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

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Fresh and flavorful, safe and natural homemade foods for your toddler—cooked up quickly and conveniently in your Instant Pot or other electric pressure cooker!

Parents of toddlers everywhere want to ensure that the food they feed their children is all-natural and free of additives, and that is why they prefer to make it fresh themselves rather than buying processed foods. They also seek variety, because in recent years pediatricians and dietitians have been recommending that a toddler’s diet feature a wide variety of ingredients, well beyond what you can buy in the “kid-friendly” aisle at the supermarket. And, nothing to sneeze at, they do it to save money—sometimes lots of 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 toddler cereals, spoon foods, or finger foods in a matter of minutes. Pressure cooking is the ideal method for making baby and toddler foods.
 
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 100 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.

Here are cereals of all kinds and finger foods and spoon foods for all tastes, no matter how picky. With take-it-to-the-bank guidance on how to get the most from your cooker, plus loads of ideas on how to make and store big batches that will freeze for later use, this is a trustworthy kitchen companion parents will turn to again and again.
 

From the Publisher

Introduction

Our Approach

Your child’s food habits start early and are a unique combination of their innate preferences and their personal experiences with food. Just as you teach your toddler to drink from a cup and eat with utensils, you need to teach them to love the healthy foods your family eats. The recipes in this book are designed to do exactly that!

Cook family meals.

We don’t believe parents need to cook separate meals for toddlers and adults-it’s enough work to get one meal on the table! Therefore, the recipes in this book are designed to make a single meal for a smaller families of three or four, since larger families will likely have grown beyond making meals specifically for their toddlers’ tastes.

Customize for toddlers.

We’ve taken our family’s favorite recipes and toned down the seasonings and sugar content to introduce your toddler to grown-up food without overwhelming their sensitive palates. (Think of these recipes as training wheels for family eating.)

Recipes from the book: Evan’s Lemon Berry Breakfast Risotto Rainbow Fruit Yogurt Parfaits Pumpkin-Cranberry-Apple Steel Cut Oats Beef and Cheddar Sandwiches Deconstructed Chicken Pot Pie Sweet Asian Chicken and Rice Apple-Berry-Cherry Crisp Fresh Berries and Vanilla Cream

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

Breakfasts

Start the day off with a variety of sweet and savory meals that both you and your toddler will love.

Lunches

These lunch recipes are designed to minimize your cooking-serve your toddler the deconstructed meal, while you mix everything together and eat the finished dish for lunch.

Dinners

These dinner recipes are easily customized to be toddler friendly while still representing a meal that parents are happy to eat.

Desserts

We don’t always serve desserts, but when we want to celebrate a special occasion or milestone, these desserts are easy, fun, and toddler-friendly!

Fruit Cocktail Steel Cut Oats

Select Sauté and melt the butter in the pressure cooking pot. Add the oats. Toast for about 3 minutes, stirring constantly, until they smell nutty. Stir in the water, heavy cream, vanilla, and salt. Lock the lid in place. Select High Pressure and 10 minutes cook time.While the oats cook, strain the fruit cocktail over a cup, reserving the juice.When the cook time ends, turn off the pressure cooker. Let the pressure release naturally for 10 minutes, then finish with a quick pressure release. When the float valve drops, carefully remove the lid. Stir the cooked oats in the pressure cooking pot. (They will be quite thick.) Add the drained fruit and enough reserved juice to bring the oats to the desired consistency. Stir to combine. These oats get thicker as they cool; if the consistency becomes thicker than desired, stir in additional reserved fruit juice, heavy cream, or water as needed. Tip

If you’re dishing up individual servings each day, one 4-ounce (115 g) container of fruit cocktail is about the right amount for 1 serving of steel cut oats.

You may still want to reserve some of the juice because thicker oats will be easier for toddlers to eat. To reheat, stir in additional reserved fruit juice, cream, or water and microwave on 50 percent power until the oats reach the desired temperature.

Makes 4 servings. 1 tablespoon (14 g) unsalted butter 1 cup (80 g) steel cut oats 2¼ cups (550 ml) water ½ cup (120 ml) heavy cream 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 can (15 ounces or 425 g) or 4 containers (4 ounces or 115 g each) of fruit cocktail or 100% juice

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard Common Press; Illustrated edition (January 8, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1558329676
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1558329676
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches