Spinach Apple Baby Puree
This Spinach Apple Baby Food Puree is perfect to introduce to your baby around 6 months of age. With the addition of cinnamon, ginger, and cloves, this combination puree tastes amazing! It’s Great for Stage 2 Baby Food or 6+ months and up.
Apple Spinach Puree for Baby
This flavorful puree is a great way to introduce spinach 🌱 to baby!
Because spinach can be an intense taste for some babies, we are going to start by simmering some apples in a pinch of cinnamon, cloves and ginger before adding the spinach and pureeing to a smooth and silky texture. These spices, while optional, are a great way to balance out the entire puree.
Spinach Apple Puree Video
Ingredients
- Apples: make up the bulk of the puree as the spinach blends down to just an ounce of actual puree. I would recommend using a sweeter apple for this puree to balance out the spinach. I have a list of great apple options below.
- Spinach: is really the main star of the show. You can add 1-2 cups of spinach to this recipe. If it’s the first time you are giving baby spinach, you may want to start at 1 cup and add more the next time you make this puree.
- Spices: we will be using a pinch of cinnamon, cloves, and ginger powder in this recipe, which helps even out the sweetness of the apples. While I love the added flavor of the spices, you can omit them if you prefer.
Apple Tip: I recommend using a sweeter apple such a Pink Lady or McIntosh, but really can you use any apple you prefer or have on hand. Some other great options are: Pink Lady, Kanzi, Honeycrisp, Fuji, McIntosh, or Jazz apples. The only apples that I have found are a little difficult to work with are Golden Delicious and Red Delicious (get too grainy and soggy) and Granny Smith (too tart), but other than that you can go with whatever you can find in your local grocery store.
Let’s Get Cooking
HOW TO STORE SPINACH APPLE PUREE
You can store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days or in the freezer for up to 4 months..
Expert Tips
- Start Small: I would recommend starting with adding 1 cup of spinach to this recipe if it’s baby’s first time eating spinach and then add more from there. Spinach can be bitter for some babies, so it’s best to start slowly.
- Picky Eaters: if your baby or toddler is in a picky-eating phase you can try to put this puree into a reusable pouch and serve it as a snack. Most kids love applesauce in the pouch and this one tastes just as good!
- Use Pears: another great option for this puree is to use pears in place of the apples. The rest of the cooking times and process is the same.
Get the recipe: Spinach Apple Baby Puree (Stage Two)
Ingredients
- 6 apples, peeled, cored and chopped
- 1-2 cups fresh baby spinach, packed (see notes)
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp ginger powder
- 1/8 tsp cloves
Instructions
- Cook: In a medium saucepan, add the apples, water, cinnamon, ginger and cloves. Cover and cook over medium-low heat for 15 minutes or until apples are tender when pricked with a fork, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat.
- Spinach: Add the spinach on top of the apples, cover and let sit for 1- 2 more minutes.
- Transfer: Add all of the ingredients into a blender or food processor.
- Puree: starting on low speed and working your way up, puree the ingredients for 1-2 minutes or until completely smooth and all bits of spinach or blended.
- Serve: Let cool and serve to baby or freeze for a later meal.
Notes
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44 Comments on “Spinach Apple Baby Puree”
Yummy!!!
I tweaked the recipe because I already had homemade applesauce. The first time I used steamed spinach and it became very stringy when blended (my 1 yr old still ate it though, lol). The second time I added just raw spinach to the applesauce to blend and it turned out perfect! Thank you for great recipes and ideas.
Great way to add some flavor to your homemade applesauce! Yum!
I love all of your recipes that I’ve tried so far! We tried making this one tonight and, since it’s baby’s first time with spinach, we followed the recipe using only one cup of spinach with honey crisp apples. However, the texture came out very grainy, looking nothing like yours, and the spinach seems impossible to blend all the way down. I pureed it for 10 minutes, stopping routinely to stir and mix it up, but with no success. What can I do to help with this since I don’t want to give it to my baby as is?
Interesting, I’ve never had this happen before. I wonder if the apples weren’t steamed enough? Or if there wasn’t enough water in the puree? 10 minutes should have pureed anything lol. Next time you could try straining it through a fine mesh colander.
I followed the recipe using only one cup of spinach since this will be my son’s first time trying it. But the texture is very grainy and I can’t seem to get all of the pieces of spinach to puree down. What do you suggest I do to help smooth out this puree? Thanks in advance!
Thanks for reaching out. I would make sure you have enough liquid in the blender with the apples and spinach to really get the puree moving in the blender. Or maybe the blender isn’t strong enough – if you make spinach smoothies, how do those turn out? This puree has always come out smooth (like the pictures) for me.
So good that my boys don’t even taste the spinach and think they’re having dessert 😂
My 8 month old baby girl loved this combination. Thanks so much 😊
So glad your little on loved this combination! What’s next on the menu?
Great recipe! Healthy and nutritious for toddlers and small children, easy to make and store in the freezer.
I would say that this recipe is not just as a puree but as a frozen smoothie, tasty in warm weather.
