Blackberry + Kale + Apple Baby Food Puree
This Blackberry + Kale + Apple Baby Food Puree is a fast and easy puree -mighty apples are steamed with dark and enticing blackberries and nutrient rich baby kale. It’s like a vitamin party for baby, along with loads of healthy antioxidants. The perfect nutrient dense baby food puree, and it tastes amazing!! Baby will love it, and you will too.
Blackberry, Kale + Apple Baby Food Puree
It’s Friday, and my brain is completely fried. It’s a sad day when you look forward to the week being over so that you can drink a glass (or three) of wine and crawl into bed around 8 so that you can pretend to read for exactly 3 seconds before you fall blissfully asleep with your workout clothes on.
But wait for it….
Come Saturday night… it’s going to be party time. Time to rock out! A family bbq at my friends house that starts at 3 and will definitely be over by 7 so that we can all put the kids to bed by a decent hour, which means, once again I will be in bed around 8, but this time I will most likely skip the workout clothes and just sleep in my party frock. Nothing wrong with that right?
That’s my plan for this weekend, what’s yours?
So tonight, I am making this simple blackberry + kale + apple puree that will give baby something delicious to eat for the next couple of days – hello KALE!!!! All while taking exactly 3 brain cells to make, I need to save all of the ones I have left for trying to decide if I should go for white or red wine tonight. It’s a tough call!
Let’s talk quickly about this puree, before I send you off to the kitchen to whip up a batch for this weekend.
Mighty apples are steamed with dark and enticing blackberries that are mixed together with some nutrient rich and powerful baby kale. It’s like a vitamin party for baby – fiber, omega 3-fatty acids, omega 6-fatty acids, vitamins A and C, folate and powerful antioxidants. Personally, I like to use baby kale for my baby. I find that baby kale isn’t as dense as regular big ol’ leafy kale and makes purees less intense for baby’s taste buds (and mine). This puree is great served straight up for baby or toddler, but it is also beyond amazing mixed with some yogurt, ricotta or quinoa.
Now, into the kitchen you go, hopefully with a wine glass in hand:)
Get the recipe: Blackberry + Kale + Apple Baby Food Puree
Ingredients
- 2 apples [galafuji or pink lady], cored and chopped
- 1 cup blackberries
- 1 cup baby kale packed
- 1/2 cup water reserved, breast milk or formula
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan, bring 2 inches of water to a boil over medium heat. Place the apples, blackberries and kale into a steamer basket, in that order, and steam for 10 minutes. Reserve cooking water. Let cool slightly.
- Transfer the apples, blackberries and kale into a blender or food processor and puree for 1-2 minutes, adding 1/4 cup of liquid at a time, until you have reached your desired consistency.
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23 Comments on “Blackberry + Kale + Apple Baby Food Puree”
Should the apples be peeled? >.< Im always unsure or not.
Hello Genny,
I only peel my apples for babies first puree and then I stop peeling the apples (partially a lazy thing) once baby has eaten apples for awhile and is totally cool with them. But this is totally up to you. You can peel or not peel:)
xoxo, Michele
Should the apples be peeled? >.< Im always unsure or not.
Hello Genny,
I only peel my apples for babies first puree and then I stop peeling the apples (partially a lazy thing) once baby has eaten apples for awhile and is totally cool with them. But this is totally up to you. You can peel or not peel:)
xoxo, Michele
This sounds amazing!! Just wondering what age you would recommend this puree for? We just started my baby Jack on solids a couple weeks ago (he’s almost 5 months) and I’m wondering when he can get in on mommy’s favorite green, kale.
Hello Hannah,
I would probably wait until 7 or 8 months. Kale can be a little tough on a 5 months old stomach but you can also do this same puree with just a small amount of kale and blackberries with mostly apples and see how he does with it. So glad you love kale!!! Can you eat my portion for me?? I can only eat it when pureed into a smoothie:)
xoxo, Michele
This sounds amazing!! Just wondering what age you would recommend this puree for? We just started my baby Jack on solids a couple weeks ago (he’s almost 5 months) and I’m wondering when he can get in on mommy’s favorite green, kale.
Hello Hannah,
I would probably wait until 7 or 8 months. Kale can be a little tough on a 5 months old stomach but you can also do this same puree with just a small amount of kale and blackberries with mostly apples and see how he does with it. So glad you love kale!!! Can you eat my portion for me?? I can only eat it when pureed into a smoothie:)
xoxo, Michele
Michelle, I adore your posts!!!! My son just turned 8 months and I was hoping you had some tasty recipes to introduce legumes. BTW he loves your banana, cinnamon and coconut milk puree! Thanks!
Hello Hilary,
Thank you so much! I am so glad your little man is loving his purees!! I was actually just thinking about making some recipe with beans and lentils for baby Parker (who is also 8 months) so stay tuned! In the mean time, there are at least 2 posts in the 6+ recipe section with beans in them so check those out if you haven’t already.
xoxo, Michele
Michelle, I adore your posts!!!! My son just turned 8 months and I was hoping you had some tasty recipes to introduce legumes. BTW he loves your banana, cinnamon and coconut milk puree! Thanks!
Hello Hilary,
Thank you so much! I am so glad your little man is loving his purees!! I was actually just thinking about making some recipe with beans and lentils for baby Parker (who is also 8 months) so stay tuned! In the mean time, there are at least 2 posts in the 6+ recipe section with beans in them so check those out if you haven’t already.
xoxo, Michele
Could I use spinach instead of Kale?
Yes!!
xo, Michele
Could I use spinach instead of Kale?
Yes!!
xo, Michele
Hmmm mine turned out nothing like yours in the picture. It’s a murky green brown in color, tastes awful and you get blackberry seeds in every bite. Ew. What did I do wrong???
Oh NO!!!! That is a total bummer!
Kale is a tough one to puree because if you use too much it does turn everything a gross color. So maybe you used too much? Or maybe it was the big leaf kale and not the baby kale? I have found the baby kale turns a prettier green color. For the seeds, if you are getting seeds in your purees then you need to blend the puree longer. I typically blend my purees for 60-90 seconds long which will completely get rid of the seeds.
Hope that helps!
xo, Michele
Hmmm mine turned out nothing like yours in the picture. It’s a murky green brown in color, tastes awful and you get blackberry seeds in every bite. Ew. What did I do wrong???
Oh NO!!!! That is a total bummer!
Kale is a tough one to puree because if you use too much it does turn everything a gross color. So maybe you used too much? Or maybe it was the big leaf kale and not the baby kale? I have found the baby kale turns a prettier green color. For the seeds, if you are getting seeds in your purees then you need to blend the puree longer. I typically blend my purees for 60-90 seconds long which will completely get rid of the seeds.
Hope that helps!
xo, Michele
I’m wondering what to do with the seeds from the blackberries should I strain it or what?
I find that my high-speed blender usually purees the seeds in this recipe, but if your blender isn’t doing that, then yes you can strain the seeds in a fine mess colander.
My baby loved this the only thing I could recommend that you add in that I did not see is to strain the seeds out after.