Best Instant Pot Apple Cider Recipe

Instant Pot spiced apple cider recipe is quintessentially autumn. This homemade hot apple cider recipe is made from fresh apples. Citrus and fall spices are added to it to make it a perfect spiced treat for a winter night.

Making homemade apple cider from scratch is really easy. And recipe calls for just a hand full of seasonal ingredients plus 3 minutes hands-on time. Also we are making this spiced apple cider in instant pot. We are talking dump and push start easiness. That is easy right!

What is Apple Cider?

Apple cider is more popular name in US, Canada. It refers to sweet beverage drink made from apples. It’s an un-fermented drink made by crushing fruit, typically apples. The drink can be spiked with alcohol/spirit of your choice or served as non-alcoholic drink.

Apple cider is THE BEST winter drink that helps you keep warm and happy.

Ingredients Needed

You need just a handful of ingredients most of it you probably already have it in your fridge and pantry.

Apples – a mix of red gala apples, Honey crisp apples, green Granny Smith apples.

Oranges

Maple syrup (or brown sugar or honey for sweetener)

Spices – Cinnamon sticks, cloves, star anise and nutmeg

All spice powder – optional (I skipped)

Ginger – (optional, I skipped) great for fall so we think adding ginger to apple cider would be great.

Hot Spiked Apple Cider

Wondering how to spike up hot apple cider? Hot apple cider mixed with alcohol is warm and cozy drink to welcome fall. Hot spiked apple cider recipe is what you need for fall. Below are some ideas to spike it up-

Apple cider tastes great with rum.

But I’m thinking bourbon! It’s fall guys! We need bourbon in our life!

Pour some red wine you have a perfect drink for Halloween.

Step-by-Step Pictorial

Step 1– Dump fruits into instant pot. Don’t bother to remove seeds or skin, simply chop fruits roughly and dump.

Step 2 – Add in the whole spices. You can tie all spices in a small muslin cloth and dump it in so removing spices is a breeze.

Step 3– Pour enough water to cover all the fruits. Add sweetener, I added ¼ cup brown sugar. Maples syrup would be BEST. Or use Stevia, coconut sugar or even honey.

Step 4- Cover and cook on HIGH PRESSURE for 15 minutes.

Step 5 – Let instant pot naturally release pressure for 15 minutes. Then manually release all pressure.

Step 6 – Once pressure completely settles, open lid. Remove all spices out.

Step 7- Using potato masher mash all the fruits in the liquid to release all juices and wonderful oil into it.

Step 8 – Use a fine mesh strainer or a muslin cloth to strain all the juices out.

Step 9 – Repeat until you have strained all the juices out.

Step 10 – Serve warm as it is in glasses or garnish with any garnish options of your choice.

Add cinnamon stick, star anise and fresh cranberries for garnish. You could add fresh chopped apples, orange slices.

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Instant Pot Spiced Apple Cider Recipe

Jyothi Rajesh

Instant Pot spiced apple cider recipe is quintessentially autumn. This homemade hot apple cider is made from fresh apples. Citrus and fall spices are added to it to make it a perfect spiced treat for a winter night. It’s naturally vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free.

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Prep Time 3 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Course Drinks

Cuisine American

Servings 10 small cups

Calories 93

Ingredients

  

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• ▢ 6 apples a mix of red gala, Honeycrisp and Granny Smith apples
• ▢ 2 oranges
• ▢ 2 sticks cinnamon
• ▢ 2 teaspoon cloves about 20
• ▢ 1 whole nutmeg
• ▢ 2 to 3 star anise
• ▢ ¼ cup brown sugar or maple syrup or stevia or even coconut sugar
• ▢ Enough water to cover the fruit

Garnish (optional, any one or many as you like)

• ▢ Cinnamon stick
• ▢ Star Anise
• ▢ Fresh Cranberries
• ▢ Chopped apples
• ▢ Orange slices

Instructions

 

• Wash apples and oranges.
• Roughly chop apples and oranges. Don’t bother removing seeds or skin.
• Throw all fruits in instant pot.
• Add all the whole spices.
• Pour enough water to completely cover the fruits inside the pot.
• Add brown sugar. Give it a stir.
• Secure the lid in it’s place.
• Select HIGH PRESSURE setting and adjust timer to 15 minutes.
• Once cooking time is complete, allow instant pot to naturally release pressure for 15 minutes.
• Then manually release pressure by turning pressure knob from sealing to venting position.
• Wait for pressure to be release completely.
• Open lid.
• Remove all the whole spices.
• Mash using potato masher.
• Strain the cider in fine mesh strainer or in muslin cloth. Squeeze out as much juice you can. Discard the residues.
• Serve warm as it is or garnished with cinnamon stick, few fresh cranberries (after all it’s fall), some chopped apples, a slice of orange or just plain in individual mugs.
• Store instant pot apple cider in fridge for upto 7 days or freeze it for longer.

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Notes

PRO-TIP: To make it easier, tie all whole spices in a small muslin cloth and chuck it into the pot for cooking.  Once cooked, simple remove the muslin cloth holding spices, instead of picking each and every individual spice. 

 

Nutrition

Calories: 93kcalCarbohydrates: 24gProtein: 0gFat: 0gSaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 3mgPotassium: 171mgFiber: 3gSugar: 19gVitamin A: 120IUVitamin C: 19mgCalcium: 30mgIron: 0.3mg

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