If you do not want to resort to industrially produced baby food, you can also easily cook baby porridge yourself. Most of the time, you don’t need many ingredients for this: To begin with, some vegetables, oil and a little fruit juice are already enough to prepare a delicious porridge for your baby. We give you a delicious recipe for each of the different types of porridge. However, always remember that you have to find out for yourself what your baby likes and feels good.
Prepare porridge correctly
At the beginning of the introduction of complementary feeding, you should make sure that the porridge is as finely pureed as possible – this makes it easier for your baby to eat the porridge. When preparing it is important that the kitchen utensils used are always clean, so that no germs can get into the porridge.
Therefore, you should not store the finished porridge for too long; it is best for your baby to consume the porridge within a day. If you want to prepare larger quantities in advance, you can freeze the leftovers in freezer cans rinsed with hot water.
Recipe: vegetable porridge
Ingredients:
- 150 grams of vegetables (eg carrots or parsnips).
- 1 teaspoon canola oil
- 30 milliliters of fruit juice (preferably rich in vitamin C)
Preparation: Peel the carrots and cut them into small pieces. Boil them with a little water until soft. Puree the carrots and then add the oil and fruit juice.
Recipe: vegetable-potato-meat porridge.
Ingredients:
- 20 grams of lean meat
- 90 grams of vegetables
- 40 grams potatoes
- 30 milliliters of fruit juice (preferably rich in vitamin C)
- 8 milliliters of canola oil
Preparation: Boil the meat until soft, cut into small pieces and then mash. Wash the vegetables and peel the potatoes. Cut both into small pieces and steam in a little water until soft. Then add the mashed meat and let the mixture boil once. Then add the fruit juice and mash everything again. Finally, add the oil.
Recipe: milk cereal porridge
Ingredients:
- 200 milliliters of milk (infant or whole).
- 20 grams of rolled oats (or other whole grain cereal).
- 20 milliliters of fruit juice (preferably rich in vitamin C).
Preparation: Boil the cereal flakes in the milk. If you use infant milk, boil the flakes with hot water and add the milk powder only after cooling. Then mix in the fruit juice. You can also use fruit puree instead of fruit juice.
Recipe: cereal-fruit porridge
Ingredients:
- 20 grams of rolled oats (or other whole grain cereal).
- 90 milliliters of water
- 100 milliliters fruit juice
- 5 milliliters canola oil
Preparation: Boil the oatmeal in water. After cooling, add the fruit juice (alternatively: fruit puree) and vegetable oil.
Recipe: vegetable-potato-cereal porridge.
Ingredients:
- 50 grams of potatoes
- 100 grams vegetables
- 10 grams of oatmeal
- 30 milliliters orange juice
- 20 milliliters water
- 8 milliliters canola oil
Preparation: Peel the potatoes and cut them into small pieces. Then stew the potatoes together with the vegetables, also cut into small pieces, in a pot until soft. Add the oatmeal, orange juice and water and mash everything. Finally, add the canola oil.
