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Apple + Kale Baby Food Puree (6 months and up)

by Michele Olivier on July 11, 2017 (updated Feb 25, 2021)

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This smooth and sweet Apple + Kale Baby Food Puree is a fun and easy way to introduce mighty kale to your little one. Great for 6+ months – Stage 2 Baby Food.

Apple Kale Baby Food

Kale can be a tough vegetable to introduce into your baby’s diet.

Too much kale in a puree and it can become super bitter 🙊.

Too little kale and you are missing out on essential nutrients.

To find the perfect balance – we are going to steam the apples until just tender and then cook the kale for a super short time to make sure we find the magical combination of kale and apple that baby will love 💚.

REASONS TO LOVE THIS Apple + Kale BABY FOOD PUREE:
  • great baby food for 6+ months
  • stage two puree
  • 2 simple ingredients
  • super smooth and creamy
  • delicious green puree
  • easy to make – less than 15 minutes
  • freezer-friendly
  • budget-friendly
  • homemade
  • healthy
  • organic – can easily (and cheaply) use organic apples and kale 

Ingredients

Apple – this is the base of the puree. Apple puree is sweet, simple and provides a solid base for almost any puree for baby without it being too watery. Most babies love apple puree so using it as a base for any vegetable combination is a common way to get baby to eat denser vegetables. But don’t count apples out for adding in a ton of nutrition. Apples are loaded with two different kinds of fiber, vitamins C, K and B6, potassium and they are a great source of antioxidants.  These nutrients combined make apples an anti-inflammatory food that helps improve digestion, promotes bone health, aides pulmonary function and helps fight cardiovascular disease.

Kale – mighty kale! The superfood which every adult loves (or hates) to eat. Kale is loaded with vitamins K, A, C and B6, manganese, copper, calcium, iron and folate, just to name a few of its many nutrients. Put all of these together and kale helps support a healthy heart, promotes eye health, and aides in brain development in babies! Kale is truly super food for both you and baby.

How to Make this Baby Food
  • Peel, core and chop apples.
  • Place the apples into a steamer basket, and steam for 8-9 minutes.
  • Add in the kale and steam for 1-2 more minutes or until the kale is just wilted.
  • Place all ingredients into a blender and puree for 1-2 minutes on medium-high speed until completely smooth.
  • Serve to baby or freeze for a later meal.

Favorite WAy to Serve this Puree

I like to serve this puree with a big spoonful of plain full-fat yogurt mixed in, because when you are going to serve this many nutrients to baby you might as well go all the way. Go big or go home, is my motto! Plain full-fat yogurt is a great way to add in some healthy fats that are great for brain development, probiotics to promote a healthy gut and calcium for healthy bones and muscles.

Any way you serve this puree, it will be a winner in your little ones eyes (and mouth)!

TOOLS YOU’LL NEED
  • Medium Saucepan
  • Steamer Basket
  • Blender or Food Processor
  • Freezer Tray
  • Storage Containers for Fridge

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  • 4 apples, peeled, cored and roughly chopped
  • 1/2 cup kale, roughly chopped

  • In a medium saucepan over medium heat, bring 2 inches of water to a boil. Place the chopped apples into a steamer basket over the boiling water, cover and steam for 8-9 minutes or until tender when pricked with a fork. Place the kale over the apples, cover and steam for an additional 1-2 minutes or until the kale is just wilted. Let cool slightly. Reserve steamer water.

  • Place all of the ingredients into a blender or food processor and puree for 1-2 minutes or until completely smooth. If your puree is too thick, add in the reserved steamer water, breast milk, formula or water into the blender in 1/4 cup incraments until you achieve your desired texture. I had to use 1/2 cup of reserved steamer water for the puree featured above, but amounts of added liquid will vary with each batch.

  • Serve to baby or freeze for another meal.

Spice It Up: Feel free to add in 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp ginger, 1/8 tsp cloves, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract or all of the above for a spice sensation!

Age: from about 6 months and up

Yield: roughly 18 ounces

Storage: Fridge – store in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-4 days. Freezer – can be frozen for up to 4 months (this and this are my favorite freezer storage containers).

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Kale Pear and Carrot baby puree

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Kale is considered a super food for adults, but what about babies?? YES, kale is a very good and healty choice for baby food too!

