Apple Sauce
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Quick, clean & easy applesauce. I end up freezing most of it in ice cube trays & transferring to a sealable container to use as baby food or as unit servings add to other recipes at a later date.
Ingredients
  • Your favourite apples (we like gala or honey crisp)
  • Lemon juice (just a squeeze)
  • Cinnamon (optional)
  • Water
Method
  1. It's up to you whether you want to peel your apples or not. Not peeling them is ok if you have a high powered blender to blend it up well but most times I peel them.
  2. So peel and chop your apples into rough chunks
  3. Place in a pot with a little bit of water (1 TB) to prevent sticking
  4. Add a sqeeze of fresh lemon. (Enough to prevent the apples from turning dark brown but not so much that it becomes sour and looses the sweet flavour.
  5. Add cinnamon to taste if you like...I usually do
  6. Cook on medium high stirring often until the apples start to break down.
  7. You may have to add more water a little at a time to help prevent burning or sticking to your pan but just keep cooking until all the apples are very tender.
  8. Transfer to your high powered blender and blend to desired consistency. Sometimes we leave chunks sometimes we make it smooth. Depending on what we are using it for.
  9. You can store right away or I sometimes transfer back to the pot and cook just a little longer.
  10. You can make raw apple sauce as well without cooking at all in your blender but cooking it just pulls out the sweet flavour a little more and you get an even smoother result.
  11. Experiment with your favourite kinds of apples or other fruit such as peaches, pears, plums and other available or in season fruit. But the riper the better because it will taste more sweet.
Recipe by Nutritarian Kids In The Making at http://nutritariankids.com/apple-sauce/