This pureed spinach baby recipe is loaded with vitamins and minerals for your healthy baby. Great to be combined with other sweet or savory baby food purees.
Why we love this recipe:
- Easy baby food
- Very nutritious and healthy
- Great to make for big batch cooking and create puree combinations
- 2 simple methods
- Baby-led weaning and puree made the same way
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Health Benefits of Spinach Puree
Spinach is a great vegetable for babies, toddlers, children and adults. It is not only a very neutral vegetable in terms of taste and pretty easy for the baby to accept but also a food loaded with micronutrients.
It's a good source of fiber and has lots of iron which is a really important micronutrient for babies once they start weaning.
Calcium is another mineral found in spinach that is really important for the babies growth and development as well as vitamin C which is one of the immunity-supporting vitamins.
How to make spinach baby food
You can make this for babies in two ways - either by steaming or boiling.
Steaming retains more nutrients because most micronutrients found in spinach are water soluble so if cooked a lot of those are transferred into the cooking water leaving the cooked spinach itself a little less nutrient-dense.
Note: Spinach reduces in size drastically when cooked. 500 g of raw spinach (about 10 cups) will only give you about 1 cup of cooked spinach.
Method 1: How to steam spinach for baby
- Wash the spinach
- Place it in a steamer basket or steamer and steam for about 5 minutes, until it is soft and has reduced in size
- Run cold water over it to stop it from cooking and cool it quickly.
- Transfer to a blender and blend with water or breastmilk.
Method 2: How to boil spinach for baby food?
- Wash the spinach
- Place spinach in a saucepan with water and bring to boil and boil for about 5 minutes until it has reduced in size.
- Drain in a colander, rinse with cold water.
- Transfer to a blender and blend with water or breastmilk.
How to serve spinach for babies
- As spinach puree
- It is not very appetizing on its own so the best advice we have is to make a big batch and freeze in ice cubes tray and then mix it with other single purees in order to give you baby variety. It goes well with apple puree, carrot puree, banana puree, mango puree, pumpkin puree and then you can add olive oil, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger or any spice you feel would go well.
- When mixing 1 ice cube of spinach puree, add 3 ice cubes of any other puree you are using
- Spinach baby-led weaning
- Serve cooked and finely chopped from 6 months old until 1 year old
- To make it more appetizing best is to mix with other baby food with spinach like baked goods or foods that you baby will easily grab, such as spinach pancakes for baby, baked spinach and ricotta fritters, spinach cornbread muffins, blueberry spinach smoothie.
How to store
- Puree is best stored in airtight containers in the fridge. In freezer use ice cube trays or specific trays for baby puree like this one from Keedo Feedo.
- Store in fridge for 3 days
- Store in freezer for up to 6 months
- Thaw overnight in fridge in airtight container
- To serve remove it 2 hours in advance from the fridge so the puree reaches room temperature and then you don't have to reheat it
- Reheat in a small saucepan on the stove with a tsp of water
FAQ
Babies can have spinach puree as soon as they start weaning. It is a really great vegetable to start with and mix with other foods as it has a neutral taste and is packed with nutrients.
Spinach has not been know to cause constipation in babies so probably will not cause constipation for your baby either. However, everyone is different and their digestive systems might act differently so watch out for any signs of intolerance.
Yes, spinach puree is a great food to give to your baby because it contains iron and calcium that are really important nutrients for your baby during their growth and development.
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Recipe
Best pureed spinach baby recipe
Ingredients
- 500 g spinach
Instructions
Method 1: How to steam spinach for baby
- Wash the spinach
- Place it in a steamer basket or steamer and steam for about 5 minutes, until it is soft and has reduced in size
- Run cold water over it to stop it from cooking and cool it quickly.
- Transfer to a blender and blend with water or breastmilk.
Method 2: How to boil spinach for baby food?
- Wash the spinach
- Place spinach in a sauce pan with water and bring to boil. Boil for about 5 minutes until it has reduced in size
- Drain in a colander, rinse with cold water.
- Transfer to a blender and blend with water or breastmilk.
Notes
- 500 grams (10 cups) of raw spinach yields only about 1 cup of cooked spinach
- It is not very appetizing on its own so the best advice we have it to make a big batch and freeze in ice cubes tray and then mix it with other single purees in order to give you baby variety. It goes well with apple puree, carrot puree, banana puree, mango puree, pumpkin puree
- When mixing, for any 1 ice cube of spinach, add 3 ice cubes of any other puree you are using
- For baby-led weaning serve it cooked and chopped
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