My nanny has some thorn-less blackberry vines growing on her farm and I have been diligently picking some every time that I am up there. These berries are big and plump, and, yep, full of tiny annoying seeds. I wanted a sauce to go with the dairy free vanilla ice cream that I posted about last week, and I found this recipe at delish.com.
I tweaked it just a little and it was so good! The color was out of this world, and the flavor went perfectly with the ice cream. I bet this would also be great with angel food cake. I might have to try that, too! Angel food cake, homemade vanilla ice cream, and homemade blackberry sauce sounds pretty good to me.
2 cups fresh blackberries (You can also use frozen. Just let them soften up a little.)
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/8 cup water
1/2 tbsp. lemon juice
Bring the blackberries, sugar and water to a simmer over low-medium heat in a saucepan, stirring occasionally. Simmer for 5 minutes. While this was simmering, I mashed the berries with a potato masher.
Strain the sauce through a fine sieve into a bowl. Add the lemon juice. Chill until ready to use. I made mine the night before and the color really developed over night.
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This looks wonderful!
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this sounds awesome
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Delish! I love a good fruit sauce on just about anything! Ok…maybe not ANYTHING. 😉 Thanks for linking up on Recipes I Can’t Wait to Try!
We grow blackberries and this will be a perfect sauce for us to try. It looks delicious! Hope you are having a great week end and thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
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Miz Helen
Thank you so much for linking up on Whisking Wednesdays this week. I love blackberries and have never had it on ice cream before. This sounds so good! I hope you’ll come back again this week and link up another recipe or two!
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