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19 Useful Ideas for Using Leftover Apple Peels this Season

Jennifer is a full-time homesteader who started her journey in the foothills of North Carolina in 2010. Currently, she spends her days gardening, caring for her orchard and vineyard, raising chickens, ducks, goats, and bees. Jennifer is an avid canner who provides almost all food for her family needs. She enjoys working on DIY remodeling projects to bring beauty to her homestead in her spare times.

Apple season is upon us. It is a glorious time of year! It’s time to make applesauce, apple butter, apple pie filling, and many other delicious recipes.

As scrumptious as all of this sounds, do you ever search for ideas for using leftover apple peels?

If you’re like me and don’t like to waste, this has probably crossed your mind a time or two.

Well, no need to keep feeding the apple peels to the trash. I’m bringing you a variety of ideas on using leftover apple peels.

Here’s what you can do with them:

1. Make Apple Juice

Many times, people buy apples with the intention of juicing them to make homemade apple juice. But;you still end up with a massive amount of peels left over.

If you love apple juice, then don’t toss the peels. Instead, boil the peels in water. If you allow the mixture to boil down, it’ll create more apple juice.

2. Turn The Peels into Jelly

Did you know apple peels make an excellent jelly? Well, if you didn’t, you’ve been missing out. It’s an easy recipe to make and a great way to utilize the leftover apple peels.

In the future, when you finish with your apple recipes, use the peels to make apple juice. From there, pectin can be added and made into a tasty jelly you’ll love.

3. ACV

Apple cider vinegar has a ton of benefits. It’s a wonderful item to keep on hand because it can be used in many versatile ways.

ACV is also extremely easy to make too. The next time you’re stuck with a ton of peels, consider making a healthy and useful item out of them.

4. Pull Out the Dehydrator

I’m famous for dehydrating my tomato peels when I’ve finished canning tomatoes because they make a great tomato powder for soups.

Well, you can do the same thing with apple peels. Dehydrate them and eat them like you would an apple chip. You can also use the dehydrated peels to flavor hot beverages.

5. Please Pass the Syrup

I wasn’t into fruit syrups until I began making delicious blueberry syrup with my blueberry harvest. From there on, I was hooked.

You can use apple peels to make syrup too. You make a simple syrup, add the apple peels, and allow the ingredients to come together.

6. Yummy Butter

One of my fondest memories of time spent with my mother-in-law was when making apple butter together. As hard as I’ve tried, I can’t quite make it as she and I did together since she’s no longer with us.

If you’re a fan of apple butter too, try your hand at making it. You can use the cores and peels of the apples to make it.

7. Get Them Sizzling

Do you enjoy fried apples? It’s one of my favorite dishes. You can use the peels in the place of the apples.

Pull out your favorite skillet, add a little oil in the bottom of it, and allow the apple peels to fry. You can add sugar and cinnamon for a sweeter flavor.

8. Wine Time

Have you ever tried making homemade wine? Many people do, and they love the different flavors they come up with.

Well, if you have leftover apple peels, consider adding them to your favorite wine recipe. You could end up with a new and inexpensive favorite.

9. Hard Cider

Many people use apple season as a way to make delicious apple cider. Hard cider is an adult favorite and can be made fresh easily during apple season.

Well, don’t let the peels go to waste. Instead, incorporate them into your favorite hard cider recipe. You may be glad you did!

10. Chop, Chop, Chop

By using leftover apple peels creatively, it can feel like a bonus when processing apples. There’s a ton you can do with them.

For instance, you can chop them up. When they’re roughly chopped, add them into baked goods or use them to make preserves.

11. Apple Extract

If you’re a baker, you may enjoy playing around with different flavored extracts in your recipes. Have you ever considered how handy an apple extract could be?

All you do is fill half a mason jar with apple peels. Fill the jar up fully with vodka and allow the jar to rest for approximately three months. You can add cinnamon sticks for more flavor.

12. Homemade Jell-O

Jell-O is exceptionally cheap to buy which is why many of us don’t consider making it ourselves. However, when you are looking for ways of using leftover apple peels, you begin thinking outside the box.

