His First Super Greens - Broccoli

The super baby food book has been a bible whenever it comes to Ian's diet. Although asparagus is OKed from 7 month onwards, we have never given it a try because we are not exactly sure how to prepare it for Ian. We have bought the frozen green peas a couple of weeks ago, but have not yet cooked it for Ian.

And since the book has finally given the green light for broccoli (as Ian is already 8 months old), we bought the organic variety from NTUC yesterday to let him start on his super greens. This is one of my favourite vegetables as well.

This morning, I cut 3 bunches of florets and soaked them in salt water for about 10 minutes.


After a little soaking and washing, they went into the steamer for a 10 minutes sauna before going into the blender. One third went into the fridge (to be fed to Ian later), and I splitted the remainder into 2 baby cubes for freezing.

At the same time, I was cooking the brown rice grains to make some porridge for Ian. Cooking a pot of brown rice porridge was not an easy task as I had to keep stirring to prevent the bottom from sticking and to prevent the water from overflowing.

It was hard to cook the brown rice grains into the mashy consistency that I required. After about 30 minutes of cooking over the stove, I threw a cube of frozen pumpkin puree and a slice of organic tofu into the pot, then transferred the shuttle chef thermal pot into its outer container to let it continue to cook.

When Ian woke up from his nap, the porridge was still not mashy enough. So, we blended it before giving Ian.