Pumpkin Chicken Baby Food Puree
This Pumpkin Chicken Baby Food Puree is a delicious fall inspired recipe for baby. Made with pumpkin, chicken, parsnips and ginger for a fun and nutritious take on the tastes of the season. Great for 6+ months – stage 2 baby food.
Pumpkin Chicken Baby Food Puree
Let’s make a deal. You can have this delicious Fall inspired pumpkin recipe, but in exchange I need something from you.
Isn’t that how all great friendships work – give and take. I would normally just invite you over for some coffee or wine and we would chat for hours, but seeing that you are there and I am here, I don’t think that would work out. But if you want to stop reading and grab that drink, I am certainly okay with that.
So let me talk up this recipe a little bit.
It starts by having us multi-tasking on the oven. Roasting the pumpkin, chicken and parsnip all at the same time, giving us some time to sit back and do our favorite momma activity – have a quick cap-nap, stare at a blank wall, drink another cup of coffee. The time is yours, use it wisely for something that isn’t on your to-do list.
After the roasting happens, the next steps are simple and painless. All you have to do is scape the warm pumpkin off the skin, dump everything into a blender and puree for a couple seconds. Then you are done. Check and check. A seasonal puree that is loaded with goodness through and through. A spicy, buttery puree that your little one will gobble up.
Now, what I need from you. Advice. That’s it. I wouldn’t ask for anything too big.
I need some advice on how to make time in my life for working out. It is just.not.happening! I feel like since the new baby came, I just can’t seem to find the time, energy or motivation to put on my gym clothes and get my sweet on. So let me ask you – how do you make time for yourself? How do you motivate yourself when the kids are down for naps and the only thing you want to do is take a long nap yourself? When do you workout? Morning or Night? What advice can you give me?
Go ahead and leave your comments below – give it to me straight.
See that wasn’t such a bad trade!
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Get the recipe: Pumpkin Chicken Baby Food Puree
Ingredients
- 1/2 small pie pumpkin, de-seeded and cut into wedges
- 1/4 lbs boneless skinless chicken breast (see notes below)
- 1 parsnip, peeled and roughly chop
- 1/2 tsp fresh ginger, minced
- 1-2 cups liquids – water, breastmilk, formula, no-sodium stock
Instructions
- Preheat over to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with tinfoil or a silicon mat.
- Lay a large piece of tin foil on top of a cutting board or counter. Place the chicken breast and parsnips onto the piece of foil. Wrap the chicken and parsnips up tightly in the foil like a package, leaving the seams of the foil at the top. Place onto one side of the baking sheet.
- Place the wedges of the pumpkin on the other side of the baking sheet.
- Place the baking sheet in the oven and bake for 30 minutes.
- Remove the chicken tin foil packet and let cool. Bake the pumpkin for an additional 10-15 minutes or until easily pricked with a fork. Let pumpkin cool slightly.
- One pumpkin is cool enough to handle, scrape the skin off the pumpkin and discard.
- Cut chicken into cubes.
- Place the chicken, parsnips, pumpkin and ginger into a blender or food processor and puree for 1-2 minutes, adding in 1/4 cup of liquid at a time if needed.
Notes
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24 Comments on “Pumpkin Chicken Baby Food Puree”
Hi, I love this site. Perfect for my little one who is just starting solids. I never get time to go to the gym or workout alone either – getting up early or doing something post kids bed time is to hard. What I do instead is every weekday at 4pm we go for a big walk. It gives my toddler some downtime & my baby has her late afternoon nap. We normally go for at least 45min & pushing the two kids up & down a hilly area is better than doing nothing.
Hello Anna!!
Thank you for the advise!! What a great idea! I somehow never thought of working out with the kids after nap time (both of mine usually wake up around 3-3:30)! And what a great time because I am usually in need of some down time before the Hubby gets home and the kids are always up for an outing in the stroller! Could even leave earlier and have their snack in the bob as I work out. I’m going to try this this week and let you know how it goes!!!!
xoxo,
Michele
Hi, I love this site. Perfect for my little one who is just starting solids. I never get time to go to the gym or workout alone either – getting up early or doing something post kids bed time is to hard. What I do instead is every weekday at 4pm we go for a big walk. It gives my toddler some downtime & my baby has her late afternoon nap. We normally go for at least 45min & pushing the two kids up & down a hilly area is better than doing nothing.
Hello Anna!!
Thank you for the advise!! What a great idea! I somehow never thought of working out with the kids after nap time (both of mine usually wake up around 3-3:30)! And what a great time because I am usually in need of some down time before the Hubby gets home and the kids are always up for an outing in the stroller! Could even leave earlier and have their snack in the bob as I work out. I’m going to try this this week and let you know how it goes!!!!
xoxo,
Michele
First of all I love all the recipes on your site. I find most baby food recipes a little boring and un-imaginative and I fell like your recipes are things I would eat.
I have a question, its not longer fall and by the time fall rolls around again she’ll out grow puree’s. We started in December and we really loved the winter squashes so this recipe really stands out to me, she’ll love it. I was thinking about using some organic pure pumpkin left over from the holidays. Do you know about how much pumpkin to use so I could get the right ratio?
