White beans for baby with carrot and cauliflower (8 months+) It’s a nutritious plant-based meal full of protein with plenty of good stuff for your bub!
White Bean, carrots and cauliflower
This meal I created for my baby Kai is perfect, it’s palatable, high in plant-based protein and filling. As it’s a plant-based protein it’s unlikely to upset his stomach.
Beans are packed full of goodness and has great health benefits, to us and our little ones. So as soon as they turn 8 months old let’s fill them up with yummy beans.
This White Beans with veggies meal will provide your baby with plenty of fibre and protein from the cannellini beans. The carrots provide eye health and cauliflower is packed with wonderful vitamins.
All the above sounds great but that would all be for nothing if bub doesn’t eat it right?
My baby recipes have to pass my harsh little food critic Kai (currently 10-months-old). To pass he must eat the same homemade food I created him at least 5 times without chucking a tantrum. As we all know how babies are like one day they’ll love something and the next hate it!
Kai so far (fingers crossed) has never complained when I feed this to him. He has happily eaten my white beans and veggies on many occasions.
The beans provide a subtle flavour that is not offensive on a baby’s palate and the carrot provide sweetness that babies love!
Veggies, babies and parents!
I have a shameful confession to make and it ain’t pretty.
When parents brag about how much their babies love eating vegetables or how they sleep soundly throughout the night, I convince myself that they are lying.
But then they had to make things complicated by excitedly flaunting their evidence in my face. Like photos or even worse a video of their baby happily munching on broccoli. Seeing this makes me want to uppercut them ‘Mortal Kombat’ style!
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Ok before someone calls the cops, I’m joking but the truth is I do get immensely jealous of parents with veggie munching babies.
Thankfully, I’m a fantastic actress so I say with a big fake smile, ‘Oh wow, how lucky you’re baby eats raw veggies how cool is that?!’
Lucky they really are! because little Kai gives us a hard time with eating veggies and sleeping! For Kai to eat veggies I have to get really sneaky and creative when cooking his food.
Ingredients for White Beans for baby
For a vegan version substitute the butter with olive oil and chicken stock to veggie stock.
Cannellini beans – I used canned cannellini beans. Any variety of can beans can be substituted as long as the texture is soft and the beans can be mashed to prevent chocking.
Chicken stock – I used salt-reduced stock to lessen the overall sodium intake.
Garlic – I used a whole clove of garlic, this may be a bit overwhelming for your baby so you might want to try half first. Kai loves garlic, I am not surprised as I ate so much of it when I was pregnant with him!
How to make White Bean and Veggies for baby
Step-by-step guide with photos
Steam the carrot and cauliflower over rapid boiling water. Start with steaming the carrots and after 10 minutes then add in the cauliflower with the carrots and steam for another 10 minutes or until soft. Leave the mixture to cool slightly.
Pulse the beans in a food processor for a few seconds until it reaches the right texture for your baby, transfer the beans out and leave it aside. In the same food processor add the cooked carrots and cauliflower and blend until smooth.
In a saucepan melt the butter (or heat up the olive oil) on medium heat, add in the garlic and stir quickly for 20 seconds. Add in the blended carrot and cauliflower, beans and the stock. Cook and stir for 3 minutes or until heated through.
Storage: let the mixture cool completely at room temperature and place it in a sealed container, the mixture will last 3 days if kept in the fridge.
See how I freeze, organise, store and serve my baby’s food hassle-free everyday
To freeze: let the mixture cool completely at room temperature then divide into desired portions and freeze in baby pots/cubes. Once frozen it is good for up to 2 months.
Cooking measurements are in Australian standard spoon and cup measurements.
A Third-Party Application calculated the calories and nutritional information. Please use this as an approximate guide only.
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WHITE BEANS FOR BABY WITH VEGGIES
Ingredients
- 3 large carrots (approx 500gm)
- ½ small cauliflower (approx 160gm)
- 1 tsp unsalted butter (or olive oil)
- 1 clove garlic (crushed) (NOTE 1)
- 420 gm canned cannellini beans (rinsed and drained) (NOTE 2)
- ¼ cup reduced-salt chicken stock (or veggie stock) (NOTE 3)
Instructions
- Steam the carrot and cauliflower over rapid boiling water. Start with steaming the carrots and after 10 minutes then add in the cauliflower with the carrots and steam for another 10 minutes or until soft. Leave the mixture to cool slightly.
- Pulse the beans in a food processor for a few seconds until it reaches the right texture for your baby, transfer the beans out and leave it aside. In the same food processor add the cooked carrots and cauliflower and blend until smooth.
- In a saucepan melt the butter (or heat up the olive oil) on medium heat, add in the garlic and stir quickly for 20 seconds. Add in the blended carrot and cauliflower, beans and the stock. Cook and stir for 3 minutes or until heated through.
