Blueberry sauce is a dessert sauce made with fresh blueberries. The sweet and tangy flavor of this sauce makes it a good choice for topping waffles, pancakes, blitzes, French toast, pound cakes, bread puddings, ice cream, or it can be stirred into the breakfast yogurt.
Blueberry Sauce Recipe Overview
There are many recipes for making a blueberry sauce. In most of the recipes fresh blueberries are crushed and boiled with sugar, lemon juice, and salt to a thick consistency. Vanilla extract or spices like cinnamon is added for flavoring the sauce. The sauce is cooled and chilled before using.
Popular Blueberry Sauce Recipes
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Blueberry – Orange Sauce – This fruit sauce is very nutritious because it encapsulates the goodness of blueberries and citrus fruit like orange. The sauce is prepared using ingredients like frozen or fresh blueberries, water, orange juice, white sugar, cold or chilled water, cornstarch, ground cinnamon and almond extract.
Preparation – The sauce is prepared by cooking the blueberries with orange juice, water and sugar. Cornstarch is combined with water to form a paste and added to cooking blueberry mixture. The sauce is cooked until deserved thickness and served after flavoring with cinnamon and almond extract.
Nutrition – Each serving of the sauce delivers 119 calories with 0. 2grams of fat and 0 mg of cholesterol.
Serving – The sauce can be poured over whole wheat –buttermilk pancakes before serving.
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Blueberry Caramel Sauce – This sauce is usually served after pouring over French toast, Greek Yogurt, pancakes and waffles. Fresh blueberries, water, coarse kosher salt, sugar, fresh lemon juice are required to make this sauce.
Preparation – The sauce preparation begins by blending water, berries, and coarse salt in a saucepan. The mixture is simmered and strawberries are mashed by cooking over reduced heat until it attains rich consistency. Ingredients like water, sugar, and lemon juice are cooked in a separate saucepan until the sugar gets completely dissolved and mixture attains golden amber hue. The syrup is combined with fresh blueberry sauce and kept aside for some more time until the flavors start assimilating. The sauce is cooled to room temperature before serving.
Nutrition – Each 2 tbsp of sauce delivers 64.1kcalories with 16.5 grams of carbohydrates, 0.3 grams of dietary fiber, 15.8 grams of sugar, and 11.4 mg of sodium.
Tip – The sauce can be teamed with most types of pancakes. It is always better to add more blueberries for a strong flavor because the blueberries have milder flavor.
Health Benefits of Blueberry Sauce
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Blueberries are loaded with antioxidants like vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin B, selenium, copper, iron and hemoglobin. This sauce is considered healthy for consumption of those suffering from viral and bacterial infections.
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Blueberries are known to neutralize the actions of free radicals which can induce diseases and fasten the aging process. Blueberries are enriched with powerful antioxidants like anthocyanin and vitamins C, which are known to be powerful in fighting against many age related disorders and diseases like cancer, tumor, etc.
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Blueberries boost urinary health. The urinary tract infection is caused when bacterias start colonizing on the walls of urinary tract. The blueberries are enriched with heavy antioxidant compounds which can demolish the growth of bacteria’s by washing off the bacteria through urine.
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Blueberries are known to boost brain health by preventing the death of neurons and degeneration of brain cells. The blueberries are also known to heal the damage caused to brain cells and help to curb the severity of diseases like alzheimers.