strawberries
- Drizzle them over the Crostini INSTEAD of Figs and Honey in this Fig Crostini Recipe-you won’t be sorry!
- Serve them over Air Fryer French Toast or pancakes
Can I Can Roasted Strawberries?
If you want to make roasted strawberry jam I would suggest looking up a real roasted strawberry jam recipe. This recipe doesn’t have enough sugar in it and therefore may not be safe for canning.
When you’re canning you either need to have sugar OR an acidic product to be shelf-stable unless you’re pressure canning it. So when you’re looking for a recipe to make roasted strawberry jam please be sure it’s got enough sugar.
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Roasted Strawberries
Ingredients
- 1 quart strawberries
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- pinch salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla *optional
Instructions
- preheat oven to 300˚
- clean berries by removing the hull, cutting off any blemishes, and splitting the berries in half, larger berries can be cut in slices
- cover a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper
- put the berries on the baking sheet
- sprinkle with the sugar, taste for sweetness, adding more if necessary
- cook for 20 minutes and stir mixing all the juice over the berries
- continue cooking for 80 minutes total, stirring every 20 minutes
here they are at 40 minutes
60 minutes
80 minutes - when the juice starts to thicken up its time to take the berries out and let them cool
- the juices will thicken up more as the berries cool
