Sauces for baby food

10 Healthy Dip and Sauces Your Toddler Will Love! Baby Friendly Family Food.

Generally speaking, my kids are really great about eating their fruits and veggies, especially when a healthy dip is involved. Having been exposed to wide-variety of healthy options their entire lives, they will happily munch on a crisp carrot or nosh on a heaping bowl of berries, and think it’s the most delicious thing in the world.

However, as great as my kids are about eating a balanced diet, when they were babies and toddlers, they did, occasionally need a little coaxing to eat their fruits and veggies.That’s where these healthy dip and sauces come in- they are truly a Mum’s secret weapon.

Babies and toddlers are “snackers” by nature. They need small meals throughout the day to keep their energy up and their little bellies full – (but not too full!). Sauces and dips are PERFECT for the whole family, and help the kiddos get in their fruits and vegetables. Toddlers love being able to “play” with their food, and us Mum’s (and Dad’s!) love serving healthy, wholesome food that our kids enjoy eating. Dips and sauces are a fun, tasty addition to a snack or a meal, and help expose the kids to new flavours and textures. And, when you make your own, instead of buying the pre-packaged, processed ones from the store, you get to control the ingredients!

Without further ado, here’s a list of a few of my favorite healthy sauces and dips, perfect for little ones. I hope you love them!

Baby Friendly Curried Hummus

Chickpeas are an amazing superfood. Chock-full of iron and protein, these little babies are full of nutrients, flavour and healthy goodness. This Curried Hummus recipe is delicious and super-easy. Free of added salt commonly found in store-bought hummus, this fresh, healthy curried hummus recipe is bound to be a hit with the whole family. I like to serve it with spears of roasted sweet potatoes or carrots, and a little brown bread. Add a few berries or tomatoes as side dish, and this makes a wonderful hearty snack for your toddler.

Find the Recipe Here: Baby Led Feeding Baby Friendly Curried Hummus

Sunshine Butter

I am often asked by my lovely readers for alternatives to peanut butter. Peanut allergies are incredibly common, and since this simple recipe is made entirely from sunflower seeds (which are a pretty-low allergen food). Sun-butter that is sold in stores in incredibly expensive – so making your own for a fraction of the price just makes sense! Creamy and mild-flavoured, this sun-butter is packed-full of healthy fats, magnesium, and vitamin-E. I like to serve it to the kiddos on a little brown bread with chunks of soft banana, or as a side dip with cut-up veggies.

Find the Recipe Here: Baby Led Feeding Sunshine Butter

Roasted Carrot Cashew Dip

Created by Stacey over at My Kids Lick the Bowl, this Roasted Carrot Cashew Dip is a wonderful healthy dip for baby led weaning. Packed with flavour and goodness, this dip is amazing served alongside cut up cucumber, cut up pita bread, or sticks of sweet peppers. Serve alongside slightly steamed or softened veggies for younger babies or toddlers.

Find the Recipe Here: My Kids Lick The Bowl Roasted Carrot Cashew Dip

Cheese Chive Chickpea Dip

Another recipe made with Chickpeas, this brilliant Cheese Chive Chickpea dip was created by Ciara at My Fussy Eater. Packed with protein, this cheesy dip is made with wholesome ingredients that you probably already have in your fridge, and it could not be easier! Babies and toddlers love this healthy dip due to it’s mild, familiar flavours, and the rest of the family will gobble it up for the same reason. It’s one of my absolute favourites.

Find the Recipe Here: My Fussy Eater Cheese Chive Chickpea Dip

Melon Kabobs & Yogurt Fruit Dip

It’s no secret that my kids love their food on a stick. This recipe for fun Melon Caterpillars with a yummy yoghurt dip is an absolute delight. The yoghurt dip is so creamy and delicious, and can be made dairy-free for those kiddies and toddlers with sensitivities and/or allergies. It’s just so versatile! For younger babies and toddlers, you’ll probably want to skip the sticks, but older kids will absolutely go crazy for making these little caterpillars.

Find the Recipe Here: On My Kids Plate Melon Kabobs & Yogurt Fruit Dip

Beetroot Dip

This easy, three-ingredient dip was created by Grace over at Eats Amazing and is as tasty as it is beautiful. Its vibrant pinky-purple colour is SO fun, all-natural, and it doesn’t have a drop of food colouring added. Kids and adults will love it’s brilliant colour and mild taste. For younger babies and toddlers, make sure they are wearing something washable when eating this – as beets are known to stain!

Find the Recipe Here: Eats Amazing Beetroot Dip

Easy Kale Pesto

Amy, over at Health Little Foodies, has completely outdone herself with this super versatile Kale Pesto. Perfect served as a healthy dip for veggies, this amazing dip can also be used with pasta, or as a pizza sauce. Her use of kale makes it a great source of iron for babies. For toddlers, I take extra care to make sure to puree until it is super smooth, and serve a dollop on top of soft pasta.

