Homemade Applesauce
This is a nice applesauce to enjoy any time, but especially with latkes during Hanukkah. You don't need to get your blender dirty; you just need a potato masher and a little elbow grease. The use of a sugar substitute makes the applesauce sweeter with less sugar added.
Ingredients
- 3 pounds (1300 g / about 8 cups) peeled, cored, and chopped apples
- ½ cup water
- 6 tablespoons white granulated sugar
- 6 tablespoons sugar substitute
- Juice from 1 lemon (about 1 tablespoon)
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon or apple pie spice
Ingredients for 28 servings (1.6 kg) · the original recipe
Method
- 1
Put chopped apples in a large non-stick saucepan. Stir in water, sugar, sugar substitute, and lemon juice.
Stovetop - 2
Bring mixture to a boil, cover, and reduce heat to medium-low.
Stovetop - 3
Cook until apples are tender (about 10 minutes).
- 4
Use a potato masher to break cooked apples up into a nice purée.
- 5
Stir in ground cinnamon or apple pie spice.
- 6
Serve warm or cold.
Recipe from Wikibooks Cookbook, written by Wikibooks contributors. Used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; the ingredient list and method on this page are taken from that page and edited (its notes, tips and variations are not reproduced), and are available under the same licence. The macros, equipment tags and scaling are Ma Kitchen’s own and are not the source’s figures. Ma Kitchen is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wikibooks Cookbook. Copied on 2026-11-12.
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