The Best Way to Serve Eggs to Baby (puree & baby-led weaning)
Medically reviewed by Sarah Remmer, Registered Dietitian (RD) & Founder, Centre for Family Nutrition.
In this guide, you’ll learn how to serve Eggs to your Baby! Eggs are a great first food for your baby and you can serve them as a baby food puree, mashed, as finger food, or for baby-led weaning, and more! These recipes are great for 6+ months and up.
Eggs for Baby
Eggs are a great first food for your growing baby and are one of my favorite first foods for babies! 🥚
In this guide, you will learn how to feed your baby eggs – easy-peasy.
It’s important to serve your babies eggs that are well-cooked, but there are many ways you can serve them! Whether you are starting with purees or doing baby-led weaning, I’ve got you covered. 👊 You can serve eggs cooked and blended into a baby puree, smashed with avocado on toast (and cut into strips), cooked several different ways for finger food for baby-led weaning, made into 3-ingredient pancakes, or even made into egg muffins. How egg-citing!
First time making homemade baby food? Then, make sure to start by reading our very in-depth guides – Guide on how to Make Homemade Baby Food and/or Complete Guide to Baby-Led Weaning. And be sure to check out my best-selling cookbook, Little Foodie: Baby Food Recipes for Babies and Toddlers with Taste, for even more information and recipes!
How to Cook Eggs
Eggs are a versatile protein to work with, and there are dozens of ways to cook and serve them to your baby. Below, you will find some of the ways I like to serve eggs, but if you have another method you love, then, by all means, have at it. The good news is because there are a variety of ways to cook and serve eggs, your baby will have many opportunities to try them.
Here are some of the ways to serve eggs to your baby (recipes below):
- pureed with your favorite fruit or veggie
- hard-boiled
- mashed with yogurt
- served on toast
- scrambled
- baked into an egg muffin
- made into pancakes
- as an egg roll-up
Tip: While it’s great (and safe!) to serve your baby the entire egg, you could try serving the yolk only for the first couple of feedings, as it is creamier and easier for your baby to eat.
Eggs for Baby-Led Weaning
Eggs are absolutely perfect for baby-led weaning. They’re soft for babies to eat (with or without teeth) and easy for them to grab onto using either their pincer grasp (fingers) or palmer grasp (hand). Some of my favorite ways to serve eggs to babies for baby-led weaning are mashed with yogurt handed to baby on a self-feeding spoon, mashed with avocado and served on toast, hard-boiled and served in strips or chunks, scrambled, made into egg roll-ups, pancakes, or egg cups. There are so many fun ways for your baby to explore the taste of eggs all by themselves!
Eggs for Toddlers
Eggs are still a great source of complete protein and other nutrients for toddlers and kids! While toddlers may turn their noses up to eggs at some point (this is normal and can happen with any food!), it’s still a good idea to keep reintroducing eggs without pressure and in various ways, as they’ll likely come back to it!
Spice Tip: Feel free to spice up your eggs by adding chopped herbs or mild spices. However, salt is not recommended until after 1 year. Some great additions are chives, basil, oregano, cilantro, cumin, mild paprika, or curry powder.
Let’s Make Some Egg Puree
Eggs for Baby-Led Weaning
Eggs are a nutritious food for your baby to self-feed, whether for baby-led weaning, which happens around 6 months of age, or during the finger foods stage at 9 months.
Quartered, strips, or puree (6-9 months): At this age, it’s best to serve baby quartered hard-boiled eggs, strips of an omelet, bigger chunks of scrambled eggs, smashed egg with yogurt, mashed egg yolk with avocado on a toast wedge, or an egg puree served on a self-feeding spoon.
Halved, sliced, or diced (9-12+ months): To have your baby start to work on their pincer grasp, you can serve your baby diced scrambled eggs, omletes as well as diced hard-boiled eggs in addition to the quartered and strips of eggs listed above.
More Egg Recipes for Baby
Fluffy 5-Minute Scrambled Eggs for Baby & Toddlers
The Best 3-Ingredient Banana Pancakes for Baby
The Perfect Cheesy Egg Muffins with Broccoli (loved by baby, toddler & kids)
Easy Cheesy Egg Roll-Ups
Get the recipe: The Best Way to Serve Eggs to Baby (puree & baby-led weaning)
Ingredients
Egg and Mango Puree
- 1 large egg yolk, cooked (hard-boiled or scrambled are best)
- 1 cup ripe mango, fresh or frozen, if using frozen thaw first
Omelet with Chives for Baby-Led Weaning
- 3 large eggs
- 1/2 tsp chives, chopped
- 1 tsp butter
Mashed Egg and Yogurt
- 1/2 large hard-boiled egg yolk
- 1 tbsp plain yogurt 2% or whole milk
Egg and Avocado on Toast
- 1/8 avocado, peeled
- 1/2 large hard-boiled egg, can use just the yolk or entire egg
- 1 piece wholegrain bread, toasted and cut into strips
Instructions
Egg and Mango Puree
- In a blender or food processor, add the cooked egg yolk and mango. Starting on low and increasing to high, blend the ingredients until smooth and creamy.
Scrambled Eggs
- In a small skillet, over medium-low heat, add the butter and let it melt. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, whisk the eggs. Add the eggs to the skillet and with a spatula, gently move the eggs around until curbs start to form. Swirl the pan so that the entire surface is covered with tbe eggs. Cook without stirring until the bottom is starting to set, but the top is still runny roughly 1 – 2 minutes. Sprinkle the chives on half of the eggs. Reduce heat to low. Using a spatula, gently fold over half of the eggs to make a half-moon shape. Let cook for 1-2 minutes or until the middle is set. Let cool and cut into strips or chunks.
Mashed Egg and Yogurt
- On a cutting board, place the hard-boiled egg yolk and the yogurt. Using the back of a fork, mash the two together until completely incorporated. You can leave it chunky or mash until smooth. Serve with a baby spoon or a self-feeding spoon for baby-led weaning.
Egg and Avocado on Toast
- On a cutting board, place the hard-boiled egg or just the yolk and avocado. Using the back of a fork, mash the two together until completely incorporated. You can leave chunky or smooth depending on preference. Scoop the mixture up with the fork and place on the end of a piece of toast. Hand baby the dry side of the toast.
Notes
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10 Comments on “The Best Way to Serve Eggs to Baby (puree & baby-led weaning)”
The pancake recipe has been our go to for a quick nutritious breakfast. I’m just wondering how the pancakes would go if made in advance. Would they need to be kept in the fridge or could they be a lunch box snack?
Thanks!
I hardboiled a few eggs and blended with some breastmilk to make it a thin consistency, my little one doesn’t seem to like it. I want to try again later, can I freeze this purée or will the taste be off after thawing? Thanks
You can freeze egg puree. Depending on how much liquid you used, the texture might be a little thick.
Very helpful in me looking after grandchild and him transitioning to solids. The purees were a hit.
So happy to hear this was helpful and the purees were a hit with your grandchild!
I tried my little one with egg for the 1st time. She didn’t seem a fan?.. gagged alot and then threw it up pretty much straight away.
Should I try again? Another day of leave it for now?
I would wait a few days and try serving her eggs in another form – puree instead of scrambled, egg muffin instead of hard-boiled, etc. Sometimes it just takes time and exposure.
I have tried all these amazing recipes and my little eater loves his eggs!!
His fav is the muffins… he loves breaking them apart.
Thank you so much.
I am so happy to hear your little one is loving his eggs! Way to go! So glad you are here.
They look so yummy and it is really a great way to introduce eggs to babies. Thanks a lot for sharing this.