Save the apple peels until you’re ready to make Jell-O. Boil them in water and turn them into juice. When the liquid is ready, add gelatin, and you’ll have homemade Jell-O.

13. Compost Additive

You may be looking at this list and thinking, “This sounds awesome, but I’ve canned a ton of apple recipes. I’m tired. Is there anything else I can do with apples which require less energy?”

I’m glad you asked because yes, there is. If you don’t want to waste the apple peels but don’t quite have the energy to make anything else, use them as an addition to your compost.

14. Feed Them to Your Guys and Girls

If you’re running low on energy but don’t want to waste the apple peels, look out in your yard. If you have chickens back there, you now have a productive way of using leftover apple peels.

Chickens love kitchen scraps. The apple peels are good for them, will save you on feed, and also keep the peels from going to waste.

But don’t forget your goats and pigs, they would also love these peels and appreciate the treat.

15. Applesauce

You may have ended up with apple peels because you were busy making fresh applesauce. Well, would you like a little more?

Instead of throwing the scraps away, use the peels and cores to cook down and make more delicious homemade applesauce.

16. Turn into a Garnish

Are you someone who likes to prepare fancy meals? Well, use the apple peels for your meals. You can use them to wrap pork in.

Garnish is a great way for using leftover apple peels for dishes or salads. If you make an apple salad with nuts, throw the peels in there for an added crunch.

17. Grind Them Finely

Do you love the taste of apples in different recipes? Well, dehydrate the apple peels. When they’re dried, place them in a grinder to turn them into a fine powder.

Once you have apple powder, you can add it in your hot tea, oatmeal, or as a flavor booster to a smoothie.

18. Hmm… It Smells Wonderful in Here

I like for my home to smell nice, but if I’m honest, I hate spending a ton of money on expensive potpourris and candles from the store.

This is where apple peels are incredibly handy. You can make a fresh potpourri by placing cinnamon and apple peels in water to simmer on your stove. If you’d like to save apple peels for potpourri year-round, put the skins in a freezer bag and freeze them until you’re ready to make potpourri again.

19. Feed Nature

Our last option for utilizing apple peels is to feed nature. Hunters will purchase deer apples to draw deer to their area.

Instead, use apple peels. You can also use the apple peels to feed squirrels, chipmunks, and any other critter you hunt or like to watch for entertainment. The birds would appreciate the snack too.

Well, you now have 19 different ways of using leftover apple peels. There’re some great recipes, some great ways to feed animals, and also some creative ways to make your home smell better on a budget.

Hopefully, you’ll find an option to suit your needs and put your leftovers to good use!

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What to Do with Apple Peels and Cores

Published: 10/07/19, Last updated: 1/25/21

Additional reporting and updates by Katherine Sacks.

Here’s a secret: apple cores don’t exist. It’s the way most people normally eat apples, chomping down in a circular motion towards the center, leaving a seed-filled column in our wake, that gives us the impression that the fruit’s center is inedible. Eat your apple pole-to-pole instead, and you’ll hardly notice the seeds. Plus, you’ll get 30 percent more apple — the average volume of fruit that is pitched out as core.

Thirty percent is a lot of food waste. Of course, some eaters fear that the seeds are poisonous, which is why those cores are tossed. Another secret: while apple seeds do contain amygdalin, which can convert into cyanide when apple seeds are crushed or chewed, the amount is extremely low. Which means you’d have to eat a ton of apple seeds to be affected by the cyanide inside of them.

The average volume of an apple left in the apple core.

So now that know you can eat apples whole, you can start eating the whole thing. But in recipes for items like apple pie or apple sauce, the peels, cores and seeds are usually unused, leaving a big pile of scraps. There’s a lot you can do with those items, either adding them into their own recipe or finding one more use for them before they hit the compost pile. Here’s how:

Homemade Apple Pectin

A key ingredient of making homemade jams, jellies and preserves is pectin. Homemade pectin can be made from simmering apple cores and peels and adds a silky, luxurious texture to homemade preserves that packaged pectin cannot imitate.

