Thai Chicken Baby Food Puree with Mango
This Thai Chicken and Mango Baby Food Puree is a flavor explosion for baby! It has enough spice to keep them wanting more, but not too much. And just look at that color! Your baby will love this easy, homemade chicken baby food puree for lunch or dinner.
Now that we have our Basic Chicken Puree down, we need to step up our chicken puree game.
We need to make a puree that will delight baby’s little tastebuds, something that will take them on a taste journey to somewhere were they have never been before. A foreign land is calling to them
Chicken..
Carrots..
Mango..
Curry……….
Wait, curry?!? Yes, you heard me right. Delicious red curry mixed with chicken, carrots and mango for a Thai inspired dish that is just right for your little one.
Thai food is the spice jackpot – curry, lemongrass, ginger, turmeric, kaffer lime, coriander, basil and chilies, all of which baby can enjoy from the get-go. I could really do a months worth of baby food recipes with a Thai inspiration, of course I would have to eat yummy Thai food for a month for inspiration, which I am totally okay with.
This recipe starts off featuring one of my favorite Thai ingredients – red curry paste! This paste can usually be found in the asian section at any grocery store right by the canned coconut milk, if you want to make your own then you are probably getting way too much sleep for having a small baby but here is my recommended recipe. Red curry paste is a blend of red chilies, garlic, lemongrass, ginger, shallots and kaffer lime that is ground down into a think paste. When combined with peanut butter and coconut milk and poured over stir fried chicken and vegetables you pretty much have the best thing on the planet.
To make this tasty puree, you start by smearing a couple of chicken breasts (or thighs) with red curry paste. Because this paste is made with red chilies, it will have a little heat to it. But not that scraping-your-tongue-with-a-napkin-while-trying-not-to-cry heat. More of a smoky heat that translates into a bold spice. So let’s not go overboard here. Just a little will do ya. Next we place the chicken on top of a big piece of tin foil, layer chopped carrots and mango on top, wrap up like a package and place into a preheated oven for 30 whole minutes….
Then the hardest part, waiting…..
Here are my suggestions for some waiting time activities –
- eat dark chocolate covered blueberries while staring at your to-do list
- lay on the floor while pretending to do sit-ups
- go deep into the pinterest vortex of the newest eyebrow shapes
- make this dinner for you and this cocktail to go with it
The last item would be the most efficient use of your time, but hey, I don’t judge. I have been caught using my downtime to clean my kitchen cabinets with a toothbrush! What is wrong with me??
Out of the oven comes juicy and tender chicken with steamed carrots and mangos all mixed with the beyond yummy red curry paste.
Seriously, this is going to smell sooooooooo good!
You will want to stick your head into the packet and just eat your lunch from there. Pull out your last ounce of self control and quickly place it all in the blender for a quick puree. Once cool, this puree will make your baby a happy little foreign traveler without even leaving their highchair.
Other ways to serve this puree:
- stir in some cooked brown rice for a complete Thai meal
- mix with a spoonful of spinach or kale puree for some extra iron
- drizzle in some full fat coconut milk for a little extra healthy fat
- add in 1/2 of red pepper and 1/2 sweet potato into tinfoil packet for an extra special meal
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Get the recipe: Thai Chicken Baby Food Puree with Mango
Ingredients
- 1 boneless skinless chicken breast
- 1 mango peeled and chopped
- 4 carrots peeled and chopped
- 1/2 tsp red curry paste (see notes)
- 1 cup low or no sodium chicken broth, water, breast milk or formula
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degree F.
- Cut the chicken breast horizontally so you have 2 chicken cutlets and rub with red curry paste
- Place the chicken, mango and carrots onto a piece of tin foil. Wrap up ingredients like a package and make sure all seems are tightly folded. Place on tin foil package on baking sheet and bake for 30-45 minutes or until chicken is all the way cooked through. Open tin foil package and let cool slightly.
- Transfer all of the ingredients into a blender or food processor and puree until you reach your desired consistency, adding 1/4 cup of the liquid at a time if needed.
Notes
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37 Comments on “Thai Chicken Baby Food Puree with Mango”
Do you think this recipe is okay for a 9 month old? If I wanted to add brown rice can I just cook it and then puree the brown rice? Will this freeze well?
Hello Meera,
YES!!! Baby can have all of these ingredients by 7M+. And yes, I would just cook a batch of brown rice then add about 1/4 -1/2 cup cooked brown rice to the blender after you puree the chicken mixture. You can make it as smooth or chunky as you would like! Enjoy!
xo, Michele
Do you think this recipe is okay for a 9 month old? If I wanted to add brown rice can I just cook it and then puree the brown rice? Will this freeze well?
Hello Meera,
YES!!! Baby can have all of these ingredients by 7M+. And yes, I would just cook a batch of brown rice then add about 1/4 -1/2 cup cooked brown rice to the blender after you puree the chicken mixture. You can make it as smooth or chunky as you would like! Enjoy!
xo, Michele
Hi Michele,
Quick question – are you meant to put the stock in the foil or after when you blend?
