Recipe: Homemade Baby Cereals

Recipes: Homemade Baby Cereals

Rice Cereal – Suitable from 4 to 6 months

Ingredients

45 grams of Ground Brown Rice
240ml Water

Step 1

To get the ground brown rice, simply take your brown rice and pop into a food blender/coffee bean grinder/Nutri Bullet and blend until the rice forms a powder,

Step 2

Bring water to the boil in a saucepan. Add in your rice powder and continuously stir.

Step 3

Simmer for around 10 minutes, stirring the mixture constantly. Mix in breast milk or formula if desired until cereal is at preferred consistency.

Step 4

Serve warm!

Whole Rice Cereal – Suitable from 4 to 6 months

Ingredients

90 grams of Brown Rice
240ml Water

Step 1

Bring the water to the boil in a saucepan. Add in your rice.

Step 2

Simmer according to cooking instructions, around 20 minutes. Don’t forget to give it a good stir halfway through!

Step 3

When rice has cooked and cooled slightly, pop into a blender with 120ml of liquid of your choice, whether that be water, formula or breastmilk.

Step 4

Blend until the cereal has reached desired consistency. Add more liquid if required. Keep an eye it doesn’t become too runny!

Pear & Rice Baby Cereal – Suitable from 5 months

Ingredients

45 grams of Brown Rice
Half a pear
240ml Water

Step 1

Bring the water to the boil in a saucepan. Add in your rice and chopped pear.

Step 2

Simmer according to cooking instructions, around 20 minutes. Don’t forget to give it a good stir halfway through!

Step 3

When mixture has cooked and cooled slightly, pop into a blender with 120ml of liquid of your choice, whether that be water, formula or breastmilk.

Step 4

Blend until the cereal has reached desired consistency. Add more liquid if required. Keep an eye it doesn’t become too runny!

Top Tip! Mix our Stage 1 Banana Blue with any of the rice recipes above for a tasty zing for little taste buds!

Not a fan of rice cereal? Why not try this quinoa treat?

Sweet Potato, Apple & Carrot Quinoa

Ingredients

1 organic sweet potato
1 organic apple
1 medium organic carrot
47.5 grams organic quinoa
240ml homemade chicken stock
Extra liquid of your choice – formula, breastmilk or water

Step 1

Roast the apple and sweet potato together in the oven at 180C for around 20 minutes. When you see juice escaping for the sweet potato, it’s time to take it out of the oven and let it cool slightly.

Step 2

Thinly slice the carrots and pop them into a saucepan with the quinoa. Add the homemade chicken stock (click here for our foolproof homemade stock recipe) and simmer uncovered for 15 minutes.

A good trick to know when quinoa is cooked is that little sprouts will pop out from the seeds once the liquid has been absorbed!

Step 3

Remove the skins for the apple and potato. Slice the apple (remove the core!) and potato and add to a blender. Add in the carrots and quinoa from earlier.

Step 4

Blend until the mixture is at your preferred consistency. Add in additional liquid (breastmilk, formula or water, whatever you prefer!) until the consistency is just right for your little one!