Homemade Apple Sauce
Easy stovetop homemade apple sauce made with fresh apples, cinnamon, and sugar. Ready in 30 minutes, this cinnamon apple sauce recipe is chunky or smooth and stores in the refrigerator for up to a week or the freezer for two months.
Servings 8 servings
Ingredients
- 5-6 large apples A sweet variety like Honeycrisp, Gala or Pink Lady work best, but you can use any type.
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 cup water
Instructions
- Peel, core, and chop the apples into bite-sized chunks. Place the cut-up apples into a large pot or Dutch oven.
- Add the sugar, cinnamon, and water to the apples in the pot.
- Cover with a lid and cook over medium heat for 18-20 minutes until the apples are very soft. Uncover the pot and remove from the heat.
- Mash the hot apple sauce with a potato masher until it reaches your desired consistency.
- Serve the apple sauce warm, or refrigerate and eat within 3-4 days.
Notes
I used 5 very large, orchard fresh apples for this recipe. The apple sauce is heavy on cinnamon, because it’s delicious that way. But you can experiment with adding less sugar and cinnamon if you wish. Or, additional sugar and cinnamon can be added to taste after the apple sauce is cooked.
The type of apples to be used depends on the taste of the person making the apple sauce. I prefer a very fresh, tart apple and that is what I would recommend. Gala or Pink Lady apples are the most common apple that would be wonderful for making apple sauce. But any apple that a person likes will be great. Some apples are much sweeter and less tart, so less sugar may be used. A sweet apple is a great way to reduce the sugar added to the apple sauce for those wanting to do that.
The apple sauce can be cooled then stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week, or frozen for up to two months.