Apple + Mint with Cottage Cheese Baby Food Puree
This Apple + Mint with Cottage Cheese Baby Food Puree is a great smooth or chunky combination for baby. Filled with sweet apples, refreshing mint and chunky cottage cheese for a delicious meal for baby. Great for stage 2 or Stage Baby Food!
Apple + Mint with Cottage Cheese Baby Food Puree
The other week, I made a rather excellent puree with just roasted bananas and rosemary, and it got me thinking about what other fruits I could mix up with a savory spice or herb. So I decided to start with apples. Apples and cinnamon are one of my go-to purees for babies, toddlers and even adults [yes, including myself]. But I wanted to give it a fresh twist, something equally as delicious but with a fun summer punch.
Enter Mint.
Mint is one of my all time favorite summer herbs and I love tossing it into smoothies, salads, cocktails, ice cream, pasta and just about anything else.
Apples and Mint just seem right together.
A puree combination that is sweet, smooth, fresh and cool.
You can totally stop with just the puree, but why not add another fun surprise but mixing it with some full fat cottage cheese.
We don’t get cottage cheese at our house very often, mostly because I am beyond addicted to greek yogurt, but cottage cheese is a great thing to add to purees for some additional calcium and protein. If the chunkiness of the cottage cheese is a little much for your little one, just pop the puree and cottage cheese into a blender and whirl around for a couple of seconds.
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Get the recipe: Apple + Mint with Cottage Cheese Baby Food Puree
Ingredients
- 4 apples, peeled, cored and roughly chopped
- 1/2 cup water
- 6 mint leaves
- 1 cup organic full-fat cottage cheese
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan, place the apples and water. Cover, and cook over medium heat for 10-15 minutes or unitl easily pricked with a fork, stirring occasionally. Let cool slightly.
- Transfer the cooked apples to a blender or food processor. Add in the min leaves. Puree on high for 1-2 minutes or until you have reached your desired consistency, adding additional water in tablespoon increments if needed.
- For a Stage 2 puree – add the cottage cheese to the blender and blend until smooth. For a Stage 3 Baby Food – pour the puree into a seperate medium sized bowl and gently stir in the cottage cheese.
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7 Comments on “Apple + Mint with Cottage Cheese Baby Food Puree”
Is cottage cheese safe for six month old babies?
Hello Faiza,
Cottage cheese (or any cheese) is usually recommended for babies 8 months and older.
xoxo,
Michele
I wanted to add that if your baby is ready to try cottage cheese or any cheese before that, give it a try. Start with a small amount and add more if it agrees with them. It’s all a practice of listening to your baby.
I wouldn’t however start cheese before 6 months of age.
Hope that helps,
Michele
Do you peel the apples or let the purée stay a little chunky? And did you strain the purée before adding the cottage cheese?
Hello Molly,
I usually don’t peel my apples but I have a Vitamix blender and that thing can make anything smooth. But if your purees are turning out a little chunky, then you can peel the apples or maybe add a little more water, breast milk or formula to the blender while pureeing it.
I did not strain my puree before adding it to the cottage cheese. I kept them separate until I served them so maybe because they were in the fridge they didn’t curdled (my puree did have the cottage cheese chunks in it, which you can also add to blender and puree if you want).
Hope that helps,
Michele
Mine definitely did not look like the pictures… Chunky and almost curdled looking. Thoughts?
One of my favorite snacks growing up was cottage cheese and apple sauce! My 11 month old loves it too.