Chicken Butternut Squash Baby Food Recipe

Chicken Butternut Squash Baby Food Recipe

Almost entirely hands-off, easy method to make the nutritious protein rich Chicken Butternut Squash Baby food recipe. Can be served to babies from 6 months old either as a stage 1 baby food puree combination, stage 2, stage 3 or as baby-led weaning.

Course dinner, Lunch

Cuisine Baby Food

Fridge Life? 3 days

Freezable? 3 months

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 30

Total Time 40

Servings

Calories 107kcal

Author Dora

Equipment

Blender

Ingredients

3.6 oz chicken breast
1 cup butternut squash
1 teaspoon olive oil

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Heat the oven. Preheat the oven to 390ºF / 200ºC.
Prepare the ingredients. Wash, peel and slice the butternut squash into cubes (or ½ inch / 1. 5 cm thick sticks if BLW). Cut the chicken into cubes (or strips the width of two adult fingers put together if BLW).
Bake. Put the chicken and butternut on a baking tray, drizzle with olive oil and bake for 30 mins.
Make a puree. Once cooked, let cool and blend into a smooth puree. Add teaspoon by teaspoon of pre-boiled or bottled water if needed to reach desired consistency. For stage 2, stage 3 baby food combinations, or for baby-led weaning see notes below.
Allow to cool a bit before serving.

Notes

How to serve as a stage 2 and stage 3 baby food combination?

If you are transitioning from purees to finger food and are in the in between stage you may want to mash the chicken (either with a blender or by cutting into tiny tiny pieces) and mix with the mashed butternut squash.

For stage 2 baby food you want thicker mashable chunks and for stage 3 you want soft, chewable, small chunks of butternut squash and chicken
See blog post above for image

How to serve chicken and butternut squash for baby-led weaning?

Butternut squash needs to be so soft you could mash it between your fingers

Chicken should be the size of two fingers stuck together so it is easy for baby to hold. They will mostly just suck on it at this point
See blog post above for image

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