Homemade Applesauce
With only 5 ingredients and under 30 minutes this Homemade Applesauce is sweet, easy, tasty and everyone loves it. The perfect way to use up those fall apples.
Servings: 2 pints
Calories: 488kcal
Ingredients
- 3 lb apples, peeld, cored and diced
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 Tbs lemon juice
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- In a large pot add your apples, water, lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon and stir.
- Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer on medium-low until apples are tender.
- Using a potato masher, immersion blender or a regular blender, blend until your desired thickness.
- Store in mason jars in refrigerator.
Notes
- Instead of using regular sugar, you can use brown sugar to give it a different flavor.
- Add a cinnamon stick while this boils and simmers to add some extra cinnamon flavor.
- You can mix up your fruits, add some strawberries to the mix to have a strawberry applesauce recipe.
- You can use a potato masher (chunkier), immersion blender or a regular blender to mash up the applesauce itself.
- Get yourself some of these Popsicle Bags and fill them with applesauce and add them to your kids lunch box!
Nutrition
Calories: 488kcal | Carbohydrates: 129g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 10mg | Potassium: 728mg | Fiber: 17g | Sugar: 104g | Vitamin A: 367IU | Vitamin C: 37mg | Calcium: 47mg | Iron: 1mg