Hello Megan,
I am so happy to hear you say that you would eat the recipes 🙂 that is the whole point to give our baby’s food we would actually eat ourselves!!!
With this recipe, you could probably start with adding 10 ounces of the pumpkin puree that you already have and go up from there if needed. I am guessing that 1/2 a pumpkin is probably 20 ounces of puree, but I can’t say for sure. There is no right or wrong measurements mix away until it tastes good to you. Keep in mind that you can’t refreeze puree once you have thawed it. so maybe make a chicken, parsnip and ginger puree, freeze that and then mix one cube of pumpkin with one cube of chicken. Hope that makes sense.
If not comment back:)
xoxo,
Michele
First of all I love all the recipes on your site. I find most baby food recipes a little boring and un-imaginative and I fell like your recipes are things I would eat.
I have a question, its not longer fall and by the time fall rolls around again she’ll out grow puree’s. We started in December and we really loved the winter squashes so this recipe really stands out to me, she’ll love it. I was thinking about using some organic pure pumpkin left over from the holidays. Do you know about how much pumpkin to use so I could get the right ratio?
Hello Megan,
I am so happy to hear you say that you would eat the recipes 🙂 that is the whole point to give our baby’s food we would actually eat ourselves!!!
With this recipe, you could probably start with adding 10 ounces of the pumpkin puree that you already have and go up from there if needed. I am guessing that 1/2 a pumpkin is probably 20 ounces of puree, but I can’t say for sure. There is no right or wrong measurements mix away until it tastes good to you. Keep in mind that you can’t refreeze puree once you have thawed it. so maybe make a chicken, parsnip and ginger puree, freeze that and then mix one cube of pumpkin with one cube of chicken. Hope that makes sense.
If not comment back:)
xoxo,
Michele
Historically, I’m not big on working out, but I was a Pure Barre nut before and during my pregnancy. There was something about the class that just made me feel great. My little one is now 9 months old, and about a month ago, I finally said it was time to get back into going regularly. I’m a SAHM, and this might be kind of a cop out, but I get a baby sitter 3 days a week so that I can go to a noon class. Most of the time, my little one ends up napping most of the time I’m gone. When I come home, I’m rocking that post-class exercise high and ready for the rest of the day!
Don’t feel bad for getting a sitter and taking a couple of hours a week for some ‘you’ time. I can totally tell when I haven’t worked out in a couple days of days because I have a very short fuse. The Barre place by my house has child care and starts taking babies at 6 months, so now I have no excuses. I will tell you that I started to go for a run the other day, and that was a bad mistake on my part! I need to do WAY more kegel exercises before I attempt that again:)
Now, go get your sweat on!
xoxo,
Michele
Historically, I’m not big on working out, but I was a Pure Barre nut before and during my pregnancy. There was something about the class that just made me feel great. My little one is now 9 months old, and about a month ago, I finally said it was time to get back into going regularly. I’m a SAHM, and this might be kind of a cop out, but I get a baby sitter 3 days a week so that I can go to a noon class. Most of the time, my little one ends up napping most of the time I’m gone. When I come home, I’m rocking that post-class exercise high and ready for the rest of the day!
Don’t feel bad for getting a sitter and taking a couple of hours a week for some ‘you’ time. I can totally tell when I haven’t worked out in a couple days of days because I have a very short fuse. The Barre place by my house has child care and starts taking babies at 6 months, so now I have no excuses. I will tell you that I started to go for a run the other day, and that was a bad mistake on my part! I need to do WAY more kegel exercises before I attempt that again:)
Now, go get your sweat on!
xoxo,
Michele
How much pumpkin would i use if not using real pumpkin, the hubby bought canned.. thanks
oh hubby…;)
I would probably start with 1/2 can and add from there. The last pie pumpkin I bought weighed almost 2 pounds but I’m not sure how much it weighed after I hacked it up.
Hope that somewhat helps!
xo, Michele
How much pumpkin would i use if not using real pumpkin, the hubby bought canned.. thanks
oh hubby…;)
I would probably start with 1/2 can and add from there. The last pie pumpkin I bought weighed almost 2 pounds but I’m not sure how much it weighed after I hacked it up.
Hope that somewhat helps!
xo, Michele
Any suggestions for reheating this after it’s been in the fridge??
You can heat in 20 second intervals in the microwave, stirring between cooking or in a small pan on the stove.
hello, if we cant find pumpkin in the supermarket what else can be used? can canned organic pumpkin work? the one where you can make pumpkin pie?
thanks 🙂
You can also use sweet potatoes in this recipe or canned pumpkin puree without anything added to it.
Hello! I am loving this site, Thank you so much for the Recipes. How much sweet potatoe would you use? Also would you bake it in the foil pack with the chicken and parsnips?
You can place roughly 1-2 cups of peeled and chopped sweet potatoes either on the pan with the pumpkin or in the packet – either would work. Great addition!
Hello,Â
I was wondering since it’s not pumpkin season what can I substitute? I love your page I literally make all the stuff u post!
Thank you for being there! You can use any squash or sweet potatoes for this recipe instead of the pumpkin. Hope that helps.