How to Make Applesauce in the Slow Cooker
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How to Make Applesauce in the Slow Cooker
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How to Make Applesauce in the Slow Cooker involves peeling, coring, and slicing eight medium apples placed in a nonstick sprayed slow cooker. Adding a strip of lemon peel, lemon juice, light brown sugar, and a cinnamon stick creates subtle acidity and warm spice. Cooking on low for six hours with occasional stirring slowly breaks down the apples into a tender mixture.
This method results in softly cooked apples infused with cinnamon and lemon flavors. Leaving the sauce chunky preserves some natural fruit texture, or blending once cooled produces a smooth applesauce. The slow cooker technique is hands-off and produces consistent, flavorful results without stovetop monitoring.
The finished applesauce can be stored in an airtight container refrigerated for up to a week or frozen for longer keeping. The balance of sweetness from brown sugar and brightness from lemon juice creates a versatile applesauce suitable for eating alone or as an accompaniment.
Ingredients
- 8 apple medium
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 lice lemon peel
- 5 tsp light brown sugar unpacked
- 1 tick cinnamon
Instructions
- Spray your slow cooker crock with nonstick cooking spray
- Peel, core, and slice your apples and place inside the slow cooker.
- Using a vegetable peeler, peel a single slice of peel from the lemon and drop into the slow cooker with the apples
- Add 1 teaspoon lemon juice over the apples from the lemon you just peeled
- Add the brown sugar then stir to mix all ingredients with the apples
- Place your cinnamon stick in the slow cooker with the mixture, then place the lid to seal.
- Set your slow cooker to low heat setting and cook for 6 hours stirring every 1-2 hours.
- Once done cooking, remove the cinnamon stick and lemon peel.
- If you like a chunky applesauce, then leave as is to serve. If you prefer smooth, allow it to cool before blending to the desired texture.
- Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week or freeze for future use once completely cooled.
Nutrition Information
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Serving: 12Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 69 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 69kcal | 3% |
| Carbohydrates | 18g | 6% |
| Protein | 1g | 2% |
| Fat | 1g | 2% |
| Saturated Fat | 1g | 5% |
| Sodium | 2mg | 0% |
| Potassium | 130mg | 3% |
| Fiber | 3g | 12% |
| Sugar | 14g | 28% |
| Vitamin A | 66IU | 1% |
| Vitamin C | 6mg | 7% |
| Calcium | 11mg | 1% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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