8 Homemade Baby Purée Recipes Your Little One Will Love
It might be challenging, as a parent, to find meals that both you and your baby will like. Sure, you could easily purchase store-bought baby purées, but why not try something a little more nutritious and homemade? In this article, we will look at several simple homemade recipes for delicious and healthy baby purées. In addition to being healthy and tasty, these recipes will load your little one with the necessary nutrients for growth and development. Plus, you will save so much money by making homemade baby purée at home! So, grab your apron and get ready to prepare some delicious...
It might be challenging, as a parent, to find meals that both you and your baby will like. Sure, you could easily purchase store-bought baby purées, but why not try something a little more nutritious and homemade? In this article, we will look at several simple homemade recipes for delicious and healthy baby purées. In addition to being healthy and tasty, these recipes will load your little one with the necessary nutrients for growth and development. Plus, you will save so much money by making homemade baby purée at home! So, grab your apron and get ready to prepare some delicious homemade baby purée recipes that you and your child will both love!
Sometimes it is hard to figure out what to feed your baby
Tlet’s take a look at the best homemade baby purée recipes
Homemade Baby Purée Recipes to Make at Home
#Mixed Potato Purée
To diversify the taste of the ordinary potato, you can experiment with sweet potato and red potato. Sweet potato is quite popular lately and this is no coincidence at all – it is full of vitamin C, fiber, manganese, vitamin B6, copper, potassium, niacin, and more. In addition, sweet potato contains fewer carbohydrates than a regular potato! Last but not least – sweet potato has a wonderful taste that young children absolutely love. To make your purée even tastier, instead of boiling the potatoes in water, steam them. This way they will retain more of their beneficial properties and there is no danger of overcooking them. Optionally you can add butter, adapted milk (or breast milk) meat, fish, and egg yolk.
Steaming the potatoes will retain more of their beneficial properties
#Sweet Potato & Spinach Purée
In this recipe, the sweet potato is the main star once again. This time mixed with spinach. This purée successfully hides the taste of spinach, so it is perfect if your child does not like it! Spinach is extremely nutritious and beneficial, so this recipe is very useful for both babies and small kids. However, be careful with the quantity, as the leafy green plant has an intense flavor. A few leaves are absolutely enough.
The sweet potato hides the taste of the spinach
#Rice, Pear & Cottage Cheese Purée
This purée is ideal for a healthy afternoon snack. The rice will add thickness to the purée, and the pear will give it that sweet taste that all children love. To give your baby the full range of nutrients, you can also add some cottage cheese, which is a great source of protein. Once blended, you won’t taste it, and it’s a great source of protein.
Cottage cheese is a great source of protein
#Rice, Spinach, Green Beans & Milk Purée
Green beans are very useful as they contain vitamin K and twice as much iron as spinach. To make the purée tastier, it is preferable to mix in some formula milk or breast milk instead of using plain water. Optionally, you can add a very small amount of butter to make it smoother.
This healthy purée recipe is full of iron and vitamin K
#Parsnip & Pea Purée
Now is the time to discover as a parent just how delicious parsnips actually are. This veggie contains lots of potassium, manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, vitamin B, vitamin C, vitamin E and vitamin K. To make the consistency of the purée thicker, add some peas. As we already mentioned, it is preferable to steam the veggies rather than boil them.
This delicious parsnip purée is abundant in vitamins and minerals
#Avocado & Pear Purée
Avocados are an important part of many of our favorite recipes. So, why not give it to your baby, as well! However, if your little one doesn’t like the taste, you can tone it down by mixing the avocado with some pear. Optionally, you can add cottage cheese for extra creaminess and protein.
Avocado purée goes well with many other fruits and veggies
#Peach & Pumpkin Purée
Some time ago, fruits with lint were looked upon with suspicion in the baby realm. But nowadays, people introduce them as a food as early as after the 6th month. To double the taste and beneficial ingredients, you can mix the peach with some steamed pumpkin. Optionally, you can also add some formula milk or breast milk, or even baby oatmeal (suitable after the 8th month).
This peach and pumpkin baby purée is a sweet delight
#Sweet Potato & Red Lentils Purée
Not everyone can get their little one to eat lentils willingly very easily. However, if you choose red lentils and combine it with some sweet potato, you will probably have a lot of success. Apart from being delicious, this homemade baby purée is super filling and healthy.
This healthy purée recipe is the ultimate filling dinner
These were some of the healthiest and most delicious homemade baby purée recipes! Remember that it is important to introduce your baby to as many foods as possible to keep them healthy and help them develop their food palette. This will actually help make the baby less of a fussy eater later on!
Now you know the best homemade baby purée recipes to give your baby to try!
