Learn how to make delicious fritters for your little one! Explore nutritious options with whole grains, vegetables, and proteins. Discover the best cooking techniques to avoid soggy disasters. Get tips on egg substitutions for allergenic needs and ideas for low-sodium sauces to enhance flavors. Make mealtime fun and safe with serving suggestions, ensuring your baby confidently self-feeds. Perfect for busy families navigating the transition to solid foods!
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Frying Adds Essential Fat
Fry fritters in hot oil to add flavor and necessary fat for babies.
Frying provides vital calories and a pleasant texture for self-feeding babies learning to eat.
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Start Fritters With Dry Whole Grains
Use a dry cooked whole grain as the base for baby fritters to ensure they hold together.
Avoid soggy grains by drying cooked grains thoroughly before adding to your fritter mix.
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Add Cooked Vegetables Safely
Incorporate cooked or finely shredded vegetables into baby fritters for added nutrition.
Avoid raw, hard, or crunchy vegetables unless shaved thin and cooked in the frying process.
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#143: Fritters are an easy way to help your baby safely eat smaller pieces of food early on in baby-led weaning. You can incorporate cooked whole grains, proteins and various types of cooked vegetables in fritters that your baby can then self-feed. In this episode we’re talking about the components of a basic baby-led weaning fritter recipe as well as substitution ideas if your baby doesn’t eat eggs.
Listen to this episode to learn:
What are the basic ingredients of a fritter? ...including ratios of ingredients and egg substitution ideas if baby is allergic to or the family does not eat eggs
How to prepare fritters perfectly every time so you never end up with soggy fritters that won’t stick together!
Shownotes for this episode can be found here:
https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/143
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Bowls
Serve your baby fritters cut into strips about the size of your adult pinky finger. I use the ezpz Tiny Bowl and the ezpz Mini Bowl for trying new BLW foods. You can get 10% off all ezpz products at ezpzfun.com with my code KATIE10 (this is my affiliate code).
Avocado Oil
Frying fritters is an easy way to add flavor and fat. I like avocado oil because of its high smoke point, mild flavor profile and unsaturated fatty acid makeup. I use Primal Kitchen avocado oil and you can get 10% off with code FERRARO10 (this is my affiliate code).
Low Sodium BLW Sauce Recipes
If your fritters are dry or crispy they can be a potential choking hazard for your baby. We want to add sauces, dippers or toppers to moisturize foods and increase lubrication in the mouth which in turn reduces choking risk. I have a free download called “5 LOW-SODIUM SAUCES FOR MAKING BLW FOODS SAFER” and you can download those 5 free sauce BLW recipes here.
Seasoning & Spices for BLW
In this episode we talked about the basic BLW fritter recipe, but don’t be afraid to keep going by adding new flavors, spices and seasonings to your fritter batter. Babies don’t have to eat bland food! I love the low sodium seasoning options from Spice House, especially their Salt Free Spices Deluxe Gift Set which works great for baby-led weaning. You can get 10% off your order of $25 or more with code KATIE10 (this is my affiliate code).
100 First Foods List
Fritters are a fabulous way to make those pesky whole grains safe for your baby to eat. If you’re following my 100 FIRST FOODS approach to BLW, there are 20 grain foods, many of which go great in fritters.
Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free online video workshop called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS.
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