Apples, Butternut Squash, Carrots + Curry Baby Food Puree
This Apple, Butternut Squash, and Carrot Baby Food Puree is seasoned with curry to tempt your baby’s taste buds! This stage two combination recipe is the perfect fall puree for babies 6 months and older and makes a great freezer stash for lunch and dinner.
Apples, Butternut Squash, Carrots + Curry Baby Food Puree
A couple of weeks ago, I redid all of my recipe archives and noticed that I didn’t have a single recipe using butternut squash. A single one!! I am not sure how that is even possible because butternut squash is an ideal vegetable to make baby puree with.
It’s slightly sweet, versatile, warming, full of nutrients, and beyond easy to prepare.
I also noticed that I have no broccoli puree recipes, which is probably due from my distaste for the green tree like vegetable.
No worries. Sometime in the new year, when we are detoxing and on some super green cleanse, I will bust out the broccoli purees for you and baby. But for now, it is the amazing butternut squash’s turn.
Butternut squash has a tough exterior, but once you peel back its layers, it is all soft, fluffy, and full of love on the inside. It can be used as one of your baby’s first foods, as a base for a soup, pureed with other vegetables into creamy yumminess, or even as a pasta sauce. You can make it extra sweet, savory, spicy, or caramelized. It really can be anything and everything you want it to be.
So over the next two weeks, get ready for some serious loving on the butternut squash. I already have 4 recipes lined up for you, and there is no doubt that I could easily push this love affair on for the entire month:)
This puree was inspired by a recent Thai dish that I had over at a friend’s house, which was filled with chicken, butternut squash, carrots, and a variety of other vegetables that I cannot remember because I couldn’t stop eating and thinking about the way the light curry sauce, carrots, and butternut squash worked together. It was over-the-top good!
Dare I even say it – it was Delish!
I thought about it for days. It was warming, earthy, and sweet, but with just the right amount of peppery spice, it had that fantastic buttery, melt-in-your-mouth texture. I knew I would have to turn this recipe into a puree for your baby. However, curry may seem like a deep and complex flavor for a baby, a mild curry blend is filled with coriander, cumin, turmeric, ginger, and curry leaves. All spices are warming and nourishing. to them, so it’s always best to taste it first before adding it to any baby puree.
Other great ways to enjoy this puree:
- For a chunky toddler meal, serve puree with chickpeas, peas, and brown rice.
- Mix with spinach and white fish puree for a well-rounded baby dinner.
- Thin puree with chicken stock and drizzle with coconut milk for a family soup.
- Combined with a chicken puree for a Thai-inspired dish.
Get the recipe: Apples, Butternut Squash and Carrots with Curry Baby Food Puree
Ingredients
- 2 apples, peeled, cored and roughly chopped
- 1/2 butternut squash, peeled, deseeded and roughy chopped
- 3 medium carrots, peeled and roughly chopped
- 1/2 tsp mild curry powder
Instructions
- Bring 2 inches of water to a boil in a medium saucepan. Place apples, butternut squash and carrots into a steamer basket over boiling water, cover, and cook for 15 minutes. All ingredients will be done when they can easily be pricked with a fork.
- Let cool slightly. Reserve steamer water.
- Transfer all ingredients into a blender or food processor, add curry and puree for 1-2 minutes adding water from steam basket in 1/4 cup increments until you have reached your desired consistency.
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27 Comments on “Apples, Butternut Squash, Carrots + Curry Baby Food Puree”
Omg!! This is so delicious. I stewed it in coconut milk and I didn’t have curry so I used cinnamon and cloves!! I will be making more but for the whole family for dinner as a soup!!
I am so happy to hear that you loved this puree! Making it into soup is a brilliant idea!
My pumpkin loved every bit of this!
So happy to hear that your little one loved this recipe!
Hi,
Just came across and it looks delicious!! What variety of Apple do you suggest using?
Thanks!
You can use any sweet apples – gala, honeycrisp, fuji, etc.
This looks amazing and I love all of your recipes! I don’t have curry powder at home, do you have any other recommendations?
Hello Michelle,
As an RDN/LDN, I’m very impressed with your website and sound preparation tips offered. I’m enjoying making your 4 and 6 month recipes for my baby granddaughter, and she sure loves eating them! This recipe is one of my favorites. It reminds me of my favorite Butternut Squash Bisque recipe. My own kids missed out as babies and rarely got home made baby foods. The availability of modern prep/storage equipment featured on your links as well as your tasty recipes make this easy and fun, unlike the food mills and bland baby food recipes of yesterday. I love using the silicone egg cups with matching lids. They are a winner for freezing and easy pop out removal of the purees – thanks for featuring them.
This is an amazing recipe. I double the recipe, add a bit of dress ginger, sometimes some turmeric. I puréed all with the water And keep some as a thicker purée for my baby, as well as freezing her a few pods. With the remainder I add either more of the water or some vegetable stock and salt and it makes for an amazingly delicious soup for the rest of the family!