Find the Recipe Here: Healthy Little Foodies Kale Pesto

Apple Chia Jam

This refined sugar free Apple Chia Jam is packed full of goodness. Made with delicious sweet apples, and wholesome, healthy chia seeds, this jam is lovely spread on pancakes or a little bit of brown bread.

Find the Recipe Here: Baby Led Feeding Apple Chia Jam (Refined Sugar Free)

Teenie Tiny Baby Meatballs with Sauce

Okay, so this one is one of my favourites, and PERFECT for starting out baby led weaning. These delicious bite-sized meatballs are perfect for little fingers, and the easy, delicious sauce is a healthy favourite the entire family will love. My son, Oscar, was gobbling these down at 7-months old! Super messy, but oh-so-worth it!

Find the Recipe Here: Baby Led Feeding Tiny Tiny Baby Meatballs With Sauce

Blueberry Compote

Perfect for summer, this refined sugar free blueberry compote is easy, delicious, and incredibly versatile. Use it on top of pancakes for the little ones, in their morning yoghurt, or used in your smoothie. This is a recipe the entire family will enjoy!

Find the Recipe Here: Blueberry Compote (Refined Sugar Free)

I hope you enjoyed my favourite sauces and dips for toddlers! Let me know in the comments some of your favourite tips to make sure your little ones are getting in their fruits and veggies!

Aileen xoxoxo

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Sauce recipes for 2-3 year olds

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Sour cream sauces
nine0016 Sour cream sauce
Pour the broth into a glass up to a third and add flour into it. Stir thoroughly until everything is dissolved, without lumps. We take the rest of the broth and add sour cream and a pinch of salt there. Bring it all to a boil and add the flour, which was diluted in the broth for this. Now reduce the heat and cook for about 10 minutes, stirring constantly. After removing from the stove, strain the sauce and boil again.

This recipe works best with vegetable, mushroom and potato dishes. It can also be used with meat or fish dishes. nine0003
Sour cream sauce with greens

First you need to sort through all the greens and pour cool boiled water over them. After that, the greens need to be finely chopped. For the sauce, you will need quite a bit: 1 teaspoon of each type. Chopped greens just need to be mixed with sour cream (which is better to cool first) and add a pinch of salt.

Sour cream sauce with radish

Sour cream must be chilled. We rub the radish on a grater, mix with sour cream. Salt.

This sauce perfectly complements the taste of meat dishes or is used as an independent dish.

Sour cream sauce with greens and egg

Sour cream should be heated up to 50 degrees and salted. Boil the egg and cut it into quarters. Add chopped sour cream. Grind greens too and add to everything else. nine0003
The sauce is best served with cutlets and fish.
Sour cream sauce with tomato

Finely chop a quarter of an onion and lightly fry in a frying pan. Salt. Grate the tomato directly over the pan (you can, of course, grate it separately, and then add it to the onion). Simmer the onion and tomato for about 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Now you need to pour flour into the same place, mix everything thoroughly. Next - we take sour cream and dilute it in warm broth, pour it all into a frying pan. We also cook 9 more-10 minutes.

The sauce is an excellent addition to vegetable and meat dishes.
Tomato sauces
Tomato sauce with vegetables

Lightly sauté an onion quarter and a carrot. Grate the tomato (remove the skin), add it to the saute. Simmer vegetables for about 10 minutes. Then you need to pour the broth into the saute and cook with the lid on until the vegetables soften (boiling should be weak). Next - combine the flour with butter, then pour the mixture into the sauce. Mix well, salt, add sand and bring to a boil. Leave to boil a little. nine0003
The sauce goes well with meat, fish, meatballs, potatoes, pasta and rice.
Tomato sauce

The tomato must be ripe, even if soft. We clean it and cut it into small pieces. Put the chopped tomato in a saucepan, pour in the broth. Mix the butter with flour, send it to the pan when the broth in it starts to boil. Now add salt, sand and boil, stirring constantly. nine0003
You can decorate the sauce with herbs and put sour cream in it. It's already optional.

