The Instant Pot Baby Food Cookbook: Wholesome Recipes That Cook Up Fast – in Any Brand of Electric Pressure Cooker

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Use your Instant Pot—or other electric pressure cooker or multi-cooker—to make fresh and flavorful, safe and natural, fast and convenient foods for your baby!

Parents everywhere are turning to do-it-yourself baby food making. They do so to ensure that the food they feed their children is all-natural and free of additives.They do it because, in recent years, pediatricians and dietitians have been recommending that a baby’s diet feature a wide variety of ingredients, well beyond what you can buy in jars at the supermarket. And, nothing to sneeze at, they do it to save money.

How do they find the time? It isn’t always easy. Enter the wildly popular Instant Pot, along with other brands of electric pressure cooker, the perfect solution for time-crunched moms and dads. Pressure cooking is skyrocketing in popularity in large part because of its speed. You can cook up a batch of baby purees, fruit sauces, or cereals in a matter of minutes. Consider how long some classic ingredients in baby foods, such as potatoes, apples, and squash, would take to cook up on a stove top or in an oven. Now reduce that time to a fraction of what it was and you can see why pressure cooking is the ideal method for making baby foods yourself.
 
No less an expert than Barbara Schieving, the world’s most widely read blogger on pressure cooking (her blog is called Pressure Cooking Today), author of the best-selling The Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook, and a mom and recent grandmother herself, delivers here more than 50 tasty and good-looking recipes that will make you feel good about how you are feeding your kids—and will make them smile with delight at mealtime.

With take-it-to-the-bank guidance on how to get the most from your cooker, this is a trustworthy kitchen companion parents will turn to again and again.
 

From the Publisher

Authors’ Note

The first year of a baby’s life is magical and wondrous. In this cookbook, we’ve done our best to help make feeding your baby easier and faster. The pressure cooker is a fantastic tool you can use to create healthy, nutritious meals for your baby.

The food habits you want for your children in elementary school and beyond won’t magically develop when they hit a certain age-these habits are built from the very beginning. Give your baby a strong start by using these recipes to introduce them to a wide variety of healthy and delicious fruits, vegetables, grains, and meats.

In addition to the delicious recipes, we’ve included lots of tips and information gathered from a variety of reliable sources that will help you feel confident that you are doing an awesome job as a parent.

Thanks for being a part of our pressure cooking journey. We hope your baby enjoys these first foods and you enjoy your first meals together.

-Barbara Schieving.

-Jennifer Schieving McDaniel.

The Instant Pot Baby Food Cookbook: Wholesome Recipes That Cook Up Fast in Any Brand of Electric Pressure Cooker

Introduction

While it can seem intimidating to cook baby food from scratch, an electric pressure cooker makes it easy to cook nutritious food fast. We’re here to show you that, with very little planning, you can make your baby food with fresh ingredients without having to spend hours in the kitchen. We’ve included a wide variety of recipes in this book that will take you through baby’s first foods to baby’s first birthday celebration. Whether you plan to cook just a few foods, batch cook a week’s worth of meals, or make every bit of your baby’s food from scratch, this book will guide you through the process.

First Fruits and Vegetables

When introducing babies to solid foods, pediatricians recommend starting with just one new food at a time. These single-ingredient fruits and vegetables are gentle and great for baby’s first solids. Plus, these made-fresh purees look and taste so much better than commercial first foods-you may find yourself eating some of them along with your baby.

Grains and Legumes

Grains and legumes you make at home are generally not as smooth as commercial cereals, so take that into consideration as you decide when your baby is ready for grains. We’ve listed the recipes in the order we prefer to introduce them-oats, corn, rice, wheat, quinoa, then legumes; however, use the order that works best for your baby. Since babies eat very small amounts at first, one small batch of grains will last a long time. We like to make a batch and refrigerate enough for a day or two and then freeze the rest in individual portions to combine with fruit or meat purees.

Fruit and Vegetable Blends

Once babies have shown that they can handle simple fruits and vegetables and grains, you can expand into more robust flavor combinations and start adding texture. These combinations are meant to be blended with a little more texture, and they work well when mixed with grains, yogurt, or cottage cheese.

Meats and Dinners

Our babies didn’t enjoy the store-bought baby food meats; however, they loved when we started serving them homemade dishes that included meat. This section begins with single ingredient meats and then expands to include simple meat and veggie dinners. If your baby is hesitant to accept meats at first, try serving them with a favorite vegetable puree.

Desserts For A First Birthday Celebration

Jennifer’s babies didn’t get foods with added sugar until their first birthday, and even then, she liked to keep the sugar content low. Barbara fed her babies healthy foods but allowed for the occasional indulgence. Therefore, we combined our styles and created two fantastic options to celebrate this happy milestone-one healthier, no-sugar-added option and one finger-licking introduction to chocolate for these fun smash cakes.

Banana Blueberry Pear Puree

This flavor combination is a fruit lover’s dream! Our babies gobbled it up, and we’ve been known to steal a couple cubes of these frozen purees to make our own morning smoothies! Makes 2 cups (455 g).

Place a steamer basket in the bottom of the pressure cooker and add 1 cup (235 ml) water. Place the pear quarters and blueberries inside the steamer basket. Lock the lid in place. Select High Pressure and 4 minutes cook time.When the cook time ends, turn off the pressure cooker and use a quick pressure release. When the fl oat valve drops, carefully remove the lid.Remove the pears and blueberries from the steamer basket, reserving the cooking water. Allow to cool for 20 minutes.Transfer the cooked pears and blueberries to a blender jar or food processer. Add the peeled banana and ¼ cup (60 ml) reserved cooking water and blend until very smooth. (Add more cooking water if needed to blend but use the minimum amount necessary.) Tip

You can use fresh or frozen blueberries in this puree without adjusting the cook time.

Ingredients 3 large pears, peeled, cored, and quartered 1 cup (145 g) blueberries 1 medium fresh banana, peeled 1 cup (235 ml) water

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard Common Press; Illustrated edition (January 8, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 155832965X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1558329652
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.38 x 9.25 inches