Home Made Meals/Recipes for babies aged 6-9 months

Meals for Babies Aged 6-9 Months Fruit recipes Baked Bananas Babies love bananas and this recipe makes them taste absolutely scrumptious. You can make this recipe Jamaican style by using brown sugar instead of maple syrup and adding the juice of 1 orange. You could also cook in a frying pan and flambe with rum for a dinner party. MAKES 1 PORTION 1 banana, sliced in half lengthwise   powdered cinnamon 1 teaspoon maple syrup   margarine or butter Put the banana into an ovenproof dish. Pour over the maple syrup, sprinkle with a little innamon and dot with a little margarine or butter. Cook with foil and bake at 350F(180C) Gas mark 6 for 10 minutes.     Avocado, Banana and Yogurt This should be eaten straightaway before it turns brown. MAKES 1 PORTION 2 slices avocado   1 tablespoon natural greek yogurt 1/2 small banana, peeled    Scoop the flesh of the avocado from the skin and mash it together with the rest of the ingredients.   Apple and Baby Cereal Try using different fruits such as peaches, mangoes, plums and combinations like apple and raisin, and peach and redcurrant MAKES 10 PORTIONS 1 eating apple, peeled, cored & cut into small pieces   2 teaspoons baby cereal 85ml(3floz) natural apple juice   2 teaspoons natural yogurt Cook the apple over a low heat with the apple juice and 2 tablespoons water until soft.(approx 15 minutes). Puree the apple with the cooking liquid, then stir in the cereal and yogurt.   Peaches and Rice You could use nectarines or plums or add raisins and spices. MAKES 10 PORTIONS 50g(2oz) brown rice    2 ripe peaches, skinned & stoned apple juice   natural yogurt or fromage frais over the rice with apple juice and cook for 20 minutes or until tender. Puree the peaches, mix with the rice and bake in a buttered dish for 15-20 inutes at 350F(180C) Gas mark 4. Puree in a blender and serve plain or mixed with a little fromage frais or yogurt.   Apples and Prunes with Custard Babies should not eat eggs before 8 months but this eggless custard always goes down well poured over, or stirred into, fruit MAKES 20 PORTIONS 8 prunes, soaked overnight   4 apples Eggless Custard 200 ml(7floz) milk   1 tablespoon custard powder 1 teaspoon caster sugar Simmer the prunes gently in the soaking water till tender(approx 10 minutes). Meanwhile make an apple puree. Stone, then puree the prunes in a mouli. Mix together with the apple puree. To make the ustard, put 175ml(6floz) milk in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Stir the custard powder and sugar into the remaining cold milk and stir until smooth. Stir this into the hot milk off the heat. Bring to the boil and stir until thickened.     Cottage Cheese and Sharon Fruit Sharon fruit looks like an orange tomato. It must be very ripe and soft before it is eaten, and it tastes a little like a sweet plum. The second portion will keep in the fridge for the next day. MAKES 2 PORTIONS Cut the sharon fruit in half and remove the skin. Blend the flesh together with the cottage cheese until smooth.   Home-Made Fruit Jelly It is very easy to make fruit jelly at home and it is not full of sugar or artificial colourings like some of the commercially prepared fruit jellies. If you are short of time or do not have fresh puress or juices to hand, packet jelly can be used for any of these recipes. MAKES 12 PORTIONS 1 envelope of powdered gelatine   600ml(1 pint) fresh fruit juice or fruit puree Sprinke the gelatine over 50ml(2floz) of warmed fruit juice(or water if using fruit puree) in a cup. Stand the up in a pan of hot water if necessary until gelatine dissolves. Pour into the remaing fruit juice or puree, stirring thoroughly. Pour into a suitable container, cool, then chill until set. Fruit Jelly Shapes Set jelly in a 20cm(8inch) square tin, lined with foil. Turn the tin over, remove the foil and make different shapes from the jelly using biscuit cutters. Fruit and yogurt Jelly Make up half the quantity of any fruit flavoured jelly and chill for 30 minutes, then stir in a complementary flavoured fruit yogurt. hill again to set. This jelly will not set firm and so is not suitable for a mould. Traffic Light Jelly Make up half the quantity of jelly usin a green coloured fruit juice or puree. Pour into a large fluted jelly mould.(a wet mould is easier to turn the jelly out) chill for 11/2 hours. Repeat with an orange oloured juice or puree and pour on top. Chill again and repeat with a red coloured juice/puree. Chill until set. Dip into hot water cover with a plate and turn over to unmould.

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