Pear-sauce

If you've ever had applesauce and really enjoyed it, you'll really like this homemade pear-sauce. It's super easy and all you need are pears and an orange! No sugar needed bc it's super sweet on its own!!

I used 10 ripe pears (from costco). If they are not ripe, they won't be sweet so it's totally worth it to wait until the pears are yellow-green. 

Peel, core and quarter the pears. Then place in a slow cooker.

Scrape an orange with a microplane for 2 tsp of orange zest and then juice the orange, pulp and all.

Add the 2 tsp orange zest and roughly 1/3 cup orange juice. Cook on high for 1 hour with cover to cook the pears. An hour later, break up the pears and stir so as not to burn the edge.

2 hours later, pear sauce should look like this. Cook for another 2 hours on high uncovered.

A total of 4 hours later, add in 2 tsp of pumpkin spice. Continue to cook.

An hour later, I used an immersion blender and blended the sauce. It's beginning to look a lot like applesauce. :)

Ta-da. It was mm-mmm yummy!!

And if you reduce it even further, you can get pear butter!!! I will do that next time for sure!!

Other pear butter recipes:

http://www.gimmesomeoven.com/easy-pear-butter-recipe/

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/pear-butter/