I love this syrup on pancakes and waffles because it’s sweet, but not “tooth-tingling” sweet like maple syrup. It also works well with a variety of fresh fruits (see Notes).
Strawberry-Date Syrup
- Total Time: 20 mins
- Yield: 4 (makes about 2 cups) 1x
Ingredients
Scale
- 1½ cups water
- 4 ounces pitted dates (7 to 8 Medjool or 14 to 16 Deglet Noor), chopped
- ½ cup sliced strawberries
Instructions
- Place the water, dates, and strawberries into a blender, and set aside for at least 15 minutes (so the dates can soften).
- Blend until a smooth, pourable consistency is reached (add more water, as needed, to thin, but the syrup will thicken as it sits). Serve over pancakes and waffles.
Notes
Instead of water, you may also use fruit juice (or a mixture); I love fresh tangerine juice in this syrup.
Instead of strawberries, try raspberries, blueberries, kiwifruit, peaches, and mango.
Use any leftover syrup on fruit or oatmeal.
- Prep Time: 20 mins
Nutrition
- Serving Size: .5 cup
- Calories: 85
- Sugar: 19.9g
- Sodium: 4mg
- Fat: 0.1g
- Carbohydrates: 45.7g
- Fiber: 2.3g
- Protein: 0.7g
- Cholesterol: 0g
Do you know how long this will keep in the fridge? We eat pancakes less than once a week, so I'd hate for any precious syrup to go to waste. Of course I'm sure I could find something to dip in it!
Hi Karin, I'm not sure, but I wouldn't keep it around more than 2 or 3 days. 🙂
where were you this summer when i finally figured out that all the organic dates laying on the ground from the many, many (at least 3 per house!) in my neighborhood are not only edible but delicious...I feel guilty for the years of waste before I added dates to my local forage list (lemons, meyers, key limes pink grapefruit, white grapefruit, pomelo, kaffir lime, kumkuat, sour lime -- plus the glorious fig tree in my own yard!) -- but now I had too many. Next year I will finally begin gf baking, which i have put off because I am not only vegan but also avoid processed sugar. yours is the first gf vegan site to explore fruit sweetened baking -- I am not interested in raw... The trade-off for all the lovely fruit is a complete lack of healthy fresh food no gf bakery, maybe 2 vegan restaurants, not gf, so I have not eaten any type of baked good (except for frozen gf waffles) for 10+ years. And pre-celiac diagnosis I was the muffin queen -- 2 vegan muffins/day got me through law school, won me a marathon -- that extreme reliance on bread in my diet had to be related to the disease, or I have very bad karma left from a former life as a baker! Anyway, thanks for giving me good use for dates this summer!
Welcome Michele! Lucky you with all the dates! Thanks for connecting! 😉
I used blueberry's. The syrup came out okay so I heated it up on the stove top for a bit and what a difference! Yum! I'm gonna try strawberries next time!
This is SUCH a great sauce, and after one and half days in the fridge it really thickens.
So simple and so versatile
We're still working on using up the eggs and cheese and stuff in the house so the pancakes weren't vegan, but damn if this isn't just a yummy sauce. I used orange juice and maybe a few many strawberries (there were a few zombies lurking in the box so I had to use up what I could). I added some chia seeds (I love them on EVERYTHING) and it may not last long enough to thicken...
Any suggestions for using date sugar instead of dates to make this?
I've never used date sugar, so I'm not help; but for this recipe, I'd just soak the sugar and add some fruit. This would probably work just fine. Or maybe you'd have to simmer the sugar first.