This blueberry sauce recipe is thick, sweet, and tangy! Drizzle over breakfasts or desserts like pancakes, waffles or ice cream.

Sure, you can buy blueberry sauce at the store. But have you tried homemade Blueberry Sauce? The flavor is unreal: zingy, tangy, pure and sweet: thick and glossy with a beautiful purple sheen. You’ll want to drizzle this on everything (and we mean everything): pancakes, waffles, oatmeal, ice cream…or just sneak bites with a spoon! It’s quick and easy to make using fresh or frozen berries. You’ll never choose store-bought again! Here’s the simple formula for homemade sauce.

Ingredients for blueberry sauce

This blueberry sauce recipe requires just a handful of ingredients for a stellar, homemade puree: no hard to find ingredients or difficult techniques, here! The best part is you can use fresh or frozen berries without much flavor difference. Since frozen are so much more economical and shelf stable, we love using them for this recipe: but either are fantastic! Here’s what you’ll need:

Blueberries, fresh or frozen
Granulated sugar (or your sweetener of choice; see below)
Cornstarch
Lemon juice

How to make blueberry sauce (basic steps)

This blueberry sauce is just a matter of simmering blueberries with sugar until they break down, then adding a bit of cornstarch to help make that glossy sheen. Here’s what you’ll do:

Heat blueberries, sugar and water over medium heat in a saucepan.
Cook about 5 minutes, until the blueberries break down and form a sauce. The blueberries contain natural pectin, which thickens the sauce as they cook down!
Add cornstarch and simmer another 1 minute, stirring constantly. Mix the cornstarch with double the amount water, then pour it into the sauce. It will immediately start to thicken, so make sure you’re stirring.
Add lemon juice and remove from heat. The lemon adds just the right pop to the flavors (adding acid to fruit is much like adding salt to savory ingredients).

Other sweetener options

Love to experiment with natural sweeteners, or prefer a specific sweetener? You can use whatever you like in this recipe.

Maple syrup, honey, or agave syrup are great natural sweetener options. Though they’re liquids, you can use them in the same quantity as specified for granulated sugar below (¼ cup).
Or, use your sweeter of choice in equal parts. Let us know in the comments below what you use.

Ways to use this blueberry sauce recipe

Got your blueberry sauce? Then let’s make some magic! You can use it for just about anything: brunch, dessert, or simply eating with a spoon (we don’t judge). Here are some of our favorite ways to eat this sauce:

Oatmeal: Spoon it over oatmeal to start the day.
Yogurt: Try it on a Yogurt Parfait.
Pancakes: Add it to a tower of Lemon Blueberry or Banana Pancakes.
Waffles: It’s perfection on Blueberry Waffles.
Cheese: Try it in this Warm Goat Cheese Appetizer.
Vanilla Ice Cream: Make an instant dessert by spooning it over vanilla ice cream.
Mug cake: Try it on a 5 minute Vanilla Mug Cake.
Cheesecake: Swap out the cherries in this Crustless Cheesecake.
Cake: Enjoy double the blueberries with this Blueberry Cake.

How do you plan to use it? Let us know in the comments below!

More blueberry recipes

Love berries? Here are a few more tasty blueberry recipes and blueberry desserts for making this most of this sweet purple fruit:

Go for Blueberry Cobbler, Perfect Blueberry Crumble or Blueberry Galette
Make a simple appetizer with Blueberry Goat Cheese
Cook up Best Blueberry Waffles or Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes
Try Blueberry Compote over Lemon Blueberry Pancakes
Make a zingy Blueberry Shrub Drink
Grab a Strawberry Blueberry Smoothie or Blueberry Banana Smoothie
Go for cocktails with a Blueberry Margarita or Blueberry Mojito

This blueberry sauce recipe is…

Vegetarian, vegan, plant-based, dairy-free and gluten-free.