One of the first foods for a baby, a favorite treat for children and adults, a reminder of summer in a long, cold winter - all these roles are successfully performed by fresh apple puree. Tender, moderately sweet, made with caring hands, it brings health, longevity, good mood.
How to make apple puree
Do you have a garden in which apple trees annually delight you with beautiful, juicy apples? Sometimes the season brings such a harvest that some of the fruits remain unclaimed. Do not rush to refuse the bounty of nature, learn to doapplesauce at homevitamin, healthy, delicious. It will be a good help in the winter, will become a favorite delicacy for the whole family.
apple puree recipes
Simple and affordable recipes for every novice housewife will help you diversify your apple diet. With and without sugar, with various vegetable and fruit additives, with cinnamon, cream and condensed milk - each recipe is extraordinarily good. You can safely treat children, even very small babies, to home-made fruit puree. It will not contain dyes, preservatives and harmful chemical additives, only fruits, summer and the warmth of mother's hands.
In the composition of apples there is a miraculous substance - pectin. It gently cleanses the human body, relieves cholesterol, helps the intestines. Most pectin is found in the core, which is usually thrown away. When cooking, pectin goes into solution and this is incredibly useful. Pureeing with a blender is easier than mashing through a sieve, but if you want to get the most out of the product, give up the technique. Cut the apples without removing the cores and grind by hand. This dish looks different, it includes elements of natural jelly.
For the winter
- Calorie content of the dish: 76 kcal
- Cuisine: Russian.
The classic version of the most delicate and usefulapple puree for the wintervery easy to prepare. Most of your efforts will be directed to washing, peeling and cutting fruits and preparing jars. The recipe of this section has a zest, a subtlety that makes the dessert exquisite and unusual. A little ground cinnamon is added to the apple-sugar mixture, which delicately sets off the taste of apples, giving it interesting notes. If you definitely don’t like the taste of cinnamon, feel free to exclude it from the composition of the dish.
Ingredients:
- Apple - 2 kg
- Sugar - 0.3-0.5 kg;
- Cinnamon - 1 tsp;
- Lemon juice - 1 tsp
Cooking method:
- Peel the washed fruits, remove the middle and damaged areas, cut.
- Put the slices in a saucepan with a thick bottom, put on a small fire.
- When the apples start to juice, add the right amount of sugar, which depends on the taste of the fruit and personal preference.
- Boil the fruit in its own juice for 15-20 minutes. Cool until warm.
- Puree the mixture with a blender, add cinnamon and lemon juice, bring to a boil.
- Pour the mass into sterile small jars. Close hermetically.
For babies
- Servings: one.
- Calorie content of the dish: 68 kcal.
- Cuisine: Russian.
- Difficulty of preparation: easy.
Feeding a baby is a responsibility. One of the first "adult" dishes of your crumbs -applesauce. For babies from fresh applesYou can cook a delicacy in both summer and winter. There is no need to close it for future use, since apples are available all year round. If you decide to store fruit puree at home for feeding a child of the first year of life, freeze it in portion packs. To feed the child, choose the fruits of local, proven varieties: Antonovka, white filling, and from winter - snow calvil.
Ingredients:
- apple - 1 piece;
- sugar (if necessary) - 1/2 tsp.
Cooking method:
- Peel the fruit from the peel and seeds, cut into small slices.
- Steam apple slices in a saucepan or slow cooker for 10 minutes.
- Cool the slices, turn them into a homogeneous mass. If the apples are sour, add sugar, but remember that the baby does not need its excess.
- For more tenderness, beat the apple puree with a mixer.
Apple puree with condensed milk
- Cooking time: 15 minutes.
- Calorie content of the dish: 82 kcal
- Cuisine: Russian.
- Difficulty of preparation: easy.
Homemade applesauce tastes different. Condensed milk can give it tenderness and milky-caramel flavors. This dish is affectionately called "Sissy" and is extremely popular not only among children, but also among adults of any age and gender. Try to cook it once, andapple puree with condensed milkwill be your family's favorite treat for years to come. The dessert will be more tender if the peel is removed from the fruit, but do not do this unless absolutely necessary. Under the skin of apples, the maximum amount of nutrients is stored.
Ingredients:
- apples - 2 kg;
- condensed milk - 1 can (380 g);
- water - 200 ml.
Cooking method:
- Cut clean fruits into pieces, remove the core.
- Place the apple slices in a heavy-bottomed bowl, add water, and boil.
- When the apples are soft, cool them until warm, puree them with a blender or rub through a sieve.
- In a saucepan with a thick bottom, cook the mass with condensed milk over low heat for about 5 minutes. Don't forget to stir so it doesn't burn.
- Arrange the finished dish hot in jars, cork them.
Applesauce without sugar
- Servings: 4 cans 0.5 l.
- Calorie content of the dish: 67 kcal
- Purpose: fruit dessert, preparations for the winter.
- Cuisine: Russian.
- Difficulty of preparation: easy.
If you are trying to minimize your carbohydrate intake, the question is how to cookapplesauce without sugarwill be relevant to you. Apple pulp blanks, even without sugar, are a grateful product. It is made quickly, it turns out tasty, it is stored well, it does not need sterilization. Looks very nice both on the table and in the photo. All that is required of you is to prepare the fruits, cook them and turn them into a homogeneous mass.
