Homemade Healthy Baby Food Recipes and Cookbook - Kiwi Slices

Kiwi Slices

Ingredients:

Kiwi, ripe

Preparation:

Peel the kiwi by cutting off both ends, standing it up, and carefully running your knife along the sides of the fruit. When cutting the ends off of the fruit, you may encounter some resistance; don’t try to force the knife through. Instead, move your knife down the fruit until you cut through the part that easily gives way. You don’t want your baby to be chewing on the hard part that gives your knife trouble.

Cut the peeled kiwi right down the middle and into slices that your baby can hold on to.

Boiled Carrot Sticks

Ingredients:

Carrot

Preparation:

Wash, peel, and slice the carrots into batonettes or small sticks that your baby can wrap his hands around. Prepare a pot of boiling water and season it with a little salt. Drop the carrot sticks into the boiling water and let it cook until the carrot sticks are as soft as possible while still holding its shape.

Prepare a water bath with ice right beside the boiling pot of water to shock the carrot sticks with. When the sticks are done cooking, transfer them into the ice water bath and let them cool. This will ensure that the carrot sticks are never too hot for your baby and it also immediately stops the carrots from cooking any further.

Carrot sticks are hard so you need to make sure that it is soft enough for your baby to eat. The best way to do this is with a fork test while its cooking and by actually tasting it before giving some for the little one to eat.

This is an excerpt from the book: Homemade Healthy Baby Food Recipes and Cookbook