Do you need to add water to your baby's mashed potatoes?

Baby is six months old and has just started to add complementary foods, what can he/she eat? In addition to rice flour, you can also try single vegetable puree and fruit puree. Watered version of mashed potatoes is a bit denser and smoother, which is suitable for little babies who are just starting to eat complementary foods, while the waterless version is relatively drier, so you can choose according to your baby's taste.

Potatoes, also known as potatoes or yams, are one of the best foods for babies to start with. But potatoes contain a toxic ingredient - lobelia, concentrated in the skin and near the skin, but under normal circumstances the content is very small and will not cause poisoning. Therefore, when making complementary food for babies, try to remove the skin thicker. Also be careful when buying that you don't pick sprouted or unripe potatoes (with greenish purple skins), which can contain high levels of lobelia.

Six months baby supplemental food mashed potato practice:

1. Potatoes peeled, cut into thin slices. Potatoes should be cut into thin slices so as to save the time of steaming.

2. Add cool water to the pot, cool water directly into the potatoes, cook for about 20 minutes. Boil the potatoes directly in the water, firstly because it is convenient, and secondly because boiling cooks them faster than steaming.

3. Boil the potatoes and put them in a bowl. The potatoes need to be boiled for a long time, so that they can be broken with a light pinch of chopsticks.

4. Add water and mix to finish, add about 6 tablespoons of water, use a blender to mix out the mashed potatoes will not have excess water, but very fine.

The family's supplemental food machine, blender, cooking machine, cooking stick, grinding bowl, as long as you can mix the small appliances can be used to do the baby supplemental food, even if you do not have time to buy, with a spoon to the potato crushed can also be a little bit of water, mixing can be. Add your own mayonnaise mix, the flavor is also beautiful.