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7 Easy and Healthy Homemade Baby Food Purees

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Looking to make some healthy homemade baby food purees? It’s actually not that hard and it’s so much better for your baby than from a jar or a can. You get all the nutrients and vitamins packed in your little ones puree. Here are my 7 favorite baby food recipes to make at home. You can also find our favorite carrot recipes for babies!

Fresh fruits and vegetables can go bad pretty fast so I like to just scoop all my purees into an ice cube tray and freeze them. Then the day before you want to serve it, pop it out and put in a bowl in the fridge to thaw.

Blueberry Baby Puree

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup blueberries
  • 1/8 cup water

Directions:

  1. If using fresh blueberries clean the blueberries. If using frozen, thawed completely before putting in the blender.
  2. Add 1/8 cup of water
  3. Blend until desire texture.

NOTE: You can use frozen or fresh blueberries. If using frozen, thawed them before putting in the blender. Also, frozen blueberries contain more water, you may have to adjust water. I usually starts with 1 tablespoon and go from there.

Banana Baby Puree

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup (1 medium size one) sliced bananas

Directions:

  1. Peeled a medium size banana and sliced them
  2. Add to blender for a nice silky puree or with a fork mashed them. (The fork technic might have bigger pieces.)

Pears Baby Puree

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup peeled and cubed pear
  • 1/8 cup water 

Directions:

  1. Peeled and cubed a pear. Should give you about 1 cup.
  2. Add 1/8 cup water
  3. Blend until desire texture

NOTE: If the pears are not ripped enough, I will usually steam them for 5 minutes then put them in the mixer.

Avocado Baby Puree

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup (medium size) avocado, peeled and diced

Directions:

  1. Slice an avocado in half. Take the pit off and peeled the avocado.
  2. Cut the avocado and put in blender.
  3. Blend until desire consistency.

Zucchini Baby Puree

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup (1 medium size) peeled and cubed zucchini

Directions:

  1. Peeled and dice a zucchini
  2. In a saucepan, add some water and steam the zucchini until tender (5 minutes). For steaming I like to use OXO Good Grips Stainless Steel Steamer
  3. Once the zucchini is tender, blend them until desire texture. No need to add water.

Peas Baby Puree

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup frozen peas
  • 1/8 cup water

Directions:

  1. In a saucepan or your favorite way, steam the frozen peas for 5 minutes or until soften up.
  2. Add the peas to blender or for this one I prefer using an immersion blender. Makes for a smoother mixture

Green Beans Baby Puree

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup frozen green beans
  • ¼ cup water

Directions:

  • Steam frozen green beans for 5 minutes or until tender.
  • Add the soften beans to the blender with 1/8 to ¼ cup water. The amount of water varies according to what texture you want.

BAKER’S NOTES:

  • INGREDIENTS SUBSTITUTION
    • Sometimes finding all fruits and veggies fresh can be a challenge. I will go in the frozen section of the grocery store and look for frozen fruits or veggies without any salt added to it.
  • CHEF’S TOOLS
    • When blending I either use my blender (Ninja) or an immersion blender (Kitchen Aid)

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