11. Sweet potato puffs
Ideal for age:
18 months and above
You will need:
4 cups cooked and mashed sweet potatoes
3 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tbsp water
1 tbsp fresh apple sauce
1 cup baby cereal
½ cup flour
How to:
Take the mashed sweet potatoes, oil, apple sauce, and water and pour them into a mixing bowl. Stir the mixture well.
Add baby cereal and flour to this mixture. You can add extra baby cereal in case you want the batter to be coarse. Once you are done mixing, the sweet potato dough will be ready.
Wrap the dough in a cookie sheet or a clear plastic sheet to make a dough cone. Cut the tip of the sheet from where you pour small drop-shaped servings. Take each serving and roll them into a ball, between your palms. Once done, make a small hole with your finger at the center of the ball to leave an air bubble thus giving it a puff-like appearance. Place each puff, with the hole side down, on the baking tray. You can grease the baking tray with a touch of vegetable oil to prevent the baked nuggets from sticking to the tray.
Preheat the oven to 350ºC and bake the puffs for 15 minutes. Shorten the baking time if you want the puffs to be soft and chewy. Let them cool a bit before your baby eats them.
12. Sweet potato wedges or fries
Ideal for age:
18 months and above
You will need:
Sweet potatoes
Vegetable oil
Baby cereal (optional)
How to:
Peel the sweet potatoes and cut them into wedge or fries-like shape. You then have two options – either use these wedges as it is or coat them with a layer of baby cereal. A coat of baby cereal can help make the wedges more chunky.
Preheat the oven to 200ºC. Grease a baking tray with a bit of vegetable oil and place the coated or uncoated sweet potato wedges in it. Drizzle some vegetable oil on the wedges and bake them for 35 minutes.
You can bake them for longer in case you want a crispier texture. Let the wedges cool before your baby enjoys them. You make sweet potato fries for a baby in the same manner. All you have to do is cut the sweet potatoes in the shape of fries. Sweet potato chips and sticks are made the same way by just cutting them in different ways.
You can feed these sweet potato baby food preparations whenever you like. There are other ways of feeding sweet potato to your baby, by combining it with vegetables and cereals.