2 lb carrots - 6 minutes
1/4 tea ginger
2 heads of broccoli - 3 minutes
1 small potato - 16 minutes
1 Tbs olive oil
2 red bell peppers - 3 minutes
1 small potato - 16 minutes
2 sweet potatoes - 16 minutes
1/4 curry tea powder
12 ounces asparagus - 3 minutes
4 mint leaves
Add about a cup of water to the Instant Pot. Cook vegetables accordingly. Do not discard the water after the vegetables are done cooking. Add vegetables and additional ingredients to your food processor and blend until smooth. Add reserved water from the Instant Pot to the puree until you reach the desired consistency. Drop into ice cube trays and freeze.
What an exciting time- the baby is ready to eat real food! Think it is too hard or too time consuming to make your own food? Think again! It's so easy! And can be prepared quickly during baby's nap time! I used these recipes for my first daughter but I didn't have the Instant Pot yet and had to spend the time to roast everything in the oven or steam on the stovetop. Dishes everywhere and it did take more time. A little pre planning made this go around so much easier. I started with the potatoes since they take the longest. I did put the sweet potatoes and the regular potatoes in together. This was the only one I did together since you are supposed to introduce foods one at a time and since you use the water from the pot, I didn't want things to mix. I also had to play with the cooking times so I didn't really know what could be cooked together anyways. (Keep in mind these are not usual cooking times for vegetable as you want them really soft.) While the potatoes are cooking, roughly chop the broccoli, clean out the peppers, peel the carrots and do any other prep work you can squeeze in that time frame. Then just go down the line- while one veggie is cooking, blend and prepare the previous. That. Is. It. So easy! And since I knew this would take a little over an hour, I did throw an acorn squash in the oven to bake while I was using the Instant Pot to cook the rest. The carrots, red peppers and the broccoli recipes made about two ice cube trays full and the others right around one. I left the purees a little on the thick side- you can add water later but as baby gets better at eating you want it to remain thicker. Then just pull out a cube at meal time and pop in the microwave. With my first daughter, we would just blend up whatever protein we were eating and then add one of the cubes to thin it out. Easy peasy and baby gets to enjoy dinner with you! And I really love that these recipes introduce baby to spices and flavors we use frequently. You can do it- give it a try!
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