![]() ![]() An email address is required (for spam), but it won’t be published.Alright football fans. To do this, please rate this recipe and provide a comment by scrolling down this page or by clicking that green circle on the bottom left. I would love your feedback and support if you made this recipe. For specific details and conversions, visit our Australian Cooking Measurements page. I’ve used a third-party application to calculate the calories and nutritional information, so please use this as an approximate guide only.Ĭooking measurements are in Australian standard spoon and cup measurements. See how I store and organise my homemade baby food Storage – Allow the puree to cool completely, then spoon them into baby food safe containers. ![]() Serve this Sweet Potato Baby Food warm or at room temperature. Simmer for 1 minute and remove from heat. If the mash is too thick, add more liquid to loosen it up. ![]() You may need more or less liquid (coconut milk, water or breast milk) depending on the sweet potato. Place the saucepan over low heat and pour in the coconut milk a bit at a time whilst stirring. Transfer the potatoes into a separate saucepan, then use a potato masher to break up the potatoes. Cover and steam for 15 to 20 minutes or until a skewer glides through effortlessly through the potato. Place the potatoes in the steamer attachment, then decrease the heat to medium. Chop the potatoes roughly into 1-inch pieces. Meanwhile, peel the potatoes using a sharp knife as the skin of purple potatoes is thick. Place the saucepan without the steamer over high heat and bring the water to a rapid boil. More healthy recipes for your little one:įill in a medium saucepan (that has a steamer attachment) with water approximately 1/3 full. You just need to adjust the amount of liquid (coconut milk, water or breast milk) with the potatoes to get the right consistency for your little one. They’re starchy with a firmer drier texture, and mildly sweet.įor this recipe, you could swap Hawaiian sweet potatoes for any variety of sweet potatoes. Hawaiian sweet potatoes (Okinawan) have a beige skin with a purple-blue flesh. ![]() Hawiian sweet potatoes have more antioxidents than blueberries! They also have more fibre, vitamins and antioxidants. Sweet potatoes have lower GI (glycemic index) and slightly fewer calories than regular potatoes. Why are sweet potatoes healthier than regular potatoes? Yes, I’m very simple at the best of times. I find it amusing that we consider sweet potatoes healthier than regular ones because they’re SWEET. I still offer him vegetables on a regular basis, and if it’s a good day, he’ll eat them. However, I’m not too worried because he changes his mind all the time. Kai is no longer a fan of either variety, and he would only accept them if they’re fried! He loved them both, and would always devour them happily, but that’s the past. When my toddler, Kai, was a baby, I made him baby food using orange and purple sweet potatoes. Well, at least that’s what the Costco packet said they were! They were $10 a bag, which is a quite expensive, but I still bought them out of excitement. I only recently discovered they were called Hawaiian sweet potatoes here. Back then, my parents had to drive an hour away to the markets so they could pick up a box of them. I loved they had a firmer texture and didn’t taste as mushy.įor a long time, I didn’t know what purple potatoes were called because they were hard to find in our local area. They were my favourite variety of sweet potatoes, and I would always choose them over orange sweet potatoes. She boiled them in a large saucepan with a little salt and gave them to us as an easy and healthy snack. My mum got us hooked on purple sweet potatoes when were kids. ![]()
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