Homemade frozen Sweet potato and Carrot puree (For solid starters or age 5 months+)

Introducing new foods to babies is a long process and of course, parents need a lot of patience. New foods are always a new experience for babies due to different texture, taste and color. Every baby is different, so we cannot say how your baby will take this new experience. Sometimes babies will not accept it. But don’t give up, because baby won’t eat it at the first time, but continue offering the food or wait another day or week. Try again and again, they will slowly accept it.

For a solid starter it is always better to begin them with smoothly pureed fruits and vegetables. You can serve them alone or mix two or three variety of fruits and vegetables together to add additional flavor and nutrition. Whatever you make, the texture should be super smooth. You can slowly thicken and chunk up the texture of food when they become more experienced eater.

Babies like sweet potatoes and carrots due to their flavor and color. Both are very nutritious. Sweet potatoes contain very good amount of beta-carotene, vitamin B6, vitamin C, potassium, calcium, vitamin E and folate. Steamed or cooked carrots are easy for babies to digest. Carrots are the excellent source of beta-carotene which the human body converts to vitamin A. Also carrots are packed with nutrients such as vitamin C and calcium.

This sweet potato and carrot puree recipe is so simple and you can make it in large quantity. Freeze and use when you need.

Ingredients

Sweet potato- 1 medium size

Carrot- 1 small size
Ice cube trays and freezer bags for storage.

Process

Step 1: Peel off sweet potato and carrot. Cut them into small cube shape pieces.

Step 2: Steam them the way you usually do or cook them in a pot by adding small amount of water. I use my “Fit & Fresh Starts” Baby Food Steamer.

Step 3: Blend them together. Add breast milk/ formula to get the desired smooth consistency.

Ingredients: Sweet potato and Carrot

Cut them into small pieces and steam them.

Blend the steamed sweet potato and carrot

Storing baby food

There are so many convenient ways to store the homemade baby food. It is recommended that baby food can be stored no longer than 48 hours in the refrigerator but in the freezer you can store them until 3 months.

Freezing baby foods in ice cube trays

Step 1: Puree baby food. Then transfer them into ice cube trays.

Step 2: Fill each trays with puree and cover the trays with plastic wrap and keep them in the freezer.

Step 3: Once the puree have frozen, pop out the cubes and transfer them into freezer bags. If you make different type of baby food, don’t forget to label item name with date.

Fill sweet potato and carrot puree into ice cube trays

Cover the tray with plastic wrap and freeze them

Pop out the frozen puree cubes and store them

HAPPY COOKING!