Gather your ingredients to make the Instant Pot Red Hots® Applesauce.Freeze applesauce in an airtight freezable container for up to 6 months. Place your leftover Red Hots® cinnamon applesauce in an airtight container and place in the fridge for up to 6 days.
How to Store Your Instant Pot Applesauce with Red Hots® Turn the Instant Pot to Sauté – Less mode and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally until desired thickness is achieved. Mashed Instant Pot Applesauce with Red Hots I like my cinnamon applesauce chunky, so I use the potato masher. Incorporate the apples and Red Hots® with a hand potato masher or an immersion blender. Set the lid aside being careful not to burn yourself with the hot steam or the hot water droplets that form on the top of the lid. Make sure to use oven mitts when adjusting the pressure valve and unlocking the lid. If there is still a lot of pressure built up in the Instant Pot, give it a few more minutes to release naturally and then try the quick release again. Follow the manufactures instruction on how to do a quick release of the pressure before opening the lid.Īfter 10 minutes, do the quick release while wearing oven mitts by placing the pressure valve into the venting mode very carefully!! Once the timer goes off let the Instant Pot release naturally for 10 minutes. Make sure the valve on the lid is pointing toward the sealing mode and not the venting mode.
Press the Pressure Cooker button on high pressure or manual mode for 5 minutes. Slice Apples, Red Hots & Water Instant Pot Applesauce Cook Time Add the water, place the lid on the Instant Pot and line up to lock the lid into place. Place all the sliced apples in the Instant Pot and sprinkle the Red Hots® overtop of the apples. I like to use my corer/slicer to make quick work of this task. Gather your ingredients to make the Instant Pot Red Hots® Applesauce. How Do I Make Applesauce in an Instant Pot? They are candy coated peanuts with a delectably sweet crunch that delivers wave after wave of spicy flavor. Red Hots® are a round, bit-sized classic cinnamon candy created in the early 1930’s. Not sure which apples are which? Look on the packaging of bagged apples in the store or ask your farmers market salesperson. You want to have about 7 of your apples to be “baking” apples and 3 of your apples to be “firm” apples. With only 2 ingredients to make this applesauce recipe, it couldn’t be easier! Choose a variety of cooking apples. Only two ingredients are all it takes to make this easy applesauce. Instant Pot Applesauce with Red HotsĪs times are changing, I wanted to use my Instant Pot to showcase her quick applesauce recipe. On special occasions, my grandma wanted to make her traditional homemade applesauce special, so she would break out the Red Hots® which would turn the apple sauce into a vibrant red cinnamon dessert. Her secret was to use a variety of different apples for the best flavor but also to achieve the “chunky” factor for the best applesauce! I am all about the chunks!! My Grandma Bahr taught me this recipe many years ago when I helped her prepare Christmas dinner for our whole family.
This easy applesauce recipe is flavored with the spicy cinnamon candy of Red Hots®. That’s it, now have at it and let’s go Fall crazy! Because you know in the coming weeks, I’m going to go Fall crazy around here.Homemade Instant Pot applesauce with Red Hots will become your new favorite dessert.
Brush down any crystals that form with water.
If you have never made this before, you cannot imagine how easy it is to pull off. So to get everyone in the mood I’m sharing this easy candy apple recipe. And it’s also the time of year that I get giddy with anticipation. Next to Christmas, it’s my favorite time of year.
Fall is near which means apple season is upon us-yay! But you know what gets me even more excited than big puffy sweaters, boots and scarves? Halloween.