Plum Applesauce
The Holiday Season is soon approaching with all it’s Sweet Temptations. Fresh, crispy air, colorful leaves, that slight shiver, and most of all that longing to stay inside the warm covers for a little bit longer when the alarm screams in the dark wee morning hours – are all getting stronger; calling out the soon approaching festivities and the celebration.
During this time of the year I love to stay home, in the warm and cozy corner, watch the fallen leaves twirl and dance with the breeze & love the smell the spices. They smell of Fall – literally. I had contemplated making the Plum Cheese from HomeMades, got a whole lot of plums twice, but did not get to do it due to various reasons. Most of the plums were all eaten fresh; I still had some left. Plum Applesauce is what I did with the plums and some apples with some nice fragrant spices.
Old fashioned and elegant, fruity and fragrant, bright, inviting and delicious… all done with just a few ingredients and almost no work. Chop, cover and cook and give yourself the luxurious dessert to enjoy with your family. What I love about cooking apples and spice is the aroma that fills the entire house; the plums add the wonderful color.
Plum Applesauce
Ingredients: (Yields about 2.5 Cups)
- 2 Apples, seeds removed & sliced
- 6 Plums – Black or Red, stone removed & sliced
- 1 Cup Apple Cider
- 1/2 Cup Sugar
- 1 Tablespoon Lemon Zest
- Cinnamon (Optional)
- Cloves (Optional)
- 1 Tablespoon Chopped Crystalline Ginger (Optional)
Preparation:
Note: The use of the spices in this sauce is Optional. It is entirely up to you if you want to you all of the spices or pick a few only or use none at all. Feel free to pick your own favorite selection of spice.
Use the apples and plums in any ratio you want.
In a deep, thick bottomed pot combine all the ingredients; Increase the heat and bring it to a boil; thereafter reduce the heat to low & simmer stirring occasionally, until fruit is very tender and falling apart, 1 to 1 1/2 hours. The entire mix would have reduced & thickened by this time.
A few options to process the fruit mix:
- Force mixture through a large medium-mesh sieve using a spatula; this will discard the peels.
- Use a Food Mill.
- Use a Food Processor and process it to the consistency you want. (I did mine in the food processor and I left it a bit coarsely processed).
The Sauce will keep up to one week covered and chilled.
Serve chilled or lightly warmed just by itself or with some Cream. This is a dessert, but for myself I love it with some spicy grilled meat or fish! This sauce is a great one for baking too.
My girls do not eat applesauce; this one however became a favorite. The first appeal I would think is the bright color, the senses in the tongue then slowly falls in love with the texture, flavor and the fruity pulp all blended together is a bowl.
Fall is adorned with the beautiful colors, delicious fruits, fragrant spices, and also by the big orange pumpkins. What is a fall without the spooky Jack O Lantern? I love carving but leave the job of cleaning up the pulp and seeds to the kids.
Happy Halloween
Here is one of the Pumpkins I carved this year.Have fun & stay safe!!
Sending my pumpkin over to PumpGrins at Chef in You.
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That is a real spooky Jack o Lantern, nice carving 🙂 The applesauce got a eyecatching makeover with plum! Look like almost cranberry sauce!
Hey,soma dear beautiful writing there with whole lot of passion..even i can smell the fall sitting here…
what a color and real temptation for the season..Happy Halloween to you as well.enjoy the terrific season !!
Stunning color! What a beautiful dish of applesauce- It most definitely looks like Fall. I love the addition of plum. That is also one amazing jack o lantern! Have a great Halloween!
That carving is one of the best I have seen ever. Wish you all a very Happy Halooween week :). Alike your kids even I am not much of a apple sauce lover, but surely the color and the texture of it is compelling me to prepare some at home. I have a few apples still in the fridge, need to get hold of some plums soon.
Oh, how I love experimenting with different types of apple sauce. I haven’t made one with plums before, but now I’m intrigued. And that color is just stunning.
The fotos look lovely…just loved the colors in it..like ur halloween carving too.
Wow,stunning pics as usual and u have carved the pumpkin really artistic!!
hi Soma,
The Apple sauce with a twist looks gorgeous, normally the combination of fruits give out a strange new flavour… am sure the plum apple combo must’ve been heavenly!
Halloween carving looks real spooky…it’s a great piece of art work dear! good one.
TC
lovely colour..and what a beautiful carving…lovely pictures..
Wow that carved pumpkin looks fabulous Soma, you are too good are this 🙂
Loved the plum applesauce..such gorgeous vibrant color!
Fabulous craved pumpkin…Plum applesauce looks amazing, eyecatching colour Soma!
That is a fantastic looking apple sauce Soma and adding plums is a great idea. Nothing like a vibrant color to get kiddies attention. I am now all into making jellies, will have to try with some plums.
I love the twists you use in your applesauce!
What gorgeous photos, I love plums.
Your pumpkin is amazing!
Ki shundor Pumpkin carve korecho, ami kokhono korini, gota pumpkin pante kore rekhe di 😉
Awesome fall treat.The pukkkin(as my 2 yr old would say) carving looks spooky 😀
Absolutely gorgeous, Soma!A great twist on the applesauce
Spooky Jack o lantern.Love the plum applesauce.Plums add a tang and colour to the normal sauce I suppose.Looks great the clicks
your jack-o-lantern is spooky and cute at the same time. nice carving..good work….the combo is really great,…awesome
The apple sauce looks amazing. I have to try this.
The combination of apples & plums sounds awesome, delicious sauce!
Combination sounds great. The cinnamon flavour is already calling out to me!
Oooooh!! I love the carving! It is a scary cutesy:). We are feeling a bit of the winter too but it is only till 4:30 in the morning. The sun blazes up by afternoon but I do love the early dark evenings:).
That’s a gorgeous color for the holidays, and must taste so delicious! I love it!
My oh my! You guyz are TALENTED!
You did a great job on that pumpkin carving! It looks amazing… I never got any further then the mouth and eyes that everyone does…
Love your plum applesauce! I just made applesauce but it’s a great idea to add plums to the mix! Lovely! Great color too.
Your pumpkin looks excellent! So does the plum applesauce! I never thought to prepare it this way. I bet it gives it a nice flavor.
Cool pumpkin Soma..:)..I so want to carve one,but just thinking of the cleaning process makes me go lazy..n the sauce is too good..bright n vibrant..:)
Loved the carving on the pumpkin and also loved that fall setting you have going on with the fall leaves, the bright colored plum applesauce.The kids seemed to have lots of fun.
m sooo loving ye pumpkin!! 🙂 great sauce!! delicious!!
cheers!
Spooky jack-o-lantern there…..U wrote “one of the pumpkins I carved this year”…..How many did u carved in total….like the fruit sauce….drop in to my space sometime to see our drooling jack-o-lantern…..
this looks great oh and love your blog,
Ah! Don’t even remind me of the Holiday season, all I wanna do is sit and enjoy the beautiful fall.. it’s too early to think about the mayhem of the holidays hehe. I love your plum applesauce. It screams Thanksgiving :-p
I have plums, I have apples… guess what I plan to make! LOVE the cololur of this sauce – wonder how it would work with the smoked ham i always make for Christmas??
hi
I wanted to know if i can substitute apple cider with something else?
Also how do i make crystalline candied ginger at home?