Instant Pot Hidden Veggie Pear Applesauce is packed with nutrition and made in just a few minutes using your favorite pressure cooker! This recipe includes two vegetables and tastes just like cinnamon applesauce, for the win!
I confess, I don’t have a child who’s a “picky” eater. She does have preferences though and STRONGLY prefers fruit to vegetables, especially these days. Fruit is no trouble though and that’s why I created this Instant Pot Hidden Veggie Pear Applesauce. She doesn’t even care there are veggies in it (she knows) because it tastes like fruit!
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Though technically more a “pearsauce” than applesauce (it was a searchability decision for google), it still has all the attributes of an applesauce with the added bonus of regularity that comes from pears…. It’s a two birds with one stone kinda deal.
The two hidden veggies featured in this applesauce are beets (golden) and spinach. The spinach, as you can probably tell, is not completely hidden but my daughter couldn’t care less! If you however have a child who does care about the color I’d recommend a fun incognito device like a reusable squeeze. My favorite are these. Let me know in the comments what your child thought!
Eat and Enjoy,
Nicole
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Instant Pot Hidden Veggie Pear Applesauce is packed with nutrition and made in just a few minutes using your favorite pressure cooker! This recipe includes two vegetables and tastes just like cinnamon applesauce, for the win!
Ingredients
For the Instant Pot:
- 10 pears (I used bartlett), cored and deseeded with skin on
- 3 large apples (I used honeycrisp), cored and deseeded with skin on
- 3 golden beets (yellow beets), use a vegetable peeler to remove skin and cut into 1 inch thick pieces
- 1 cup water
- 2 cinnamon sticks
After the Instant Pot to the Blender:
- 1 cup packed baby spinach leaves
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Once prepared add apples, pears and golden beets to the instant pot or pressure cooker.
- Pour in one cup of water and place 2 cinnamon sticks in.
- Lock lid and set valve to sealing.
- Select Manual / Pressure Cook on high for 10 minutes.
- Once cooking has finished, quick release steam.
- Carefully remove the two cinnamon sticks and discard.
- Using a slotted spoon transfer all but the liquid into a blender.
- To the blender also add the spinach and ground cinnamon.
- Blend on high several minutes until smooth and creamy.
- (Optional Step: Pour blender contents through a wire strainer to ensure no chunks of spinach remain and rat you out!)
- Pour Pear Applesauce into mason jars or other freezable containers for storage.
- I recommend allowing to cool on the counter for 30+ minutes if possible to release steam before placing a lid on and transferring to the refrigerator. I also recommend allowing to chill in the frig prior to placing in the freezer to prep the jars and give your freezer an easier job.
- Enjoy!
Notes
*Cook time is an “Instant Pot” 10 minutes which means once the machine comes to pressure which is really closer to 15-20 minutes in total.
Keywords: Applesauce recipe, instant pot, hidden veggie, picky eater,
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Brilliant idea to slip in the veggies! Thank you for this recipe.
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Thank you! Yes, this is definitely a “make on repeat” kind of recipe!