Another Warm Cereal for Baby’s Tummy – Fruity Quinoa

Dec 30, 2009 Baby Food Recipes Updated, Cereals, grains

Here is another one of our favorite “exotic” grain breakfast cereal recipes.  We love quinoa and have taken to calling it the “martian grain” due to its odd appearance when cooked.

2 cups of water
1 cup quinoa
1 apple – thinly sliced and diced
handful of raisins – pureed or finely diced
cinnamon

How to:

Bring 2 cups water to a boil, add 1 cup quinoa, reduce heat, simmer for about 5 minutes then add the apple, raisins and cinnamon.  Simmer until water is absorbed; about 15 minutes.  Blend in milk, or yogurt and serve warm.

** Some people recommend rinsing and toasting quinoa prior to cooking it to get rid of its bitterness and enable easier digestion.  We have never had an issue with bitterness nor have we ever toasted it.   We don’t know if this will help with digestion as we have never heard of babies having difficulty with digesting quinoa.  We do recommend introducing it at 8 months + **

Visit our Quinoa page to learn about quinoa and find more recipes.  Visit our Blog post to see photos of this super grain.