We gave a recipe for an Apple Cider Smoothie yesterday, saying we’d also give you a recipe for homemade apple cider. So here it is.
Homemade apple cider is delicious and when you make your own you control the ingredients. Plus you make it for a fraction of the cost of store-bought varieties. It’s so easy to make, why keep it just for Fall?!
This recipe is from Katie at WellnessMama. It’s natural and WITHOUT refined or added sugar of any sort.
Flavor with the traditional cinnamon and cloves, add star anise or any other fruits or spices. Don’t like cloves? Leave them out! You’ll be making it, so make it as YOU like it!
Katie says …
I wanted to find a way to make a batch we could use without canning and make in one day … We had a mixture of different organic apples in the house: Fiji, Honeycrisp and Gala so I used those. I didn’t have to add any sweetener because those apples were naturally sweet, but any apples would work.
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Recipe: Homemade Apple Cider – No Added Sugar and Only 65 Calories
Makes 1 gallon / 16 cups; approx 65 per cup
(Note: a cup of pure apple juice is 113 cals)
Ingredients:
- 10 fresh Apples
- 1 Orange
- 2 Cinnamon sticks
- Dash of Nutmeg (ground)
- Dash of Cloves (ground or 4 whole)
- 1 gallon of filtered Water
Cook in slow cooker on low for 8 hours.
Strain.
OR blend, your preference. Remove the cinnamon sticks before blending.
If you’d like to see the full directions then check out the source link below.
The calorie calculations are made based on medium-sized fruit. They will be slightly higher with large fruit, for example 20 extra calories for each piece of fruit used, i.e. 220 more calories in the whole recipe.
Another recipe suggests cooking in a large stockpot. Bring to a boil and simmer for an hour.
And whether you use a crockpot or stockpot, when the apples are really soft, Sally at SallysBakingAddiction suggests …
… take a giant spoon and begin mashing up all those warm apples and oranges. They’ll be super soft at this point. And that’s when their flavor really starts to infuse into the cider. It’s incredible. Allow this liquid mash (how appetizing?!) to simmer for another hour or so [in a crockpot or maybe half an hour in a stockpot – my comment] …
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