Homemade Applesauce
Applesauce made at home — Homemade Applesauce, Crockpot Cinnamon Applesauce, Grandma's homemade applesauce, Slow Cooker Apple Butter — for a full fruit bowl.
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breakfastHomemade Applesauce
Super simple way to get rid of extra apples, or even create a nice healthy snack for the kids and the adults in the house. Use as many or as few apples as you want. The sweetness can be adjusted by adding sugar, honey, or your choice of sweetener. If opting out of sweetners, like I did, choose a naturally sweet apple. My go to is honeycrisp. Lemon juice is added to prevent the pieces from browning while the chopping other apples.
Dominique MattsonIngredients
- Apples
- Fresh squeezed lemon juice
- Water
Instructions
- 1Peel and chop apples. Small pieces breakdown faster. Coat with juice from 1/2-1 whole lemon.
- 2Place apples and lemon juice in appropriate sized pot. Add water, simmer covered for 10 minutes.
- 3Check every 5 minutes to see if apples have softened. The longer they are cooked, the more they will begin to breakdown. Stirring will also help break them down.
- 4The applesauce is done when you’ve reached your desired consistency. You can add sugar, cinnamon, apple pie spice/pumpkin pie spice.
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Open in Pepper →A Pot Of Apples Fixes Everything
A bag of apples going soft on the counter turns into something the whole family eats, and the house smells like cinnamon all afternoon. You control the sugar, the spice, and how chunky it stays.
Cooks on Pepper reach for this collection in the fall when apples are cheap by the peck, when a kid needs a soft snack, or when they want the slow cooker doing the work while they're out running errands.
Every recipe here is real applesauce and its close cousins: plain Homemade Applesauce with lemon juice, Crockpot Cinnamon Applesauce, Grandma's homemade applesauce with nutmeg, Easy Crockpot Applesauce made with Honeycrisp and Cortland, Cinnamon Chia Seed Applesauce, and thick Slow Cooker Apple Butter.
Quick Tips
- 1
Mix your apple varieties
Use two or three kinds, like Granny Smith with Honeycrisp or Cortland, so the sauce has both tart and sweet in every bite.
- 2
Add lemon juice early
A tablespoon of fresh squeezed lemon juice keeps the apples from browning and brightens the flavor while they cook down.
- 3
Go low and slow
In the slow cooker, 6 to 8 hours on low breaks the apples down completely with almost no stirring.
- 4
Sweeten at the end
Taste after the apples are soft, then stir in sugar a quarter cup at a time so ripe fruit doesn't turn it cloying.
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