I love making tea infused simple syrups and brown sugar syrup for my tea recipes. As the days get longer and more fruits are in season, fruit simple syrups are a must to make, too. Strawberry simple syrup is great to flavour and sweeten beverages like lattes, iced teas, sparkling water and cocktails. This syrup recipe is juicy, sweet and fresh tasting with no mushy strawberry pieces. It is also an excellent way to reduce food waste and use up strawberries that may be going bad soon.
What is Strawberry Simple Syrup?
Strawberry simple syrup is a liquid sugar mixture that has an intense and juicy strawberry flavour.
It’s mainly used to flavour and sweeten beverages. It may also add a gorgeous red hue to drinks thanks to its colour.
Like other simple syrups, this fruit syrup is great to have on hand for cold drinks as it easily mixes in unlike just granulated sugar.
You can buy strawberry simple syrup in stores, but homemade strawberry syrup is easy to make, less expensive and not full of preservatives or artificial ingredients.
How to Use Strawberry Simple Syrup
- Flavour and sweeten iced teas, lattes, lemonades, cocktails
- Mix into sparkling water for strawberry soda
- Top ice cream, shaved ice or yogurt
- Decorate or soak cakes
- Stir into milk for strawberry milk
Ingredient Notes
This strawberry syrup recipe only requires 3 simple ingredients!
- Strawberries: Fresh is recommended but frozen is an option. If using frozen strawberries, thaw and remove extra water before adding to the saucepan. This way the syrup will have the proper consistency.
- Sugar: White granulated sugar is what you want to use in this recipe, not brown as it may overpower the fruit flavour.
- Water: The most common ratio for simple syrup is equal parts water to sugar. If too much water is added, the syrup will be too runny. Alternatively, you can make a thicker syrup by using less water.
How to Make Strawberry Syrup for Drinks
Ingredient measurements and full directions are in the printable recipe card below.
If using fresh strawberries, start by washing and removing the green stems. Then, cut the strawberries in half.
In a small saucepan over medium-heat, combine strawberries, water and sugar.
Bring to a boil then reduce heat to a simmer. Stir occasionally.
Remove from heat once the liquid is bright red and the strawberries are lighter in colour. This simmer process takes 15-20 minutes.
Pour the simple syrup through a fine mesh strainer to remove the strawberries. You might be tempted to squeeze the strawberries here so that you get all of the juice, but don’t! Squeezing the strawberries will make the simple syrup very cloudy.
PRO TIP: Don’t throw away the leftover strawberries. Save them to mix them into yogurt, ice cream, top your french toast or pancakes.
After straining the syrup, there may be foam on the top. If so, you can remove this with a spoon, if desired.
Let the strawberry syrup cool. It will thicken more as it cools.
Pour the syrup into an airtight container. Store in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks.
Use this fruit simple syrup to sweeten and flavour iced teas, lattes, sparkling water, cocktails and more!
Strawberry Simple Syrup
Ingredients
- 2 cups fresh strawberries washed, hulled and halved
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup granulated sugar
Instructions
- In a small saucepan over medium-heat, combine strawberries, water and sugar.
- Bring to a boil then reduce heat to a simmer. Stir occasionally. Remove from heat after simmering for 15-20 minutes. The liquid should be deep red and the strawberries should be lighter in colour.
- Pour the simple syrup through a fine mesh strainer to remove the strawberries. To avoid a very cloudy syrup, do not squeeze the strawberries to get more juice out of them. Save the strawberries to mix them into yogurt, ice cream, top your french toast or pancakes.
- Let the strawberry syrup cool then pour into an airtight container. Store in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks.
Notes
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How would you use this liquid sweetener? Share in the comments below and keep an eye out for tea recipes on the blog that will feature this syrup!
Yum! I think I’d try this in iced teas, cocktails and on Crepes!
Ohhh crepes! That’s a fantastic idea!