Eggless Whole30 Cinnamon Apple Sauce
Warm, fragrant, and naturally sweet, this homemade applesauce is the kind of simple recipe that makes you wonder why you ever bought the jarred stuff. Six medium apples get simmered down with cinnamon, nutmeg, a squeeze of lemon, and just a pinch of sea salt until they're completely tender and collapsing into themselves — no added sugar, no fillers, just real fruit doing its thing. The whole process takes under half an hour, and your kitchen will smell absolutely incredible the entire time. You get to choose your own texture, too: go rustic and chunky with a potato masher, or blitz it smooth with an immersion blender for something silky and spoonable. It works beautifully as a snack on its own, a topping for pork, or stirred into a bowl of compliant breakfast ingredients. Every single component is clean and plant-based, so there's zero guesswork about what's in it — just wholesome, feel-good food you made yourself.
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6 servings
- 3 lbs apples (about 6 medium), peeled, cored, and cut into 1-inch chunks
- ½ cup water
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 pinch fine sea salt
Instructions
- 1
Combine the apple chunks, water, lemon juice, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt in a large saucepan over medium heat. Stir to coat the apples.
- 2
Cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until the apples are completely tender and collapse easily when pressed with a spoon, about 20–25 minutes. If the pan looks dry before the apples are soft, add water 2 tbsp at a time.
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