Kale is a cousin of cabbage, high in essential nutrients (vitamin A, C and K), fiber and protein. Funny fact: kale contains more calcium than milk (considering a same amount of quantity in weight. i.e. 100 grams of kale have more calcium than 100 grams of milk). Kale is also naturally rich in iron, a very important element for your baby’s growth.

In addition to that Pears are high in fiber too, rich in potassium and Vitamin C. They are also a nice natural remedy for constipation 🙂

Cooking kale for babies is very easy. Today I prepared a Pear, Carrot and Kale baby puree’. I liked the sweet flavor of the pear and carrot combined with the Kale one. Also the pear gives a nice creamy texture to the mix. All the three ingredients are a appropriate for a baby starting from 6 months, so this baby puree could be a nice choice as a very first baby food.

Few basics suggestion when cooking kale for a baby:

  • As for any other fruit and vegetables for your little one, try to buy them organic. It’s the only way to avoid insecticides or pesticides on the skin/surface.
  • There are few varieties of kale (red, Lacianto, baby, deeply green and curly…). For babies I prefer the “baby kale” variety, sweeter and more tender.
  • Once you buy it, try to use it as soon as possible. If you leave it in the refrigerator for few days it will get a bit more bitter day after day.
  • When cooking for a baby (6/10 months) I prefer steaming the kale to make it easier to digest. You can always puree’ it from raw, but it will be more difficult for your baby’s digestive system to process it.

With the quantity suggested below I prepared 4 baby meals. You can store them in the refrigerator and enjoy within 3 days or you can easily store them in the freezer and enjoy within 3 months. If you are interested in the Baby Food Glass Cubes with lid and tray (so useful!!), they are from Green Sprouts

If you just started preparing your homemade baby food (awesome choice!!!) you might be interested in these videos too

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  • 2 pears
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 Cup baby kale leaves only
  • 1/2 Cup thinning liquid. I used the residual water from the steamer you can also use breast milk or baby formula or regular milk

  1. Peel the pears and the carrot; without the peel it will be easier for your baby to digest

  2. Chop them in big pieces

  3. Prepare the steamer and when the water is boiling reduce the heat and place the carrots at the bottom of the tray, the pears on top of them and than the kale (harder ingredients at the bottom, softer ones on top).

  4. Let the vegetables/fruit steam for 10 minutes

  5. Transfer in a deep container, add 1/2 cup of thinning water and puree everything with an immersion blender.

  6. How creamy or running the puree' should be is totally up to your baby's taste and age.

  7. You can store the baby puree' in the refrigerator for up to 3 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months.

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Cauliflower puree for babies recipe

Young mothers always worry when it comes to introducing a baby to a new food product. The main fear is not knowing what puree to cook for the first feeding. At the same time, the first dish of the baby should be not only tasty, but also as useful as possible. Therefore, pediatricians often recommend boiling cauliflower as the first adult food for a child. But from what age is a child allowed to give this product? How much to cook mashed cauliflower for babies? We will analyze the recipe for the best complementary foods and the beneficial properties of this vegetable together today.

What are the health benefits of cauliflower?

Vegetables in the infant's diet should form the main part of the diet. And since cauliflower is a storehouse of useful vitamins and minerals, it is necessary to cook it and include it in the children's diet.

Content of useful components:

  • proteins;
  • dietary fiber;
  • calcium, sodium, iron, copper, potassium and phosphorus;
  • vitamins of group B, as well as A, U, E, PP, D, K, C;
  • citric, folic, tartronic, malic and Omega-3 acids;
  • biotin;
  • fiber;
  • starch;
  • and in the content of ascorbic acid it surpasses even the white-headed vegetable.

The benefits of the rich vitamin composition are as follows:

  1. Complementary food from cauliflower has a beneficial effect on the digestion of crumbs, promotes the development of beneficial microflora in the intestines, and restores the mucous membrane.
  2. This useful vegetable helps to eliminate toxins from a small body, improves intestinal motility.
  3. Complementary food from cauliflower helps to strengthen blood vessels and improves the functioning of the heart system.
  4. Contributes to the normal development of the nervous system of the baby.
  5. Due to its iron content, cauliflower is a good prevention of iron deficiency.
  6. Cabbage food is an excellent prevention of cancer and inflammation.
  7. Strengthens the immune system.
  8. Promotes cell regeneration.

Like broccoli, cauliflower is easily digested by the baby's body, does not provoke colic, bloating and flatulence. The baby after cabbage feeding remains calm, cheerful, full. Allergic reactions from cauliflower are rare. Therefore, it is quite safe to include this vegetable in the children's diet. But still, it is worth considering some of the negative aspects of cauliflower.

