Chicken and carrot baby food recipe

Chicken-Carrot Mash – 6 month old recipe

The Chicken-Carrot Mash is a great baby meal to introduce new foods. It has just 3 ingredients, 2 of which you have ideally already introduced.

With a 6-month-old baby, you will likely have started introducing solid foods, one at a time. So chances are your baby has been eating one single food at a time for a week or so until you have a shortlist of food they have tasted and are able to eat.

It might be time to mix it up a little.

With several foods on your list, you can start combining them to introduce new meals.

The Chicken-Carrot Mash is a perfect example. It has just 3 ingredients, 2 of which you have ideally already introduced.

For us the chicken and carrot have already been on our list of baby-approved foods, so we're going to add a little olive oil here.

TIP: If your child has not eaten carrot yet you can make Puree Carrot for baby recipe by following this recipe.

Chicken Carrot Mash Ingredients

To make this Chicken Carrot Mash, you will need the following ingredients:

Chicken. Free range chickens should be our first choice here, especially when serving to babies. But whichever chicken you have to choose from, try to make sure that it hasn't been treated with hormones or antibiotics. Although the recipe says to use chicken breast you can also use dark meat if you want to.

Carrots. If possible, try to choose organic carrots. Nevertheless make sure to peel them before cooking if your child is younger than 8 months. For older children you don't really need to peel organic carrots but I still do so out of habit.

Olive oil. I prefer to always use olive oil when cooking for my child as I find that it has the best fatty acid profile. But really any vegetable oil such as sunflower or flaxseed oil you use here is a good choice.

Chicken Carrot Mash Nutritional Benefits

Chicken. Chicken is a great source of lean protein and it has good amounts of iron which is crucial for your little one at this age.

Carrots. Carrots have loads of beta carotene which is great for our eyesight, and their sweet taste helps the meal to be tastier.

Olive oil. Olive oil is loaded with "good" fats which protect the heart and provide loads of energy – crucial for the growth and development of your baby.

How To Prepare Chicken Carrot Mash

Prepare the carrots. Wash, peel and slice the carrot into tiny pieces (if baby-led weaning cut into long thin pieces and if you will be serving as a puree cut into small cubes). Add the carrot in a pot or pan with enough water to cover it. Bring to boil and cook for about 15 minutes

Add the chicken. Slice the chicken into tiny pieces (if baby-led weaning cut into long thin pieces and if you will be serving as a puree cut into small cubes). After 15 minutes of cooking the carrots, add the sliced chicken breast and cook for another 15 minutes

Finalize. Once finished, take out the pan and drizzle with olive oil. Allow to cool for 5 minutes

How to BLW. If following baby-led weaning, cut into long strips so baby can grasp.

How to puree. If pureeing then add to a blender with a tablespoon of water. Keep adding tablespoon by tablespoon of water as necessary to achieve desired consistency

Possible Chicken Carrot Mash Variations

Mix the veggies. To make this Chicken Carrot Mash, you don't need to use carrots. You can actually use any other veggie of choice. We find carrots being a good choice because of their creamy texture and slightly sweet taste but pumpkin, butternut squash or sweet potato would be a great substitute.

Mix the meat. You also don't specifically need to use chicken as a meat and protein source in this dish. Lamb, beef, turkey and any other meat you choose to serve to your baby can pair perfectly with any veggies.

Mix the oil. Olive oil is always my first choice. For kids and for the whole family also. I find it has the best fatty acid profile for our bodies. But any other vegetable oil will provide fats and energy also. Do try to avoid ones with very distinct aroma such as coconut or nut-oils.

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Chicken-Carrot Mash

Chicken Carrot Mash is a quick and nutritious recipe for a 6 month old baby that is simple and can be either BLW or pureed.

