Small Batch Apple Butter Instant Pot

This quick and easy instant pot apple butter is so delicious you will think it has been cooking all day just like grandma made it.
Small batch apple butter instant pot. It s begging to be made in the slow cooker so grab a 3 pound bag and get to work. Instant pot apple butter is now my favorite recipe. Apple butter is just concentrated apple sauce. Apples cooked in just 8 minutes.
This post is sponsored in conjunction with appleweek. Apple butter is the overachieving sibling to apple sauce. Here are the steps to make a wonderful batch of instant pot apple butter note you can make a half batch if you are using the 3 quart mini ip but the cook time stays the same. This year we learned to make instant pot apple butter an applesauce in one batch with honeycrisp apples.
This is a small batch apple butter recipe that makes 2 pints or 4 half pints. In fact instant pot apple butter takes only 8 minutes of actual cooking time. This recipe doesn t make a huge batch. The applesauce and apple butter are both very sweet with very little added sugar which makes it a great snack or side dish.
An additional 15 30 minutes on saute to allow it to thicken and it is done. I received product samples from sponsor companies to aid in the creation of the appleweek recipes. Okay that s a silly answer. It s so much faster and simpler overall.
The apple butter is the best i ve ever eaten which makes the time commitment totally worth it. No peel instant pot apple butter is so easy to make you will never ever buy apple butter at the store again. But apple butter is supposed to be mushy because it s apples cooked beyond their breaking point stirred with sugar and spices. So what used to take me 12 hours to make now takes under one hour.
It just makes a little over three half pint jars full. A small recipe like this is perfect if you just want some apple butter in a hurry. The instant pot cooks apples in a fraction of the time of the slow cooker and is perfect for making homemade apple butter in less than an hour. Before making this apple butter in your pressure cooker i highly recommend having a new silicone sealing ring or one dedicated to sweet or neutral foods like oatmeal and rice.