Apple Sauce

Apple sauce is made with apples and can be preserved in jars for months. You can top your favorite desserts with it or serve it as a spread over bread, it tastes just as good! You should always keep a jar handy if you are a mom with toddlers. It is a much better choice when compared with processed jellies and jams.

Let’s have a look at how this sweet sauce is made!

Packing this for your kid’s lunch? Make sure you pack them in an insulated kids lunch box or in your kids snack boxes.

Health Benefits

Apple sauce is one of the healthiest sauces that you can use as a dressing on your desserts or as a dip with, fruits, cakes and biscuits. It has good digestive properties that will affect your health in a positive way. Use this recipe to make some apple sauce and jar it for use every day in place of store bought jellies and jams that can have adverse effects on your body.

Ingredients

Apples: 6

apple cider: 1 cup

How To Make Apple Sauce

1. Wash and peel off the apples.
2. Remove apple cores.
3. Dice the apples into small squared pieces.
4. Set them aside until they are needed for the sauce.
5. Take a deep sauce pan.
6. Add apple cider into it.
7. Put it on the stove on medium heat and let it simmer for a few minutes.
8. Add the diced apples into the sauce pan, cover the lid and let the apples cook on low heat for at least 3 minutes.
9. During this time, remove the lid a few times and stir the apples so they don’t stick to the sides or bottom of the pan.
10. Once the apples sauce it done, pour it out in a bowl.
11. Mash up any chunks of apple that have been left out during the cooking with the back of your spoon.
12. Add some sugar to your taste into the sauce if it doesn’t seem sweet enough but otherwise, it doesn’t need any. You can use it just as it is!
13. Serve it as spread or top your favorite dessert with the healthy apple sauce.

Trivia

• Apples have always been on the list of the top 5 foods that the Americans love!
• Apple sauce was the food of choice that was taken to the space by the first person who orbited the earth, John Glenn.

Apple sauce is a good substitute for butter or oil while baking.