Infant Food Recipes-Made in home

menuvenki · Apr 12, 2013

vidhya2810 said: ↑

shall we give per day cerelac with rice porridge for 4 months old baby?
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Breast feeding is good for baby until 6 months.

srinithivasan · Jan 5, 2015

menuvenki said: ↑

Fruit Puree for 4 to 6 months:

Apple Puree:

Ingredients:

Apple-1no
Water-2cup

Method:

1.Peel the skin of the apple and remove the seeds in it.
2.cut the apple to small piece.
3.Take a sauce pan and pour the water in it.
4.Let it boil.Add the apple piece in it.
5.Let them cook until apple comes to messy consistency.
6.check for water often. U can add more water if u need to cook.
7.After apple becomes too soft.Allow to cool
8.Then using a hand blender/mixer u can make it as puree,otherwise use a potato masher/fork to mash it.
9.now apple puree is ready to feed ur baby.

Tips:1.It is must to peel and cook the apple. Because in these stage infant can't digest an apple easily.
2.For 10 months above infants we can give the apple as it is.
3.U can 1 tsp of lemon juice,sugar as per ur baby taste.
4.adding lemon juice reduce the chance for cold to ur baby.

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Better you can steam the apple with the skin for 5 minutes. then you can peel off the skin easily and mash it with hand itself.
Note: Steaming will retain most of the nutrients.

srinithivasan · Jan 5, 2015

menuvenki said: ↑

Banana

Banana is ready to eat fruit for Infants.

It is infant friendly fruit.

It is rich in iron so u should add it to ur little one

Banana Mash/Puree:

Ingredients:

Banana-1 no

Method:

1.Remove the skin of banana.
2.Cut into small pieces.
3.Using a fork u can mash the fruit and make a puree.
4.Otherwise using a blender or mixer make it as puree.:banana
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With banana we can mix dry roasted, powdered, fried gram (pottukadalai). It will be more nutritious.

srinithivasan · Jan 5, 2015

menuvenki said: ↑

Baby Cereals after 6 Months:

Wheat

Ragi

Green Gram

Wheat cereal:
Ingredients:
1 cup wheat
Water
Sugar
Ghee

Method:

1. Take a dry kadai, put the wheat in it.
2. Dry roast it until wheat become golden brown color.
3. let them cool.
4.Using a mixer grinder, make the wheat into powder.
5.Wheat cereal is ready.
6.Store it in a airtight container for future use.

For Wheat pooridge:
1. Take 2 glass of water in a pan
2. Let it boil. Then add 1-2 tbsp of wheat cereal in it
3. Cook until it comes to porridge consistency.
4. Then add sugar/jaggery as per ur infant taste.
5. Mix a 1/4 tsp of ghee porridge is ready to eat.

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If we use sprouted form of ragi, wheat and green gram it will be more nutritious.

rishac · May 26, 2015

vaali said: ↑

Awesome recipes! good work menuvenki!! Im a new mom too..

I exclusively BFed my baby boy till 6 months & 1 week of age, gradually shifted to solids followed by cow's milk. So here goes our recipe..

Fruit Pudding (i gave from 6 months of age for breakfast & dinner)

Ingredients
Banana/ Papaya/ Apple/ Guava/ Honey dew (alone or a mix of two or more of these)
Cow's milk (I use 3% aavin milk)
Ghee (optional)

Method
In a thick bottom pan boil the fruit either chopped or mashed in 100-150 ml of milk till the entire quantity of milk becomes malai (paal edu/ aadai) & settles on the fruits. Add ghee at the end. Cook in minimal flame to make sure it doesnt get burnt since the milk is much less in quantity already.
I add lil water to the above said mixture when i cook harder fruits like apple since it needs more time to get completely soft.
This would take some 10-15 mins depending on the amount of milk & whip it in a mixie once it has colled down.
During the early days of 6th & 7th months i use to make it bit watery followed by creamy & nowadays giving it kinda chunky in consistency for him to eat.

Tips
The pudding would taste just like icecream since milk becomes malai completely. My bubba's fav is banana followed by papaya & apple.
It makes me laugh when people say papaya increases body heat & inedible & whatnot.. lol.. this is what i tell them 'i always loved papaya & so does my baby who has been taking it since he is 6 months old without even symptoms of stomach upset or whatever you imagine papaya to be causing'.
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Amazing recipes will definitely try some of these.

menuvenki · May 27, 2015

Thanks srinithi for your nice tips

keerthinathan24 · Mar 18, 2017

menuvenki said: ↑

Fruits for 4 to 6 months baby

Following fruits can be introduced in 4 to 6 months:

1.Apple
2.Avocado
3.Banana
4.Pears
After 6 to 8 months:
1.Chikoo
2.Papayaa
3.Mango
4.Apricots
5.Plums

Tips:
1.These fruit can be mashed,pureed and then we can feed to baby.
2.citrus fruit can be given at 12th month.
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Dear friend...

My son is just completed his six months ... I started with carrot purée as U mentioned...

Regarding fruits purée ... all these fruits have to be cooked except banana ??...Pls clarify..
Krithi