Name: Strawberry Simple Syrup
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 1 cup water; 1 cup granulated sugar; 1 ½ cups fresh or frozen strawberries; 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

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This homemade strawberry syrup is sweet and flavorful, perfect for creating delicious strawberry cocktails to celebrate the summer months.

Simple syrup is exactly what it sounds like—simple and syrupy, made by mixing water and sugar and adding strawberries for delicious extra flavor.

Ingredients

Find the simple ingredients for this strawberry simple syrup in the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post. Here is a rundown of what you will need.

Fresh strawberries or frozen – 1 ½ cups: If you don’t have fresh berries, no worries—frozen strawberries work just as well!
White sugar – 1 cup: Granulated cane sugar. Avoid light brown sugar, which will change the flavor. The amount of sugar is large but remember, it’s syrup and meant to be sweet.
Water – 1 cup
Lemon juice – a tablespoon- Fresh lemon juice enhances the strawberry flavor and helps balance the sweetness. You could use lime juice too.

A simple syrup

The sugar-to-water ratio in simple syrup is equal parts sugar and water.

This is usually measured by volume – 1 cup of sugar to 1 cup of water. While volume measurement is less precise than weight (a cup of water weighs about 40g more than a cup of sugar), the difference is negligible for this recipe.

Instructions

Roughly chop the strawberries.
In a small saucepan, combine the strawberries, lemon juice, sugar, and water.

Place the saucepan over medium heat. Once the mixture begins to bubble and simmer, reduce the heat to low.

Let it simmer for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove it from the heat and let the syrup cool down to room temperature.

Once the mixture has cooled, place a fine-mesh strainer lined with a cloth over a bowl and pour in the strawberry mixture.

Pour the strawberry syrup into a clean glass jar or another airtight container.

Store any leftover syrup in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.

Variations

Flavored simple syrup can be made with various fruits, spices, and herbs!

Ways to this syrup

In Summer Cocktails or Mixed Drinks: Strawberry simple syrup is perfect for sweetening and adding flavor to cocktails or mocktails. Use it to make strawberry lemonade, strawberry margaritas (with plenty of ice), or strawberry martini, or strawberry mojitos.
In Desserts: You can use the simple syrup on cake layers to keep them moist.

Storage

Fresh fruit syrup like this can be stored in the refrigerator in a sealed container for up to 2 weeks.

The syrup can be frozen for up to 3 months for long-term storage. Pro tip: Pour the syrup into ice cube trays and freeze it for convenient individual servings!

Yield: 1 1/4 cups