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Create a comforting Autumn or Christmas dessert with spiced apple-pear sauce. Fill your home with the sweet scents of the season.
Harvest The Scent Of Fall In Your Home
Enjoy this warmly spiced apple-pear sauce to finish a meal for an Autumn or Christmas holiday dessert.
The relaxing aroma will fill your house with fall festival smells that will linger throughout the day.
If you’re anything like my wife, she has to smell every spiced candle on the market when the autumn and winter seasons arrive.
Remember the candle and fill your home with holiday smells, starting in your kitchen.
Let me show you what we’ve done in less than 30 minutes, and it will spark so much comfort inside you.
Trying to create recipes for fresh pears and apples this time of year is pretty simple if you stick to basic Fall Harvest recipes that have been served up for decades.
Our fruit basket had two Bosc pears and two Royal Gala apples that needed to be used up.
Imagine that in less than 30 minutes, I had a small kettle filled with spiced apple-pear sauce.
It’s true, that’s how easy this recipe is to make.
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Low-Sugar Apple-Pear Sauce
The sauce has very little sugar added since apples and pears naturally have sugar.
You don’t want to overpower the organic flavors of your fruit harvest unless you’re creating a recipe that calls for sweetness.
The apple-pear sauce is cooling, with a scoop of homemade vanilla bean ice cream.
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I was going to make a spiced apple pear chutney by adding some raisins, but I wasn’t sure if our son would fancy that, so I kept it simple.
There are many apple and pear varieties on the market, so you don’t have to use the same varieties I’ve used unless you want to experience the exact flavors we have.
Related: A-Z list of Apples, Pears, and other fruits
The aroma that filled the house with the soft breeze coming through the open windows wholeheartedly signified Fall was at our door.
We love this time of year when the leaves turn color and eventually fall to the ground.
The crisp air practically begs you to bake something sweet, start the kettle, or turn on the coffee pot.
Fluffy Pancakes And Apple-Pear Sauce
Since we were together as a family, I made homemade buttermilk pancakes for breakfast on a sunny Monday morning.
Our son loves pancakes with several spoonfuls of spiced apple-pear sauce and a drizzle of Canadian maple syrup.
He stuffs This food in his mouth, and when you look at him, you want to laugh but try not to.
I did something different this time when making my spiced apple-pear sauce.
Don’t tell anyone, but I secretly added fresh basil leaves to infuse into the sauce, and what a difference it made.
I tell you, it is simply delicious.
The hints of basil are subtle, but the aftertaste is lovely and mixed with the sweetness of the apples and pears.
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I wasn’t too concerned if our son would like the basil mixed in with the apple-pear sauce because he often picks the leaves from my plants and licks them.
I took that as a sign that he didn’t mind the taste.
You can serve the spiced apple-pear sauce, either warm or cold, depending on what you plan to do with it.
This recipe for spiced apple-pear sauce serves 2-3 people, so it’s a small batch, but you could easily double or triple it if you wanted to make other recipes.
Apple-Pear Combinations
Alternate recipes that you could make or create with this sauce would be;
- spiced apple-pear jam
- spiced apple-pear butter
- spiced apple-pear pie
- spiced apple-pear crisp
- spiced apple-pear tarts
- spiced apple-pear cobbler
Don’t laugh, but I’m considering making a small pan of spiced apple-pear sauce for Rice Krispie squares.
I’m not sure how that came into my mind, but I noticed we have a small bag with about 3 cups of cereal that needs using up and a half bag of marshmallows.
Related: Easy Apple Turnovers
You never know what something will taste like unless you test it!
I’ll let you know how that goes and even share a photo if it works.
Can you freeze applesauce?
Yes, you certainly can freeze applesauce flat in freezer bags, and when you are ready to use it, defrost it to room temperature and serve.
I wouldn’t keep it in the freezer for more than six months, or you can make some pies ahead and freeze them for when the company comes around.
Discussion: Have you ever made an apple-pear sauce before?
Please leave a comment or review on this recipe below and I’ll be sure to reply.
How To Make Spiced-Apple-Pear Sauce
Warm Spiced Apple-Pear Sauce
- Recipe Type: Dessert
- Author: Mr.CBB
- Prep time: 10 mins
- Cook time: 20 mins
- Total time: 30 mins
- Serves: 4
A warmly spiced apple-pear sauce is all you need to finish a meal or add to your favorite fall dessert. The aroma will fill your house with smells lingering throughout the day.
Ingredients
- 5 cinnamon sticks
- 1 tablespoon fresh ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- pinch of salt
- 4 basil leaves
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 Bosc pears
- 2 Royal Gala apples
Instructions
- Serve at room temperature after refrigerating or warm in a microwave.
- Peel and chop the apples and pears into small chunks on a cutting board.
- Add the pears and apples to the pot.
- Add the water, lemon juice, salt, cinnamon sticks, and sugar and mix gently.
- Let come to a boil on temp dial 4 or 5, then reduce to 2 or low.
- Add your basil leaves on top and cover for 15 minutes.
- Remove the basil leaves and cinnamon sticks.
- Stir gently.
- Serve chunky or whiz it up with a hand blender until smooth.
An Easy Spiced Apple Pear Sauce Fall Recipe
Enjoy the spiced apple-pear sauce warm or cold
Refrigerate for up to three days or freeze for up to six months.
I bet you didn’t think it would be that easy, but it is!!
Check out my Apple Harvest Muffins stuffed with caramel if you love apples as much as we do.
Thanks for visiting.
Mr.CBB
Warm Spiced Apple Pear Sauce
Create a comforting Autumn or Christmas dessert with spiced apple-pear sauce. Fill your home with the sweet scents of the season.
Ingredients
- 5 cinnamon sticks
- 1 tablespoon fresh ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- pinch of salt
- 4 basil leaves
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 Bosc pears
- 2 Royal Gala apples
Instructions
- Serve at room temperature after refrigerating or warm in a microwave.
- Peel and chop the apples and pears into small chunks on a cutting board.
- Add the pears and apples to the pot.
- Add the water, lemon juice, salt, cinnamon sticks, and sugar and mix gently.
- Let come to a boil on temp dial 4 or 5, then reduce to 2 or low.
- Add your basil leaves on top and cover for 15 minutes.
- Remove the basil leaves and cinnamon sticks.
- Stir gently.
- Serve chunky or whiz it up with a hand blender until smooth.
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This might be a recipe that I would try. It sounds good.
I’ll skip the basil thanks and add nutmeg and ginger instead. 🙂
This looks so good!! I’ve never mixed pear and apple but I might have to try it. A little ginger in there might work too. Ginger is good with pear.
I got a box of apples from my daughter and made straight apple sauce for hubby, we all know how he likes his apple sauce. It was just apples and apple juice cooked up and mashed. I put it in clean jars and ran it through the boiling water canner for 10 minutes. I got 14-500ml jars for him. He is enjoying it and on his second jar already. It won’t last long but I’ll be looking for deals on apples to make more if I can find them.