Zucchini Baby Food Puree
This delicious homemade Zucchini + Potato Baby Food Puree is a soft and creamy puree that makes for a great first puree to introduce to baby! Great baby food for 4 months and up – stage 1 puree.
I just finished the book called French Kids Eat Everything by Karen Le Billion and was struck with how many of the french rules about educating your child on food and eating resonated with me. The original reason I started reading the book was because instead of eating her dinner, little E would just throw handfuls of food, her plate, spoon and sippy cup at us, well mostly at my husband. This behavior needed to stop so I needed to do some research on how I wanted to approach this situation. After reading this book and putting some of the french rules into place, this problem stopped the very next day. But we will go more into depth about this at a later time because there is just so much that I loved about this book and want to share with you.
Instead, I want to talk about one of the things that surprised me in the book, how French parents do their purees. They start will only vegetables that are pureed and thinned down to an almost milk like consistency. That is not the surprising part, the surprising part is that they use many vegetables that you are not likely to find as a baby puree on any grocery market shelves or vegetables that I would have ever thought of making into a baby puree – red peppers, leeks, zucchini, asparagus, brussels sprouts fennel and celery root [which I wasn’t even sure what this was]. Some are mixed with a little bit of potato to thicken them up, but most are served by themselves. They also categorize the purees into purees that have a mild taste and purees that that have a stronger taste. Leeks, zucchini, potatoes celery root, potatoes are all vegetables with a mild taste. Red peppers, peas, carrots, fennel and broccoli are all vegetables with a strong taste. Their theory is that you start with the mild vegetable purees first and then move onto the strong tasting purees building the thickness as you go.
Reading this book made me change my prospective on how many vegetables you can really give your baby from the very beginning. I am not sure why my view was so limited on this. It makes sense that if you want your child to learn to love all of their vegetables, you have to start them all from the very beginning. Plus all vegetables are filled with tons of nutrients that your baby needs in order to grow. Why limit their vegetable intake to only peas and carrots. Let’s widen our horizons on the selection of vegetables we get at the market and make into purees. Let’s widen our view on what vegetables we want our kiddos to love. Let’s do it together.
So I started with a simple puree of zucchini with a little potato. I left the skin on the zucchini because that is where most of the nutrients are found and steamed them both for less then 20 minutes and what I made was a simple, mild puree that was silky and smooth and beyond satisfying to not only my babes pallet but also to mine. You could add a little cream or olive oil and serve this warmed as a starter soup for your entire family. Yes, it was that good.
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Get the recipe: ZUCCHINI + POTATO BABY FOOD PUREE
Ingredients
- 3 small zucchini trimmed and roughly chopped
- 1 small white potato roughly chopped
Instructions
- Bring 2 inches of water to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Place the potato into a steamer basket over the boiling water, cover and cook for 10 minutes.
- Add in the zucchini on top of the potatoes, cover and cook for another 7 minutes or until potatoes and zucchini are tender. Do not over cook the potatoes. Reserve steamer water. Let cool slightly.
- Place the zucchini and potato into a blender or food processor and puree for 1 minute or until completely smooth, adding the reserved steamer water into the puree in 1 tablespoon increments if needed.
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22 Comments on “Zucchini Baby Food Puree”
Any approximate weights on the zucchini and potato? We have some zucchini from our garden, but they’re not small.
I would go with 1 pound of zucchini per 1 small potato. Good luck!!! I can’t wait for my grandma to drop off her yearly baseball bat size zucchini for us!!
xo, Michele
Thanks!
Any approximate weights on the zucchini and potato? We have some zucchini from our garden, but they’re not small.
I would go with 1 pound of zucchini per 1 small potato. Good luck!!! I can’t wait for my grandma to drop off her yearly baseball bat size zucchini for us!!
xo, Michele
Thanks!
I am new to your site and all the different recipes have inspired me to get more creative making my baby food. Your pictures are beautiful. Do you think this recipe would work just as good with a sweet potato instead of a white potato?
Hello Leslie,
Yes! The color will not be as green, but the taste will be great!! I would use maybe 1/2 a small sweet potato in this recipe in place of the white potato. You are just trying to give some body to the zucchini. You can also use leeks, apples or pears if you want.
xo, Michele
I am new to your site and all the different recipes have inspired me to get more creative making my baby food. Your pictures are beautiful. Do you think this recipe would work just as good with a sweet potato instead of a white potato?
Hello Leslie,
Yes! The color will not be as green, but the taste will be great!! I would use maybe 1/2 a small sweet potato in this recipe in place of the white potato. You are just trying to give some body to the zucchini. You can also use leeks, apples or pears if you want.
xo, Michele
This is the first of your recipes I’m trying. I’m so excited. Did you leave the skin on the potatoes? You only mention the zucchini skins, but the photo shows the potatoes with the skin still on.
Hello Susie,
I left my skins on, but you can certainly peels yours. I find that small white potato skin is pretty thin compared to sweet or regular potato skins and it easily just purees right up, but you can do either.
Let me know how your LO likes it!!
xo, Michele
This is the first of your recipes I’m trying. I’m so excited. Did you leave the skin on the potatoes? You only mention the zucchini skins, but the photo shows the potatoes with the skin still on.
Hello Susie,
I left my skins on, but you can certainly peels yours. I find that small white potato skin is pretty thin compared to sweet or regular potato skins and it easily just purees right up, but you can do either.
Let me know how your LO likes it!!
xo, Michele
Can you do apples and zucchini? And skip the potatoes.Â
Yes, that would work.
Made this for my 6 month old and she really enjoyed it. Super easy to make and the perfect consistency!
So glad she enjoyed it 😊
Hi, garden zucchini is ready but my little man is 9 months so he’s on to bigger and bolder flavors. Would love to incorporate the spices, do you combine all of them? Or just one spice at a time?
I usually just add one spice at a time;)
My LO loves this and honestly I liked too! I’m just wondering how you got yours so smooth? I puréed mine for a minute and there’s still little green pieces from the zucchini skinÂ
I’m so happy to hear that you and your little one both liked this puree! The zucchini skin is the last thing to blend down, so you may just need to blend for one more minute, add a little more liquid to the puree, or puree at a higher speed. Either way, flecks of cooked green zucchini skin are perfectly okay to have in a puree.