This Vegetable Puree for infants is a delicious technique to serve inexperienced greens to your toddler. Broccoli, spinach and peas are blended along with sweet potato resulting in a nutrient-dense, tasty puree. Serve it easy or chunky.
If you find yourself with a freezer stash of explicit explicit individual vegetable purees, you presumably can merely combine what you may need to create a blended puree.
Single Vegetable Puree Recipes
Alternatively, you presumably can put collectively dinner dinner a blended vegetable puree. The precept problem to ponder when doing that’s the cooking time of the greens and the texture it’s advisable buy.
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Ingredient Info
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This recipe combines sweeter greens (sweet potato, sauteed onion and peas) with bitter greens (broccoli and spinach) to produce a delicious tasting puree. In case your teen rejects bitter greens you then definately may uncover that combining them with sweeter vegetable ends in an additional fascinating puree. (Remember to keep up up offering rejected meals, infants usually need a great deal of decisions of optimistic meals forward of they’re accepted)
This recipe does embody some vegetable stock to help skinny it out. You will need to make use of baby-friendly selfmade vegetable stock (or rooster stock) to keep up up sodium ranges low. Alternatively, you’ll be able to merely add varied of the cooking water or miss it out for a chunkier puree.
Utterly totally fully totally different greens take pretty a few lengths of time to arrange dinner dinner and when making a blended vegetable puree it is comparatively essential take this into consideration. You moreover must chop the greens to a comparable measurement to ensure even cooking.
- Sweet Potato: Root greens take longer to arrange dinner dinner so add the sweet potato to the steamer basket first. Cowl and steam for 5 minutes. Try to decrease the sweet potato to roughly the an an an identical measurement (1.5-2cm cubes. )
- Broccoli Florets: Add the broccoli and steam for an additional 4 minutes
- Peas: Add to the steamer and steam for an additional 2 minutes.
- Onion : Saute the onion in a bit bit oil until cosy. It will launch its pure sweetness and will add a surprising flavour to the puree. Add the spinach to wilt.
Should you occur to happen to wouldn’t have a steamer/steamer basket you then definately presumably can boil the greens. For individuals who choose to boil the greens then reserve varied of the cooking water to combine the greens with. This sample you add as quickly as additional varied of the dietary dietary nutritional vitamins that seep into the water all by way of cooking.
Roasting
- TEMPERATURE: Be careful that your greens aren’t too scorching and that steam wouldn’t assemble up. In some blenders, the steam will set off the lid to pop off inflicting an explosion all by way of your kitchen!
- TEXTURE: Combine the puree to desired texture, together with extra liquid if wished. Remember it is merely as important to produce your teen with various textures because of it’s to produce various flavours. Try together with fairly a bit lots a lot much less liquid, mashing or pulsing all by the blender to produce a textured puree.
- NO BLENDER?: A meals processor may even work and will even be larger if making a thicker puree. You presumably can moreover use a stick blender. The spinach and peas will probably be more durable to puree easy (if that is the consistency you is possibly trying to find) using a meals processor/stick blender.
Vegetable Purees for Older Kids / Adults
My 11-year-old actually ate spoonfuls of this puree nonetheless I’d probably not advocate this one to older kids/adults.
Nonetheless, vegetable purees is often a pleasant facet dish for family meals. Cauliflower puree, pea puree, broccoli puree and carrot puree are varied of our favourites.
- Refrigerate: Allow to relax, place in an airtight container and refrigerate for as fairly a bit as two days.
- Freeze: Allow to relax, spoon the puree into ice-cube trays and freeze until sturdy. As quickly as they’re totally frozen, shortly pop them out and place the frozen cubes right correct proper right into a freezer bag or container. Return to the freezer.
- Re-heating: Thaw in a single day in your fridge. Re-heat all by the microwave or on the differ excessive until piping scorching all by way of after which permit to relax forward of serving your teen.
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Vegetable Puree
Sweet potato and inexperienced greens are cooked and blended to produce a tasty and nutritious vegetable puree.
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Put collectively dinner dinner Time: 11 minutes
Complete Time: 16 minutes
Serves:4
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Instructions
Add water to a pot, guaranteeing the steamer basket sits merely above the water. Carry to a boil and as quickly as boiling add the sweet potato to the basket, cowl and allow to steam for 5 minutes.
Contained in the meantime, heat the olive oil in a skillet/fryingpan over medium heat. Add the onion and saute until softened, spherical 5 minutes.
Add the broccoli to the steamer (along with the sweet potato) and steam for 4 minutes, add the peas and proceed to steam for an extra 2 minutes until the greens are all cosy.
Add the greens along with the vegetable stock (or water) to a blender or meals processor and blend to make a puree. Add extra liquid if essential.
Recipe Notes
Allow the greens to arrange dinner dinner barely forward of blending. If too scorching the steam can set off the lid to pop.
For an additional textured puree/mash. Add your full greens to a bowl and mash collectively, together with a bit bit stock if wished. Remember it is comparatively essential change by textures fairly shortly to allow your toddler to develop the skills wished to handle extra troublesome textures.
Dietary data is a tough data solely, calculated using an internet based vitamin calculator.
Dietary particulars
Vitality: 82kcal | Carbohydrates: 16g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 0.2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 44mg | Potassium: 328mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 9422IU | Vitamin C: 24mg | Calcium: 36mg | Iron: 1mg