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This baked strawberries recipe makes that delicious berry even sweeter and juicier! Serve with yogurt and granola for breakfast, or whipped cream for dessert.
In 2010, Alex and I started a food blog called A Couple Cooks. We had no plans for it, except as an outlet for our boundless enthusiasm for cooking. As we discovered delicious new ways to eat vegetables, we’d share them unabashedly: Quinoa tastes delicious in tacos! Sweet potatoes are tasty topped with salsa! And still today: there’s not much we love more than sharing the newest delicious way to eat healthy foods. Our newest trick? Baked strawberries! Roasting them brings out an even sweeter flavor, and they’re delightful over yogurt or perfect with whipped cream.
About the book: The Easy Vegetarian Kitchen
Back when we started A Couple Cooks, we discovered a blog called Naturally Ella. Like us, the author was passionate about cooking healthy vegetarian recipes. Her name was Erin, and we started corresponding by email. She lived not so far away, in Illinois. She asked if she could come visit. We said yes, though we’d never met in real life.
Luckily, we got along wonderfully with Erin! Since that time, she’s become a dear friend. We just received Erin’s new cookbook, The Easy Vegetarian Kitchen, which is where this delicious baked strawberries recipe comes from! The book features 50 core recipes for vegetarian cooking, each with four seasonal variations. It’s a genius concept, and a fantastic way to learn about seasonal plant-based eating.
How to make baked strawberries
Why make baked strawberries? Baking strawberries brings out a beautiful sweet and tender richness you don’t get in a crisp, fresh berry. It’s also great if you have berries that aren’t terribly sweet, or might be a little past their prime. How do you make baked strawberries?
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
- Place the strawberries on a parchment lined baking sheet and roast for 20 minutes, until tender.
- Swirl them with maple syrup or honey to taste.
Turns out roasted strawberries are an incredible taste treat! This recipe is absolutely perfect with fresh, ripe local berries. They’re served up in a breakfast parfait with yogurt and pecan granola. Since we’ve always loved Erin’s granola recipes (she brought us some on that first visit and it disappeared quickly!) and the baked strawberries sounded intriguing, we thought we’d give it a try. Let us know what you think of these baked strawberries in the comments below!
How to serve baked strawberries
If you’d like, serve these baked strawberries in the breakfast parfait as we’ve shown here. Or you could serve them up layered in a canning jar or clear glass! Here are a few more ways to serve roasted strawberries:
- As a dessert: Add Homemade Whipped Cream and it’s a decadent dessert!
- With strawberry shortcake: Serve over Strawberry Shortcake instead of fresh berries.
- On oatmeal: Try them on Toasted Oatmeal, Pressure Cooker Steel Cut Oatmeal, or Instant Oatmeal.
Strawberry recipes
What’s better than than a pint of ripe, seasonal strawberries from your local farmers market? The earthy sweet flavor of a local berry is one of life’s great pleasures. These baked strawberries would be absolutely killer with fresh ripe local strawberries. Here are a few of our other favorite strawberry recipes:
- Classic Strawberry Crumble or Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
- Strawberry Muffins with Cream Cheese Swirl
- Strawberry Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette
- Chocolate Strawberry Shortcakes
- All-Natural Strawberry Yogurt Pie
- Acai Bowl Recipe
- Strawberry Crepe Recipe
- Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins
- Coconut Strawberry Smoothies
- Strawberry Maple Cornbread Cake
- Basil & Strawberry Popsicles
- Classic Strawberry Shortcake
- Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins
- Strawberry Margarita
This baked strawberries recipe is…
Vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan, plant-based, and dairy-free.
Baked Strawberries
This baked strawberries recipe makes that delicious berry even sweeter and juicier! Serve with yogurt and granola for breakfast, or whipped cream for dessert.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 2 1x
- Category: Breakfast
- Method: Roasted
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
For the pecan granola
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup pecan pieces
- ⅛ teaspoon kosher salt
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ¼ cup walnut or olive oil
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
For the roasted strawberries
- 2 cups strawberries
- 1 tablespoon honey or maple syrup
- 2 cups plain whole-milk yogurt or Greek-style yogurt, to serve
Instructions
- If using, make the granola: Preheat the oven to 300F. In a bowl, toss together 2 cups oats, 1 cup pecans, and ⅛ teaspoon salt. In a separate bowl, whisk together ¼ cup maple syrup, ¼ cup oil, and ½ teaspoon vanilla extract. Pour into the oat mixture and stir until the oats are well coated. Spread the oats in an even layer on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through baking. The granola should be golden and starting to brown around the edges. Remove the pan from the oven and let cool completely on the pan. Once the granola is cool, break it into pieces and store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week.
- Roast the strawberries: Preheat the oven to 375F. Quarter the strawberries. Spread the strawberries in a roasting pan lined with parchment paper and bake for 20 minutes. Toss with the honey and let them cool.
- Serve: Swirl the roasted strawberries into the yogurt. Taste and add additional honey to the yogurt if desired. Divide among 2 bowls and finish with ¼ cup granola for each bowl.
Notes
From The Easy Vegetarian Kitchen by Erin Alderson *Prep time is for the roasted strawberries only.
Last updated: January 2020
Do you think the roasted strawberries would freeze okay? I was thinking of making a batch to have on hand this fall for my oatmeal and yogurt.
We haven’t tried it, but I think they’d freeze well!
Oh my! Hubby would love this! Pinning now! Thanks for sharing!!
A fantastic recipe that now has me craving breakfast! Lovely xxx
Love this idea. Beautiful breakfast!
Love the simplicity of this! And congrats to Erin as well :)
Thank you guys so much for organising this baby shower – it’s been such fun! And I adore the photos of the three of you; so good!
What a sweet tribute to Erin. And I love the simplicity of this granola, it’s a good reminder that granola doesn’t have to have a million ingredients to be delicious.
Sonja! Alex! Thank you so much for rounding up all of these beautiful bloggers to celebrate Erin and all her beauty. And, I realllly love seeing these photos, pretty people. All the love, all the time, xo!
This looks so good – and I think this shower is just the sweetest! Congrats Erin! And love seeing you in front of the camera (all of you!).
Haha, love those photos of your meetup with Erin! I’m so blessed to have been able to spend time with all of you in real life. Thanks for hosting such a fun shower for Erin and ummmm, this breakfast parfait? I already want seconds.
This post made me smile in lots of ways. Love.
THESE PHOTOS! I’m so hardly ever in front of the camera that I completely forgot about them (and that last one I’m saving to my desktop so when I’m running low on sleep and need a chuckle, I’ll look at that one ;)
You guys are too sweet and it’s hard to believe it’s been three years since I first invited myself to your house! That short drive to Indy is one of the things I miss about living in Illinois- we had so much fun together. Hopefully you can make it out to California sometime soon (once I can drink wine again ;) Love you guys bunches!
I’m so excited you posted this. I was just talking about roasted strawberries with a friend last night. I’ve never made them but always wanted to. This looks delicious! I’m also thrilled to find another blog to follow via the link to Erin’s.
Ahhh! I love this post!! Those photos are adorable and this parfait looks phenomenal!
The parfait is absolutely beautiful! Looks like a lovely treat to begin the day.
And ha, those pics with Erin are priceless. (Especially the last one, obviously my fav.) :)
One of the best, most surprising aspects of food blogging for me has been the friends I’ve made along the way. What a sweet post and special celebration!
You girls are adorable! And this sounds awesome. Roasted strawberries sound great in a parfait!