Easy, 5 min blueberry oatmeal is a great breakfast oatmeal recipe for babies 6 months and older. Creamy with probiotic-rich kefir and healthy fats from almond butter, this quick and easy-to-make breakfast oatmeal for babies will keep your infant happy and fed.
You must have already noticed that oatmeal is one of our favorite breakfasts and that we pair it with almost anything.
As your child gets older, they will be getting used to more and more flavors and textures and looking for different and interesting meals to enjoy.
This recipe combines simple and tasty ingredients for a balanced meal, packed with protein and healthy fats.
Why we love it
- 5 min breakfast oatmeal for baby
- Antioxidant-rich blueberry oatmeal
- Probiotic-rich kefir oatmeal
- Creamy and delicious almond butter
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Ingredients
- Oats - our favorite grain and oatmeal is our favorite breakfast. Partly because you can mix it with almost anything and partly because of its high nutritional content (high in fiber, high in manganese, phosphorus, and copper). We use rolled oats in this recipe.
- Blueberries - have been shown to be one of the most antioxidant-rich foods. They are also high in vitamin K and manganese and contain good amounts of fiber to aid the digestive system.
- Whole blueberries can present a choking hazard for babies and toddlers until the age of 4 so you should either cut them into halves or quarters (based on their size) or mash them before serving.
- Kefir - is a great source of protein and although at 1 year of age you can start using cow's milk, we still prefer kefir for its "good" probiotic bacteria which act as protective compounds for the gut.
- Almond butter - a great source of both energy and the "good" fats, as well as vitamin E (another antioxidant!) and copper. At this age, whole nuts still present a choking hazard so it is better (and easier) to use chopped or ground nuts and nut butters.
How to make
1. Place the oats and water in a pot and bring to a boil, then lower the heat until the oats absorb all the water (should be about 5 minutes)
2. In the meantime, wash the blueberries and smash them to minimize choking for babies.
3. Once the oats are cooked, mix in the smashed blueberries, almond butter, and kefir and allow the oatmeal to cool for a bit before serving to baby.
4. Serve to baby on a preloaded spoon or in a suction bowl where they can scoop oatmeal with their hand out.
How to serve oatmeal to baby?
Either put some oatmeal in front of them to eat with their hands or put some oatmeal on a spoon and let your baby try to get it into their mouth. While you may have to feed them to some extent, letting them have some autonomy can help them enjoy mealtimes and learn how to feed themselves more quickly.
If serving to toddlers then you can help them learn to scoop with a spoon by using this ergonomic cutlery.
Top Tips
As with any oatmeal, the oats should be either cooked or soaked in liquid. In this recipe, we chose to cook them but they can just as easily be soaked in kefir overnight.
Cook oatmeal for longer. The longer you cook oatmeal the softer it will be and the easier it will be for baby to learn to eat in the beginning. If you feel like the oatmeal is not soft enough, but it has absorbed all the water, then just keep adding water little by little until your desired consistency is reached.
Variations
Use different grains. Oats can also be substituted with any other grain.
Use different nut butters. You can use any other nut butter to replace almond butter in this oatmeal. Try our homemade hazelnut butter.
Use a different fruit. This recipe can be made with pretty much any fruit which is cut up in smaller pieces but I would always suggest substituting berries with other berries (eg. raspberries for blueberries) for their similar nutritional value.
FAQ
Oatmeal with berries can be served to babies from the day they start solids. New recommendations for weaning state that you don't need to introduce food one by one so in theory you can serve this as the first baby meal. However, I am an advocate of introducing foods one by one (1 new food each day) so that in case of any allergies or allergy symptoms you can easily point out which food is the culprit.
Kefir is produced from milk, usually cow's milk, but it is made through the process of fermentation which makes lactose from milk more digestable. Therefore kefir can be served to babies before they reach 1 year of age, even from the age of 6 months.
We use rolled oats and not baby cereal. We don't use baby cereal because it often has added ingredients which are usually palm oil and sugar that we would like to avoid.
Yep. We use kefir because it is richer in healthy bacteria, but any yogurt will do. Probiotic yogurt would be even better than plain. The only thing I would suggest you avoid is fruit yogurt since it almost always contains added sugar, mainly in the form of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
Yes. There are great plant-based yogurt options that can be used instead of kefir.
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Recipe
Blueberry Oatmeal with Kefir and Almond Butter
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp oats
- 2 tbsp water
- 1 tsp almond butter
- ¼ cup kefir
- ⅔ cup blueberries
Instructions
- Place the oats and water in a pot and bring to a boil, then lower the heat until the oats absorb all the water (should be about 5 minutes)
- In the meantime, wash the blueberries and smash them to minimize choking for babies.
- Once the oats are cooked, mix in the smashed blueberries, almond butter and kefir and allow the oatmeal to cool for a bit before serving to baby.
- Serve to baby on a preloaded spoon or in a suction bowl where they can scoop oatmeal with their hand out.
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