Homemade Strawberry Syrup

Clean all of your fruits.

Cut all the strawberries stems, set aside.

Grated one whole orange skin to take the orange zest, and squeeze the juice too. Add 1/2 lemon juice, and fill it with water until 500 ml for the total liquid. If you are going for heavy syrup you only need 250 ml for the liquid.

Put your clean strawberries into a pan, add sugar, orange zest, and the liquid inside your pan.

Heat it with medium low heat. Let it boil and while boiling push or squeeze your strawberries inside the pan using the potato smasher, just push a little bit to take out the juice little by little, no need to crush your strawberries.

Add salt and let it simmer until the thickness that you wished. If you want a bit thick or half heavy, let your syrup reduces its liquid until the thickness that you want. Mine, it takes about 30-45 minutes simmering time.

Enjoy!

You could use it for the topping of your cakes, toast bread, pancakes, beverage or whatever that calls for strawberry syrup.