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Zucchini & Apple Baby Food Recipe
Family/Life | 04.19.19
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This Zucchini & Apple Baby Food Recipe will expand your baby’s palate and give them amazing nutrients! Scroll down for the easy recipe and other zucchini baby food blend ideas!
When it comes to making your own baby food, the easier the better. You know? While it’s important to share many fruits and vegetables with your little one in order to give them the health benefits they need, making homemade baby food can be time consuming! It can also be tough to decide what to combine together in order to share as many flavors and nutrients as possible with your baby.
Today, we’re sharing an easy Zucchini & Apple Baby Food Recipe that’s perfect for making and freezing! It’s loaded with vitamins, antioxidants, and amazing flavors for your little one. Give it a try and watch your baby’s sense of taste grow!
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Easy Zucchini & Apple Baby Food Recipe
This recipe is great for babies between the age of 6 – 12 months. The flavors of zucchini and apple pair beautifully together and allow your baby to combine a vegetable and a fruit in one meal!
Do I need to peel the zucchini skin?
This question can be personal, as it depends on what you think is best for your baby. The skin on fruits and vegetables can sometimes upset a baby’s stomach, so it is often a good idea to go ahead and peel the skin! Here’s a great post on the subject if you’re interested in finding out more.
This also applies to peeling the apple skin!
How to puree the zucchini & apple
Steaming and pureeing baby food is easy! Simply steam the vegetables and fruit for about 15 minutes. Blend and serve, refrigerate, or freeze!
Pro-tip: save time and effort by making this recipe with this baby food maker!
Ways to make this Zucchini & Apple Baby Food Recipe
- One option is to steam the zucchini and apple together, then blend (as discussed in the recipe below).
- Another option is to make a zucchini baby food puree and an apple baby food puree, then freeze in an ice cube tray. When you’re ready to serve, simply thaw a zucchini ice cube and an apple ice cube, then mix together!
Freezing this Zucchini & Apple Baby Food Recipe
This Zucchini & Apple Baby Food Recipe can last 3 days in the refrigerator or up to 3 months in the freezer! Here are a few ways to freeze this recipe:
- Ice cube tray! Place the puree in an ice cube tray, freeze, and then transfer the ice cubes into an airtight, freezer-safe container.
- Baby food jars or containers. This helps with having baby food ready to go! Simply thaw when you’re ready to use it.
Other zucchini baby food combination ideas:
Try combining a zucchini baby food puree with carrots, avocado, butternut squash, or banana!
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Zucchini & Apple Baby Food Recipe
This Zucchini & Apple Baby Food Recipe will expand your baby's palate and give them amazing nutrients! Scroll down for the easy recipe and other zucchini baby food blend ideas!
Course: Baby Food
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 36 kcal
Author: Christine McMichael
- ▢ 1 medium zucchini
- ▢ 2 small apples (gala or red delicious)
If desired, peel the skin off of the zucchini and apples.
Cut the zucchini and apple into medium sized cubes.
Bring water (about 2 cups) to a boil in a medium to large sized pot.
Place the zucchini and apple cubes in the steamer basket over the pot of boiling water.
Steam for about 10-15 minutes, or until tender.
Place the steamed zucchini and apple in a blender and add desired amount of water.
Blend the mixture into a puree and either serve, refrigerate, or freeze for later!
Calories: 36 kcal
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This zucchini baby food puree with apples and carrots is a delicious combination your baby will enjoy! Zucchini and carrots are on the sweeter side in the vegetable category, and when paired with apples it becomes a healthy sweet treat for your little one!
Veggies mixed with fruit is always bound to be a hit in our household. Zucchini and carrots have a mild flavor and are already on the sweeter side. When paired with apples, it becomes a true sweet treat!
While you can easily make zucchini baby food as a simple, one ingredient puree, I find that mixing it with a couple of other fruits and veggies makes babies love it even more!