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Prep Time 5 mins

Cook Time 20 mins

Cooling Time 5 mins

Servings 1

▢ 1.4 oz chicken breast (skinless, boneless)
▢ 1 medium sized carrot
▢ ½ tsp olive oil

Wash, peel and slice the carrot into tiny pieces (if baby-led weaning cut into long thin pieces and if you will be serving as a puree cut into small cubes)
Add the carrot in a pot or pan with enough water to cover it. Bring to boil and cook for about 15 minutes
After 15 minutes add the sliced chicken breast and cook for another 15 minutes
Once finished, take out the pan and drizzle with olive oil
Allow to cool for 5 minutes
If following baby-led weaning, cut into long strips so baby can grasp. If pureeing then add to a blender with a tbsp of water. Keep adding water as necessary to achieve desired consistency

Calories: 104.3kcal

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Chicken baby food made in the crockpot! Tender shreds of chicken with carrots for baby. If you're looking for more baby food recipes, try my ebook, Hip Hip, Purée! My Recipes for Feeding Bébé.

The first time I made Camille meat puree, I wasn’t sure if I should feed it to her or the cat. I poached a chicken breast, and pureed it in the Vitamix. One look, one smell, one reluctant taste, and I was done. Surely I can do better for my sweet babe than cat food fare!

My journey of making meat purees for baby food starts here:

Camille didn’t start eating meat until around 7 months. I started her on sweet potato puree at around 5 months, but she didn’t show much interest, so I took time off before intermittently reintroducing her to food. By the time we were in a good rhythm of 2 tablespoons of puree once a day, I kept hearing my pediatrician’s warnings in the back of my head: 'her iron supply needs to be restocked; give her meat'. She was well past 6 months, and probably ready for it.

This chicken baby food was months in the making. I just had to work up the courage to make it.

Camille at 7 months eating chicken and celeriac puree with soft pear bites for dessert.

A pretty important side note: I don’t eat much meat myself. I think we have an animal on our plate one night a week or so? Last night, we had farro salad with carrots and white beans. The night before? Pasta Alfredo with Broccoli. Before that? This Brussels Sprout Tater Tot casserole.

It just doesn’t occur to me to cook meat most days. I actually love to order animals at restaurants, but I have a thing about seeing raw meat in my kitchen and then subsequently consuming it. If you believe in the blood type diet, I am spot-on for an A positive—full fat dairy, no meat, and tons of legumes. It makes my body happy. I say this to show my complete inaptitude for cooking meat for my child.

My ebook has plenty of kid-approved recipes for meat purees!

Camille at 8 months eating spaghetti squash puree, chunky green bean puree, and flaked salmon.

The next time I tried making meat for her, I faced another kind of disaster. Her dad and I were about to enjoy a rare beef dinner. Before plopping a local grass-fed chuck roast in the crockpot (with my eyes closed, of course), I cut off about 1 pound of it to cook for Camille, sans salt. I rubbed it with black pepper, seared it in a stock pot, and covered it with water and a bay leaf. I figured by the time our crockpot roast was done, her roast would be, too. My intention was for her to enjoy a no-salt version of our food.

I was so very wrong. Her roast was tough and chewy. Dad and I were eating a melt-in-your-mouth pot roast, and baby had meat so tough, even I couldn’t chew it (and I have all of my teeth)!

Camille at 9 months eating cream of chicken and wild rice soup with a fruit salad of papaya, banana, and blood orange bites.

I ended up making her a quick no-salt gravy, and pureeing the baby roast in the Vitamix. She ate it mixed with green beans and mashed turnips. It wasn’t her favorite—she much preferred these curried sweet potatoes, but she ate it. And I felt like Mama of the year for giving her that much-needed iron-rich beef.

Now, at 10 months, Camille needs to progress beyond purees. Even though she doesn’t have any teeth, she’s been gumming steamed broccoli, tiny whole wheat pasta shapes, and raisins lately. This video of her eating broccoli basically sums it all up.

The time was nigh for me to make her tender melt-in-her-mouth meat.

So, I reached for my crockpot. I mean, that’s what those things are for, right? Tender meat?

Using the crockpot to make chicken baby food:

I knew I wanted her chicken chunks to be saucy and rich, almost like my recipe for instant pot salsa chicken. Baby isn’t warming up to jalapeños no matter how hard I try (kidding), so I reached for carrots.

When the chicken is done cooking to the appropriate fall-apart-ness (technical kitchen term), the carrots melt and become a creamy sauce. Hot damn! I even want to eat this!

