Keto Rhubarb Sauce: A Deliciously Tart and Versatile Treat

This article explores the creation of a keto-friendly rhubarb sauce, highlighting its versatility and ease of preparation. Rhubarb, with its unique tartness, offers a delightful flavor profile that perfectly complements various keto desserts and breakfast options.

Introduction: Embracing Rhubarb Season

For rhubarb enthusiasts, spring and summer mark a special time to enjoy this unique ingredient. This recipe provides a quick and easy way to transform an abundance of rhubarb into a flavorful sauce that can enhance a variety of dishes. This easy strawberry rhubarb sauce adds gorgeous colour and flavor to your favorite keto desserts.

Why Rhubarb Sauce?

Rhubarb sauce offers a vibrant, fresh flavor that elevates keto ice cream and almond flour pancakes. This sauce is a versatile condiment to have on hand. Rhubarb Sauce has become my favorite way to enjoy rhubarb. The sauce is delicious by the spoonful, but it’s also beautifying and complimentary with any treat as a condiment.

Key Ingredients and Customization

This easy keto dessert sauce takes just a few basic ingredients. The recipe allows for adjustments to suit individual preferences. The balance between rhubarb and strawberry can be altered, and the level of sweetness can be adjusted to taste.

Ingredients:

• Rhubarb
• Strawberries
• Sweetener (Allulose, BochaSweet, or Swerve Confectioners)
• Water
• Optional: Cinnamon stick, orange peel, lemon extract, vanilla extract

Step-by-Step Instructions

This keto rhubarb sauce is incredibly simple to make.

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1. Wash the rhubarb stalks and slice them into ¼-inch pieces.
2. In a large saucepan over medium heat, combine all of the ingredients.
3. Bring to a simmer and then reduce the heat to medium low.
4. Cook until the fruit is soft enough to mash up, about 10 minutes. Stir occasionally while the sauce cooks. Keep in mind that the longer you cook the rhubarb, the more the rhubarb will break down and make for a thicker sauce. If you want to keep more of the rhubarb pieces intact, you will need to stop cooking as soon as it's fork-tender.
5. Remove the cinnamon stick (if used) before allowing it to cool down completely.
6. Let cool at least 15 minutes before using.

Sweetener Options and Tips

The recipe suggests a combination of allulose and BochaSweet for a syrupy texture. However, Swerve Confectioners can be used as a substitute. To avoid recrystallization with erythritol sweeteners, whisk it in after mashing the berries and removing the sauce from heat. My top pick is a monk-fruit erythritol blend for best results. Lastly, if you can't easily find a more natural sugar substitute, you can also use Splenda or a generic brand of the same.

Serving and Storage Suggestions

Once you cook everything down, you will end up with a little over 2 cups of sauce. And a serving is about 3 tablespoons. But you can easily make a half batch, if you don’t need the full one. The sauce can be served warm or cold.

• Refrigeration: Store the sauce in the fridge for up to a week.
• Freezing: This easy dessert sauce freezes really well! Just store in glass jars and leave an inch or so of head room for the sauce to expand. Then seal with lids and freeze for up to 3 months. Be sure to use wide mouth jars, as jars with tapered necks can snap at the neck during freezing. When ready to use again, defrost in the fridge overnight.
• Canning: Canning is not recommended without a pressure canner due to the specific acidity levels required.

Variations and Serving Ideas

This recipe is perfect for a variety of whole food, real food diets, including Paleo, AIP, Keto, GAPS, VAD, Gluten-free, Dairy-free and Refined Sugar-free, Beautiful Rhubarb Sauce is sweetened with pure maple syrup - (or the GAPS / keto variations).

• Paleo: Use maple syrup or honey as a sweetener.
• AIP: Ensure all ingredients are compliant with the Autoimmune Protocol.
• GAPS: Use honey as a sweetener.

Serving Suggestions:

• In parfaits (layered with Stabilized Whipped Cream or yogurts: AIP Tigernut, Oat or Cashew)
• On cakes or muffins
• Over ice cream
• Layered in popsicles
• On top of 2-Ingredient Chia Pudding
• On bread or toast (Here are 17 GF breads, Keto bread, GF Rice bread, and Paleo & AIP bread recipes.)
• With waffles (Keto, Paleo, GAPS waffles, Paleo & AIP Waffles)
• Alongside homemade Vanilla Custard (Keto, Paleo, GAPS)
• As a topping for pancakes or waffles

Rhubarb Compote Recipe

Here's a recipe for a rhubarb compote that is lower in sugar but maintains that delicious sweet-tart balance that rhubarb is known for.

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs chopped rhubarb (about 4 cups)
• ½ cup of sugar or Swerve granulated sugar
• ¼ cup of water
• Optional: a squeeze of orange or a bit of orange peel/zest

Instructions:

1. In a medium-size sauce pan, combine all ingredients.
2. Simmer on medium heat for 20 minutes, until it's broken down.
3. Let it cool, then store in a jar.

Strawberry Rhubarb Sauce

This easy strawberry rhubarb sauce adds gorgeous colour and flavor to your favorite keto desserts.

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Ingredients:

• 16 ounces Strawberries
• 3 cups diced Rhubarb
• 1/4 cup Tap Water
• 1/3 cup Xylitol

Directions:

1. In a medium sauce pan combine the rhubarb, granular sugar substitute and water.
2. Bring to a boil, cover and cook for 5-10 minutes until softened.
3. Add the strawberries and continue to cook covered for 5 more minutes.
4. Cool to room temperature before using.
5. May be refrigerated for up to 1 week or frozen for 3 months. Try freezing in ice cube trays to use for Rhuberry Margaritas or as individual serving sizes for sauces.

Important Considerations

• Rhubarb Selection: Choose rhubarb that is firm with crisp stalks. Ensure the leaves (if attached) appear fresh and not wilted. And don't eat the leaves! The leaves are poison.
• Sweetness: Depending on the ripeness and type of rhubarb you use will determine how sweet it is naturally. Once the sauce is cooked you can taste and adjust the sweetener by adding a teaspoon at a time if your rhubarb is not as sweet as you prefer.
• Frozen Rhubarb: You can make this rhubarb sauce with frozen slices of rhubarb. You will just need to cook a little longer to give time for the rhubarb to thaw completely and cook down. Keep in mind, that the rhubarb stalks would have had to be frozen in slices to use in this recipe.
• Customization: If you’ve tried this sauce and like it, try experimenting with herbs and spices to flavor it your way! You can leave out the cinnamon stick entirely or swap out for a teaspoon of your choice of vanilla, orange, or lemon extract. You can alternatively add a one-inch piece of lemon or orange peel. The flavors of rhubarb and strawberries go together beautifully.

Nutritional Information

I provide nutritional information for my recipes simply as a courtesy to my readers. It is calculated using MacGourmet software and I remove erythritol from the final carb count and net carb count, as it does not affect my own blood glucose levels. I do my best to be as accurate as possible but you should independently calculate nutritional information on your own before relying on them.

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