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Warm Black & Blueberry Sauce ~ a simple fruit sauce made with blackberries and blueberries with a tangy bite from the fresh lemon juice. With just a little sugar, this versatile sauce is great on just about everything!
More blackberry recipes coming soon!
Warm Black & Blueberry Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 cup blueberries (fresh or frozen)
- 1 cup blackberries (fresh or frozen)
- ½ cup water
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice (about 2 lemons)
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan, combine the berries, water, sugar and lemon juice. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat, then reduce to medium-low. Gently simmer the sauce, stirring frequently, until it thickens and reduces to about 1 cup, about 20 minutes. Remove from the heat and add the butter and vanilla. Stir until the butter is melted. Serve the warm sauce spooned over plain Greek yogurt, ice cream, biscuits, pancakes, waffles or a simple Angel Food or Pound cake.
- Refrigerate leftovers in a jar with a lid.
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If you don’t want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen but crave something fresh and sweet, fruit sauces are always a good choice!
Looking for more great berry recipes? We have a few bunch on SRFD and are featuring blueberry recipes this month. Click on the Blueberry widget below to explore fresh berry recipes. Another great way to enjoy berries is with ice cream – and we love our Lemon Ice Cream with a Blackberry Swirl and our easy Blackberry Frozen Yogurt sweetened with honey! There are so many amazing recipes out there in the world. Remember when we had to reply on index cards written by hand, and cookbooks that everybody had? I love having creative recipes only a click away. One recipe I’ve always wondered about is these BBQ Ribs with Blackberry Sauce from Living Locust. And I’m fascinated by this amazing Blackberry Chia Seed Jam from Two Peas & Their Pod!
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Deb
Sol delicious and so simple. Made this recipe exactly as is and it was fantastic spooned warm over vanilla ice cream.
Tricia Buice
Thanks for the feedback Deb – and for trying the recipe!
Delilah
Used as a topping for cheesecake as well as layering in parfaits between layers of full fat greek yogurt and whipped cream and berries. Perfectly tart and sweet. I think next time I will leave out the butter because although it is supposed to be served warm, when it cools it has teenie tiny solidified droplets of butter and it doesn’t look very appealing.
Tricia Buice
Sounds great Delilah – love the cheesecake topping! Thanks for the feedback and for commenting!
Agness of Run Agness Run
Wow! This is my kind of treat! I would love to prepare it soon, Tricia!
Tricia Buice
Thanks Agness – I hope you give it a try – so good on everything!
Susan Taylor-Fahnestock
Love this recipe. Made a double recipe for French Crepes. Would love to share a picture of them.
Tricia Buice
Oh I bet that was delicious Susan! You can reply to any of my emails with your photo. I would love to see it. If you’re on Instagram, tag me and I’ll stop by and give it some love. Thanks for the feedback!
sippitysup
Robins or no. These photos put me in blackberry heaven. GREG
Tricia Buice
Thanks Greg!
Liz
My husband is the blueberry pie lover, and I have a weakness for blackberries! This sauce would thrill us both. I’d love it over vanilla ice cream, but those parfaits are awfully tempting!!!
Tricia Buice
A match made in heaven 🙂 Thanks Liz – have a wonderful weekend!
opal
Refreshing way to use the fruit.
Tricia Buice
Thanks Opal!
cheri
Amazing sauce Tricia, i would love this on my yogurt in the morning. We’ve had our blueberry bushes about 6 years now and the darn birds seem to be one step ahead of us every year.
Tricia Buice
We love the birds, we feed the birds, then we want to get rid of the birds haha. We have some pretty fat robins this year 🙂 Hope you get plenty of berries! Happy weekend Cheri and thanks!