Ingredients:
- apples - 2 kg.
Cooking method:
- You do not need to peel the fruits, just remove the seeds. Boil apples cut into slices until tender. You can use a double boiler or a heavy bottomed pot.
- Blend boiled fruit pulp into a smooth paste using a blender, food processor, or rubbing through a sieve.
- Bring the mixture to a boil, cook for 5 minutes.
- Pour the mass into sterile jars and close the lids tightly.
with pumpkin
- Cooking time: 45-60 minutes.
- Servings: 4 cans 0.5 l.
- Calorie content of the dish: from 53 kcal.
- Purpose: a dessert of vegetables and fruits, preparations for the winter.
- Cuisine: Russian.
- Difficulty of preparation: easy.
For a children's, dietary, sparing menu, home-cookedpumpkin and apple puree. This dish can be prepared for the future, and from mid-summer to December, cooked from the fruits of the autumn harvest. Sugar is added to the dessert or dispensed with - it depends on your preferences, the taste of apples and pumpkin. Taste the dish before adding sugar. Before cooking applesauce with pumpkin, prepare the fruits. Apples are separated from the middle, the pumpkin is peeled and cut into small uniform cubes.
Ingredients:
- apples - 1 kg;
- peeled pumpkin - 1 kg;
- sugar - 0.3-0.5 kg;
- water - 150-200 ml;
- juice of half a lemon.
Cooking method:
- Cut the fruit into slices, removing the middle. Cut the pumpkin into cubes.
- Add a glass of water or less, boil the pieces until tender. Cooking time is about half an hour.
- Grind the finished fruits to a homogeneous mass, add sugar, a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice to it, boil.
- Divide the finished dish into jars, roll up hermetically.
With cream
- Cooking time: 1 hour 10 minutes.
- Servings: 4 persons.
- Calorie content of the dish: 76 kcal.
- Purpose: fruit dessert.
- Cuisine: Russian.
- Difficulty of preparation: easy.
This dish is prepared just before eating. Look at the photo - how beautiful this dessert is! If you decide to doapplesauce with creamfor a child - without hesitation, cook for the whole family. It's so delicious it's just impossible to resist. The recipe for applesauce with cream is simple: cream is poured into the finished fruit mixture. Do you need to add sugar to the dessert - decide for yourself. If the apples were not very sour, there is no such need. This recipe is described for a slow cooker.
Ingredients:
- apples - 1 kg;
- fat cream (33%) - 70 ml.
Cooking method:
- Peeled apples cut into pieces of any shape, but the same size. Clean the seeds and cut out the core.
- Put the fruits in the slow cooker, add an incomplete multi-glass of water and turn on the “stewing” program for an hour.
- Cool apple slices slightly, transfer to another bowl, puree. Add cream and beat with a mixer for 1-1.5 minutes.
With pears
- Cooking time: about one hour.
- Servings Per Container: 3 cans 0.5 l.
- Calorie content of the dish: 76 kcal
- Purpose: fruit dessert, preparation for the winter.
- Cuisine: Russian.
- Difficulty of preparation: easy.
Another yummy from natural products that invariably causes children's delight – apple and pear puree. In the summer-autumn season, it can be made from fresh fruits, seasoned with cream, used in puff desserts. For the winter, there is nothing left but to cook canned mashed potatoes for home. It's as easy as making apple dessert. Boil the fruit and turn it into a homogeneous mass - you don’t even need to sterilize. In the photo, the dish looks very beautiful - you will do the same.
Ingredients:
- apples - 1 kg;
- pears - 1 kg;
- sugar - 0.3 kg;
- cinnamon (if desired) - 1 tsp;
- lemon juice - 1 tsp
Cooking method:
- Wash and cut fruit into slices. If their skin seems tough to you, peel it. Seeds need to be cut.
- Boil the fruits in a double boiler or boil in a small (less than a glass) amount of water until tender.
- Using a blender, prepare a homogeneous mixture of fruits. Pour in sugar, pour in lemon juice. Add cinnamon if desired.
- Bring the mass to a boil and pack in jars. Roll up tightly.
with carrots
- Cooking time: 30 minutes.
- Servings: one.
- Calorie content of the dish: 62 kcal
- Purpose: baby food.
- Cuisine: Russian.
- Difficulty of preparation: easy.
The classic dish of baby food for babies -carrot and apple puree. Made at home by the caring hands of a mother or grandmother from reliable, home-made products, it will bring pleasure to the baby without side effects. Prepare the dish immediately before feeding, fresh it is tastier and healthier. Choose medium-sized carrots for cooking, and apples of local varieties.
Ingredients:
- carrots - 1 piece;
- apple - 1 piece;
- sugar (if needed) - 1/2 teaspoon.
Cooking method:
- Cut the carrot and apple into large pieces. They need to be cleaned first, remove the excess.
- Steam carrots for about 20 minutes, add an apple to it, continue cooking.
- After 10 minutes, remove the pieces of fruit, puree them. See if you need to add sugar.
- If the mixture is too thick, dilute it with one or two teaspoons of water or milk.
