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Rosehips & Elderberry applesauce recipe
How can I make a healthy, no sugar added applesauce recipe even better? By adding Herbs & Spices to it!
Always use Herbs in your Cooking and Baking!
I do not peel the apples! Peeling the apples is time consuming and strips your applesauce of valuable fiber, pectin, minerals and vitamins! Don’t worry, it will still be as smooth as silk, you just need to blend it.
I planted an orchard when we moved to this house, where we plan to spend the rest of our lives. If you have any space to plant a tree on your yard, you should do it! Nothing is better than your own fruits from your own trees!
Why organic store bought apples are not good enough?
When an apple is ripened on the tree, it develops the correct chemistry balance of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, micronutrients and microorganisms to be digested properly, as intended by design.
Commercial produce companies picking when they’re underripe to minimize damage during shipping, then gassing them with ethylene to help them ripen as they’re brought to market (organic fruit gets gassed too). They don’t exactly know how ethylene works in the nature in ripening process. One thing they do know is that once ethylene reaches a certain concentration in a fruit, the cells switch from expelling oxygen (a byproduct of photosynthesis) to expelling carbon dioxide. This switch in “breathing” means that a fruit is quickly approaching peak ripeness.
This is why your home grown, bruised, infested with worms apples are way better for our health than any organic imported ones.
Rosehips (Rosa spp.) – Rose Hips are the dried fruit of roses that contain very high levels of bioavailable vitamin C, and are full of properties that help to support healthy circulation and a strong immune system.
Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) Famous immune system stimulator, which for people with overactive immune system can be quite dangerous. For this reason we have not been using it much. I dried some elderberry flowers this spring and Infused honey with it, as the blooms are not as powerful but yet are very very beneficial.
As we are improving our immune system’s health each year, we are no longer in danger of it causing us problems, only the benefits.
I also strongly believe that elderberry should be consumed in small doses (like in the Rosehip & Elderberry applesauce recipe) as a preventative measure, before you get sick, not during, when your immune system is activated by a virus or a bacterial infection.
Applesauce with herbs and spices gives more health benefits to the all-loved healthy dessert!
- 6 lbs Organic ripe apples, skin on, cored and quartered
- 3 cups of Water
- 1 cup Organic dried Rosehips seedless
- 1/2 cup Organic Elderberries fresh or dried
- 1 tsp Organic Ground Cloves
- 1 tsp Organic Ground Cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp Celtic Sea salt
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Wash, core and slice apples into chunks, making sure to cut out any bad spots. You can use an apple wedger.
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Put the slices or quartered apples into a large stainless still stockpot. Add half of the water, put the lid on and cook the apples on medium heat until they are soft, about 30-40 minutes.
for Instapot: Close lid on pressure cooker and seal vent knob. Cook on high pressure for 12 minutes. Once cook time has elapsed, do a quick release of pressure.
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while the apples are cooking, put the rest of the water into a small saucepot, add rosehips, elderberries, clove, cinnamon, and salt. Simmer it for 30-40 min.
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Once the apples are soft, blend them in a high speed blender with the rosehips-elderberries mixture in batches. return to the stockpot.
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At this point, you can adjust the taste while simmering on low for a few minutes to incorporate the flavors and then can it. For canning, follow any regular canning applesauce recipe online. It's pretty simple.
If you're not a canner, store some in your fridge and freeze the rest.
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yours truly, Milla Ezman
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