The Perfect Apple Sauce Recipe

Simple, delicious and multi-functional apple sauce

📝 Ingredients

• 160 g water
• 4 large apples (peeled cored and roughly chopped)
• 60 g brown sugar
• 2 g ground cinnamon
• 1/2 g ground nutmeg
• 2 g ginger powder
• 2 cloves
• juice of 1/4 lemon
• 2 g salt

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1weigh ingredients: Weigh out the spices, sugar and water.
2. 2prep apples: Peel, core and cut the apples into smaller bite-sized pieces.
3. 3place into pot: Place into a suitably sized pot or pan. Cover with a lid and stew on medium heat until the apples are softened.
4. 4add spices: If you are using whole spices instead of ground spices then remove them at this stage. You might find some liquid pooling in the pot depending on the variety of apple you used. Don’t worry. All will be cool.
5. 5mash apples and cook: Finally, you use an old fashioned potato masher to roughly mash up the apples. Once mashed and you still have too much liquid, just slowly simmer it a bit to evaporate some of that liquid. Do not throw any liquid away at any stage. It’s all flavour. We just need to evaporate some of the water so the falvour intensifies. Note that apple sauce thickens a bit when it cools down(there is pectin in apples, a naturally occurring starch that thickens when cooked and cooled down)
6. 6taste for balance: Once you are happy with the consistency, give it a taste and decide if you want a bit of lemon juice in there to balance it. If so, obviously add a bit.
7. 7cool down and store: Let it cool down and then store airtight in the fridge or freezer until needed.