The sauce is best used with meat, potatoes and pasta. You can also supplement them with a fish dish, but for this you will need a fish broth.
Tomato juice sauce

Pour the juice into a saucepan and boil. Combine the butter and flour and send it to the pan. Add salt, sand. Boil again, then strain. nine0003
If you plan to serve the sauce with meat or vegetable dishes, add sour cream (1 tbsp) to it. For fish, add some lemon juice.
Fruit and dried fruit sauces
Spicy Sauce

Peel the orange and remove all membranes inside. Mash the pulp of the fruit, add to the sour cream and mix. Add salt. Finely chop the parsley and add to the mixture. nine0003
Salads, potatoes and sandwiches will taste even better with this sauce.
Dried plum sauce

Pre-soak dried fruits, then grate. We also rub the apple and combine with prunes. Mix it all with sour cream.
The sauce is neutral in taste. Therefore, you can enhance its taste by adding a pinch of salt and serving with second courses. And if you replace the salt with sugar, then the sauce will suit the dessert. nine0003
Apple sauce

Wash and clean the fruit, removing the seeds. We put them in a saucepan. We heat the water and pour our fruits with it. Cook them with the lid closed until soft. Next - we pass the fruits along with their juice through a sieve. Pour sand and boil for 9-10 minutes. Cool and pour into porcelain dishes (or into glass).

The sauce is suitable for serving with cereals.
Lemon sauce

Finely chop the greens and take a teaspoon of chopped greens for the sauce. We squeeze our lemon and combine its juice with oil and herbs. We take boiled water (as much as we got juice), and dilute our mixture in it. Add salt.

Sauce goes well with meat. You can also fill them with vegetable salads.

Lemon sauce for dessert

Sprinkle sliced lemon with sand. Let the lemon brew and let the juice go. Then the juice must be filtered and water added to it.

Fruit salad dressing with this sauce. They can also pour cottage cheese.

Vegetable sauces

Beetroot sauce

Boil the beets, peel and grate. After that, add kefir and salt the mixture. We beat.

The sauce is intended for dressing salads. Suitable also for cottage cheese dishes, vegetables, sandwiches.

Carrot sauce

Take a saucepan, pour a little water into it, add oil, put the carrots and simmer. Pass the already soft carrots through a sieve. Boil the egg and wipe its yolk. Then mix the yolk with carrots, add sour cream, herbs and salt. We mix everything well. nine0003
Cauliflower sauce

Rub the boiled cabbage through a sieve. We take a frying pan and fry crackers on it until a pale brown shade. Mix breadcrumbs with butter. Next - mix the crackers with cabbage, salt and dilute with milk. Boil the resulting sauce.

This sauce is good for seasoning cereals and vegetable dishes. Or you can add meat (fish dishes) to them.
Sweet pepper sauce

Grate carrots. We also do with pepper (or rather, with its pulp). Mix carrots and peppers. Add yogurt to the resulting puree and salt.
Various sauces
nine0016 White Sauce
Take a fifth of the stock and cool down to about 50 degrees. Pour the sifted flour into this broth. Stir well. Boil the rest of the broth and pour in the pre-diluted flour. Stir. Boil the broth for about 15 minutes (boil should be weak). Add a pinch of salt and boil again.

Put small chunks of butter into the sauce. Squeeze out the juice of a lemon, pour it in there. Mix everything thoroughly. The oil should completely dissolve. nine0003
Sauce should be kept covered until serving.
Garlic sauce

Finely chop the dill, take 1 teaspoon already chopped and rub it with a clove of garlic. Add lemon juice and kefir to it. Mix well, salt. The sauce is suitable as a dressing for salads, pasta and stewed vegetables.
nine0016 Cheese sauce
Mix oil and lemon juice with kefir. Salt. Grate the cheese, 1 tbsp is enough. spoons. Add grated to our mixture. Mix everything thoroughly.

The sauce goes well with pasta and sandwiches.
Sauce with walnuts

Place nuts, garlic and herbs in a mortar and grind them. After that, dilute the mixture with kefir and add salt. nine0003
The sauce is slightly spicy, so it goes well with pasta, sausages, sandwiches or as a salad dressing.
Milk sauce

Pre-dry the flour in the oven and cool. After that, mix it with oil. We put the milk on the fire and, when it boils, add the mixture there. But you need to do this carefully, in small pieces, stirring constantly. After thickening the sauce, add salt, sand and mix again. Bring it all to a boil, wait a few minutes and remove from the stove. nine0003
If you don't want the sauce to become skinny, drizzle with melted butter. The sauce goes well with boiled meat, fish and vegetable dishes.
Basil sauce

Finely chop the basil, mix it with tomato juice and add sour cream. Salt.

The sauce is recommended to use with pasta.

Mayonnaise Sauce

Mayonnaise is not bad for kids if it is not so greasy. Therefore, the recipe uses starch. It is he who reduces the fat content of mayonnaise.
So, first you need to dilute the starch in half the norm of the broth. After that, pour the remaining broth into the pan and boil. Pour in the diluted starch and boil again, stirring constantly. When the mixture boils, add sand and remove from the stove. Let cool to 30 degrees. nine0003

Wash the egg. Separate the yolk (we need it) from the protein. Pour the yolk into a porcelain (can be - into faience) dishes, salt and pour in a thin stream of oil, constantly stirring and whisking the mixture. Seeing that the mayonnaise thickens, add lemon juice and prepared starch sauce to it.

