Pear Sauce - Instant Pot Method

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Ingredients

Makes: 7 cups pear sauce

(The exact amount you get will vary depending on the size of the pears you use.)

24 medium to smallish sized pears

1 cup water

2/3 cup pure maple syrup

2 Tablespoons ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon ground ginger

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

1 Tablespoon pure lemon juice

a pinch of coarse salt

Directions

1. This version is with the instant pot but you can follow the same recipe and cook on the stove-top on low heat.

2. It will just a longer cooking time to break the pears down. This pear sauce is freezer version.

3. Wash the pears in cold water. We used Young Living's Thieves fruit and veggie cleaner on the pears.

4. Drain the water from the pears. Pears have very thin skins so you can leave the skins on.

5. Cut the pears in quarters removing the core and stringy part from the center and place the cut pieces directly into the instant pot. Continue until completed.

6. The pears filled the instant pot all the way to the top line indicator of the instant pot. Do not go higher than that.

7. Add the water, maple syrup, lemon juice, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger and salt.

8. Stir to combine.

9. Place the lid on the Instant pot and turn the vent valve to ‘sealing’. Cook over manual high pressure for 12 minutes, then quick release. Be sure to use a damp dishcloth over the valve when releasing.

10. Remove the lid and let it cool down. These cooked pears created way too much liquid for a pear sauce so we drained out almost all the liquid before pureeing.

11. We just put the pear liquid into a glass jar and it made great juice.

12. Use an immersion blender to blend until the pears are smooth.

13. Have ready Ziploc freezer bags and a couple 2-cup measuring cups and a 1-cup measuring cup.

14. Label the Ziploc freezer bags with the name of what you are putting in it and the date. I chose to put 1-cup into each bag, pre-measured so they could be used in the future with other recipes such as in baking or for a savory sauce.

15. Stand a freezer bag into a 2-cup measuring cup. This is a kitchen tip on an easy way to hold the bag up and open.

16. Use the 1-cup measuring cup and scoop one cup of the pear sauce into the Ziploc freezer bag.

17. Squeeze the air out of the bags as you are closing them and let them be flat as they will take up less room in the freezer.

18. Place the filled bags onto a flat baking tray and put into the freezer. When they are frozen you can remove the baking pan and stack your frozen pear sauce for later use.

ENJOY!

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