This 4 ingredient Instant Pot Applesauce recipe is the easiest, fastest way to make a delicious cinnamon-spiced applesauce at home.

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Why We Love This Super Simple Instant Pot Applesauce Recipe
Ingredients
Substitutions and Additions
How to make Instant pot applesauce
TIps
Storage Tips
Other Easy Apple Recipes
Instant Pot Applesauce Recipe

With only four ingredients, this Instant Pot applesauce is a really quick and easy way to prepare cinnamon spice applesauce. When you use an Instant Pot, this delicious recipe comes together in minutes. Prep your apples and your pressure cooker will do all the work for you!

Why We Love This Super Simple Instant Pot Applesauce Recipe

Quick and easy to make because the Instant Pot does the work for you!
Minimal ingredient applesauce that is better than anything store-bought.
You can control the ingredients–add as much or as little sugar and cinnamon as you like.
It can be made chunky or smooth, with skin or without.
Delicious as a condiment or dessert, served warm or cold, as a filling or topping.
Irresistibly flavorful with a perfect balance of savory, sweet, and slightly tart.
Gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, non-fat.
Heavenly smell fills the house when you flip the pressure release knob.

Ingredients

Honeycrisp apples (peeled, cored, and quartered): Some other good apples to use for this recipe include any combination of Granny Smith, Gala, Golden Delicious, McIntosh, Fuji, or Jonagold.
Water: For a little more flavor, try this with some apple juice or apple cider instead.
Light brown sugar: Feel free to switch this out for granulated white sugar or ¼ cup of honey.
Cinnamon

Substitutions and Additions

Apples for Applesauce: The types of apples you use have a large impact on the finishing taste and sweetness of your applesauce.
- Honeycrisp – A very sweet apple that breaks down easily when cooking.
- Granny Smith – Slightly tart and will help balance out any sweet varieties.
- Gala – Right in the middle on sweetness, but also has a wonderful texture when cooked.
- McIntosh – These have a similar level of sweetness to gala apples.
- Fuji – Has a mild sweetness.
Add Some Spice: Feel free to use additional spices in your applesauce, like nutmeg, clove, cardamom, allspice, or apple pie spice. Try them all, leave them out, or combine a few.
Sweet or Sweeter: This recipe is already naturally sweet, but you can always add more sweetener if you’d like. Pure maple syrup, honey, agave nectar, and coconut sugar are great natural sweeteners. Regular white sugar and brown sugar may also be used. You can also omit sweeteners altogether if your apples are sweet enough.
Fruit Flavored: You can add other fruits to your sauce. Some ideas include cranberries, blueberries, pears, banana, or cherries. You can even combine a few fruits to create different flavors.

How to make Instant pot applesauce

This 4 ingredient Instant Pot Applesauce recipe is the easiest, fastest way to make a delicious cinnamon-spiced applesauce at home. With the help of a pressure cooker, you can have a sweet and satisfying sauce, side, or snack in mere minutes–simply prep your apples, and let the Instant Pot do the work for you!

Add apples, water, sugar, and cinnamon to the pressure cooker and mix until apples are coated.
Pro-Tip: Cut the apple into uniform pieces so they cook evenly.
Seal the lid and cook on high for 6 minutes.
Flip the release knob and let apples continue to soften.
For a chunky applesauce, mash the apples with a masher or beater.
For a smooth applesauce, press the apple mixture through a fine wire mesh sieve.
Pro Tip: Some pulp may remain, but you should be able to get the majority of the mixture through the sieve. For smoother applesauce, you can blend it with an Immersion Blender right in the pressure cooker if you don’t have a fine wire mesh sieve.
Serve warm or cold and enjoy!

TIps

Extend the shelf life of the applesauce by adding lemon juice.
Use applesauce in your baking as a replacement for eggs or butter. I particularly love using applesauce in pancakes instead of eggs.

Storage Tips

To Store: Refrigerate this applesauce in an airtight container for up to ten days.
To Freeze: You can also freeze this for a few months. When ready to thaw, leave overnight in the refrigerator.

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Instant Pot Applesauce

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This 4 ingredient Instant Pot Applesauce recipe is the easiest, fastest way to make a delicious cinnamon-spiced applesauce at home.

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Prep Time 5

Cook Time 6

Total Time 11

Ingredients

▢ 10 Honeycrisp Apples peeled, cored, and quartered (about 10 cups)
▢ ¾ cup water
▢ ⅓ cup light brown sugar lightly packed
▢ 1 tsp cinnamon

Instructions

Place the Honeycrisp apples, water, light brown sugar, and cinnamon into the pressure cooker and stir until the apples are well coated.
Be sure to seal the pressure cooker completely and then cook on high for 6 minutes.
Allow the instant pot to release slowly to let the apples soften a little more.
Use a masher or beater to mash the apples until all large chunks of apple have disappeared. This will leave you with a chunkier applesauce.
For a smoother consistency, press the apple mixture through a fine wire mesh sieve. Some pulp may remain, but you should be able to get the majority of the mixture through the sieve.
Serve warm or cold depending on your preference.

Notes

Storage:

To Store: Refrigerate this applesauce in an airtight container for up to ten days.
To Freeze: You can also freeze this for a few months. When ready to thaw, leave overnight in the refrigerator.

Tips:

Cut the apple into uniform pieces so they cook evenly.
For smoother applesauce, you can blend it with an Immersion Blender right in the pressure cooker if you don’t have a fine wire mesh sieve.
Extend the self life of the applesauce by adding lemon juice.
Use applesauce in your baking as a replacement for eggs or butter. I particularly love using applesauce in pancakes instead of eggs.