To make the mayonnaise look more appetizing, you can add greens (chopped finely) or grated carrots.

Mayonnaise goes well with fish, poultry or as a salad dressing. nine0003

Strawberry sauce

Strawberries should be sorted and washed. Pass through a sieve. Then boil the syrup, remove the foam, filter and cool. After that, mix the syrup and berry puree.

This sauce can be used with flour dishes and cereals.

Spicy sauces and seasonings are not suitable for baby food, but sauces made from fragrant herbs, fresh and dried, perfectly complement dishes. Dill and parsley, in addition to high taste qualities, also have useful, almost medicinal properties. nine0243

Spicy spices - pepper, horseradish and mustard - can be replaced in the children's diet with spices from radish and swede. These vegetables should be grated, squeezed and seasoned with sour cream, a little lemon juice, sugar, salt

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Sour cream sauces

Sour cream sauce

Sour cream sauce with herbs

Sour cream sauce with radish

Sour cream sauce with egg

Sour cream sauce with tomato

Tomato sauces

Tomato sauce with vegetables

Tomato sauce

Tomato juice sauce

Fruit and dried fruit sauces

Spicy sauce (orange)

Dried plum sauce

Apple sauce

Lemon sauce

Lemon sauce for dessert

Vegetable sauces

Beetroot sauce

Carrot Sauce

Cauliflower Sauce

Sweet pepper sauce

Various sauces

White sauce

Garlic sauce

Cheese Sauce

Walnut Sauce

Milk sauce

Basil sauce

Mayonnaise sauce

Strawberry sauce - strawberry sauce

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nine0000 Children's sauces - 7 healthy sauces that your baby will love
Generally speaking, my kids love eating fruits and vegetables, especially when it comes to healthy sauces. Faced with a wide variety of healthy options throughout their lives, they happily munched on a crunchy carrot or ate a plate full of berries and thought it was the tastiest thing in the world.

However, although my children are fine with a balanced diet, when they were babies and toddlers they needed a little coaxing from time to time to eat fruits and vegetables. Mom's secret weapon. nine0003
Babies and toddlers are inherently snackers. They need to eat small meals throughout the day to keep their energy and tummies full (but not too full!). Sauces and gravies are IDEAL for the whole family and help kids eat fruits and vegetables. Toddlers love to “play” with their food, and we moms (and dads!) love serving healthy, wholesome food that our kids love to eat. Sauces are a fun and tasty addition to snacks or meals and help introduce kids to new flavors and textures. And when you make your own instead of buying prepackaged, processed foods from the store, you have control over the ingredients! nine0003
Without further ado, here is a list of some of my favorite healthy sauces, perfect for little ones. I hope you love them!

Kid Friendly Curry Hummus

Chickpeas are an amazing superfood. Loaded with iron and protein, these little babies are full of nutrients, flavor and health benefits. This curry hummus recipe is delicious and super easy. Without the added salt normally found in store-bought hummus, this fresh, healthy curry hummus recipe is sure to be a hit with the whole family. I like to serve it with fried sweet potatoes or carrots and some brown bread. Add a few berries or tomatoes as a side dish and this makes a great hearty snack for your little one. nine0003
Roasted Carrot and Cashew Sauce

This Roasted Carrot and Cashew Sauce is an excellent healthy sauce for baby feeding. Filled with flavor and perfection, this sauce is delicious served alongside sliced cucumber, sliced pita bread or sweet pepper sticks. Serve with lightly steamed or softened vegetables for younger children.

Chickpea Sauce with Cheese

Another recipe made with chickpeas, this brilliant chickpea sauce with cheese and garlic. This protein-packed cheese dip is made with healthy ingredients you probably already have in your fridge, and it couldn't be easier! Babies and toddlers love this healthy sauce for its mild, familiar flavor, and the rest of the family will eat it for the same reason. This is one of my absolute favourites. nine0003
Melon kebab and yoghurt fruit sauce

It's no secret that my kids love their food on a stick. This recipe for fun melon caterpillars with a delicious yogurt dip is a real treat. Yogurt sauce is so creamy and delicious and can be made dairy-free for babies and toddlers with sensitivities and/or allergies. He's so versatile! For toddlers and toddlers, you'll probably want to forgo sticks, but older kids will go crazy making these little caterpillars. nine0003
Beet Sauce

This easy three-ingredient sauce was created by Grace at Eats Amazing and is as delicious as it is beautiful. Its vibrant pink-purple color is SO fun, all natural, and not a drop of food coloring has been added to it.
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