Homemade Apple Sauce
This homemade apple sauce is one of my number one go to recipes and is a perfect combination of apples, brown sugar, cinnamon and butter.
This homemade applesauce is the perfect fall recipe for using up extra apples. While I don’t have an apple tree of my own yet, I’m lucky to get some from my neighbor.
Recently I discovered a nearby orchard where I can pick fresh apples. There’s just something special about bringing home a basket of freshly picked apples and turning them into a cozy batch of applesauce.
Store bought apples work just as well, but if you have the chance to visit an orchard, I highly recommend it. Freshly picked apples always seem to have a little more flavor and make the sauce extra delicious.
Recipe Ingredients
Lets talk ingredients! Here’s everything you’ll need to make this apple sauce.
- Apples- You can use one type or a variety
- Water
- Lemon juice- Freshly squeezed lemons or bottled lemon juice
- Dark Brown Sugar- You can also use light brown sugar if you’d like
- Cinnamon
- Un-Salted Butter
- Vanilla Extract- Pure or artificial
- Salt
See recipe card for quantities.
How to make this recipe
Use these photos as a guide as you move along each step.
- Step 1: Wash, peel, and core apples. Place in a large pot.
- Step 2: Add in the water, lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon. Mix. Bring to a boil then simmer for 30 minutes with the lid on.
- Step 3: Remove from the heat and mash into desired texture, stir in the butter, vanilla and salt.
- Step 4: Store in an airtight container in the fridge. If you want a smoother apple sauce, allow it to chill then add to blender and blend.
Hint: Don’t leave the butter out, its a key ingredient and makes this apple sauce the best! Its a trick I learnt from a cookbook I read from 1910.
Storage
Fridge: After cooling the apple sauce store it in an airtight container or in a mason jar in the fridge for up to 6 days.
Freezing: Once cooled, add to freezer bags or freezer safe container and freeze for up to 6 months.
Homemade Apple Sauce
Ingredients
- 5 lbs. apples, a variety of kinds tastes better but you can use what you have as well
- 1 cup water
- 2 Tbsp. lemon juice
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
- 3/4 tsp cinnamon, more or less to taste
- 2 Tbsp. un-salted butter
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Wash, peel, core and slice the apples
- Add the apples to a large pot with a lid
- Add in the water, lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon. Mix well and turn the stove to medium heat and bring to a boil
- Once it starts to boil, turn down the heat to medium low and simmer for 30 minutes with the lid on. Make sure to stir occasionally
- Remove the pot from the heat and mash with the potato masher into desired texture
- Stir in the butter, vanilla and salt. Mix well
- Add to a mason jar or airtight container and store in the fridge
- If you want a smooth apple sauce, blend it in the blender once it has cooled.
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Notes
- Lasts 6 days in the fridge in an airtight container or 6 months in the freezer in freezer bags or freezer safe storage containers
Leave a comment below if you made this recipe, I’d love to hear feedback.
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