How To Make Salted Caramel Sauce Without Refined Sugar

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Looking for a slightly healthier twist on classic caramel sauce? This easy jaggery caramel sauce is made without any refined sugar and still tastes rich, buttery, and delicious. It’s one of my all-time favorite recipes, and today I’m so excited to share it with you!

Whether you want to drizzle it over ice cream, stir it into your coffee, or use it in your favorite desserts, this sugar-free caramel is a must-try!

🍯 Can You Make Caramel Sauce Without Sugar?

Absolutely! This caramel sauce is made with 100% jaggery—no refined sugar added. While the flavor is slightly different from traditional caramel, it’s just as tasty. I’ve used this jaggery caramel in my homemade ice cream recipe, and it turned out amazing!

🧊Can you store this caramel sauce?

Yes, you can store this caramel sauce easily:

• At room temperature: Up to 2 days in an airtight container.
• In the refrigerator: Keeps well for 10–15 days when stored properly.

Because this sauce is made with jaggery, it has a shorter shelf life than sugar-based caramel, so don’t forget to store it in an airtight jar.

⚠️How to avoid the bitter taste of caramel sauce?

The main cause of the slight bitterness in the caramel sauce is, over-caramelization. Maintaining Jaggery temperature is really important. This is the reason, I used 1 tablespoon water here. Water helps jaggery to maintain the temperature of it and helps to avoid jaggery burning and over-caramelization.

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📝Ingredients

Jaggery – As I have said, This recipe is made with jaggery.

full fat milk ( or heavy cream) – You can even try this recipe with full fat milk. However, I personally recommend using heavy cream.

water – Tablespoon of water is required to maintain the temperature of jaggery.

unsalted or salted butter – You can either use salted or unsalted butter in this recipe. In case of using salted butter, Adjust the amount of sauce accordingly.

Salt to taste – I used sea salt here. You can use regular salt too.

👩‍🍳How to make jaggery caramel sauce?

Transfer jaggery into a sauce pan. Make sure to use heavy bottom pan here else jaggery will burn quickly.

Keep the flame medium. Always use medium flame/ temperature to make caramel sauce. Do not use high flame to make sauce as jaggery will burn quickly.

Stir jaggery constantly and add water.

Make sure you are stirring the mixture constantly.

Jaggery will eventually melt and will start bubbling.

Once jaggery is completely melted, you will notice bubbles are bigger and foaming slowly. turn off the flame and add butter and mix it well. put the pan again on the flame.

Once the butter is completely melted and mixed, slowly add milk/cream. Caramel will bubble rapidly again.

Mix cream and simmer the sauce for 30 seconds on medium flame.

Turn off the flame and remove the pan. Keep stirring the mixture for 1 minute or 2.

Add salt to your taste. Your sauce is ready. once it is cooled completely, transfer in a jar.

✨ Try More Homemade Basics:

• Buttermilk substitute for baking
• Homemade taco shells
• Easy spring roll sheets
• cook chickpeas in instant pot (from scratch)
• no yeast pizza dough

💡 Pro Tip: Use this sauce in your desserts, over pancakes, in your coffee, or to make caramel fudge. It’s a great natural sweetener with a rich, deep flavor.