Recipes and Complementary Food for Babies

I did this project with Pigeon Malaysia early this month at My Town in Kuala Lumpur.  The event location, Good Times was a colorful and fun filled location for our event. 

A complementary diet introduces semi solid to infant who is ready to take food besides breast milk or formula during their forth to 6th month of life. Sharing as a feeding therapist cum a senior dietitian made me better able to share a full story about feeding our babies.

My sharing was followed by a cooking demonstration by Chef Samantha and parent-child hands on session.

Watching mom and child interaction during the session was the most rewarding for me. There were dad who took active roles in child care to support their spouses who were listening attentively during the sharing. 

  

The following recipes were developed for this event. We demonstrated two out of five below.

Recipe #1: Pear-y Brown Rice Puree Complementary food suitable for 4- 5 month old babies

Main Ingredients: Brown rice, cooked         ½ cup      Pear, ripe                          ¼ piece Full cream milk/EBM       ½ cup Ikan bilis                           10 1.      Cook brown rice with calcium rich ingredient (ikan bilis) 2.      Cut and slice pear, fresh on the spot. 3.      Blend all ingredients to create watery porridge. 4.      Serve/store in 2 oz tubs or bowl.

Recipe #2:  Green Congee Complementary food suitable for 4- 5 month old babies

Main Ingredients: White rice, cooked          ½ cup      Baby spinach                   3-4 leaves Full cream milk/EBM       ½ cup 1.      Cook rice porridge with kelp 2.      Off the fire on the stove. Add baby spinach to cook for a minute. 3.      Blend all ingredients to create watery porridge. 4.      Serve/store in 2 oz tubs or bowl.

Recipe #3:  Fruity Lunch Complementary food suitable for 5-6 month old babies

Main Ingredients: Brown rice, cooked         ½ cup      Green apple, ripe            ¼ piece Full cream milk                 ½ cup Banana, ripe, sliced 1.      Cook brown rice till soft. 2.      Scoop and stir soft brown rice with full cream milk. 3.      Peel, chopped and steam green apple. (optional) Sprinkle with cinnamon powder. 4.      Add green apple into soft porridge. 5.      Add sliced banana on top. 6.      Serve in bowl.

Recipe #4:  Mashed Potato Pumpkin Porridge Complementary food suitable for 7-8 month old babies

Main Ingredients: Peel, 1cm Cube, potato              1/3 cup Brown rice porridge (grainy)       1/4 cup      Pumpkin                                            ¼ cup Full cream milk/EBM (optional)  ½ cup 1.      Boil potato and brown rice with calcium rich (chicken bone/fish bone)  2.      Steam pumpkin. Scrap off flesh and serve with porridge. 3.      Mix milk for taste or texture. 4.      Serve in bowl.

Recipe #5:  Crunchy string beans and mushroom porridge (Vegetarian) Complementary food suitable for 9-10 month old babies
			Portion size: 1	Preparation time: 15min
	Steps	Ingredients	Amount	Utensils needed
1	Cook soft rice and kelp together	Rice	5 tbp	Pot with lid
		Warm water	160 ml	electric kettle
		Kelp
2	Chop string beans finely	String beans, young	3	cutting board #2
3	Cut mushroom finely	button mushroon, fresh	2	pairing knife
4	Steam all vegetables in a bowl for ~10min	Goji Berry	8 pc	bowls x 3
5	Mix vegetables into porridge and serve warm			Bowl (presentable)