Fruit baby food recipes

Two yummy and healthy fruit baby food recipes.

1. Fruits with oat porridge

This easy-to-make porridge provides your baby with healthy food fibre and all kinds of vitamins. Its composition is very flexible, the proportion of fruits and oatmeal is totally up to you. Another advantage of this food: You can use all kinds of fruits in any combination.

age: above 6 months

Ingredients:

- fruits pealed and cut into cubes (for example: apple, banana, pear, peach, avocado, apricot, etc., normally I combine 2-3 kinds of fruits)

- oatmeal (there are oats in different sizes, I like the really thin type, or already been shredded into small pieces, because they take a shorter time to cook, but if you have the regular oats is also fine, they just take a bit longer to get cooked)

How to cook:

Cooked oat

1. Put oats in a pot, add some water to cook it. Do not put to much water, it is better that the cooked oats are in a consistency that is pretty 'sticky' (see the picture below)

Cut fruits

2. Put the fruits cubes and cooked oats into a container that is suitable for a hand blender

3. Use a Hand Blender to mash the fruits and oats and it is ready!

2. Mashed yam and blueberry

Yam has an extremely high amount of vitamin B5, C, and most significantly nutritional fiber. In addition it is also an affluent resource of potassium as well as manganese. Compounds in blueberries have antioxidant and inflammation-fighting properties, they can even protect the retina of the eye.

age: above 6 months

Ingredients:

- fresh yam 3.5 ounces / 100g (instead of yam you can also use sweet potato)

- fresh blueberry 1.5-2 ounces / 50g

How to cook:

The ingredients - yams and blueberry

Cut yam into pieces

1. Wash and peel the yam (tips: please wear gloves while you peel fresh yam, the juice might make your skin itchy), cut into small pieces and then steam them until they are soft. As an alternative, you can also boil the yam with it's skin still on until it is soft, then peel it and cut it into small pieces. This way you do not need to wear gloves

Mash soft yam

2. Use a Hand Blender to purée the yam, then purée blueberries

Put into any shape you want...

3. Make the 2 purées into any shapes you want

... and add blueberry for the finishing touch!