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Learn how to serve this citrusy, vitamin C-packed fruit to baby with our helpful guide. Oranges are full of essential nutrients and minerals, perfect for boosting immune function and supporting healthy babies and toddlers. Serve oranges as a baby food puree or for baby-led weaning starting at 6+ months.
Yield: 2 small servings
Prep: 5 minutes
Total: 5 minutes
Author: Michele Olivier
Course: baby food
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Ingredients 

Orange Puree with Apple

  • 3 large apples, peeled and roughly chopped
  • 1/2 orange

Orange for Baby-Led Weaning

  • 1/2 orange

Instructions 

Orange Puree with Apple

  • In a medium saucepan, bring 2" of water to a boil over high heat. Add a steamer basket and add the apples, cover and cook for 10-12 minutes or until tender when pricked with a fork. Remove from heat and let cool slightly. Reserve steamer water.
    Steamer basket with apples.
  • Add apples to a blender. Then squeeze half an orange (roughly 3 tablespoons) of orange juice into the blender. You can also cut up chunks of the orange (without the peel) and place them in the blender along with the apples, but some of the pulp will remain in the puree, making the puree slightly chunky.
    Hand squeezing an orange into a blender with steamed apple chunks.
  • Puree on medium-high for 60-90 seconds or until completely smooth. You may have to add 2-4 tbsp of reserved water to your puree.
    Hand pouring an apple and orange puree into a small glass jar.

Orange for Baby-Led Weaning

  • Cut orange and serve to your baby's age and eating abilities.
    6+ months - thin slices or wedges with peel on, membranes removed: Cut oranges into large wedges with the peel on and seeds removed. Your baby can easily grasp these wedges and suck and munch on the fleshy part. You can also supreme an orange by removing the pith and membranes so that you can offer it in slices. Search "how to supreme an orange" on YouTube for a quick tutorial. Another way to serve oranges to your baby is by loading a self-feeding spoon with an Apple Orange Puree and handing it to your baby.
    9-18 months - small, diced pieces, membranes removed: Serve oranges in bite-sized pieces at this age, with membranes removed, so that your baby can work on using their pincer grasp. You can also continue to serve slices of oranges with the membrane and seeds removed to work on taking bites off larger pieces.  
    18-24+ months - slices or wedges with peel on, membranes on or removed: Depending on your baby's chewing skills, you can try serving larger pieces of orange with the membranes on, such as an orange cut into roughly 1/8ths. Or you can continue to supreme the fruit and serve oranges in diced pieces or larger wedges with the peel on.
    Graphic for post - oranges for baby-led weaning. Image is of a blue baby plate with different ways to serve oranges to baby with graphics showing what age you can serve them.

Notes

Age: 6+ months
 

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