Hi all - I have a 9 month old and have been feeding him all kinds of homemade baby food. Besides the foods found in many of the books tilted towards a western diet, does anyone have recipe suggestions for asian-style congee that's suited for babies? I've tried the following congee conbinations chicken/carrots, fish/kale, and beef/sweet potatoes but have run out of ideas. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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Baby Food - Chinese congee
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You can also use dried scallop with broccoli. May be you want to try out some of these. They sure are taste good besides the nutrition aspect. http://www.baybsupplies.net/babyrecipes.htm
You can also use dried scallop with broccoli. May be you want to try out some of these. They sure are taste good besides the nutrition aspect. http://www.baybsupplies.net/babyrecipes.htm
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My daughter liked yam in her congee best.
Barb
Barb
I have tried putting dried anchovies, lean pork, fish, chicken, beef, pumpkins, butternut squash, carrot, potatoes, winter melon, choy sum, spinach, cauliflower, tofu, tomato, egg yolk (egg white after one year old), green peas, salmon, cheese and zucchini in the congee. In my Chinese baby food cook book, it suggests to put honey bean, sweet corn, apple, hairy gourd, papaya, dried lily and sweetened dates. I haven't try it yet.
Wee Kean,
Your cookbook has great ideas for congee. However, be careful if you put sweented dates in your congee. There are many kinds of dates, such as black dates and red dates. Red dates are not suitable for children or babies, since they are too nutritious and hot, just like ginseng and pak fung yuen. I once put red dates in soup and gave it to my several months old baby and I found her faeces were red, I was afraid it was blood. Many adults including me found red dates too hot (yit hei) for us.
Your cookbook has great ideas for congee. However, be careful if you put sweented dates in your congee. There are many kinds of dates, such as black dates and red dates. Red dates are not suitable for children or babies, since they are too nutritious and hot, just like ginseng and pak fung yuen. I once put red dates in soup and gave it to my several months old baby and I found her faeces were red, I was afraid it was blood. Many adults including me found red dates too hot (yit hei) for us.
Thanks for all these suggestions - I'll certainly try many of them. Sometimes I'm in the kitchen trying to dream up some congee ideas and well, I've discovered that I'm not very imaginative as I find myself trying to balance between cooking up 'safe foods' and attempting to be martha stewart for baby food. =)
Following from Mambo's question to Wee Kean, I'd also like to ask as well if your baby chinese cookbook is in chinese or is it in english? Cheers,
Following from Mambo's question to Wee Kean, I'd also like to ask as well if your baby chinese cookbook is in chinese or is it in english? Cheers,
Hi all, this is my 1st post after joining Geobaby for nearly a month. I love making bb food. My view, you don't need a cook book for bb food, just a little creativity, imagination and lots of love...
My girl is now close to 11 mths old. I enjoyed cooking for her. Wee Kean's comprehensive list will come out with >50 combination. Some other ingredients to add on Wee Kean's list is Broccoli, Sui Bak Choy, all green leafy veg, sweet potatoes, chinese spinach (green &/or red leaf), celery, asparagus.
I put two types of veg and one portion of meat for bb congee. You can mix and match, no worry, they will all come out very delicious. Choose ingredients in different colours, congee will look so colourful. For e.g., red leaf chinese spinach + yellow corn; purple sweet potatoes + green broccoli.
For 9mth old baby, you can try give her food in finger size to encourage self-feeding. Sweet potatoes, potatoes, carrot, celery and asparagus are all good as bb's 1st finger food. Cut them in finger size, steam then let bb helps herself. Quick and easy! but...need to clean some mess later and food will probaby end up more on the floor than in bb's stomach, yet it is so much fun to see her trying to self-feed :dance:
Do remember to feed your bb the same ingredients for at least 3 days to note if there is any allergy sign, especially when you are introducing fish, egg yolk and those food could potentially causing allergy for bb.
Happy cooking!
My girl is now close to 11 mths old. I enjoyed cooking for her. Wee Kean's comprehensive list will come out with >50 combination. Some other ingredients to add on Wee Kean's list is Broccoli, Sui Bak Choy, all green leafy veg, sweet potatoes, chinese spinach (green &/or red leaf), celery, asparagus.
I put two types of veg and one portion of meat for bb congee. You can mix and match, no worry, they will all come out very delicious. Choose ingredients in different colours, congee will look so colourful. For e.g., red leaf chinese spinach + yellow corn; purple sweet potatoes + green broccoli.
For 9mth old baby, you can try give her food in finger size to encourage self-feeding. Sweet potatoes, potatoes, carrot, celery and asparagus are all good as bb's 1st finger food. Cut them in finger size, steam then let bb helps herself. Quick and easy! but...need to clean some mess later and food will probaby end up more on the floor than in bb's stomach, yet it is so much fun to see her trying to self-feed :dance:
Do remember to feed your bb the same ingredients for at least 3 days to note if there is any allergy sign, especially when you are introducing fish, egg yolk and those food could potentially causing allergy for bb.
Happy cooking!
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