Here are some easy strawberry recipes that are perfect for when you find a good sale or are just overwhelmed with strawberries! There are lots of tasty ways to use strawberries including strawberry jam, strawberry sauce, strawberry desserts, popsicles and more!
How To Use Strawberries
Ah June! –In the spring we think of a mouth-watering strawberry patch. Now it has turned into a forest with enough strawberries to feed most of the U.S. Undaunted by the mounds of berries in our kitchen, we have visions of row after row of beautiful jars of strawberry jam on our shelves.
Then it happens! The first pot boils over leaving a red mess all over the stove, up on the walls and on the counters and floor. Hours later after the kitchen looks like World War III was fought in it we stand in our kitchen and proudly display our 2 pints of strawberry jam.
Don’t despair. Canning isn’t the only way to use excess strawberries. In addition to the strawberry recipes below, here are some other suggestions to help you use strawberries:
- Think small. Don’t plant too many plants in your garden. Plant just enough for what you need.
- File all your recipes for fruits and veggies in order by the name of the fruit. Then when you need to find recipes for all the extra produce you can easily find several recipes.
- To freeze berries: Throw extras into a bag and freeze. Don’t waste time freezing them on a tray, they do just as well thrown in a bag. These are great to use later for virtually any strawberry recipes!
- Use extra strawberries in milkshakes, homemade smoothies, homemade popsicles, and fruit gelatin.
- Use strawberries to top cereal or oatmeal; add milk for a strawberries and cream flavor.
Easy Strawberry Recipes!
If you need strawberry recipes for something a little more complicated than a bowl of strawberries with a sprinkle of sugar, the following strawberry recipes should give you a great variety of tasty options you can use all year!
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Kiwi Lime Strawberry Dessert
This is one of those easy strawberry recipes that makes a very versatile dessert. It is great for this time of year when we want lighter and easy desserts. The green and red color, along with the ease of preparing it make it great for Christmas too so you might want to file it with your Christmas dessert recipes, too.
This recipe calls for frozen strawberries but if you want to use fresh strawberries just chop the fresh strawberries and sprinkle with a little sugar. Let them set overnight for a few hours and they will produce the juice that you need in the recipe.
The strawberry juice can be used to make strawberry sauce anytime for strawberry recipes like strawberry shortcake. Making it this way is much cheaper than buying the sauce in the packets and it tastes so much better. You can make any kind of berry sauce you want using the strawberry sauce recipe below. It requires no baking and it’s quick. Does it get any better than that?
Strawberry Recipes For Cool Summer Treats!
If you’re looking for great strawberry recipes for summer treats, this easy strawberries and cream popsicles recipe makes a wonderful treat that the kids are sure to love! They’re much tastier and a lot cheaper than the store bought fruit popsicles. And if you have extra strawberries from your garden or find them on sale, this is a great recipe to use them!
This strawberry banana popsicles recipe is one of our favorite easy strawberry recipes for a cool summer treat! It makes a tasty snack and works out to be much less expensive than buying fruit popsicles at the store!
This homemade fruit popsicles recipe is another of our easy strawberry recipes that’s great for summer! It’s very versatile and you can use your favorite fruit! Virtually any fruit will work, so don’t be afraid to experiment!
This strawberry mousse is an easy strawberry recipe that makes a quick and easy strawberry dessert your kids are sure to love!
This Berries on a Cloud Dessert Recipe makes a delicious light and fluffy dessert resembling meringue. It’s soft and sweet with a yummy strawberry flavor!
This strawberry dessert recipe is probably one of my favorite desserts, partly because it is not too rich. It is a very light dessert. It is an especially good one to keep made up in the freezer for when unexpected company comes by.
I like to use it not only for graduation parties, but also for baby showers or any other get-together because I can make it a week ahead of time and that means one less thing to have to deal with the day of the special event!
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And if your strawberries are no longer firm and instead are turning squishy, pop them in the freezer for topping cereal and ice cream, or to make into jelly or fruit leader.
Ensure you do so before they good bad. Spoiled fruit is only good for composting.
Quick question about fruit leather recipe – could you use honey or agave nectar in place of corn syrup? Open to other suggestions as well 🙂 THanks!
I personally add no sweetener, or applesauce if completely necessary. I make leathers every year of all kinds of fruit….just boil in water until soft, purée and put on drying tray with any flavouring add ins or cream. So yummy!!!
I am allergic to sulfa drugs so sulfites in dried fruit causes an allergic reaction. I dry my own strawberries, apricots and other fruits to avoid those problems. A great way to use up extra fruit while it is in season. I purchased a nice Excalibur dehydrator years ago and it has provided many years of healthy dried fruit.
That is the kind of dehydrator I use to and love mine. Here is some more info on dehydrating things if any of you have more questions. It does say how to dehydrate potatoes on the post but covers more and can help you to get started. How to Make Dehydrated Potatoes.
I love smoothies, and always made them with milk. I became lactose intolerant, so I substituted juice, instead. I buy the concentrate, and blueberry pomegranate is my favorite. I use strawberries, half of a frozen banana, and ice, in the juice. I don’t add sugar. I can always find coupons for Old Orchard juice, and a local chain grocery has it 4/$5.00, so with the coupon, it is a dollar for a can that makes 64 ounces when reconstituted.
Love your website! I have two of your cookbooks, and have found some great recipes!
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