One Minute Applesauce

4 apples, peeled & roughly chopped
pinch of cinnamon (optional)

• Chop apples (removing seeds & core).
• Place in food processor w/ cinnamon & blend until smooth.
• If using a Vitamix, no need to peel the apples. (see demonstration video below)

Serves 4.

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SIDE NOTES:

~ Ridiculously quick, easy & amazingly tasty. My kids go NUTS for this. I make it several times a week as part of our breakfast.

~ Use crisp, firm apples, not the softer, mealier types. Our favorite apples to use are BRAEBURN, PINK LADY, GALA, JONAGOLD or FUJI. We think the consistency is a bit too watery if you use red delicious, sunrise, or other soft varieties.

~ The cinnamon, in addition to adding great flavor, helps to kick start your digestion for the day.

~ As mentioned, if using a Vitamix, no need to peel the apples – it pulverizes skin & all. Just use the tamper to push the apples into the blade area. Takes no more than a minute. If using a food processor, you’ll need to peel & it won’t be quite as quick, but you’ll get the same end result. If you’re in the market for a vitamix, feel free to use my distributor code to get free shipping 06-004158 which entitles you to free shipping and I get credit for the referral – Thx  🙂

~ We find it’s plenty sweet enough as is, but if you’d like it sweeter, try adding a little bit of medjool date. This is what I started doing when I first started making this type of applesauce. I soon found out that depending on the particular apples I was using, it often ended up too sweet.  I kept decreasing the amount of date I used until I wasn’t using any. Then it seemed perfect & I wondered why I assumed I would need to add a sweetener to something that was already inherently sweet. Probably a misconception buried deep in my brain due to the way old fashioned, cooked apple sauce is made – w/ lots of sugar!

~ The nice thing about raw applesauce, (besides the amazing taste), is that you need less apples! If you cook it, the apples melt down to nothing & you end up needing many apples for just one small serving. With this method, one large apple is perfect for one serving (yields somewhere between 3/4 to 1 cup of applesauce). If your apples are small, plan on using 2 per person.

~ If you intend to make this often, get yourself one of those apple slicers (that round thing with handles that cores & yields 8 slices with one push). I got a cheap one first (4 or 5 bucks) but it didn’t work so well. I recommend a better one like oxo brand ($10) which slices with more ease & is comfortable for my hands. I still need to cut each slice in half or thirds as I put into my blender, but oxo still saves me time.

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