If the family has small children, then quite a lot of money is spent on cereals, juices and sticks. They do not contain sugar, dyes and preservatives, they are useful for children, but are quite expensive. But you can seriously save by preparing apple puree without sugar for the winter yourself.
Cooking a simple mashed potatoes
We'll tell you how to make apple puree without sugar from sweet, ripe apples, preferably grown in your garden.
Ingredients:
- Apples of varieties "Gala", "Macintosh", "Golden" or similar - 3-4 kg;
- water, purified from impurities (bottled) - 0.5 liters.
Preparation
To get a useful puree, which will preserve the maximum of vitamins, we use a knife made of ceramics, plastic plates and sterile jars.
Apples are washed, cut into 4 parts, cut out the seed boxes and tails, remove the peel (do not throw it away). We cut the apples in small pieces (like pies), pour water and begin to slowly warm. We place the rind in a gauze pouch and, when the apples are let out the juice and the amount of liquid increases, we lower it into the pan. Cook apples, gently stirring to prevent burning, until they become very soft - different grades for this need a different amount of time. Next, just wipe the apples (we remove the bag with the peel - we've already got all the useful ones from it) through a sieve, or we rub it with a crush, or we rub with an immersion blender . The finished mashed potatoes are heated to a boil and spread out into sterile jars.
As you can see, preparing apple puree without sugar for winter is a simple matter, but many people have a question how to preserve apple puree without sugar, because there are no preservatives in it. In fact, this is not so. Fruit acids serve as an excellent preservative, so it is not necessary to roll fruits and berries with sugar, without it it is much more useful, although for those who are accustomed to sweets, it may seem less delicious. The main thing - do not keep the sunset warm. Well, if you're idle with a freezer, prepare a frozen apple sauce without sugar. We can cool the prepared puree, put it into small plastic containers or sachets, tightly pack and install it in the freezer. Defrost the mashed potatoes at room temperature or in a microwave oven.
Add fruit
It is known that even adults can hardly endure a long diet with the same food. What can we say about kids who can not explain that there is no other food. The option is there. You can make mashed potatoes with the addition of other fruits, for example, we will prepare apple-pear puree for the winter without sugar.
Ingredients:
- ripe red autumn apples - 3 kg;
- ripe soft pears - 1 kg;
- prepared water - ½ liter.
Preparation
We rinse and clean the fruit: peel the peel, cut out the middle with seeds and tails. We cut depending on the hardness of apples and pears: we cut the harder fruits more finely so that the softer ones do not boil. We put it in a saucepan, pour water and start to simmer on a slow fire. Determine the willingness of the fruit is simple: take a bigger piece and try rubbing it with the back of the spoon. If you succeeded, everything is ready. We rub apples and pears in the way that seems easier or more correct for you, warm up to a weak boil and roll.
As you can see, it is quite easy to prepare apple puree without sugar for the winter, the recipe can be varied. Use for mashed potatoes different varieties of apples, adding a little peeled plums, sweet carrots, sea buckthorn or pumpkin. Still it is possible already in the winter while feeding the baby in the finished apple puree to add a little rubbed banana, a couple drops of syrup from raspberry jam .