Raspberries are sweet, particularly tasty berries. They ripen in late spring and can produce new fruit well into autumn. They taste best straight from the bush, but they can also be frozen whole so that they can be strained later.

After washing, the raspberries should drain well

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Use frozen or freshly picked raspberries.

  1. Pick the raspberries carefully from the bush and immediately pick out the damaged or mushy berries. Frozen berries are already sorted and only need to be thawed.
  2. Wash the fresh raspberries gently under running water. Put the berries in a sieve and rinse them off.
  3. Let the berries drain for some time.
  4. Now put the berries in a tall blender jug and chop them into a smooth puree.
  5. You can add some lemon juice and powdered sugar at this point to ensure all the ingredients are well mixed. Proceed in the same way with defrosted berries.
  6. The puree still contains the small seeds of the raspberries. If you need a very fine sauce, pour the puree through a very fine-mesh sieve.
  7. Stir with a spoon and apply some pressure. This is how the raspberry sauce gets into the bowl, the seeds remain in the sieve.

The raspberry sauce you receive is still in its raw state. If you want to boil the sauce before using it, you can boil the raspberry puree in a saucepan for three minutes before you strain it.

Use of pureed raspberries

Raspberry sauce is the icing on the cake for many desserts. It goes well with most types of ice cream, over vanilla pudding or in a quark dish. Sweet yeast dumplings become a special treat when served with a sauce made from raspberries. The quark or cream cheese bread for breakfast gets a special kick with a spoonful of raspberry sauce.
If you want to preserve raspberry jam, use raspberries that have been pureed. this makes the jam particularly easy to spread.
You can even use the kernels that remain in the sieve when strained. Dry the seeds, mix them with salt and grind the whole thing into a fruity-salty seasoning powder that gives salads in particular a whole new aroma.

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