Homemade Applesauce ~ TRICK to making PINK! ~ FruitsandVeggiesMonday

I love homemade applesauce and making it in the slow cooker is so easy and convenient. Below is my recipe for making applesauce in the slow cooker and you can adjust the sugar and cinnamon to your liking.

You can make the applesauce pink by two ways. You can cook the apples with the skin on and then put through a strainer. Another way is adding hot cinnamon candies! My Mom use to do this for us kids and we always commented on the color. The candies really don't add a lot of flavor but they do make the applesauce a nice pink.

This was my entry to #fruitsandveggiesmonday initiated by @lenasveganliving.

Homemade Applesauce in the Slow Cooker ~ Secrets to Making Pink Applesauce

INGREDIENTS:
8-10 Cortland apples - peeled
1/4 cup sugar
pinch salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
20-25 hot cinnamon candies

Add peeled and sliced apples in slow cooker with sugar, salt and cinnamon. Cook in slow cooker on high for 4-5 hours or on low for 7-8 hours. While still hot add in hot cinnamon candies and stir. Add to taste and color.

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Hmm apple sauce with lots of cinnamon. Great recipe!

Thanks @amy-goodrich It is good!

Hmm apple sauce with lots of cinnamon. Great recipe!

This looks delicious!! Will have to try!

Great idea!!! Thank you so much for another delicious recipe Dear @tesscooks4u 🍒 🍌🍑🌿🍍🍓🍇

Applesauce is one of the best foods of all time! I make my applesauce pink by using the tart, lemon-flavored hairs of Sumac bushes. I have a Smooth Sumac (Rhus glabra) in my yard. They grow in PA, too, and you may have the Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina) around, too. They make things things pink and tart!

Thanks so much for the info @haphazard-hstead I will have to search that out. I am aware of sumac and we have some growing on our land. I will have to research and see what we have. Wonderful!

That's great that you already know where some sumac is - and on your own land, no less! The seedheads will be ready in the late summer or early fall. You gather the whole seedhead, but just use the hairs. The seeds are way too hard to eat. It's great for lemonade, too -- no lemons needed! ; )

Thank you so much @haphazard-hstead

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