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 applesauce 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.
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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 applesauce, 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.
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Pressure Cooker Applesauce
Ingredients
- 10 large Jonagold apples peeled, cored, and quartered or sliced
- ¼ cup apple juice or water
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- 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.)
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Pulled Pork: Pressure Cooker Style, Frieda Loves Bread
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Katie
Thank you very much for this recipe. I’m going to use it as a base for apple butter but I didn’t want to use my slowcooker again for a full 12 hours so I’m using this to “jumpstart” the apples and then turn into a slow cooker with my P.C. Thanks, can’t wait to have my house smell delicious and even more excited to taste it on fresh bread!
Brad
Thanks for this Applesauce recipe, went out yesterday and picked up a Breville BPR200 Pressure Cooker looking around for some thing to cook in it found your recipe tried it loved it came out great, also cooked up a pork loin to go with it ,tastes sensational ,thank you.
Barbara Schieving
Thanks Brad – what a great first recipe to try. I’m a big fan of Breville appliances, but I haven’t tried their pressure cooker. Glad to know you’re enjoying it.
Alicia
Thanks for this! I have an electric pressure cooker that I love and adore. I got a huge box of organic ginger gold apples, and I’m drying some. I used the apple slicer and plopped the apple slices into the pressure cooker, skins and all. 10 minutes later I opened the lid, drained them a little, and ran the stick blender through them till it was very smooth (I have a 7 month old baby so we’re going for smooth around here). No sugar, and they are so sweet! The skins are tiny flecks. SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jack Etsweiler
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.
Barbara
Thanks for sharing your method. I really should invest in a food mill. I especially love the idea of adding cranberries.
Laura @ hip pressure cooking
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
Barbara
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.
Laura @ hip pressure cooking
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
Joy.
The apple sauce looks perfect
Roxana GreenGirl { A little bit of everything}
Love your apple peeler! And the hint of cinnamon, mmm. Applesauce makes such a wonderful and delicious late-night snack
Cathy at Wives with Knives
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.
2 sisters recipes
What a great idea! I have a pressure cooker and never thought about using it for the apples… .. Love your photos too! Beautiful 🙂
JG
Homemade applesauce is just the best!
~Judy
Juliana
Great idea using pressure cooker to make apple sauce, especially that it is apple season.
Hope you are having a great week Barbara 🙂
Angie@Angie's Recipes
I like to use my pressure cooker to prepare food, but never thought that I could use it to make applesauce. Brilliant!
foodwanderings
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!!
Asmita
Hi Barbara,
Homemade apple sauce is the best! This looks amazing.
Deborah
My daughter eats apple sauce like it’s going out of style. This looks fantastic!!
Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella
I love your pressure cooker recipes because I love mine too! And that is the coolest apple corer ever! 😮 xxx
Trisha
I’m so glad there is now a quicker alternative to making applesauce. I can’t wait to try this out. Thanks Barbara!!!
Becki's Whole Life
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!
teresa
homemade applesauce is the best, this looks SO good 🙂
Chandani
Thank you for visiting my blog Barbara. Pressure cooker is my most favorite kitchen utensil. Apple sauce with hint of cinnamon that is perfect.