Clean Eating Apple Butter Recipe

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!

Clean Eating Apple Butter Recipe
(Makes 50 – 55 servings)

Ingredients
12 small apples of a mixed variety
2 cups apple and grape juice (no added sugar)
30 g molasses
90g agave
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.

Fabulous stuff!

Enjoy!