How to make delicious pumpkin paste and pumpkin puree

When children reach a certain age, they need to start adding complementary foods. At the beginning, you can prepare some fruit puree and vegetable puree. There are also various meat purees on the market, but the nutritional value of making them for your child at home will be higher. The vegetable or fruit purees sold on the market are not very fresh. If you want to make pumpkin puree for your child, you should prepare fresh ingredients. Pumpkin puree is also rich in nutritional value, so it is very good to give it to your child appropriately.

Sweet Pumpkin Puree

Ingredients: 100 grams of pumpkin. Preparation: remove the seeds from the pumpkin, cut it into small pieces and wash it; steam it in a steamer over high heat for about 12 minutes; peel the steamed pumpkin, put it in a grinding bowl, and grind it into a paste with a grinding stick. When making the sweet pumpkin puree for 5-month-old baby food recipe, be careful to choose an old pumpkin and steam it with the skin on. When buying pumpkins, try not to choose particularly large pumpkins (the taste will be much different). Try to choose those that are more uniform in size and closer to the original color.

The second method is to wash the pumpkin. Since the pumpkin needs to be peeled, just wash it simply. Slices or cubes. There is no strict requirement for slicing or cubes. As long as your pumpkin can be steamed, you have the final say on how big the pumpkin should be. After cutting into pieces, start peeling the skin. Since it has been cut into small pieces, it is more convenient to use a knife to cut the skin. Steam it in a pot. It is best to buy a small steamer specially for children. Generally, it only takes 10 to 20 minutes to steam (depending on the size of the pieces you cut). Here is a lazy method - when the rice is almost steamed, put the pumpkin in and simmer it for a while after the rice is cooked. To make puree, use a spoon to mash the cooked pumpkin into puree.

Pumpkin puree

Ingredients: 50 grams of pumpkin, peel and slice the pumpkin, steam it, let the pumpkin slices warm, use a juicer to shake the pumpkin into pumpkin puree, and feed it to the baby with a small spoon. Pumpkin is rich in fat, protein, trace elements such as iron and zinc, and is rich in natural sugars, which can help metabolism, promote hematopoietic function and bone growth. Adding a few drops of sesame oil can promote the absorption of carotene.

Production Tips

Note that long pumpkins (wax squash) are easier to steam until soft, and can be mashed directly to feed the baby; however, flat round pumpkins are softer and can easily choke the baby, so it is best to add a small amount of water to dilute them into a paste. The old pumpkins in the market are usually sold in cut pieces. When choosing, my mother picks pumpkins with orange-red, darker and rougher skin. Although they don’t look good, they taste sweeter and are suitable for making porridge, stewing, etc.