What harm?

If it is reasonable to approach the introduction of the first complementary foods for babies, cauliflower inflorescences will not harm the child. But if the baby daily consumes this vegetable, and even in large quantities, then the following reactions may appear:

  • severe allergies in the form of itchy rashes, redness;
  • heartburn from hyperacidity of gastric juice;
  • thyroid enlargement;
  • inflammatory processes in the intestines;
  • impaired renal function.

The first rule of complementary foods for a baby is not to overdo it. It is worth remembering this, no matter what safe product you introduce into the children's diet.

How and when to introduce cauliflower into the baby's diet?

Cabbage complementary foods can be introduced as early as 4 months of age for artificial babies and from six months for children who are breastfed. Cauliflower puree is easily absorbed by the baby's body, which cannot be said about white cabbage.

Cooking cauliflower puree is most useful for children who have frequent constipation and anemia. If the baby is faced with the problem of weight gain, acquaintance with cauliflower should be postponed until later, when the child is already familiar with cereals - from about 7 months you can return to this vegetable.

The first puree of cauliflower is given in the amount of ½ teaspoon. A day later, the volume of the portion is increased by 2 times. However, all this time it is necessary to observe whether an undesirable reaction of the child's body to the "curly" vegetable has appeared. If the benefits of cauliflower are obvious, you can continue to increase the serving of complementary foods to the recommended amount:

  • age 6 months - 100 g;
  • 7 months old - 150 g;
  • 8 months old - 180 g;
  • age 9-12 months - 200

A few drops of olive oil can be added to baby cauliflower puree. But this should be done 2 weeks after the first acquaintance of the baby with the vegetable. If, after cabbage feeding, the baby feels discomfort in the gastrointestinal tract, this vegetable should be discarded. In this case, you can try to cook crumbs of broccoli.

Delicious baby cauliflower puree recipe

Cauliflower cooks quite quickly. However, before you start cooking a vegetable, it must be soaked in cold, previously boiled water for 3-4 hours. So you get rid of possible nitrates that unscrupulous farmers fertilized the plant.

For the simplest baby puree, you will need 50 g of cauliflower and 2-3 tablespoons of water, formula or breast milk. Having disassembled the vegetable into inflorescences, it must be thoroughly washed. Dip the flowers in water that has boiled. How long will it take to cook cauliflower for babies? A maximum of 20 minutes until the vegetable is soft, but it should not turn into porridge. Then put the inflorescences in a bowl and beat with a blender to a state of a monotonous slurry. Be sure to dilute the puree with breast milk, infant formula, or water.

Cauliflower is boiled in a double boiler as follows: water is poured onto the lower tier, and vegetable inflorescences are laid on the upper tier. Boil cabbage in this way for up to 15 minutes, after which the cabbage is turned into a puree state, diluted with water or mother's milk. Such a dish retains nutrients to the maximum.

In the microwave, cauliflower is prepared as follows: the inflorescences are placed in a glass dish, poured with boiled water, covered with cling film and cooked for 5-7 minutes at full power of the device. Next, mashed potatoes are prepared by analogy with previous recipes.

The recipe for a simple cauliflower puree can later be supplemented with an egg (in particular, the yolk), butter, broccoli, potatoes, zucchini and other vegetables. Adding salt to baby food is not recommended. But a couple of drops of vegetable oil (especially olive) does not hurt at all.

Cauliflower is good for the child's body. Do not be afraid to feed your baby with it - with this vegetable, he will receive a lot of useful vitamins and microelements. However, do not forget that you need to choose a vegetable and cook it correctly, otherwise, instead of benefiting, you will harm your baby. And remember that baby food should be fresh, so always try to prepare a small but fresh batch of mashed potatoes.

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Delicate creamy cauliflower puree and melt-in-your-mouth cod, complemented by bright spinach in all respects, are the perfect end to a hard day's work.

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Ingredients:
  • Cauliflower - 900 g
  • Cream - 200 ml 10% fat
  • Salt to taste
  • Black pepper - to taste
  • Nutmeg - 1 pinch(s)
  • Turmeric - 1 pinch(s)
  • Bulb onion - 1 pc.
  • Milk - 500 ml
  • Cod - 400 g
  • Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
  • Spinach - optional

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