Unsweetened Apple-sauce Recipe

On visiting my Grandmother's house I didn't expect to come home with bags and bags of apples, but I did and now I am trying to find ways of incorporating them into my cooking! The most important recipe I wanted to try was apple-sauce, because it is so useful to use in making all sorts of delicious bakes as a sweetener and also as a replacement for oil and butter. So first up when I came home I got started on peeling and coring a few of the apples to put in the sauce... 

My sauce is unsweetened, using only apples and some squeezed lemon, however you can add your own sweetener, cinnamon, maple syrup etc. to make your own flavours!

Ingredients 

(Makes around 1 medium sized jar) 

• 4-5 large cooking apples (will be around 1.2 kg) - you can use normal apples too but make sure you use to same amount (1.2kg) 
• 160ml of water 
• Juice of half a lemon 

Method 

1. Peel and core apples and cut into smallish chunks 
2. Heat the 150ml of water until boiling and add the lemon juice and apples to it 
3. Turn the heat to low and place a lid on the saucepan
4. Let apples simmer for around 15mins. By this point, when you take the lid off the pan, the apples should have become a apple-sauce mush and puréed themselves (I didn't even need to put them in the blender) 
5. Add to a jar and let cool before putting on the lid. Store in the fridge and enjoy in your cooking!