Turn fresh apples into one of the best Crock-Pot Homemade Apple Sauce with this simple and delicious recipe. Can the applesauce in jars or freeze!
Crock-Pot Homemade Apple Sauce
Finally finished my bag of apples with just plain old applesauce. But it is homemade and I know what is in it!. Remember sugar to your taste. This recipe netted me 10 Jelly Jars of applesauce. One isn’t in the pictures as it was given to a friend!
Crock-Pot Homemade Apple Sauce
Learn how to make your own homemade apple sauce with this simple recipe. The perfect recipe for using up all those fresh fall apples!
Ingredients
- 14 Medium Apples Apples (Cored, Peeled (see note) And Diced)
- ½ Cup Water
- ½ Cup Granulated Sugar (Or To Taste)
- 2 Tablespoons Ground Cinnamon
Instructions
- Add prepared apples and water to a 6 quart or larger slow cooker.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 4 hours.
- Using a food mill, food processor or blender puree the cooked apples until smooth.
- Add pureed apples back into slow cooker and add a cinnamon and taste the apple sauce.
- Add a sugar a little at a time, stirring a tasting after each addition until the apple sauce is as sweet as you like it.
- Recover slow cooker and continue to cook on LOW for an additional 4 hours.
- Once apple sauce is cooked you can ladle the hot apple sauce into canning jars and process in a water bath canner for 20 minutes, adjusting for altitude as needed. OR you can store the apple sauce in freezer containers in the freezer for up to 6 months.
Notes
I like apple sauce made with the apples peeled off but you can opt to leave the peels on if you are short on time. Also, if you use a red apple the color from the skins will make your apple sauce a lovely shade of pink!
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Special Diets
I have made applesauce in the crockpot before–it is yummy!
Tomorrow I am making this applesauce. The question I have is,
Can I use a crock-pot liner? I love using liners and hate scrubbing my crock-pot out.
Any help on this would be appreciated.
I’m new to canning. What does heat seal mean?
Sorry, boiling water canner. (water bath). I dont know why I put Heat Seal. process pints and quarts 20 minutes in a boiling water caner.
Can you put these into freezer safe containers and just freeze without “canning”? I do not have the supplies for canning.
Yes. Applesauce freezes nicely.