5 Delicious Finger Foods for Baby With No Teeth

1. Home-Made Baby Biscuits Ingredients (Approximately for 18/20 biscuits): ¼ cup ground oats ½ cup butter/peanut butter 2 tbsp. ground flax seeds 1 cup chickpea flour 1/3 cup maple syrup or honey 1 egg beaten 1 tsp. baking soda 2 tsp. vanilla essence 1 – 2 tbsp water (if required) How to Make: Measure a cup of chickpea flour and put it into the freezer (this will help in creating the right consistency and texture for baking). Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit or 175 degree Celsius. Meanwhile, mix the butter, honey/maple syrup, beaten egg, vanilla essence and baking soda together. In another bowl, mix chickpea flour(taken out from the freezer), ground oats, and ground flax seeds. Now using your hands, mix all of it together working out a cookie dough like texture. Take a small ball from the dough and flatten it on a baking tray with a butter paper in between. Bake for approximately 12 minutes. Once out of the oven, gently press on the centre of each biscuit with a fork to get rid of air pockets. This recipe can be a very good finger food for an 8-month-old baby with no teeth. 2.Baby Quiche Cakes Ingredients: 2-3 cups whole wheat flour 1/4th cup Olive oil 3-5 cups of any vegetables (diced carrot, chopped spinach, chopped broccoli or cauliflower, peas) 4 eggs beaten 1 cup grated cheddar cheese 1 ½ cups yoghurt 1 tbsp baking powder Salt to taste How to Make: First, steam the vegetables. Then add them in the batter (whole wheat flour, yoghurt, baking powder, beaten eggs, cheddar cheese, olive oil, and salt). Transfer the batter into a muffin tray that has been greased on the sides. Bake it at 180 degrees Celcius for 20 minutes or until they turn golden brown and firm. Once it cools, you can break it into smaller pieces and give it to your baby or store it in a container and keep it in the fridge. 3. Sweet Potato Fries Ingredients: Sweet potatoes (medium/large) 1/4th cup olive oil Pinch of cinnamon powder How to Make: Pre-heat the oven (400 degrees Fahrenheit). Clean and peel the sweet potatoes. Cut them into thin strips. Put some cinnamon powder on them. Place the strips of sweet potato on a baking sheet. Bake for 30 – 45 minutes or till they are tender. 4. Idli Ingredients: 1 ½ cups parboiled rice ½ cup dhuli urad dal Idly on a plate How to Make: Wash the rice and dal and soak it for 5-6 hours in separate utensils. Then grind the lentil to make a smooth paste and grind rice a little coarse. Mix the two ingredients together and add a bit of salt. Add little water to form a batter of dropping consistency. Leave it for a night to ferment. After the mixture is fermented, steam it in an idli steamer. You can either cut the Idly into small pieces and give it to your baby, or you could cut it into small pieces and fry them in butter before serving it to your baby. 5. Coin Vegetable Parathas Ingredients: Vegetables Wheat flour Oil/butter Stuffed paratha on a plate How to Make: Grate vegetables (any vegetables will do). Mix it with wheat flour and make a dough by adding water. Roll out small round shapes. Heat the pan and grease it with oil/butter. Place the parathas in the pan and cook it over medium flame.