I stirred in a little cumin to mimic that rich, barbecued beef flavor. As a Texan, my kid will eat barbecue and jalapeños one day--you can hold me to that!

This recipe for chicken baby food with carrots comes together so quickly, and it makes enough frozen leftovers for many meals! I love having cubes of it in the freezer to stir into whatever grain dish we are eating. If I make us a pot of quinoa for the week, a few cubes of carrot-chicken puree are great stirred in for baby.

If you're looking for more tips on how to freeze baby food, check out my ebook!

You're going to need 1 pound of carrots (these are baby carrots from our CSA. I can see my Mom cringing at the dirt on them. The carrots were well-scrubbed, Mom, I swear). I grabbed 2 chicken breasts for this recipe because it's what I had in the freezer. In the future, I would use chicken thighs because they have slightly better nutrition and fat (which is good for baby).

Side note: see Natalie's post about crock-pot'ing for baby here. Also, grab some cumin and a mere ½ cup of the no-salt vegetable broth you made last week.

Toss it all in the slow cooker. Turn it to high. Come back in 4-5 hours. Stir, stir, stir. The carrots will melt, the chicken will shred. The babe will be very happy.

Chicken baby food coated in a creamy, slightly sweet carrot sauce is perfection. Freeze for later:

If your baby is younger and not quite ready for meat shreds, just puree the whole mixture.

I'm loving your baby food requests. Do you have more in mind? Tell me below :)

Demolished dinner: potato and turnip puree with spinach, bites of beef, grass-fed cheese chunks, and raisins for dessert.

If you're interested in more baby food recipes, check out my ebook for baby food purees! It contains 15 purees and tips and tricks for preparing and freezing baby food that is nutritious and so easy to make!

In case you were wondering if kids will actually eat this food...I leave you with this:

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 4 hours

Total Time 4 hours 5 minutes

Ingredients

1 pound carrots, cleaned and sliced
2 large chicken breasts, diced
½ cup no-salt vegetable broth
½ teaspoon ground cumin

Instructions

Add all ingredients to the slow cooker.
Stir very well.
Place the lid on and cook on HIGH for 4-5 hours.
Remove the lid, and stir to shred the chicken. Mash the carrots a bit with a fork.
Serve.
If your baby is young, puree the whole mixture first.

Notes

You can puree this until very smooth for stage 1, or you can shread the chicken and lightly mash it with a fork for older babies.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 38Total Fat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 14mgSodium: 3846mgCarbohydrates: 3gFiber: 1gSugar: 1gProtein: 5g

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Carrots with chicken is a very easy recipe, and since children can rarely eat boiled carrots, you can cook this dish at least once a week. You can take pieces of fillet, but it turns out dry meat and it is difficult to chew, and if you take minced chicken and make meatballs, the child will like it more. We try, the combination of carrots and chicken is simply delicious.

Chicken Carrot recipe suitable for babies over 12 months old .

Introduced products in baby foods: Carrots, chicken, ground cumin, vegetable oil.

Carrots with chicken

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1/2 cup without salt vegetable broth

1/2 tsp. ground cumin

vegetable oil

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Instructions

Place the carrot and chicken pieces in a saucepan with enough vegetable stock (you can use water) and ground cumin (if the spice is included in the baby's diet). You can cook vegetables and chicken in a double boiler, slow cooker, pressure cooker or just on fire.
Mix well.
Chicken meatballs can be used instead of chicken pieces.
Close the lid and cook for 1-2 hours, or until the chicken is cooked, it is important that the carrots are completely boiled, for this it is best to cut them finely enough.
Grind carrots and chicken in a blender or press. If the baby is older, then you can mash slightly, then the chicken will be small soft pieces.
Add a few drops of vegetable oil.
Add boiled water, breast milk, milk formula, or vegetable broth to achieve a smooth, tender consistency.
If the child eats finger food, then you can not blend.
The child tries to eat with a spoon.
Here he is trying to eat with a fork.
Since it is not always possible to prick food with a fork, the child takes a piece in his hands and pricks it on the fork.
The taste of the dish is sweet and meaty, very tasty, herbs just add a little spice.

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