Roasted Apple Peels

Apple peels tossed in warm spices like cinnamon and nutmeg, then crisped in the oven, make a tasty, wholesome snack. They’re also a fun, fall-flavored garnish for salads.

Powdered Apple Peels

Whiz oven-dried apple peels in a clean spice grinder to create apple powder. Stir into baked goods, sweet potatoes or your morning oatmeal for a boost of spiced apple flavor.

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Apple Peel Tea

Steep apple peels in boiling hot water for a comforting caffeine-free sip to enjoy on a chilly day. Add whole spice like cinnamon stick, clove and star anise for more warming flavor. You can also add apple peels to your tea pot during steeping to create an apple flavored tea.

Apple Flavored Water

Add a few apple peels to your reusable water bottle to create a subtly infused thirst quencher with a hit of flavor.

Apple Core Juice

Simmer apple cores and peels in water for 30 minutes. Cool and strain without pressing. Store juice chilled.

Apple Peel Fiber Booster

Apple peels are full of fiber. Keep them in an air-tight container in the freezer and toss them in smoothies for a kick of sweet fiber. Or chop them up and add them to pancakes, waffles or muffin mix, along with a sprinkle of cinnamon, for a healthy apple pie boost.

Apple Peel-Infused Liquor

Pack a sterilized jar with apple peels and cores, fill to cover with liquor and top jar with lid. Store in a cool, dark place for a month, shaking the jar every few days. Strain and serve straight or use in cocktails.

Apple Syrup

To make a fresh apple syrup, boil peels and cores in water, reducing liquid to intensify the flavor. Strain out apple solids and compost. Measure the remaining water, add an equal amount brown sugar to pot with liquid, and simmer until dissolved. Remove from heat and store chilled in an airtight container for up to a month. Serve over pancakes or waffles, or use in cocktails or for other desserts.

Apple Jelly

Some apple jelly recipes use whole apples, some use apple juice. If you have a lot of peels and cores leftover from a pie (or you save up scraps in the freezer), you can use them for this apple peel jelly, which first steeps the peels and cores in water to create a juice, and then uses pectin and lemon juice to thicken the liquid into jelly.

Apple Vinegar

Apple vinegar can be used for everything from salad dressing to making homemade mayo. And you can make it yourself with a little sugar, water and those apple scraps. Save your peels and cores in a jar in the freezer. When you have a full jar, follow the recipe below to turn your waste into liquid gold.

Apple Agrodolce

This Italian sweet and sour sauce is similar to gastrique, a vinegar-based pan sauce. Try it over grilled chicken. After you boil the apple cores in vinegar and sugar, use them for a second recipe with this mostarda, a tangy jelly that can be served with cured meats or cheeses.

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Apple Peel Cleaner

Those apple peels can also help keep your pots clean. Boil with water for 15-20 minutes, and the acid in the peels will help remove stains from aluminum cookware. If you have stained aluminum utensils you can add them to the pot as well. An added bonus: boiling the apple peels will make your kitchen smell nice.

Recipe: Homemade Apple Vinegar

Sherri Brooks Vinton

Just like grape juice ferments into wine which then can ferment into vinegar, apple juice will also ferment as bacteria digests the fruit’s sugar into vinegar. Use apple trimmings to create apple juice for a waste-free, low-cost pantry staple.

Ingredients

3 cups apple peels, cores and trimmings
3 to 4 tablespoons sugar

Method

1. Submerge a 1-quart glass jar in boiling water for 10 minutes to sterilize. Drain and cool.
2. Fill jar with apple trimmings and 3 tablespoons sugar.
3. Fill jar with water so trimmings are completely submerged, using a weight if necessary.
4. Cover jar with cheesecloth or a coffee filter, securing around the neck with a rubber band, to protect from dust and insects.
5. Set aside in a dark, cool area for about a month, gently swirling the jar once a week to move the trimmings around. Add more sugar water if evaporation occurs; apples should stay submerged in liquid. After several weeks, a gelatinous disc may begin to form. This is the “vinegar mother” and is a natural part of the process.
6. When the vinegar reaches your desired tartness, strain and store refrigerated.

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