Fresh From Florida Blueberries for Dinner & Dessert!
Additional Disclosure: This post was sponsored by Fresh From Florida as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central, however all opinions expressed are my own.
Every summer a little town in North Florida hosts a blueberry festival. It’s as small-town charm as you can possibly get, complete with a blueberry pancake breakfast that everyone, including your mom ’em them, looks forward to each year. That tiny breakfast kick-off goes through 700 lbs of blueberries, all donated by the local blueberry farmers. I’m ashamed to admit it, but before attending this festival for the first time as a child, I never knew you could do so much with blueberries. To me, blueberries were what you put in muffins, and that was about all anyone I knew did with them. But now, as an adult, I have learned to play with as many fresh ingredients and flavors as I can — I even combine blueberries with Sriracha Sauce and put it on steak!
I adore the sweet-heat that happens when you combine Sriracha Sauce with Fresh From Florida fruit. It keeps me constantly looking for new combinations and foods to put it on. My latest adventure meal was a Grilled Sirloin Steak with Sriracha Blueberry Sauce. It’s pretty amazing! Our first plate was a free-for-all of family flying around it begging for a bite! I tried to tell them that blueberries are Fresh From Florida, and in season here from now until summer, but they wouldn’t wait! Everyone was huddled around me like children in the strawberry field begging for more!
And my sauce, my husband now wants me to keep it handy for him 24/7, as he is now keeping his eyes out for the million ways he can eat it!
Grab this recipe AND my delicious Angel Food Cake
with Blueberry Cheesecake Filling below!
Grilled Steak with Sriracha Blueberry Sauce
Ingredients:
- 2 Sirloin Steaks (or 4 Filets)
- 2 tbsp butter, melted
- 1 tbsp steak sauce
- 1 tbsp mustard
- 2 tbsp dry rub seasoning
- 1 pint Fresh From Florida blueberries
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup Sriracha Sauce
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
- 1-3 tbsp orange juice (or water)
- Aluminum Foil
Directions:
Prepare marinade in large bowl by combining butter, steak sauce, and mustard. Coat steaks with marinade and allow to rest in the refrigerator for thirty minutes.
Start your grill.
Coat steaks liberally with dry rub and cook on the grill to your likeness. Totally cooking time shouldn’t be longer than ten minutes to reach an internal temperature of 140 degrees.
Remove steak from grill and wrap tightly in aluminum foil.
While steaks are resting, prepare the Sriracha Blueberry Sauce. Heat sugar and orange juice/water in a small saucepan. Add Sriracha Sauce and 1/2 pint of whole blueberries. Stir frequently until it begins to boil. Mash blueberries with a potato masher or immersion blender. Strain and *discard blueberry skins/pieces. Return blueberry mixture to the pot. Add cornstarch slurry, stir constantly until sauce begins to boil. Add remaining blueberries. Stir for 30 seconds and remove from heat.
Spoon Sriracha Blueberry Sauce over steaks and/or in a small dish and serve.
Tip: Keep blueberry skins/pieces and use them to prepare a compound butter! Just mix the pieces with softened butter, shape into a log, wrap in plastic wrap, and chill until firm.
Angel Food Cake with Blueberry Cheesecake Filling
Ingredients:
- 1 Angel Food Cake (bundt), prepared
- 2 blocks/packs cream cheese
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 2 tbsp Blueberry Preserves
- 1 pint Fresh From Florida Blueberries
Directions:
Soften cream cheese in a bowl. Add granulated sugar and blueberry preserves, mix well until smooth. Fold in 1/2 pint fresh blueberries. Pour cheesecake filling into the center of your angel food cake, garnish with additional fresh blueberries. Cover and chill until ready to serve.
Serve cake with remaining Fresh From Florida Blueberries.
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My husband and some kids love Sriracha! And then you throw in a recipe that the rest of us can appreciate! We buy blueberries in bulk and are always looking for things to do with them – quickly, before they disappear.
Oh that blueberry sauce for the steaks looks and sounds so yummy! I will have to give it a try very soon! 🙂
What an excellent article. I am definitely making the grilled steak with sriracha blueberry sauce. My family is a huge fan of blueberries and enjoys to shop the local farmers market for them. I’m sure this will be a hit with my family. I’m also excited to try the angel food blueberry cheesecake. I might make that secretly just for myself.
Sounds delicious! I love Fresh from Florida <3
Can’t wait to try. Sounds so amazing.
This looks like an amazing dessert.
We love blueberries so I cant wait to make the Srirachi Blueberry Sauce! Yum!
Great recipe and I can’t wait to try it!
I have a recipe very similar to your second one, and I just love it! The original calls for lemon curd, rather than a blueberry twist. A couple of the many reasons why I (and many others) love this recipe is that it’s simple and easy to make, and that there are different ways to make it. As an example, I make mine as a three-layer cake (as in the original recipe). Your blueberries here look delicious!
Oh wow, All this looks delicious! Totally craving blueberries now! 🙂
This looks delicous it makes angel food cake come to life
Oh how I love blueberries but have never had them over steak. They look so amazing and yummy! I’ve just got to try it the next time we have steaks.
i am not a huge blueberry fan,,but these look so good that i would love to try them out
Blueberries are great, very healthy
Have to admit that I am one of those people that was stuck in a rut in using blueberries time I tried something new. Total agree with you about using hot sauce in things I made fried apples this week and add some to them. I was so surprise at how much and different flavor it gave them.
I didn’t know Florida was known for its blueberries! I like the idea of having berries with something savoury!
My husband likes things with spice, and I like making new things. He’d like the blueberry sriracha sauce!
I will definitely try out the Angel Food cake recipe and I will give my son the recipe for the sauce.
I love anything with blueberries. This looks good!
Yum, I love blueberries! They are definitely my favorite fruit, especially when they are in season and super plump and sweet. I have definitely never had a siracha sauce made with them before though, I can’t wait to try it! Thank you so much for sharing the recipe. 🙂
Blueberries are the best! I sometimes freeze them and then eat them like Popsicles.
I love the angel food cake recipe, it looks delicious!
Both of these recipes look amazing and I can’t wait to make this exact dinner!
I love experimenting with blueberries! I want to try that sauce for steak.
Blueberries are in season and available at the Farmers Market so I welcome all these delicious recipes.
I would like to fix this at home and I would like for my mother and my sister to fix this at home for me.
Perfect, blueberries are ripe for picking here as well.
I live in Florida, and my family loves to go blueberry picking. These recipes look amazing. I never thought of pairing blueberries with steak, but it sounds so good. I also love siracha, so this is a recipe I will certainly pin. Thank you.
I love blueberries. So tasty & so good for you
You have taken blueberries to a new level. Making a homemade angel food cake tomorrow and using this recipe.
I love blueberries. The sauce for the steak looks amazing.
There are quite a few members in my family that would love this with the addition of the sriracha sauce!
I need to try the grilled steak with sriracha blueberry sauce .I am actually really lucky to have wild blueberries all around me and have blueberry sauce I canned and gallon bags of blueberries I froze. I think I can adapt the recipe to use with the blueberry sauce and it will be a huge hit here.
I love blueberries. The sriracha blueberry sauce sounds delicious!
Such a versatile fruit
I haven’t had blueberries in a while and now I so have to make this recipe thanks for sharing.
This recipe looks really good! Thanks for sharing!
Such a refreshing Idea. We get stuck eating the same things and it gets old quick. Can’t wait to try this!
I would love to try this!
The Angel food cake with blueberry cheesecake filling sounds delicious.
Love blueberries! And besides being so yummy – they are also healthy!