Without cooking, a chicken and avocado side dish in the Mexican way. You will look and feel better after preparing this simple, wholesome recipe.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 30 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 pints strawberries, hulled and sliced
Instructions
- In a saucepan, stir together the sugar and water. Bring to a boil, and cook for about 10 minutes, or until it becomes syrupy. Mix in the nutmeg and cinnamon, and remove from the heat. Stir in the vanilla. Allow to cool for a few minutes, then pour over sliced strawberries.
Reviews
Because of the rave reviews and wanting something a little different, I tried this recipe. I guess I don’t like nutmeg after all. The flavor of this sauce was just weird to me. I put the tablespoon of vanilla in with some trepidation. I swear I could taste the alcohol forever after. The flavors added totally cancelled out the strawberry flavor. I tried it once more 2 days later. The strawberry flavor came through more, but there was still an unpleasant twang to it. Thanks anyway.
A great twist on just sugar!
I love this. I use it for waffles. Made it with strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries today.
Added a little anise seed when making syrup. Strain to remover seeds before pouring over fruit. Absolutely delisous. I’ve made this with a mixture of various in-season fruits. Put in fridge for a few hours to allow flavors to meld. Makes a cool and refreshing light dessert.
Wow! This recipe is amazing! I didn’t have to change or alter it at all! I took this on a picnic and it was a great hit! It is super easy to make, and very easy to transport, too! Definitely will be making this again!
An unusual, but yummy recipe. One usually doesn’t add cinnamon to strawberries, but give it a try. It’s quite delicious.
This is a fabulous recipe – I have used it many ways: over butter pound cake, on ice cream, and my favorite – a heaping table spoon in a wine glass topped with dry sparkling wine – it’s a crowd pleaser every time. I am also using it for breakfast at my B&B, letting people top yogurt, corn cakes, etc. I can’t say enough good things about it!
Was looking for something besides the typical “pour a bunch of sugar over sliced berries” to use for strawberry shortcake, and found this. Spectacular! and I haven’t even served it yet! I did however omit the nutmeg, simply because I did not have any.
This just didn’t work for me, The spices were fine but it was kind of watery even tho’ I cooked the sugar and water until “syrupy”
My husband’s comment upon tasting this: “The sauce is divine!” I agree.
This is great I used it in a strawberry bar recipe instead of strawberry preserves. It was a huge hit, and so easy!
This was sooo good. Very sweet and easy!!!
I made a trial run of this today, hoping I could put this in my Christmas baskets this year as pancake syrup. I did subtract two tbsp. water and added two tbsp. lemon juice. To make this a little thinner, I ran the berries through the blender, coarsely chopping them. I like it, just the way I hoped it would turn out though it is a little sweet. I might cut back the sugar just a bit. I’d like to see if I can’t try this with cranberries, too.
Super simple, quick and very tasty! I poured it over some waffles and couldn’t ge enough of it! I would use it on pancakes, biscuits or pound cake too. I want to try this same recipe with blueberries, apples and other fruit I always seem to have on hand.
Really yummy, the nutmeg and cinnamon were wonderful with the fresh berries. The two pints sliced strawberries yield a product with plenty of delicious strawberry-spiced syrup, in the future I’ll probably use three pints with that amount of syrup for a thicker topping as is my preference. Thanks very much for sharing.
Wonderful! I made as detailed and served with my grandmother shortcake recipe and a dollop of ricotta. The whole house smelled wonderful too. Will suely make this again. Thanks
Super simple and very tastey! I did not change a thing. Yum!!
WOW!!! I have strawberries (fresh picked) from my garden and didn’t have a clue as to what to do with so many strawberries!! FANTASTIC recipe!!!…I didn’t use the measurements exactly (I used only 1/4 cup of sugar; 1 tblspn. vanilla; dash of cinnamon) and added a little red wine (I had sitting on my counter) and POW!!!! DELICIOSO!!! Can’t wait till hubby comes home to try it
pretty good. i served it w/ strawberries, cool whip, and home made biscuits.
This recipe was very yummy. I will definitely make this one again. Very easy to make.
I’ve made this several times now – the first time I used it as pancake syrup. I thawed frozen whole strawberries and mashed them with the sugar/water/spice syrup. I made it the same way the second time, except used it as a dessert sauce over purchased pound cake with a spoonful of vanilla yogurt on top.