How to Make Applesauce with KitchenAid® Attachments
Today’s post is sponsored by KitchenAid as they provided me with a stand mixer and several attachments, so I can teach you a very simple way how to make applesauce.
Delicious, smooth, warm applesauce.
This time of year of canning and preserving always feels right. It’s like birthing a baby, in a way, with the fruits of our labor coming to fruition in the growing season canning, preserving, and eating from the land. Even though we have a city lot with 14 raised beds, we also head up the street to several accessible farms, to our local Harry & David, and to the Farmer’s Market to buy organic goods.
Every year our dear friends, who live a few miles from us, provide us with apples.
And every year we make applesauce. Often it involves the family, or one of my kids helping me. It’s really a quick process!
It’s one of the easiest ways to harvest and enjoy apples in the winter months ahead. And what I love is that everyone can get in on the canning process, and YES, you really do NOT have to peel or core the apples!
Did you hear this, folks? Cook them down with skins, cores, stems, and all.
Attach the Fruit Strainer/Food Grinder attachments to your KitchenAid stand mixer. (The links to what you will need are at the bottom of this post.)
Make sure there is one LARGE bowl ready to receive the pressed applesauce, and one smaller bowl ready to receive the residue from the apples.
How to Make Applesauce:
Wash the apples. I usually put them into my deep kitchen sink, add cold water, and let them soak.
Cut the apples. Taking the cut apples from the sink, slice into quarters. LEAVE SKINS AND STEMS ON. Place in a big pot.
Cook the apples. Fill the pot as high as you can. Add about 1/2 cup of water. Cook the apples down, which means you cook them until they are soft and tender.
Press the apples. Ladle the apples into the top of the fruit strainer on the KitchenAid stand mixer. Push the apples through.
How it works. The Fruit Vegetable Strainer/Food Grinder does 2 things. It separates out the stems, seeds, and skins of the apple into one bowl, and the applesauce into the other bowl.
Fill the jars. Fill the sterilized canning jars with applesauce and process in a hot water canner for 25 minutes.
Enjoy it hot. There’s nothing better than a warm bowl of applesauce with fresh whipped cream.
The applesauce process is amazingly quick and efficient, and one of the things I love to can each year.
There are different ways to add flavor to the applesauce, too, if you like to can. (Very top photo: Home canned applesauce and cherries.)
You can add sugar (but I don’t), cinnamon, even melted red hot candies! These add a cinnamon flavor, and also quite a bit of sugar to each jar, but in the long run, the “pink” applesauce is what kids love the most!
You can eat it fresh, or if you have an abundance like I usually do, follow the canning process (go to Ball.com for any canning questions.)
Thank you KitchenAid for sponsoring this post today. If you have any questions about the process of making applesauce, leave me a question and I’ll try to answer it for you.
Our family has been enjoying this scrumptious treat for years and am thrilled to share the process with you today!
Oh, and an empty pot is a good sign of happy tummies in the household!
Do you have any secrets for making home-canned applesauce?
Here are the attachments you will need:
KitchenAid® Fruit/Vegetable Strainer Set
KitchenAid® Food Grinder
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I want this attachment! I use a strainer that has a turn handle that mashes it all up. Its a work out for the arms but worth it.
I totally want this attachment!
How often do you need to remove and clean the skins/core residue? I have always used a culinary ‘china cap’ and pestle…kinda old school. Cleaning the skins residue is the most annoying part. Wonder how much time this attachment really saves?
deb meyers
Deb, from the attachment? Never! You finish the entire job, no matter how many apples, and then clean x1 at the very end. Email me if you want more info … there’s nothing annoying about this process! :)
Thanks for this post. I didn’t know KA had an attachment that made applesauce so easy. No peeling and coring, yeah!
I had no idea that the attachment separates the stems and the cores! Brilliant! My kiddos love homemade applesauce! Wonderful tips, Sandy!
YUM! I’ve been making quick applesauce in my vitamix and simply freezing it. I just core the apples, throw them in with just a bit of water and some cinnamon, blend till smooth, then put in a freezer container. You could process it, but I wanted to keep it “raw”
That looks so good! Thanks for the hard work to show us how it’s done!
I’m seriously thinking I need that attachment for my Kitchen Aid. That just looks too easy. I love homemade applesauce. YUM!
Now, this is the way to make applesauce! Easy peasy. I must get these KitchenAid attachments, soon. Thanks for sharing, m’lady!