I love it when a recipe is easy to convert to a Clean Eating recipe. It makes life so much simpler, don’t you think?
Now that my two year old is demanding to eat with his “hork” and “poon” at every meal, I feel good about the fact that the food he’s putting in his mouth is nothing but healthy. This recipe, is no exception.
I learned to make apple butter years ago, but thought I was out of luck once I started trying to give up sugar. So I was happy to find that that was not the case.
This recipe is adapted from the SouthernGraceGourmet.com web site. This fabulous lady really knows her way around the kitchen. I love reading her blog posts. Her recipes are usually easily converted to the Clean Eating lifestyle. Here’s the original recipe.
I hope you’ll give this recipe a try. It’s really very yummy!
(Makes 50 – 55 servings)
Ingredients
12 small apples of a mixed variety
2 cups apple and grape juice (no added sugar)
30 g molasses (2 tbsp.)
90g agave or honey (scant 1/2 cup)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
Directions
Step 1 – Cut and core all your apples and place them in the crock pot.
Step 2 – Add your juice.
Step 3 – Add your agave.
Step 4 – Add your spices.
step 5 – Mix everything up and turn the heat on high. After a couple of hours, the juice should be boiling. Once it boils, turn the heat to low.
The original recipe says you have to cook for about 6-8 hours after turning down the heat. However, with the substitution of agave, you have to cook it a bit longer. I had to let mine cook for about 12 hours. Remember to stir occasionally.
The apple butter should be a nice dark brown color when it’s finished.
Enjoy!
Munchkin Helpers:
(If you have little ones, here’s how they can help, with close supervision, of course)
“Mama let me put all the apples in the crock pot. I even got to stir the apples when they had cooked down. Helping Mama in the kitchen is so much fun!”
Nutritional Content
1 serving = 1 Tbsp.
Calories: 35
Total Fat: 0 gm
Saturated Fats: 0 gm
Trans Fats: 0 gm
Cholesterol: 0 gm
Sodium: 13 mg
Carbohydrates: 9 gm
Dietary fiber: 1 gm
Sugars: 7 gm
Protein: 0 gm
Estimated Glycemic Load: 3
Nutritional Information estimated at Nutritiondata.com. Data may not be accurate.
Caution: Any time a child is in the kitchen, they will require close supervision. Munchkin Helpers suggestions should be applied with common sense to your own child, taking their own capabilities into account. Do not assume that because it says here that your child can do something, that they can, in fact do it. Please use common sense when in the kitchen with your child(ren).
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