Weaning - Steaming or roasting

[Mims]

Hi Everyone

I am weaning my son Benjamin at the moment and wanted to know what people thought was the best way of cooking veggies for him, ie to give them more flavour. I have the AK recipe book and a lot of the recipes say to steam or boil the veggies to retain the vitamins, which I have been doing and Benji has been thoroughly enjoying them. But do you think roasting them would make them taste any different??

I'm still very new at all this so any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

Mims

[cathyg]

i personally wouldn't roast them yet, as they will become hard(er) on the outside so might make pureeing more difficult. Also when pureeing you can usually use some of the fluid that the veggies have been cooked in to help get it smooth & watery. Hope this helps.

[emmab23]

i'd personally stick to steaming or boiling them until hes a bit a older and can chew things coz i think if you roast them and then try to puree them they would taste so good. Yet saying that roasting maybe quite good as finger food dont know how old your LO is but try roasting if into finger food.

[vmalzone]

once my son was happily eating most veg and ready to move on from the ultra-smooth purees to just a "normal" puree, I did roasted veg. It has more flavor, and also I'd do it with olive oil which adds a healthy fat and helps some of the fat-soluble vitamins be absorbed.

[Ellie H]

An oven baked sweet potato with the flesh scooped out is a great simple food, if you wanted to make it runnier you could mash it together with some expressed breastmilk, formula or water.

Oven baking veggies makes them extra tasty and brings out the natural sweetness which Ethan loved!

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[isabellasmum]

Isabella would only eat finger food so from when we started weaning at 6 months she used to eat roasted veggies.


I started with sweet potato/carrot/parsnip and swede cut into long chunks and used to add unsalted butter for roasting.

Really tasty and I love it too!