Old-Fashioned Apple Sauce

Name: Old-Fashioned Apple Sauce
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 300 min
Total time: 320 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Dutch
Ingredients: 2 kg apples, ideally a mix (e.g. Golden Delicious and Reineta); 100 ml water or apple juice; 1 tbsp lemon juice; 2–4 tbsp sugar; 1 cinnamon stick

Soft, fresh apple sauce just like it used to be, without anything catching on the bottom. You decide how much sugar goes in. This recipe makes approx. 1.2 litres, enough for 6 jars.

€3–5from €3–4MildVegetarian20 min prepLOW 5–6 hrs · HIGH 3 hrsFreezes well

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Ingredients serves 4

Tick off what you already have at home.

2 kgapples, ideally a mix (e.g. Golden Delicious and Reineta)manzanas golden y reineta
Any supermarketMercado municipal
Aisle: frutería. Reineta is a tart cooking apple, mainly in autumn and winter; often nicer at the market.
100 mlwater or apple juicezumo de manzana
1 tbsplemon juicelimón
2–4 tbspsugarazúcarextra
1cinnamon stickcanela en ramaextra

Method

1
Peel the apples, remove the cores and cut them into large chunks.
2
Put the apples in the slow cooker with the water or apple juice and the lemon juice. Add the cinnamon stick (optional).
3
Put the lid on and cook for 5–6 hours on LOW or 3 hours on HIGH, until the apples fall apart.
4
Remove the cinnamon stick. Mash the apples coarsely with a potato masher or blend them smooth with a stick blender. Stir in sugar (optional) to taste.
5
Leave the apple sauce to cool and spoon it into clean jars. Keeps for 1 week in the fridge and 6 months in the freezer.

Flavourful Cooking · slowcookerspain.com/en/recipes/old-fashioned-apple-sauce/