Hello Marion,
You use the stock when you are pureeing it.
xo, Michele
Hi Michele,
Quick question – are you meant to put the stock in the foil or after when you blend?
Hello Marion,
You use the stock when you are pureeing it.
xo, Michele
I made this last week. I think I skimped too much on the seasoning. But it was still amazing. It took longer, maybe an hour, for everything to cook…but maybe I just have a crappy oven.
It is hard to gauge how much of the seasoning to put on this because it can get a intense fast! Usually I can cook my chicken like this in 30 minutes in my oven and I think it runs hot! But thanks for letting me know.
xo, Michele
I made this last week. I think I skimped too much on the seasoning. But it was still amazing. It took longer, maybe an hour, for everything to cook…but maybe I just have a crappy oven.
It is hard to gauge how much of the seasoning to put on this because it can get a intense fast! Usually I can cook my chicken like this in 30 minutes in my oven and I think it runs hot! But thanks for letting me know.
xo, Michele
I see you commented that baby can have all these ingredients by 7M + … Which ingredients would you recommend waiting for? My little one just had a Drs appointment and she recommended I add meat to his diet for iron and this was the recipe I picked! And then I saw that comment haha .. Would you recommend a different meat (or iron rich) recipe for a 6 month old?
It is the salt in the red curry paste that you might want to hold off on. You can easily take that out or use a mild curry blend. To get more iron in babies diet you can use the basic beef or basic chicken recipe. I give a ton of examples what to mix with them. Also, if you have my book Little Foodies, there is an Pump Some Iron Puree that is great for that.
xo, Michele
I see you commented that baby can have all these ingredients by 7M + … Which ingredients would you recommend waiting for? My little one just had a Drs appointment and she recommended I add meat to his diet for iron and this was the recipe I picked! And then I saw that comment haha .. Would you recommend a different meat (or iron rich) recipe for a 6 month old?
It is the salt in the red curry paste that you might want to hold off on. You can easily take that out or use a mild curry blend. To get more iron in babies diet you can use the basic beef or basic chicken recipe. I give a ton of examples what to mix with them. Also, if you have my book Little Foodies, there is an Pump Some Iron Puree that is great for that.
xo, Michele
hi again! i really want to do this recipe this weekend 🙂 just out of curiosity… what is the difference between foiling the ingredients and baking them in a baking form?
Sorry for the delay.
I like how the foil makes the chicken more moist, so it is easier to puree, but you can also just bake it right in a dish if you prefer.
xo,
Michele
hi again! i really want to do this recipe this weekend 🙂 just out of curiosity… what is the difference between foiling the ingredients and baking them in a baking form?
Sorry for the delay.
I like how the foil makes the chicken more moist, so it is easier to puree, but you can also just bake it right in a dish if you prefer.
xo,
Michele
How much mango would you say is being used here? I like to buy the frozen organic (pre-chopped) kind. 😉
Great idea! I would say roughly a cup of frozen mango would be equal to a fresh one chopped. You can always add in more if you want since mango is the most delicious thing ever:)
xo, Michele
How much mango would you say is being used here? I like to buy the frozen organic (pre-chopped) kind. 😉
Great idea! I would say roughly a cup of frozen mango would be equal to a fresh one chopped. You can always add in more if you want since mango is the most delicious thing ever:)
xo, Michele
If I wanted to make this without pureeing, instead making it into bite size chunks, would the freezing guidelines still be the same? Could I freeze individual portions of a "toddler" version of this for 2 months? 🙂
I am not sure. It sounds like a great idea, but I haven’t tried freezing bite size pieces of cooked chicken and then reheating it for finger foods. Let me know if you try it and how it works out.
xo, Michele
If I wanted to make this without pureeing, instead making it into bite size chunks, would the freezing guidelines still be the same? Could I freeze individual portions of a "toddler" version of this for 2 months? 🙂
I am not sure. It sounds like a great idea, but I haven’t tried freezing bite size pieces of cooked chicken and then reheating it for finger foods. Let me know if you try it and how it works out.
xo, Michele
Just wondering if I could just boil the chicken and then put all the ingredients into a blender would it still come out with the same flavour. We recently downsized and i don’t have an oven at the moment but I am dying to try this recipe as it sounds devine 🙂
This recipe is so great!! My little has struggled with meat, but this tasted so yummy 🙂 he loved it!
So happy to hear that he loved this recipe!
My son LOVED this recipe ad so did I ( made some I did not purée for me.) I was concerned about the salt so I opted for the mild curry powder. It was flavorful and my 7 mo ate 2.5 helpings! So excited to incorporate this in my meal prepping.
So excited that your little one loved this recipe! Great idea to cook it for yourself as well:)
My daughter has an allergy to carrots and parsnips. Would I omit the carrots or should I sub them for something else?
Sorry to hear about your daughter’s allergy to carrots and parsnips. You could substitute with sweet potatoes, cauliflower or butternut squash.
Love this recipe! Have been using it since my son was 7 months. Now as a toddler I still make it but don’t purée it! One of his favorites.Â
So happy to hear that your son loves this recipe and that it has grown with him!