Potato and Vegetable Soup for Babies and Toddlers
by Tarla Dalal
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This soothing and sumptuous Potato and Vegetable Soup for Babies and Toddlers features four lovely, colourful veggies – carrot, French beans, potatoes and cauliflower.
After 8 months is the ideal time to introduce your baby to new flavours, and this Vegetable Soup serves that purpose well.
Just ensure that your child is not allergic to any of the ingredients. Apart from exploring new flavours, this thick and creamy lunch-time Potato and Vegetable Soup for Babies and Toddlers will also provide your child with ample antioxidants, vitamin A and Vitamin C along with fiber.
Serve this Potato and Vegetable Soup for Kids to your baby anytime during the day.
Also try other healthy soups for babies above 8 months old like Carrot Soup for Babies and Beetroot Soup for Babies.
Enjoy how to make Potato and Vegetable Soup for Babies and Toddlers recipe with detailed step by step photos below.
Potato and Vegetable Soup for Babies and Toddlers recipe - How to make Potato and Vegetable Soup for Babies and Toddlers
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Makes 1 cup
For Potato and Vegetable Soup For Babies and Toddlers
1/4 cup peeled and chopped potatoes
1/4 cup peeled and chopped carrot
1/4 cup stringed and chopped french beans
1/4 cup chopped cauliflower
Method
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Notes for Potato and Vegetable Soup for Babies
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- Combine the potatoes, carrot, french beans, cauliflower and 1 cup of water in a pressure cooker, mix well and pressure cook for 2 whistles.
- Allow the steam to escape before opening the lid.
- Cool slightly and blend in a mixer till smooth.
- Transfer the mixture into a deep non-stick pan and cook on a medium flame for 1 minute.
- Serve the {span class="bold1"}potato and vegetable soup for babies and toddlers{/span} lukewarm.
Potato and Vegetable Soup for Babies and Toddlers recipe with step by step photos
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Notes for Potato and Vegetable Soup for Babies
- This soup is a combination of 4 vegetables. Ensure that you have introduced each of these vegetables individually to your baby, before feeding this Potato and Vegetable Soup for Babies.
- Salt has not been added to this soup, as pediatricians don’t recommend it for a baby less than 1 year old. So consult your pediatrician before adding salt to this soup.
- Feed your baby in a upright position to avoid choking.
- Wash all the vegetables with clean water before using them to make soup.
- Never throw away the water in which the food is cooked. It has water-soluble vitamins.
- Remember to sterilize all the equipment, bowls and spoons and before using for cooking and feeding.
For Potato and Vegetable Soup for Babies
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For Potato and Vegetable Soup for Babies and Toddlers, you first need to chop the potato. For that buy the perfect potatoes. Potatoes should be firm, well-shaped and relatively smooth, and should be free of decay that often manifests as wet or dry rot. In addition, they should not be sprouting or have green colouration since this indicates that they may contain the toxic substance that imparts an undesirable taste.
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Wash the potatoes very well with clean water to make it free of dirt if any. Wash it under running water to prevent any sort of contamination.
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Wipe it with a clean kitchen towel.
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Peel the potatoes with a sterilized peeler and discard the peels.
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Using a sterilized knife chop the potatoes. Keep the chopped potatoes aside.
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Then you need to chop the carrot to make Potato Vegetable Soup for Babies. For that buy the perfect carrot. Carrot should be firm, smooth, relatively straight and bright in color. Avoid carrots that are excessively cracked or bruised.
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Wash the carrot very well with clean water to make it free of dirt if any. Wash it under running water to prevent any sort of contamination.
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Wipe it with a clean kitchen towel.
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Peel the carrot with a sterilized peeler and discard the peels. Peel it very well so that no fibrous part remain as these are not easily digestible by babies at 8 months.
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Using a sterilized knife chop the carrots. Keep the chopped carrot aside.
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Now prepare the French Beans for Potato Veggie Soup for Babies & Toddlers. Always look for the youngest, brightest and freshest looking French beans that have crisp pods. Choose beans while they're still firm, rather than limp and rubbery.
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Wash the French beans very well with clean water to make it free of dirt if any. Wash it under running water to prevent any sort of contamination.
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Wipe them with a clean kitchen towel and pat dry them.
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Chop the pointed edges from both the ends of each bean using a sterilized knife.
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Using the same knife, chop the French beans. Keep the chopped French beans aside.
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Next you need prepare the cauliflower. Choose cauliflower that has light cream coloured, tight and compactly arranged florets, with no dark spots and with firm straight leaves.
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Separate the cauliflower florets. We don’t need cauliflower greens in this Potato and Vegetable Soup for Toddlers.
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Wash the cauliflower florets very well with clean water to make it free of dirt if any. Wash it under running water to prevent any sort of contamination.
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Wipe them with a clean kitchen towel and pat dry them.
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Using the sterilised knife chop the cauliflower. Keep the chopped cauliflower aside.
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Now take a clean pressure cooker and add all the chopped vegetables one by one. First add the chopped potatoes.
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Then add the chopped carrot.
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Then add the chopped French beans.
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Finally add the chopped cauliflower.
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Add 1 cup of water for cooking Potato Veggie Soup for Babies and Toddlers.
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Close the lid of the pressure cooker and pressure cook for 2 whistles. Allow the steam to escape before opening the lid.
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Open the lid of the pressure cooker. This is how cooked mixture for Potato and Vegetable Soup for Babies will look like. Again cool it slightly.
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Transfer the mixture into a mixer jar.
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Blend very well till smooth. Ensure that no vegetable pieces remain after blending, as that can lead to choking in babies.
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Transfer the mixture into a non-stick pan.
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Mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1 minute. Stir it once in between.
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Remove from the flame and cool it slightly. Serve the Potato and Vegetable Soup for Babies & Toddlers lukewarm. Feed it with love to your baby and watch that grin on his / her face.
- If your baby loves Potato and Vegetable Soup for Babies & Toddlers, also try other semi-solid foods like Rice Mash for Babies, Mixed Vegetable Dal Mash for Babies and Jowar Porridge for Babies. Feed your baby a variety of foods to make up for all the nutrient requirement for growth and development.
Nutrient values per cup
| Energy | 85 cal |
| Protein | 2.6 g |
| Carbohydrates | 17.8 g |
| Fiber | 4.5 g |
| Fat | 0.3 g |
| Cholesterol | 0 mg |
| Vitamin A | 783.4 mcg |
| Vitamin B1 | 0.1 mg |
| Vitamin B2 | 0.1 mg |
| Vitamin B3 | 1.3 mg |
| Vitamin C | 38.3 mg |
| Folic Acid | 50.1 mcg |
| Calcium | 63.7 mg |
| Iron | 1.3 mg |
| Magnesium | 39.9 mg |
| Phosphorus | 251.2 mg |
| Sodium | 40.3 mg |
| Potassium | 250.4 mg |
| Zinc | 0.7 mg |
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Potato vegetable soup, a stomach filling and satisfying soup for a kid. My nephew loves the taste of this vegetables, and shows signs as he wants more. Thankyou for the recipe.