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Get the recipe: Watermelon for Baby: Puree & BLW

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Learn how to prepare watermelon for baby with these 8 delicious and easy ways! You can serve watermelon to babies 6 months and up.
Author: Michele Olivier
Course: baby food
Cuisine: Baby Food
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Ingredients 

Basic Watermelon Puree

  • 1 cup cubed watermelon

Watermelon Yogurt Puree

  • 1/2 cup cubed watermelon
  • 1/2 cup plain whole milk yogurt, or plain plant-based variety

Watermelon Apple and Beet Puree

  • 2 large apples, peeled, cored and roughly chopped
  • 1 medium beet, peeled and roughly chopped
  • 1 cup cubed watermelon

Watermelon Pasta with Basil

  • 2 cups cooked pasta, any shape you prefer
  • 1 cup chopped watermelon
  • 3 tbsp feta crumbles
  • 2 leaves basil, finely chopped
  • 2-3 tbsp olive oil

Watermelon for Self Feeding

  • 1 slice watermelon, cut according to baby's age and abilities

Watermelon Rolled in Hemp Seeds

  • 1 slice watermelon, cut according to baby's age and abilities
  • 2-3 tbsp hemp seeds

Watermelon Lime Baby Popsicle

  • 2 cups watermelon, cubed
  • 1 cup strawberries, fresh or frozen
  • 1/2 lime, juiced
  • 1 tsp chia seeds

Instructions 

Basic Watermelon Puree

  • Place the watermelon in a blender and puree until smooth.

Watermelon Yogurt Puree

  • Place the watermelon in a blender and puree until smooth. Using a spoon, scoop out the watermelon puree, trying to leave the watermelon seeds and juice behind, and place in a bowl.
    A teal baby bowl with chunky purée watermelon and yogurt.
  • Add in the yogurt and stir until combined.
    A peach baby spoon resting on a teal baby bowl with a chunky watermelon and yogurt purée that is sitting on a purple plate against the white back out.

Watermelon Apple and Beet Puree

  • In a medium saucepan, bring 2" of water to a boil over high heat. Add a steamer basket with the apple and beets. Cover and cook for 8-10 minutes or until tender when pricked with a fork. Remove from heat, and let cool.
    A steamer basket sitting on the white background filled with apples that have been sliced in chunks of red beets.
  • Transfer the cooked apple and beet, along with the watermelon to a blender, and puree for 60-90 seconds or until smooth.
    A clear blender with a bright pink purée made of beets, apples and watermelon.
  • Serve and enjoy!
    A peach baby bowl with a gray baby spoon resting on top holding a bright pink purée against away background.

Watermelon Pasta with Basil

    Watermelon for Self Feeding

    • Serve to baby on the rind, in thick sticks, chopped, as a wedge or in small sticks depending on your baby's age (see graph).
      Are graphic for watermelon baby led weaning, a image of a teal baby plate with different ways you can serve a watermelon to baby for six months, nine months and 12 months.

    Watermelon Rolled in Hemp Seeds

    • Depending on your baby’s age, cut an age-appropriate size of watermelon - big sticks, small sticks or bite-size pieces.
      A wooden Korean board with three sticks of watermelon in a small bowl of hemp seeds.
    • Roll the watermelon pieces into hemp seeds.
      A wooden cutting board with watermelon sticks world of hemp seeds.
    • And serve to your baby!
      A peach baby plate with three sticks of watermelon world and hemp seeds.

    Watermelon Lime Baby Popsicle

    • Place all of the ingredients into a blender and blend for 45-60 seconds on medium or until everything this pureed.
      Clear blender on a white background with watermelon frozen strawberries, Chia seeds and my juice.
    • Using your favorite baby-friendly popsicle mold, pour the watermelon mixture into the molds until the fill line. Place in the popsicle sticks.
      Purple popsicle tray full of watermelon popsicle filling half of the colorful sticks in there.
    • Place the popsicle mold into the freezer and let freeze for at least 5 hours but preferably overnight. Take a popsicle out of the mold and hand to baby to enjoy.
      A purple kids plate on a white background with purple, green, blue popsicle sticks with watermelon popsicles and chunks of watermelon on the plate.

    Equipment

    Blender
    Bumkins Sleeved Bib
    EZPZ
    Freezer Tray

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