Our Delicious Recipe Suggestions
- Simple recipes are the best;
- When you cook homemade baby food always use fresh vegetables and fruit, preferably organic;
- Do not season your baby’s food. If your little one is happy on solid food, after a couple of weeks you can try adding very finely chopped parsley or chives;
- Take it slowly, all babies are different. Some learn more quickly than others.
Baby Weaning Recipes Step 1 - Recipe for the first solid meal from 4 months
Carrots are mild, slightly sweet and easy on babies’ tummies. This makes them a very popular vegetable for introducing babies to solids. Carrots can, however, cause slight constipation. If this is the case parsnips, broccoli or pumpkin are good alternatives. During the first fortnight start off by feeding your baby a few spoonfuls of cooked, puréed vegetable, gradually increasing the amount as you progress. We recommend adding two teaspoons of Holle Organic Weaning Oil per jar of baby food or per approx. 190-200g of freshly cooked vegetables.
Tip: Babies find it easier to eat if fed with a plastic spoon as it is not as cold as a metal one. The Holle Spoons are made from 100% renewable resources.
Tip: When starting with solids, babies will only eat small amounts and it can be practical to freeze meals or jars of baby food in several small portions. These portions can be thawed out as required. Please note that baby food should never be frozen and thawed more than once.
Recipe for the next vegetable meal
If the carrot meal is handled easily during the first two weeks, then the pure carrot meal can be replaced with a carrot-potato meal.
Ingredients for a vegetable-potato meal
90 g Carrots (or another vegetable like parsnip, broccoli or pumpkin)
40 g Potatoes
8-10 g 2 teaspoon of Holle Organic Baby Weaning Oil
2 tablespoons fruit juice (vitamin C rich)
Wash the vegetable and peel the potatoes and cut both into small cubes. Boil the vegetables and potatoes in just a small amount of water until both ingredients are soft. Puree the mash and add some oil as well as the fruit juice.
Somewhat later, we recommend adding some meat (ca. 25 g) to the pure carrot-potato meal 2-3 times a week. Meat contains important nutrients and promotes the resorption of essential iron. Lean beef or chicken meat can be used. If you don't want to prepare the meat yourself, then you can use the vegetable-meat jars from organically raised animals.
Once the first mash has been established, then other high-nutrient vegetables or vegetable jars can be used such as parsnip or broccoli, for example. The vegetable lunchtime meals can be supplemented to a fully-fledged meal by using the Holle Organic Porridges. Just mix 2 tablespoons of Holle porridge (any variety) and 2 teaspoons of Weaning Oil into the still hot vegetable puree - that's it!
Ingredients for a vegetable-potato-meat meal
90-100 g Vegetable (carrots, parsnip, zucchini, pumpkin, broccoli)
40-60 g potatoes
25 g lean meat
8-10 g 2 teaspoon of Holle Organic Baby Weaning Oil
2 tablespoons fruit juice (vitamin C rich)
Cut the meat into small cubes and boil it in just a small amount of water until it is cooked. Clean the vegetable and peel the potatoes and cut them into small cubes as well. Then, add the vegetables and potato to the meat and boil the mash until the vegetables and potato are soft. Puree the mash and add the fruit juice and oil to it.
Ingredients for a vegetable-grain-meat meal
90-100 g vegetable
10-14 g 2-3 tablespoons of Holle Organic Porridge
water as needed
25 g lean meat
8-10 g 2 teaspoon of Holle Organic Baby Weaning Oil
2 tablespoons fruit juice (Vitamin C rich)
Wash the vegetable and cut it into small cubes. Boil the vegetable in just a small amount of water until it is soft. Then add the grain flakes. Puree the mash and add water as required. Add some oil as well as the fruit juice to the pureed mash and then it is ready.
Ingredients for a vegetarian vegetable-potato-grain meal
90-100 g vegetable
40-60 g potatoes
10 g Holle Organic Porridge (2 tablespoons)
2 tablespoons fruit juice (Vitamin C rich)
water as needed
8-10 g 2 teaspoons of Holle Organic Baby Weaning Oil
Wash the vegetable and peel the potatoes and cut both into small cubes. Boil the vegetables and potatoes in just a small amount of water until both ingredients are soft. Then add the grain flakes. Puree the mash and add water as required. Add some oil as well as the fruit juice to the pureed mash and then it is ready.
Recipe for the milk-grain porridge after the 5th - 7th month
The second porridge is usually a milk-grain porridge, which replaces an evening breastfeeding or bottle meal. This milk-grain porridge is prepared with the Holle Organic Porridges and milk with the addition of fruit juice that is rich in vitamin C. Breast milk, Holle infant formulas or fresh milk can be used as alternatives to milk.
Ingredients for preparation with Holle Organic Infant Follow-on Formula 2 / Holle Organic Goat Milk Formula 2
150 ml water
5 measuring spoons Holle Organic Infant Follow-on Formula 2 / Holle Organic Infant Goat Milk Formula 2 / Holle Organic Infant Follow-on Formula 2 with A2 milk
18 g Holle Organic Baby Porridge (3-4 tablespoons)
Boil 150 ml of water and allow it to cool to 50°C. First of all mix in 5 tablespoons of Holle Organic Formula 2 and then add 18 g of Holle organic porridge (3-4 tablespoons). As of the 10th month, the preparation can also be made with Holle Organic Infant Follow-on Formula 3.
Ingredients for preparation as half-milk porridge
100 ml water
100 ml whole milk
25 g Holle Organic Baby Porridge (5 tablespoons)
2 tablespoons fruit juice (vitamin C rich)
Boil 100 ml of whole milk and 100 ml water and allow the liquid to cool to 50°C. Then put the liquid on a plate and mix in 25 g of Holle Organic Porridge (5 tablespoons). To make it easier to absorb iron, we recommend adding 2 tablespoons of a vitamin C rich fruit juice as well. You should now let the porridge thicken and cool to an eating temperature.
Ingredients for preparation with breast milk
130 ml breast milk
25 g Holle Organic Porridge (5 tablespoons)
Mix 25 g of organic porridge into 130 ml of warm breast milk. And now the porridge is ready.
When prepared with breast milk, the phenomenon occurs that the milk-grain porridge often becomes liquid again after being left for a short time. Enzymes that are still intact are mainly responsible for this. If the porridge becomes liquid too soon, then prepare smaller portions.
Recipe for junior food as of the 8th month
As of approximately the 8th month, your baby is able to eat more chunky food. The vegetable porridge with grain is no longer pureed as much and the fruit porridge can contain somewhat coarser pieces of fruit. This change to the consistency of the food stimulates the baby to chew. He can now also be served the organic Junior Meals in Jars. Then, as of the 12th month and thereafter, you can slowly make the transition to general family food, naturally with less salt, spices and sweeteners.
Recipe suggestion: Fruity Rusk Porridge (from 8 months)
Break two Holle Organic Baby Spelt Rusks into pieces and place them in a bowl. Boil 140ml water and pour evenly over the rusks. Leave to soak for a short time and mash with a fork.
Add around 100g freshly grated fruit or fruit jar, e.g. Pure Pear or Pure Apple to taste. To increase the amount of essential fatty acids and available vitamins, add 1 teaspoon Holle Organic Baby Weaning Oil. Leave to cool until ready to eat.
