3. Banana and rice porridge
Porridge is healthy for adults but also makes an amazing breakfast for babies. A conventional porridge is made using milk, but since we are preparing it for babies, you can opt out of it or use formula or expressed milk instead.
We use rice here since it is gluten-free, unlike wheat, therefore, you need not worry about allergies. It is for this reason, rice flakes can make a great breakfast cereal for babies.
You will need:
1 cup rice or rice flakes
1 cup chopped banana
3 cups water
1 cup formula or expressed milk (optional)
How to:
Start by cooking the rice or rice flakes by boiling them in a cooking pot till they are soft and mashy without any presence of solid grains.
Once the rice is cooked, add some chopped bananas and formula or expressed milk (optional) in the same cooking pot and cook them together for two to three minutes. Keep stirring the mixture so that the banana and rice mix well. In case you would like to dilute the porridge, add some water and cook for additional three to four minutes.
Once done, let the porridge cool before feeding. This makes a highly nutritious breakfast for your baby.
4. Oatmeal Banana Porridge
This is similar to the previous porridge recipe with the replacement of rice with oatmeal. Oatmeal are usually flat, but you can coarsely grind them again using a hand pounder or a blender with a blunt blade. This is to ensure that there are no fine bits of oats when the porridge is ready and that the oatmeal cooks thoroughly.
You will need:
2 cups ground oatmeal
1 cup chopped banana
3 cups of water
1 cup formula milk (optional)
How to:
Add the ground oatmeal to the water and boil the mixture together. Cook the oats till they are absolutely soft and are easy to mash.
Once the oats are cooked, add bananas and the optional formula milk to the cooking pot and cook the mixture for two to three minutes while stirring it all together. Add water and cook for additional three to four minutes in case you need to dilute the porridge.
Your oatmeal banana porridge is ready. Serve this healthy breakfast to your little one once it is cold enough to feed him.