Hello and welcome to you in the kitchen with Matt, I am
your host, Matt Taylor.
Today, I'm going to show you how to make
homemade applesauce.
Oh, yeah, I love apple sauce.
I love it with pork chops.
I love eating it plain.
I love making applesauce muffins with it.
I'll put a link down below in the description where you can
find that link to the applesauce muffins.
Super easy muffin dish.
Really yummy.
Applesauce only takes about four ingredients to make.
You can really actually make it with only two ingredients,
but the extra two ingredients make it taste that
much better.
Super easy to do.
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Let's get started down below.
In the description box, you'll find a list of the
ingredients and their amounts.
I had a large pot here and what I did is I peeled and clawed
and then chopped six apples into chunks similar to if you
were going to make like an apple pie.
Of course, for apple pie, I would make the chunks
a little thinner.
And you can use whatever kind of apples that you want.
I use three Granny Smith apples and three Gaila apples.
And then what I'm going to do is I want to add one
cup of water.
I'm using filtered water because my tap
water tastes gross.
I mean, I have one third cup of white granulated sugar and you
could reduce that sugar if you want.
I like my apple sauce a little bit on the sweeter side and
then I have one teaspoon of cinnamon and you can leave the
cinnamon out if you want.
I like to add it.
Now, let's head over to the stove top here we are over at
the stove top, I have the heat set to medium high and we're
going to give this a good stir, this mixture.
All right, and now we want to bring this to a boil, so I'm
just going to
stir it occasionally until it starts to boil.
OK, once the apples start to boil like this, I'm just going
to give it a stir.
And then what I want to do is I want to turn the heat down to
medium low
and then we want to let this simmer
for about 15 or 20 minutes until the apples
get really soft.
And we also want to cover it.
And just let it sit there and do its thing for about 15
to 20 minutes.
It's been about 20 minutes now to check on these apples.
We want them to be really soft.
I'm going to let him go for it, probably, OK, now I'm
going to go let him go for another five minutes.
Oh, right.
I'm going to give them a check in on them, and this is
probably pretty good.
They are really soft.
You should be able to push down with your spoon and kind of
easily tear them apart.
So what I want to do is I want to remove them, remove it from
the sheet and let it cool for a bit and then we'll get on
to smashing them.
OK, I let it cool for about five minutes.
Another thing you'll notice is they're going to be
semi translucent, the apples, and that's another indication
that they are done.
And then what we want to do is come in with a fork or you can
come in with a pastry blender, a potato masher.
You can use a immersion and immersion blender.
You could also just drop all of this in your food processor.
And if you're a food processor isn't large enough, then you
can do it in stages if you want,
like half of it at a time so you can use your fork or come
in with the potato masher.
Just a potato masher works really well.
So if you have one of those that we're just going to give
this a good match, tollgates nice.
And blend it all together.
I like my homemade applesauce to be a little bit on the
chunkier side, but if you want it to be really smooth,
then you might want to use a food processor or
that immersion blender.
And this smells amazing.
I can smell the cinnamon.
Oh, yes.
Super excited for it.
And you can serve warm like this for dessert, maybe serve
it with some ice cream, like some vanilla ice cream.
If you wanted to.
Or you can it completely.
A lot of things you can do with it, but you will want to
let it cool completely before you put it in
the refrigerator.
All right.
And that's how easy it is to make homemade applesauce and
I'm going to scoop some in this bowl with my little.
And this will make somewhere around three to four cups worth
of applesauce and then the rest of it I'm going to put.
In a Mason jar for storage.
Still pretty warm,
so you want to, again, make sure it cools completely
before you put this in the fridge.
And so I just put the rest in this Mason jar, if I put that
apple sauce from the bowl into here, we would wind up
being about three, three and a half, four cups
worth of applesauce.
So it pretty much fill up this whole thing, which is an 800
millimeter or a three and a half cups worth Mason jar.
All right.
The homemade applesauce is done and it turned out fantastic.
Really easy to do simple ingredients.
If I can do it, you can do it to store it, make sure
it cools completely.
And then you can put it in a Mason jar like this with a lid
or any container with a lid and then store it in the
refrigerator for up to about 10 days.
It'll stay fresh or you can can it or freeze it for
longer term storage.
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Time for me to dive into this.
Oh, yeah.
Hmm.
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Hmm.
So delicious.