Homemade crockpot banana applesauce

LinuxHippy
LinuxHippy Posts: 5 Member
edited November 2024 in Recipes
I don't do much from scratch cooking, but today my bag of apples from the store broke and 3 pounds dropped to the floor. The 6 apples that hit the concrete didn't break the skin but I didn't want to give them a chance to bruise and get mushy so I came up with this applesauce recipe made in a crockpot and it turned out so good that I thought I'd share. Here are the ingredients:

6 red delicious apples (3 pounds)
2 ripe bananas
1/2 cup sugar in the raw (or 1/3 cup blue agave)
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup water

Peel and chop apples into chunks. Peel and cut up bananas. Put sugar, cinnamon, water, apples and bananas in crockpot. Cover and cook 4 hours on high. Then carefully (it will be very hot liquid that splashes) transfer to a metal pot for mashing. I used a big hand masher for a couple minutes but an electric hand mixer would work too. It yields 2 pounds and is very good. I made this into 7 servings but 1 serving of 135 grams looked pretty small. This is 163 calories.

It sounds like a strange combo to put bananas in applesauce but u can't taste them. The apples are a strong sweet taste and the bananas are just a natural sweetener.

Marty

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  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    I would not normally think to put applesauce and bananas together either. :)
    But this looks good. Thank you.
  • LinuxHippy
    LinuxHippy Posts: 5 Member
    I try to limit my sugar intake-I've seen what type 2 diabetes can do. I've bought sugar free applesauce so maybe less sugar can be done in the future and substituted with something else like blue agave.
  • LinuxHippy
    LinuxHippy Posts: 5 Member
    edited May 2017
    I've seen sugar free recipes that use concentrated juices as sweeteners. I imagine concentrated apple juice would also be a good sugar substitute for this :)

    U don't want this to get too runny and the fruit does produce a lot of liquid when cooked down. I would say take out all the water to substitute with a liquid sweetener if u want to try that.
  • LinuxHippy
    LinuxHippy Posts: 5 Member
    Here's a picture showing the consistency after it cooled in the refrigerator over night.

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  • LinuxHippy
    LinuxHippy Posts: 5 Member
    If u substitute a liquid sweetener then cut back on the water so total liquid going in is 1/2 cup.

    Marty
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