👩🏽🍳 Why This Recipe Works
🥘 Ingredients
🔪 Instructions
💭 Expert Tips
📖 Variations
❓Recipe FAQs
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I often used to mix this creamy puree with my kids’ oatmeal in the morning and they loved it! This zucchini puree is a simple baby food recipe you can use in a variety of ways – it’s super customizable based on your baby’s needs and preferences (see below for additional recipe variations).
This zucchini baby food recipe is a great first food for your little one. It’s nutritious, delicious, and I guarantee you will have one happy baby after giving them this smooth puree!
👩🏽🍳 Why This Recipe Works
- Naturally sweet vegetable and fruit puree
- Rich in vitamins and minerals for baby’s diet
- Quick to prepare
- No fancy equipment needed
- Simple to store and freeze
- Perfect stage one puree
- Great for babies 6 months of age and up
- Makes 16 servings!
- Easiest baby food zucchini recipe ever!
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🥘 Ingredients
Making your own baby food at home might seem complicated, but you really only need a handful of simple ingredients and a good blender! Here’s what you need to make this homemade baby food zucchini puree recipe:
- Organic Zucchini: When making your own homemade baby food recipes, I highly recommend using organic produce to reduce pesticide exposure for your baby.
No matter how much you wash your fruits and vegetables, there will still be a pesticide residue. When choosing your zucchini look for ones that are bright green in color, and have no bruises, or blemishes. I prefer to use the smaller, skinnier zucchini for baby food because they have fewer seeds in the center. You could probably also make this recipe with yellow squash or summer squash if you don’t have zucchini. - Organic Carrots: You can use either use large carrots or baby carrots for this baby zucchini puree.
- Organic Fuji Apples: With a sweet and crisp flavor, Fuji apples are pink in color, and have a white flesh. They are excellent for baby food recipes as they easily cook down, and add natural sweetness to any baby food puree.
- Water: You need 12 ounces of water to help the fruits and vegetables to cook down, so that they can be pureed into a smooth and easy to consume consistency.
🔪 Instructions
This courgette puree recipe is so easy to make and is ready in just a few steps! Here’s how to make zucchini baby food:
Prep Your Ingredients, Cook All Produce: Wash all the produce.
Cut zucchini in half lengthwise and cut each half into 8 pieces. Peel carrots. Cut in half lengthwise and cut each half into 8 pieces. Cut apples in half, remove seeds and stem. Cut each half into 8 pieces. Add carrots and water to a large pot. Turn on high and cook 8 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add zucchini and apples and cook another 3-5 minutes.
Puree Zucchini Mixture Until Smooth: Pour everything into a blender. Blend until smooth / until the pureed zucchini is the desired consistency.
Store, Serve and/or Freeze: Pour into ice cube trays, allow to cool, wrap/cover, and freeze. Serve this courgette baby food at room temperature.
Note: Thaw in the fridge the night before use, or thaw by putting the small cubes in a bowl over a bowl of hot water on the counter to defrost.
💭 Expert Tips
- To store zucchini before using it, make sure the zucchini is completely dry, then place them in a paper bag and store in the vegetable drawer of your fridge.
Don’t put them in a plastic bag – it will cause your courgette to get slimy. - You can use a steamer basket to cook: If you don’t want to boil everything in a pot, you can also use a steamer basket or slow cooker to cook down the vegetables and fruit. The best way to steam zucchini for baby is to first dice zucchini into small chunks. Then, bring 1 inch of water to boil in a large stock pot with a steamer basket inserted in the pot. Add the zucchini into the bottom of the steamer basket. Cover and cook for 5 minutes or until the courgette is super soft. Then transfer the steamed zucchini to a blender with a little water and puree until smooth.
- How to choose the best zucchini: You want to look for zucchini that are small to medium sized, because smaller zucchini don’t have a high water content (compared to the larger ones). Additionally, the smaller courgettes will have more flavor and less seeds. Large zucchinis have a ton of seeds, less flavor, and are super watery!
- For quicker cooking time, cut the vegetables and fruit into small pieces to help them cook down more quickly.
