20 Easy Recipes with Strawberries - The Seasoned Mom (2024)

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How do you make out of season strawberries taste better? ›

Add any extra flavoring agent you like—lemon zest, bruised lemongrass, fresh mint, or ground baking spices, like cinnamon and ginger, are excellent options. Then let it all sit at room temperature for an hour (store in the fridge if waiting longer to eat).

Strawberry: Pairs well with other berries, almond, apple, banana, chocolate, citrus, coriander, honey, melon, mint, peach, pineapple, rhubarb, vanilla, and walnut.

I highly recommend chopped mint, basil and lavender, which add surprising depth to a bowl of strawberries. Skip the rest of them, especially tarragon and sage, which clash completely with strawberry's bright flavors.

Add a little sugar and salt! Wash your strawberries, cut them, and hit them with a pinch of salt and a couple good three-finger pinches of granulated sugar, give them a little tossy-toss, and watch them magically start to darken and get extra juicy.

Strawberries can fruit surprisingly well with some shade – but the flavour won't develop to the same extent as those grown in the sun. Sun it is that develops sugar levels in the berries – so make sure your plants get lots, and lots of it.

Add 1 tsp. of baking soda to 4 cups of water, and soak your strawberries in a large bowl for five minutes. Then, rinse your strawberries with cold running water and pat them dry. Baking soda helps remove dirt, traces of pesticides, and more from fresh fruits and vegetables.

Check packages for signs of juice or moisture, which can indicate that berries on the bottom might have gotten smashed—and damaged berries are more likely to rot and mold. You want berries that are bright red and shiny, without a dull or matte look, and with the seeds indented into the flesh.

A strawberry is actually a multiple fruit which consists of many tiny individual fruits embedded in a fleshy receptacle. The brownish or whitish specks, which are commonly considered seeds, are the true fruits, called achenes, and each of them surrounds a tiny seed.

Berries: Strawberries and blueberries are rich in antioxidant compounds called anthocyanins. Research has linked anthocyanins to a reduction in blood pressure in people with hypertension.

Store-bought berries usually look clean and ready to eat, but little critters might be hiding in them. Soaking strawberries in a salt water bath can draw out bugs and other contaminants. Fill a bowl with about two cups of warm water and two tablespoons of salt.

What organs are strawberries good for? ›

Researchers have found that strawberries may promote heart health in a number of ways. Along with helping improve your body's sensitivity to insulin, they may lower fats in your blood called triglycerides and lower total and LDL cholesterol.

By simply adding sugar to cut the berries, they'll become juicer and sweeter, and their flavor will intensify. The whole process works quickly, but you do need to allot for a bit of time as they take about half an hour to an hour to macerate.

Soak the strawberries: Add the fresh strawberries into the vinegar water and allow them to soak for about 10 minutes. Don't worry, they won't taste like vinegar!