Description
A great way to preserve those summer strawberries
Ingredients
Scale
- Strawberries: 2 cups
- Sugar:1/2 cup
- A dash of Lemon
- 2–3 pieces of Lemon peel
Instructions
- Take strawberry halves, lemon peel and sugar in a pan.
- Cover the pan and let it sit at room temperature for approximately two hours.
- Keep mixing occasionally.
- This will help the berries to ooze out their flavor/Juice and blend the sugar.
- Now put this mixture over simmer heat, stirring gently till strawberries are tender (2-3 mins).
- Take out strawberries at this stage & transfer into a glass jar.
- Continue simmering liquid until it thickens into syrup consistency (4-5mins).
- Discard the lemon and filter out the syrup over the berries in the glass jar.
- Refrigerate and use whenever you want to cheer up.
- This should last for almost a month in refrigerator.
- Prep Time: 2 hours
- Cook Time: 10 mins