- Store in the fridge if you plan to use within a week, otherwise freeze. If you plan to use this entire batch of zucchini baby puree within 1 week, you can transfer the entire puree into one airtight container and place it in the fridge. Then, just scoop out individual servings when you’re ready to feed your baby.
- Make sure to use a high speed blender, not a food processor for this zucchini baby recipe. You want a blender that will totally pulverize all of the ingredients. If you use a food processor, you won’t get that super smooth consistency, it will remain slightly chunky or grainy.
📖 Variations
One of the best things about this recipe is how customizable it is. There are so many ways you can make baby food recipes with zucchini! Here are some of our favorite zucchini baby food combinations:
- Different Veggies: Some other vegetables that would taste great with this courgette puree include:
- Spinach or other leafy greens
- Pea purée
- Corn puree
- Butternut squash puree
- Baby lentils
- A mixed vegetable puree
- Green bean puree
- Sweet potato baby food
- Change the Fruit: Use a different type of apple in this delicious puree, or add one of these other fruits for a fun way to change things up!
- Pear puree
- Prune puree
- Avocado puree
- Add Spices Or Herbs: You can add a variety of herbs and spices to your baby’s food to expose them to new flavors.
Try a little bit of basil, thyme, rosemary, parsley, garlic, or lemon. Or, for a sweeter flavor, try a pinch of cinnamon or nutmeg. - Add Breast Milk or Formula: Stir in breast milk or organic baby formula to thin out the consistency of the puree right before serving. Do not add breastmilk or formula before freezing this courgette baby puree as formula is not meant to be frozen, and breastmilk has a different shelf life in the freezer compared to this zucchini baby food puree recipe.
- Make it a single-ingredient puree: If you don’t have carrots or apples on hand, no problem! You can make this zucchini baby puree all on its own! Just add the zucchini and a few tablespoons of water to a pot, boil and then puree in a blender. Zucchini has a lot of water, so if you don’t add the carrots and apples, you may need less water for just a plain zucchini puree.
- Make baby finger foods: For older babies, or babies who are using baby led weaning foods, you can cut the zucchini into match-sized sticks, and roast them in the oven with a little bit of olive oil.
They turn into zucchini “fries” and are a great way for your baby to experiment with gumming soft foods when they’re ready for it.
❓Recipe FAQs
Can babies eat zucchini?
Yes! Babies can enjoy zucchini as young as 6 months old when they begin to try other solid foods. Courgette baby puree is one of the best stage 1 baby food recipes because it’s so mild, typically is not on the list of common food allergies, and is easy for babies to eat.
Is zucchini puree good for babies?
Yes! Zucchini is packed with health benefits and has a ton of nutritional value for your baby. It’s an excellent source of beta-carotene which your baby’s body converts to vitamin A. This helps support their immune system, and improve eyesight.
It’s also a great source of vitamin C. Vitamin C is important for baby because it helps your child absorb iron. Babies tend to lose iron at around 5 months old, so consuming foods that are high in iron and vitamin C helps them retain their needed iron intake.
It also contains vitamin B6 which is essential for brain development.
Can babies eat raw zucchini?
No, do not give your baby raw zucchini. They cannot mash it with their gums, and the small pieces can be a choking hazard.
Do I need to remove the seeds? Can babies eat zucchini seeds?
It is fine for baby to eat zucchini seeds when they are pureed with the rest of the zucchini.
Should I peel zucchini for baby food?
You might be wondering whether you need to peel the zucchini skin before cooking it. The answer is no – you definitely don’t need to peel the zucchini. The zucchini skin has a ton of nutrients, and becomes super soft when cooked, which means it’s ideal for pureeing.
How to serve zucchini to baby?
You can serve this courgette puree all on its own, or combine it with other fruits and veggies (see the variations section above!) Feel free to also mix it with either breastmilk or formula right before serving (but don’t mix it with breastmilk or formula before storing!)
If this is your first time serving zucchini to your baby, make sure to check for allergic reactions over the first 1-3 days of serving it, and then you can move on to mixing it with other purees.
