Quick and Easy Skillet-Fried Apples (NO Sugar)

Ingredients

• Lots of apples (7 pictured here)


• Butter (don’t be afraid)


• Cinnamon


• Pumpkin pie seasoning mix (or other spices you want to include)


• Vanilla extract or Vanilla bean paste

Instructions

1. Peel and cut your apples. Sometimes I do slices like this. Other times I cube them. It doesn’t matter.


2. Heat your skillet on high.


3. Add your apples and top with butter. Don’t touch for a couple of minutes. Wait for the apples to get a little bit crisp on the bottoms.


4. Stir/flip the apples around, and let new parts get a little bit brown/crisp.


5. Stir/flip again and turn the heat down to medium low. Now you’re just going to let the caramelization happen.


6. Add cinnamon and other spices at any time. I like to do it a few times while the apples cook, after stirring/flipping.


7. Keep stirring/flipping every 5 minutes or so.


8. When the buttery/caramelized-apple-juice-y sauce thickens and the apples are soft, you’ll know your apples are finished.


9. Splash in a little vanilla extract or add a dash of vanilla bean paste toward the end.


10. Don’t forget to let them cool a little before you dig in!

Notes: You can leave the peels on if the apples are organic, but I don’t love the texture when the apples shrink but the peels don’t as much… so I’d leave them out even then, too.