Looking for a delicious and quick breakfast or lunch recipe? Try these sweet potato pancakes baby will love! Not only do they use two simple ingredients, but they’re delicious and healthy too boot!
Sweet potato is packaged and sold in many different formats including frozen, fresh or pureed in a can.
I have made this recipe using both frozen and fresh sweet potato and either works really well!
Having a stash of frozen sweet potato is always handy to have in the freezer so you can throw it into curries or use it to make recipes such as these sweet potato pancakes or sweet potato fritters.
How do you make sweet potato pancakes for baby?
Get a medium sweet potato and steam until soft, then mash it with the back of your fork until a puree forms.
Add one egg and whisk the concoction together with a fork until it became batter-like.
Use any oil or butter to grease the pan, this time I used fry-light for ease. I then dolloped 2 – 3 tablespoons of the batter into the pan.
Leave the sweet potato pancakes to fry for 2-3 minutes before tentatively turning them with a large spatula. This bit can get pretty messy, just make sure you take your time and don’t panic if a bit of the batter comes loose. A nice hot hob helps!
Once flipped, press down on the pancakes with your spatula to flatten them slightly and ensure they are cooked right through. Leave them again for another 2-3 minutes.
How to serve sweet potato pancakes to your baby
Once cooked, I placed sweet potato pancakes on our Munchkin White Hot Platesto cool (these clever plates tell you when the food has sufficiently cooled enough to give to baby) and then serve them alongside some fruit.
What do the babies think of sweet potato pancakes?
These sweet potato pancakes are super easy for baby to pick up and very soft so they smush easily in baby’s mouth. They do create a lot of baby led weaning mess though, as they easily fall apart in baby’s hand. Dexter had lots of fun trying to pick up the bits that fell apart though.
A quick and simple recipes to create sweet potato pancakes baby will love! The perfect baby led weaning lunch idea or an ideal for batch cooking for snack on the go!
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time4 minutes
Total Time9 minutes
Ingredients
150-200 grams of sweet potato (small - medium sized sweet potato)
1 egg
Instructions
Steam the sweet potato until softened then place in a bowl and mash with the back of your fork.
Add an egg to the bowl and then mix the two thoroughly until a batter is formed.
Heat a little oil in a frying pan and let the pan heat up. Turn the heat down once hot.
Using a table spoon, spoon the 2-3 spoons of mixture into the frying pan per pancake.
Fry for 2-3 minutes on each side (or until browned).
Be very careful when flipping them and once flipped, flatten them with the back of your spoon or spatula.
Once cooked, leave to cool before serving to baby. Serve them as they are or cut into strips for easy handling.
Nicola has weaned both of her boys using the baby led weaning method. She loves nothing better than creating simple recipes that anyone can recreate, using as few ingredients as possible. All of her recipes have been tried and tested by both Dexter and Felix and have their seal of approval!
Sweet potatoes are a great food for both traditional and baby-led weaning. They can be prepared in a number of ways that offer a diversity of texture to keep your little one engaged and interested in the weaning process, and to suit their needs as they grow and develop.
Pancakes may be introduced as soon as baby is ready to start solids, which is generally around 6 months of age, as long as they do not contain honey, which is associated with a risk of infant botulism.
In short, children who eat sweet potatoes will be provided with nutrients as well as vitamins and minerals that are good for the body. However, children should not eat sweet potatoes often and often. Eating too much or too little of any food will be harmful to human health.
You can introduce sweet potatoes, a stage one food, into baby's diet around 6 months of age–around the same time you can introduce most solid foods into a baby's diet. When choosing sweet potatoes to make sweet potato baby food, you want to pick firm sweet potatoes without any cracks or bruises (or soft spots).
You can give your baby the entire egg (yolk and white), if your pediatrician recommends it. Around 6 months, puree or mash one hard-boiled or scrambled egg and serve it to your baby. For a more liquid consistency, add breast milk or water. Around 8 months, scrambled egg pieces are a fantastic finger food.
Babies + Munching: The shape of the pancake is important for establishing feeding skills. We want it to be stick-shaped so it can easily fit on your baby's gum line. This allows them to hold and munch (i.e., chew without teeth) successfully – an important swallowing and self-feeding skill!
If your baby has not had cow's milk before, using baby formula instead may save them some tummy trouble. However, the valuable nutrients found within baby formula will likely be cooked out due to the heat level involved in making your baby pancakes.
The high vitamin C content in broccoli makes it easier to absorb iron and calcium, which are both very essential as your baby is growing. It can also boost your baby's immune system, making them less prone to certain sicknesses such as colds and cough.
With baby-led weaning you'll want to offer food shapes and sizes that are easy for your infant to hold, so opt for cutting most things into sticks or strips about the length of your finger. For example, offer a floret of steamed broccoli, a steamed carrot stick, or a small strip of soft-cooked chicken.
How to tell if sweet potatoes have gone bad. If your sweet potato is soft in spots, smells rotten, or oozes a mysterious liquid, that potato should be discarded. Another sign that sweet potatoes have taken a turn for the worse is if they start growing stalky purplish sprouts.
Solid foods may be introduced in any order. However, puréed meats, poultry, beans and iron-fortified cereals are recommended as first foods, especially if your baby has been primarily breastfed, since they provide key nutrients. Only one new single-ingredient food should be introduced at a time.
Yes! Once your baby is able to start eating solids, you can introduce cinnamon into their diet right away — in small amounts. This is generally around the age of six months, although it will vary based on the child.
Easy to digest first foods are ideal first foods because they have been mindfully introduced and do not provoke a reaction. Some examples of common easy to digest first foods may include avocado, sweet potato, apple, carrot, banana, and goat's milk*. Of course, every child is unique so easy to digest foods may differ.
If your baby becomes constipated, use whole wheat or barley cereal instead of rice cereal and avoid bananas and sweet potatoes, which are constipating. All the fruits which begin with “P” (prunes, plums, pears, peaches) will help soften your baby's stool, so give them often if your baby is having hard stools.
Having said that, some babies may truly be allergic to sweet potatoes, so look out for signs of vomiting, rashes, and diarrhoea. The most common allergic reaction is bloating and stomach gas due to indigestion. Babies, sometimes, spit the feed out also.
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to cool (these clever plates tell you when the food has sufficiently cooled enough to give to baby) and then serve them alongside some fruit.