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Zucchini Baby Food Puree
This zucchini baby food puree with apples and carrots is a delicious combination your baby will enjoy! Zucchini and carrots are on the sweeter side in the vegetable category, and when paired with apples it becomes a healthy sweet treat for your little one!
Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time20 mins
Total Time30 mins
Course: Baby Food
Cuisine: American
Diet: Gluten Free, Low Calorie, Vegan, Vegetarian
Servings: 16 ounces
Calories: 22kcal
Author: Anjali Shah
- ▢ 1 pound organic zucchini
- ▢ ½ pound organic carrots
- ▢ 2 organic fuji apples 6oz each
- ▢ 12 oz water
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Cutting Board
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Chopping knife
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Large Stock Pot
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Regular Blender
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Mumi and Bubi Trays or any covered ice cube trays, for freezing
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Wash all the produce.
Cut zucchini in half lengthwise and cut each half into 8 pieces. - ▢
Peel carrots. Cut in half lengthwise and cut each half into 8 pieces.
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Cut apples in half, remove seeds and stem. Cut each half into 8 pieces.
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Add carrots and water into a large pot. Turn on high and cook 8 minutes, stirring occasionally.
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Add zucchini and apples and cook another 3-5 minutes.
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Pour everything into a blender, puree until smooth.
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Pour into ice cube trays, allow to cool, wrap/cover, and freeze.
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Thaw in the fridge the night before use, or thaw by putting the ice cube in a bowl over a bowl of hot water on the counter to defrost.
- Store zucchini in a paper bag in the fridge to keep fresh.
- If you don’t want to boil everything in a pot, you can also use a steamer basket or slow cooker to cook down the vegetables and fruit.
- Cut the vegetables and fruit into small pieces to help them cook down more quickly.
- If you plan to use this entire batch of zucchini baby food within 1 week, you can transfer the entire puree into one airtight container and place it in the fridge. Then, just scoop out individual servings when you’re ready to feed your baby.
- 1 ice cube = 1 oz of food
Adapted from BabyLove
Calories: 22kcal | Carbohydrates: 5g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 13mg | Potassium: 144mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g
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Zucchini puree for the first feeding
The introduction of zucchini in the first feeding is recommended by WHO, and zucchini puree for feeding the baby can be prepared without any problems yourself.
There is nothing complicated in growing zucchini and the mature fruits of many varieties can be stored throughout the entire frosty period. The pulp of the fruit with elementary heat treatment retains its beneficial properties and is easily absorbed by the child's body even from an early age.
Contents
- How to cook courgettes for the first feeding
- Courgettes for complementary foods in baby food
- Composition of marrow
- Benefits of zucchini for children and adults
How to prepare zucchini for first feeding
If you decide to start feeding your baby, start with zucchini. It will be the best addition to breast milk or adapted formula. Zucchini is a hypoallergenic product and contains a large amount of nutrients needed by the child.
Zucchini puree recipe
Cooking zucchini puree for the first feeding at home. Of the ingredients you need only zucchini and water. Let's start by rinsing the zucchini under cool running water.
Peel off the skin and cut into cubes. Next 2 options. Either put it in boiling water, cook the zucchini for 6-10 minutes, while retaining the benefits of vitamin C. Or steam it, which will undoubtedly be tastier and healthier. Then we wipe through a sieve or grind with a blender.
You need to start complementary foods with one teaspoon, gradually day after day, increasing the number of spoons. It is important to introduce your child to this product at a very young age. When the child grows up, he will also need nutrients. And you can spoil him with many different zucchini dishes.
How to cook zucchini correctly and how much
For the first feeding, it is recommended to boil zucchini for up to 10 minutes. Usually this time is enough to soften the cut pieces. Do not forget that the longer the heat treatment of the vegetable takes place, the less vitamins and useful trace elements remain. Then everything is thoroughly crushed into puree and the first complementary foods are ready.
