Delicate, incredibly tasty applesauce with sugar for the winter at home is very easy to prepare! To do this, use a step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Homemade applesauce with sugar is a treasure trove of vitamins and valuable nutrients. Therefore, it is closed for the winter at home by many housewives who are engaged in conservation. Since such a blank is very popular. Applesauce contains many uses. For example, it is used for filling in baked goods, used as an independent dessert, added to any porridge, stuffed with pancakes, served with pancakes, etc. In addition, the recipe is extremely simple and quick. The dessert turns out to be fragrant and retains summer freshness and juiciness for the whole winter.
Each housewife will determine the best variety of apples for harvesting herself. But the sweeter the staple, the less sugar you need. Apples of autumn varieties or those ripening at the end of summer work especially well for applesauce. If mashed potatoes are prepared for a small child, then only green or yellow apples can be used for him, because red ones can cause allergies. It is equally important for the recipe to select fresh and ripe apples, sorting out the spoiled and rotten ones. Fallen fruits can be collected, but then all unsuitable places must be cut off when preparing fruits for conservation. If you are preparing puree from store apples, then it is better to peel them and remove a thin layer of peel, because fruit is often waxed to give it a presentation.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 98 kcal.
- Servings - 2 cans of 580 ml
- Cooking time - 1 hour 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Apples - 1.5 kg
- Drinking water - 50 ml
- Sugar - 500 g or to taste
Step by step preparation of applesauce with sugar, recipe with photo:
1. Wash the selected apples and dry with a paper towel. Cut out any spoiled areas, cut the fruit into cubes and place in a cooking pot of suitable size. Pour in drinking water to prevent the apples from burning.
The smaller the apples are cut, the less time they will cook. And the less heat treatment, the more benefits from apples will remain in the finished product. To minimize cooking time, cut the fruit very finely or mince it.
If you cook a large serving of apples, sprinkle them with lemon juice to keep them from darkening.
2. Pour sugar into a saucepan and stir. Place the pot on the stove and boil. Bring the temperature to the lowest setting, cover the pot and cook for about 20 minutes until the apples are tender.
3. Remove the pan from the heat and purée the apples with a blender until smooth. Return mashed potatoes to heat, bring to a boil, and remove saucepan from heat.
4. Place the hot puree in clean, sterilized jars and seal them up with boiled metal lids. Turn the cans over and place them on the lids. Wrap the applesauce and sugar in a warm blanket and leave to cool completely.
See also a video recipe on how to make apple puree for the winter.