Love that it made a large batch! Baby likes the taste of it too, but I was very surprised by her allergic reaction. Turns out butternut squash can make the skin hard, red and tight. It’s not an allergy I had ever heard about, but i learned that it is not too uncommon. I’m disappointed to throw it out!
Sorry to hear that your babe had a reaction to butternut squash. Sometimes they just need a couple more months to develop the right digestive enzymes for some foods. Parker had a skin rash when she ate strawberries for the first time, and then we reintroduced them 2 months later and she was fine. You can always freeze the puree and reintroduce (a small quantity) in a few months.
Just finished making this and whoa it is tasty! I doubled the recipe so the wee one will be eating this for months!!!!
So happy your little one liked it!!! It’s such a good one. Can’t wait to see the picture on IG:)
xo, Michele
Just finished making this and whoa it is tasty! I doubled the recipe so the wee one will be eating this for months!!!!
So happy your little one liked it!!! It’s such a good one. Can’t wait to see the picture on IG:)
xo, Michele
Hi! This was the first of your 6 month puree recipes I tried (all the 4 month ones I did went over really well!) and it was a hit too. We’re a bit late to the game (didn’t start food until 6 months) but you are helping me work through these stages with ease, and I feel so good about exposing my daughter to a variety of flavours – doing everything I can to be the parent of that toddler who only eats white food. I don’t even love to cook that much and you singlehandedly have turned making baby food into one of my hobbies – I also manage to do it while working full time and commuting long hours with baby. Thank you so much for what you do!
Hello Alana,
What an amazing story! I love that you are able to fit cooking purees into your busy life and still have fun with it! This makes me so happy to hear! Keep up the great work and let me know how your little lady likes all of her 6+ month purees!
xo, Michele
Hi! This was the first of your 6 month puree recipes I tried (all the 4 month ones I did went over really well!) and it was a hit too. We’re a bit late to the game (didn’t start food until 6 months) but you are helping me work through these stages with ease, and I feel so good about exposing my daughter to a variety of flavours – doing everything I can to be the parent of that toddler who only eats white food. I don’t even love to cook that much and you singlehandedly have turned making baby food into one of my hobbies – I also manage to do it while working full time and commuting long hours with baby. Thank you so much for what you do!
Hello Alana,
What an amazing story! I love that you are able to fit cooking purees into your busy life and still have fun with it! This makes me so happy to hear! Keep up the great work and let me know how your little lady likes all of her 6+ month purees!
xo, Michele
Hello Michele,
Just wanted to say…I absolutely LOVE your blog Girl!! My little one has gobbled up every one of your recipes I have made so far. You have made this stage so easy and even that much more fun! Thank you!! I just ordered your book which I am sure is awesome.
I wanted to know what the guidelines were for defrosted food. Should it be consumed within 24hours after defrosted or do we follow the recommended storage times that you list at the end of your recipes?
Thanks again for all of your hard work and wonderful recipes. It is greatly appreciated!!
Hello Dolores,
SO glad you are liking the blog:) and that your little one is eating their yummy purees up!!!
Good question – if you defrost by letting it defrost in the fridge i would say you have 48 hours, if you defrost by heating it up in the fridge I would say 24 hours tops.
xo, Michele
Hello Michele,
Just wanted to say…I absolutely LOVE your blog Girl!! My little one has gobbled up every one of your recipes I have made so far. You have made this stage so easy and even that much more fun! Thank you!! I just ordered your book which I am sure is awesome.
I wanted to know what the guidelines were for defrosted food. Should it be consumed within 24hours after defrosted or do we follow the recommended storage times that you list at the end of your recipes?
Thanks again for all of your hard work and wonderful recipes. It is greatly appreciated!!
Hello Dolores,
SO glad you are liking the blog:) and that your little one is eating their yummy purees up!!!
Good question – if you defrost by letting it defrost in the fridge i would say you have 48 hours, if you defrost by heating it up in the fridge I would say 24 hours tops.
xo, Michele
My little one loved this recipe! I mixed it with the basic chicken puree and he was even more excited. I ate a spoonful now and then too. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying looking for recipes on your blog and trying them out. I feel like he eats better than my husband and I some nights! Thank you so much for your great ideas.
Hello Amanda,
Awesome!!! I am so happy to hear that your little one is enjoying your amazing purees! And yes, my kids eat way better then I do:)
xoxo, Michele
My little one loved this recipe! I mixed it with the basic chicken puree and he was even more excited. I ate a spoonful now and then too. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying looking for recipes on your blog and trying them out. I feel like he eats better than my husband and I some nights! Thank you so much for your great ideas.
Hello Amanda,
Awesome!!! I am so happy to hear that your little one is enjoying your amazing purees! And yes, my kids eat way better then I do:)
xoxo, Michele