Depending on the period of introduction of the puree to the baby, you can add a little vegetable oil to the puree if the mass of the portion of the puree has reached 100 g (usually on the 6th-7th day of feeding).
For the preparation of mashed potatoes, babies need to select only young and fresh zucchini fruits: without rot, cracks and dents. The fruit is thoroughly washed under running water. Then its lateral parts are cut off: the tail and the “butt”; peel is removed. The zucchini is cut lengthwise into several parts, from which the central soft part with seeds is removed. The remaining parts are cut into cubes. If the vegetable is bought at the market or in a store, it is recommended to soak the zucchini in clean water for about 2 hours to remove unnatural trace elements from the fruit in the form of fertilizers and pesticides.
How to freeze and defrost zucchini? Cooked cut fruit cubes in the right amount are placed in plastic bags or containers, and then in the refrigerator.
For the preparation of frozen fruit puree, it is recommended to use a defrosted vegetable. To speed up the process, bags or containers with zucchini are placed in water at room temperature or under running tap water. After 1-2 hours, you can start cooking according to a known scheme.
Squash for complementary foods in baby food
Squash is widely used in baby food for its unique properties. In addition, vegetable squash purees are considered the most popular when introducing the first complementary foods to a child. One-component zucchini puree manufacturers recommend using for children from 4 months.
Table of the introduction of the first complementary foods with zucchini according to WHO recommendations
Baby food recommended for the first complementary foods includes Heinz zucchini puree, which additionally includes corn flour and water.
A similar product is Hipp zucchini puree, which contains coarse rice flour. These products are sold in glass jars with a net weight of 80 grams, and the puree contains no salt, sugar, starch, preservatives or dyes.
At a later age, in baby food, zucchini is used with vegetables, fruits, cereals and meat. For children over 5 months:
- Frutonyanya Broccoli and Zucchini Puree
- Puree Frutonyan zucchini and potatoes
- Frutonyanya puree cauliflower and marrow
- Puree Frutonyanya apples and zucchini
- Frutonyanya zucchini-oatmeal puree
- Gerber potato and courgette puree
- Puree Gerber apples and zucchini
Children's puree Tyoma beef with zucchini is recommended to try not earlier than 6 months from birth.
Ingredients of zucchini
Zucchini is a source of substances that have a beneficial effect on digestion. They contain a small amount of calories when cooked (20 to 25 kcal per 100 grams), so you can use them in food during therapeutic diets.
Fruits contain not only carbohydrates, fats and proteins, but also useful trace elements: sodium, iron, magnesium, zinc, iodine. In addition, the composition contains vitamins of groups B, C, E, H, PP, A.
Benefits of zucchini for children and adults
Zucchini has a very pleasant taste. Doctors advise them to use those who have undergone surgery on the stomach or intestines. I would like to mention that these fruits are very useful for those who suffer from edema.
Zucchini juice for men and women can help with obesity. Helps the body to get rid of toxins and slags, relieves constipation well, strengthens the heart. The glycogen in them has a positive effect on the activity of the liver. Zucchini significantly improves blood formation, helps to restore strength after prolonged exertion. Zucchini seeds will help get rid of worms. With hepatitis, regular consumption of zucchini will lead to a significant improvement in well-being.
Thus, the use of zucchini in the first feeding is the best option for both the child and the parents (of course, excluding the case of his individual intolerance).
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Viktoria Levchuk©Zucchini, carrot and potato puree delicious baby puree.
Closer to 8 months, the baby gets acquainted with mashed potatoes. This is the most common product we have in Russia. But due to the presence of starch in it, it is not advisable to feed the baby too often with one potato, so parents usually dilute it with other healthy foods. Today I propose to prepare mashed potatoes from zucchini, carrots and potatoes.
Puree from zucchini, carrots and potatoesYou can read about squash food here, and about carrot food here.
We remind you that all foods must be included in the child's diet, and potatoes must be soaked.
Zucchini, Carrot and Potato Puree suitable for children over 8 months old.
