Warm Strawberries in Strawberry Sauce for Ice Cream

Submitted by PanNan

"The sauce is from Wolfgang Puck's Make It Easy Cookbook. He serves an elegant dessert with meringue discs, this sauce, ice cream and whipped cream. That's just too much for us, so I simplified it, and just serve this with vanilla ice cream (our favorite is Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla). The sauce can be prepared ahead of time and heated just before serving."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 lbs fresh ripe strawberries, hulled and quartered (divided)
• 1⁄2 cup dry white wine
• 1⁄3 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• 1⁄2 teaspoon grated orange zest
• 1⁄2 cup fresh orange juice
• 1 whole star anise
• 1⁄2 gallon vanilla ice cream

directions

1. Combine 1 lb strawberries, wine, sugar, lemon juice, orange zest, orange juice, and star anise in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
2. Remove from the heat, cover, and let rest for at least 10 minutes.
3. Remove the star anise and transfer the mixture to a blender. Blend until smooth.
4. Place a fine mesh strainer over a bowl, and using a rubber spatula, press the puree through the strainer. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to serve.
5. When ready to serve, pour the sauce into a medium size saucepan. Bring it back to the boil over medium heat. Lower the heat, and simmer until it thicken slightly - about 3 - 4 minutes. Gently stir in the remaining 1/2 lb hulled and quartered strawberries and cook just until the strawberries are heated through (about 3 minutes). They should still be firm.
6. Serve the warm strawberry sauce over a generous scoop of ice cream.

Reviews

[Boomette]

Delicious. I used Tropicana orange juice. Great dessert when we have lots of strawberries :P So yummy! Thanks :)

 

[NoraMarie]

This was very good. I used frozen berries and it was very good.

 

[Pamela]

This recipe was a real treat and the directions to make it were easy to follow. There was something about it though that we did not like taste wise. I'm not sure if it was the wine I used or the orange zest or if it needed a bit more sugar, but it was not exactly our taste.