First time and she loved it! She needs iron and I knew spinach was a good source. Thank you
So glad your little one loved this recipe!
Hi Michele,
My daughter LOVES this puree. She asks for more each time I give this to her. By the way, I am a little confused when it states this puree can be stored up to 2 months, instead of the usual 3-4 months like the other veg/fruit puree. Is it because of the spinach? Your other recipe (avocado, spinach, oats) can be stored for 4 months?
Thank you!
Michelle
So glad your daughter loves this puree! Way to get that spinach in! Sorry, that’s an error on my part, you can store this in the freezer for 4 months. Hope that helps.
Hi
My baby LOVED this. However, where I live apparently all the supermarkets have run out of Spinach. What can I substitute it with? My husband got bhaji leaves or amaranth leaves (according to google) which is also in the Spinach family but I am not sure if I should use them the same way I used spinach for this recipe. Please help!
Wow! That’s a bummer, hopefully, you get spinach back again soon. I haven’t tried bhaji or amaranth leaves in this recipe but they should work similarly to spinach. I would start by adding in half of the amount in the recipe and go up from there. Let us know how it turns out. I am so intrigued by these veggies.
Hi there! Love all your recipes. I just made this with frozen spinach and it came out a bit stringy…what can I do to rectify it? It looks nothing like the picture you posted. Thanks so much.
Would love to help you with this. Did you cook the frozen spinach with the apples? If you want you can send me a picture at hello@babyfoode.com so I can see what you mean by stringy. Did you blend it for a full 2 minutes?
Thanks for the quick reply. So I did cook it thoroughly and then blended it for quite a while but it still looks like the pieces of spinach are more of a chopped consistency rather than a purée. It tastes delicious so I’m going to attempt to give it to her (she’s almost 7 months old). If anything, I’ll blend it some more. Your recipe combinations are great. Thanks so much!
Baby threw up all over his bed from the spinach. Apparently spinach before 12 months is questionable.
So sorry that baby threw up.. that is definitely not fun. Spinach is completely fine for babies under a year but if it was babies’ first time having spinach, you can try introducing it slowly with a smaller serving or less spinach in this recipe.
My Kid liked it so much ..Thank Youuu
So glad!
I made this tonight and my baby, who has not really eaten any other of my purées absolutely loved it!! Thank you so much for this recipe!!
Love hear this!! Another big hit for babies is the 5-Minute Banana, Blueberry + Avocado Baby Food Puree.
Tried this today and it was a success. Baby loved it so much she asked for more. It was really easy and quick to make as well.
Love this! So yummy and so healthy!
Not only do I want to say thank you for the recipe but thanks for showing me a new way to make apples for my baby! I use a baby bullet steamer and it takes FOREVER to make a bag of apples. This is way faster! My baby will eat every bite of this recipe with no hesitation. Luckily I had cinnamon and ginger left over from a pie I made for Thanksgiving. I didn’t have cloves but baby still loved it. Thanks for sharing!
So glad baby ate every bite! And yay for a fast and easy recipe!
my kid just loved it, finish within 5 mins.
Love this!
Hi Michele,
Absolutely love your website. I refer to it so often for recipes or starting anything new for my baby. I am first time mom and the website is my go to for most of my baby’s food ideas.
Shraddha, from India
Could you substitute frozen spinach? All of the E. coli breakouts with fresh lettuce has me a little worried.
I haven’t tried it but I think it would work. I would just put it in frozen and then decrease the amount of water you add in by 1/4 cup. Let me know how it turns out.
May I ask why you cook the apples?? Where I live we make purées with fresh fruits as they are! We don’t cook them.. however I found out that it is very common to steam them.. don’t they loose their vitamins? What if I steam the spinach and put it with my fresh apple? Won’t be the same?
When you cook the apples, you release some of their natural sugars causing them to become sweeter. I haven’t tried not cooking the apples beforehand, but you can give it shot. I would worry that it might be too tart for baby. But if you try it, let us know how it works.
Could you substitute frozen spinach? All of the E. coli breakouts with fresh lettuce has me a little worried.
I haven’t tried it but I think it would work. I would just put it in frozen and then decrease the amount of water you add in by 1/4 cup. Let me know how it turns out.
I tried this recipe tonight – baby loved it and so did I! Delicious! I’ve made several of your recipes. I actually started out with baby led weaning, and vowed I won’t do purees with this baby but your blog made me miss purees. The combinations you have are so interesting, I wanted baby to experience them. Thank you!
I am so glad you both likes this recipe! There is no right or wrong way to feed baby healthy foods, so maybe this baby can do a combination of both. Either way, I am glad you find my recipes combinations yummy.
xo, Michele
I tried this recipe tonight – baby loved it and so did I! Delicious! I’ve made several of your recipes. I actually started out with baby led weaning, and vowed I won’t do purees with this baby but your blog made me miss purees. The combinations you have are so interesting, I wanted baby to experience them. Thank you!
I am so glad you both likes this recipe! There is no right or wrong way to feed baby healthy foods, so maybe this baby can do a combination of both. Either way, I am glad you find my recipes combinations yummy.
xo, Michele