Slow Cooker Apple Sauce

Making your own apple sauce in the slow cooker is so easy.


Ingredients

• 10 Large cooking apples
• 250ml Water
• 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
• 150 grams Sugar

Directions

1. Peel, core and chop your apples into rough chunks.
2. Add all the ingredients into the slow cooker and cook on low for 6-8 hours.
3. Serve straight away or pour into sterile spring top jars for storage.

Check back on your slow cooker every few hours to make sure your apple sauce isn’t drying out too much. If it is, just add a little water and stir it in.


It’s as easy as that!

Easy Slow Cooker Ketchup

It's not just stews and casseroles that you can use your slow cooker for! This recipe for tomato ketchup is so easy, you'll wonder why you ever bought a bottle.

Ingredients

• 2 cans Tomato puree (roughly 800ml in total)
• 1 Small onion
• 1 Medium shallot
• 100ml Cider vinegar
• 75 grams Dark brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon Mustard powder
• 1/4 teaspoon Ground allspice
• 1/4 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon Ground mace
• 1/4 teaspoon Ground ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon Ground cloves
• 1/4 teaspoon Ground red pepper flakes
• Salt and pepper

Directions

1. Add the tomato puree, onion and shallot to a food processor and blitz until smooth.
2. Next, add the vinegar, sugar, mustard, allspice, cinnamon, mace, ginger, cloves and pepper flakes and pulse until mixed.
3. Add the contents of the food processor into your slow cooker, being sure to scrape every last bit in!
4. Cook on high, with the lid on, for 2 1/2 hours.
5. Cook for a further 1/2 hour with the lid off, stirring occasionally.
6. Check the consistency. If you’re happy, switch your slow cooker off season to taste with salt and pepper. If you’d like your ketchup to be a bit thicker, leave it a further 15 minutes.
7. Leave the slow cooker to cool before scraping your ketchup into a large sterile glass jar.

This will keep in the fridge for a while. But once opened, it’s best to eat within 2 months.