Slow Cooked Cinnamon Applesauce

Submitted by Mirj2338

"Very yummy!"

 

• Ready In: 3hrs 10mins
• Ingredients: 4
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 3 1⁄2 lbs granny smith apples, peeled,cored,and sliced
• 1⁄2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 1⁄2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

directions

1. In a 3 1/2-quart electric slow cooker, toss together the apples, brown sugar, and lemon juice.
2. Cover and cook on the high heat setting 3 hours or until the apples are very tender.
3. Mash up the apples with a potato masher.
4. Stir in the cinnamon.
5. Serve over vanilla ice cream, if desired.

Reviews

[AgileK9s]

This is not only the best applesauce I've ever made - it's also the best applesauce I've ever eaten! Wonderful recipe, and so easy. One word of caution though, I used my apple peeler/slicer/corer to prepare the apples and the slices come out thin. The applesauce was fully cooked and getting ready to burn after 1 hour, 45 minutes. If you use one of these gadgets (mine is from Pampered Chef), watch the cooking time.

 

[PA.Dutch.Gramma]

I must have applesauce with our New Year day pork and sauerkraut dinner and couldn’t find no added or low sugar applesauce for a diabetic family member in the store this year. I decided to make my own using this recipe with an equal combination of Granny Smith, Macintosh and Fuji apples. Rather than brown sugar, I used half the amount of Splenda Brown Sugar Blend. Loved the texture of the applesauce but it was a little too sweet for my taste and the cinnnamon stronger than we prefer. A granddaughter asked me to make this applesauce so that she can take some back to her college dorm so today I made a triple batch in my large InstaPot. This time I used half Macintosh and half Fuji apples, cut back a little on the Brown Sugar Blend and cut the amount of cinnamon by a third. Perfect for us! Granddaughter’s will be put up in small containers for her dorm refrigerator/freezer and ours will be frozen in pint portions so that we can enjoy it over the next few weeks.

 

[Michelle S.]

Funny, the only way I can think to describe this applesauce is rich...not normally how I would EVER describe applesauce, but there it is! I used half Granny Smiths and half Cortland apples. I also could not resist adding dried cherries to this as my DH is into the flavored applesauces. It took less than the 3 hours to cook and I also "whirled" mine in the blender for the smoother texture my family loves. My favorite kind of cooking here...minimal ingredients, minimal effort...maximum taste!

 

[Sherri35]

Excellent applesauce! I used Jonathan apples instead of Granny Smith because that's what I picked at the orchard. After cooking them in the crockpot, I put the mixture into my blender until it was the consistency I wanted. My kids loved this and had it for breakfast this morning! Thanks!

 

[Zwomann]

... if you KEEP cooking this for like 24hrs.. it turns into apple butter.