Get the recipe: Veggie-Loaded Hummus for Baby and Toddler
This Veggie-Loaded Hummus Baby Food or Toddler Dip is an amazing recipe that grows with your baby!
Ingredients
For Baby Puree
- 3 medium carrots, peeled and roughly chopped
- 1 small sweet potato, peeled and roughly chopped (roughly 1 cup)
- 1/4 cup canned chickpeas, drained and rinsed
For Toddler Dip
- 3 medium carrots, peeled and roughly chopped
- 1 small sweet potato, peeled and roughly chopped
- 1 cup canned chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tsp cumin or mild curry powder
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan, bring 2 inches of water to a boil. In a steamer basket, add in the sweet potato cubes and carrots, place basket over boiling water and cover. Steam for 12-15 minutes or until all ingredients are tender when pricked with a fork. Remove from heat and let cool slightly. Reserve steamer water.
To Make For Baby
- Transfer the cooked carrots, sweet potato as well as the chickpeas into a blender or food processor.
- Puree for 2 minutes or until smooth, adding in additional reserved steamer water in 1/4 cup increments if needed.
To Make for Toddler
- Transfer the cooked carrots, sweet potato, chickpeas, garlic, cumin or mild curry powder, olive oil and salt into a food processor.
- Puree for 1-2 minutes or until smooth adding in additional water, reserved water or olive oil in 1/4 cup increments if needed.
Notes
To make this for a baby as well as a toddler: follow directions as stated above for the baby puree. Once you have baby's portion blended, remove roughly one cup of the puree and set aside for baby. Add in the toddler ingredients to the blender or food processor (this recipe is very verstile so if you add in a few more chickpeans this way, then you will just get a thicker hummus) and blend until smooth.
Spice it Up for Toddler: To spice up the toddler version even more, feel free to add in 2 tbsp tahini, 1/2 juiced lemon and/or 1/4 tsp paprika.
Spice it Up for Baby: To spice it up for baby, you can add in 1/4 tsp cumin or mild curry powder to their puree.
Yield: 18 ounces of puree, 2 cups of dip
Age: 7+ months and up
How to Store: Both the puree and the hummus can be stored in an air-tight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. The puree can also be frozen for up to 4 months and thawed in the fridge to serve.
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