Homemade applesauce is a healthy, sweet, delicious snack. We like to eat it as soon as it’s cool enough to eat, but it’s great at room temperature or even cold straight from the fridge.
This winter I’ve been using my pressure cooker more. I’ve also been trying to eat healthy desserts. So when my husband brought home a big bag of Jonagold apples I decided to change one of our favorite snacks, Cookin’ Canuck‘s Crockpot Applesauce recipe, in to a pressure cooker recipe.
I like to use my apple peeler/slicer to cut the apples, but Kitchen Therapy makes a pressure cooker applesauce with the skins still on to add color to the applesauce. After it’s cook you separate the skins then stir/blend it.
You can blend the applesauce in a blender so it’s complete smooth, but I like to leave it a little chunky. An immersion blender is the perfect tool for making applesauce. You can blend it as much as you like right in the pot.
Homemade appleasauce, whether you make it in the pressure cooker, in the crockpot, or on the stove, is a treat my family loves, and I think yours will too.
Ingredients
- 10 large Jonagold apples, peeled, cored, and quartered or sliced
- 1/4 cup apple juice or water
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Directions
- Place the apple pieces, apple juice, sugar and cinnamon in the pressure cooker and stir to combine. Select High Pressure and set cook time for 4 minutes. (It took about about 10 minutes to come up to pressure.)
- After timer beeps use the quick release method to release the pressure. (You could also use a natural pressure release, but I'm impatient.)
- Stir apples, breaking up large chunks, until you've achieved your desired consistency. (Or you can take the easy way like I did and blend the apples with an immersion blender in the pot.)
More pressure cooker recipes:
Steel Cut Oats, Barbara Bakes
Sirloin Tips in Gravy, Barbara Bakes
Pulled Pork: Pressure Cooker Style, Frieda Loves Bread
Roasted Baby Red Potatoes in 10 Minutes!, Frieda Loves Bread
Butternut Squash Soup with Chicken and Orzo, Barbara Bakes
Pressure Cooker Chicken Taco Filling, Barbara Bakes
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I love to bake, especially cookies, cakes, and pies. I’ll post my adventures in the kitchen, my favorite new recipes, as well as our family favorites.
love the apple peeler
this pressure cooker version looks good, will try it
Delicious and so useful!
Cheers,
Rosa
Hmmm – yet another reason to get myself a slow cooker. Looks divine!
Oh my goodness – I read this wrong and realize it’s a pressure cooker you made this in. Silly me!!! Still looks awesome.
I don’t have a pressure cooker, but I’ve been wanting one for a while. This sounds awesome!
Love the hint of cinnamon!
I’ve been wondering how to make applesauce in my pressure cooker. Thanks for solving the problem for me!
I love how smooth it is! Looks absolutely perfect.
I LOVE homemade applesauce! What a delicious healthy dessert!
I make my applesauce in the crock pot but I will have to do some in my Cuisinart pressure cooker. Haven’t tried it yet but 10 minutes sure beats overnight.
Ooh I can imagine how good a spoon full of this would be. It would be delicious served warm over vanilla icecream too. Yum!
What a great idea!
I don’t own a pressure cooker, but I do love homemade applesauce. Homemade applesauce is so much better than any of the storebought varieties.
Mmmm there’s nothing like homemade applesauce! I don’t have a pressure cooker but I’d love to try this recipe on the stovetop.
I have never tried a pressure cooker, but this looks so comforting. I have a cold right now and I would love to curl up with a big bowl of this!
Un pot qui me donne envie de bon matin pour remplacer mon yaourt
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Je te souhaite un bon mardi
Valérie.
That looks delicious, Barbara. I don’t even have a pressure cooker anymore!
So much better than store bought!
I’ve used the pressure cooker for years. It’s the only way to cook beans for refried beans! I haven’t used it for applesauce but my daughter and her 3 kids moved in for a few months. This will be a great dessert. Thanks Barbara. Have a great week.
I love apple sauce – just love it – i always bring a jar with me to work for lunch. This looks fabulous!
Thank you for visiting my blog Barbara. Pressure cooker is my most favorite kitchen utensil. Apple sauce with hint of cinnamon that is perfect.
homemade applesauce is the best, this looks SO good
My MIL uses her pressure cooker all the time and everything tastes so wonderful. I have been on the lookout for one at garage sales. I love the idea of pureeing the skins right in with the sauce after they cook down. I think you lose a lot of the nutrients when you get rid of the skin…and some flavor, too. I like to eat my applesauce warm. Ok, I want to make some now!
I’m so glad there is now a quicker alternative to making applesauce. I can’t wait to try this out. Thanks Barbara!!!
I love your pressure cooker recipes because I love mine too! And that is the coolest apple corer ever!
xxx
My daughter eats apple sauce like it’s going out of style. This looks fantastic!!
Hi Barbara,
Homemade apple sauce is the best! This looks amazing.
Hi Barbara, You must be a mind reader. I sent out a shout on twitter looking for apple sauce recipes to add as links to my photo posts about apple sauce and dehydrated apples. I love your fancy old fashioned looking apple contraption:) Just beautiful!!
I like to use my pressure cooker to prepare food, but never thought that I could use it to make applesauce. Brilliant!
Great idea using pressure cooker to make apple sauce, especially that it is apple season.
Hope you are having a great week Barbara
Homemade applesauce is just the best!
~Judy
What a great idea! I have a pressure cooker and never thought about using it for the apples… .. Love your photos too! Beautiful
I was looking at a pressure cooker just yesterday at Target and wondered how much I would use it. I have scary memories of my mom’s old one steaming and spitting on top of the stove. It does look like a real timesaver. There are few things better than homemade applesauce.
Love your apple peeler! And the hint of cinnamon, mmm. Applesauce makes such a wonderful and delicious late-night snack
The apple sauce looks perfect
Beautiful recipe! Next time, especially if they are organic apples, consider leaving the skins on.. not just for color but also for nutrition. They are filled with minerals and nutrients!
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I’m looking forward to more of your healthy pressure cooker desserts!!
Ciao,
L
Thanks Laura! I made another batch and this time left the skins on. I doubled the cook time to 8 minutes so the skins would be super tender and after blending it well with the immersion blender you almost couldn’t tell I’d left the skins on. I think I prefer it without the skins though so I can leave it more chunky.
Glad to hear you liked it, that way! I love your gadget (pictured in the post) but now, for making apple sauce I just use an “apple slicer”. It quickly cores and slices apples and preps you applesauce in the bat of an eye!
Ciao!
L
I toss the apples whole into the pressure cooker, add a little water or white wine or even red wine and cranberries. I bring the pressure up to the second level and let it cook for about five minutes. Let the pressure drop naturally, pop off the top, run the sauce through the medium strainer of a food mill. The skins and cores become almost nothing, and you get all of the nutritional goodness and fiber with no waste. You can sweeten as your taste dictates, and a shake of good Saigon cinnamon does wonders.
Thanks for sharing your method. I really should invest in a food mill. I especially love the idea of adding cranberries.