Yummy Vegetarian Baby Recipes

Vegetarian dishes are often easier to digest and more "advanced" veggie dishes can be a great next step after the first simply vegetable purees.

Most of the recipes below are suitable for babies that are used to eating solid foods and enjoy it. This is because the recipes contain several different vegetables and herbs. The taste can therefore be a bit too aggressive for the absolute beginners.

In addition, to rule out any food sensitivity, it is always prudent to start with very simple ingredients at first.

The recipes here are vegetarian, but not vegan, i.e. some of them do contain animal protein, primarily from milk. If you want to make the dishes vegan, you can substitute the milk with calcium fortified oat milk, oat cream or your regular formula or breast milk. If you have any allergy concerns, consult a before adding new foods to your baby's diet.

If you need instructions on how to make baby food, you'll find that here.

Vegetarian Baby Recipes

• Veggie Pot For Babies
• Butternut Squash
• Mashed Potatoes With Herbs
• Carrot Almond Juice
• Lentil Casserole With Rice

Veggie Pot For Babies

• 1 medium carrot
• 1/2 swede
• 1 leek
• 1/2 small onion
• 30g (1 ounce) peas
• 2 medium potatoes
• 2 veg stock cubes
• 2 cups of water

Instructions:

• Pre heat the oven to 190C (375F).
• Chop all veg up into small enough chunks for your baby.
• With the spuds, peal and slice them about 3mm thick.
• Boil 300ml (2 cups) of water, add the stock cubes, then put the veggies in. Don't drain all of the stock, leave about half.
• In another pan, put your sliced spuds in some boiling water as well. Cook them off for about 30 mins or until you think it's soft enough.
• Put the vegetables with the stock in oven-proof dish.
• With the spuds, drain and pat them dry lay them on top of your veggies.
• Put in the oven for 45 - 1hr or until there is a bit of a crisp.

You can put it in the freezer if you want.

You can put a bit of cheese on top.

Hope you try this, your child will love it!

Butternut Squash

This recipe is suitable for babies from around 6 months of age.

• 1 Butternut squash
• 1 cup of water
• 1 Tablespoon unsalted butter
• 1/2 teaspoon brown sugar

Instructions:

• Wash squash well. Slice end off the neck of squash and discard. Then slice a 2 inch thick piece of the neck and place in the water in a saucepan.
• Cover pan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until squash is fork tender.
• Remove squash, place in small bowl and mash well. Add butter and brown sugar. (Sugar can be left out if your baby accepts the dish without it.)

If you are hesitant to adding butter to your baby's food, read this article.

Mashed Potatoes With Herbs

1-2 baby portions

• 1 boiled potato
• 1 cube of cheddar cheese
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 tsp butter
• Oregano to sprinkle

Instructions:

• Mash potato well and mix it with grated cheddar cheese and milk, formula or breast milk.
• Slightly grease a baking dish with butter and put the potato mixture in it.
• Put the rest of the butter blob on the top sprinkle some oregano bake at 150 C (302F) for 10 minutes.
• Since this dish contains cheese, it is suitable from the age of 8 months if you mix the potato with formula or breast milk. If you mix it with cow's milk, the dish is suitable from the age of 10-12 months.

Carrot Almond Juice

This recipe can serve one person and is for the babies who are at least 1 year old, since it contains honey.

• 1 carrot (preferably organic)
• 2 almonds
• 150 ml of milk
• 2 teaspoons honey

Instructions:

• Wash the carrot properly and peel off one layer. Cut in small pieces.
• Boil the carrot together with the almonds (slightly chopped) and milk until the carrot is tender.
• Grind together the boiled carrot, almond and milk.
• Add honey to it, but only if your baby is older than 1 year.

That's it. A delicious and healthy drink for the baby is ready to serve. If you want to try this recipe for a baby younger than one year, substitute the honey with a little bit of apple juice or some mashed, ripe banana to make the juice sweet without the honey.

You can read more about why not to give honey to babies in this article.

Lentil Casserole With Rice

4-6 baby portions or more depending on your baby's age

• 1.7 cups (4 dl) of boiled red or yellow lentils
• 1 yellow onion
• 1-2 garlic cloves
• 1 carrot
• 3 table spoons of oil
• 0.5-1.5 tea spoons of curry
• 1 tea spoons ginger powder
• 3 cups (7 dl) water
• 1 tea spoon of salt or 1 vegetable stock cube. (No salt if the baby in younger than 1 year).
• Steamed or boiled rice

Instructions:

• Wash the lentils in cold water for about one minute and then let them drain.
• Peel and chop the onion and carrot in small pieces.
• Heat up the oil in a sauce pan and fry the onion and carrot gently (no color).
• Crush the garlic using a garlic press and add in the sauce pan. Add curry and ginger and stir fry for 1 more minute. Lower the heat.
• Add the lentils, water and salt or stock cube. Allow to boil gently in 15 minutes.
• Mash as needed depending on your baby's age and preferences.
• Serve with steamed or boiled rice.

I hope your baby will like these vegetarian baby recipes! If you have baby food recipes to share, please do so here. You can find more vegetarian as well as meat dishes here:

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