Homemade Green Bean Baby Food is quick and easy to make. Once the puree is made, you can freeze the baby food in ice-cube trays or silicon mini-muffin pans for one ounce portions anytime you need it. A quick thaw and your baby can eat healthy whole food that is so much better than what can be bought in the store. You will also save money by making your own baby food. Cha-ching!! This method can be used with many fruits and vegetables, and once frozen, the cubes can be stored in the freezer for up to three months. So take a few hours and make a large batch using various fruits and veggies that are age-appropriate for your little one and not have to worry about it for a while. You’ve go plenty else to do, right?
I talked all about how I am making baby food for my nephew, Z, and detailed my method in this post: Homemade Spinach Baby Food Recipe. You can check that post out for more details.
Today, we are talking about how to make homemade green bean baby food 🙂 I follow pretty much the same method for any baby food that I am making for the Z man. He actually isn’t really eating baby food anymore (sniff, sniff). He will be turning one in just a couple of weeks and now that he has had a taste of the real stuff, baby food just isn’t cutting it anymore. BTW…I am making him little quinoa toddler bites and freezing them for him this weekend. I plan to share those with y’all next week (if all goes well). So stayed tuned for those…
As with each new food that I made for Z, I searched for other “recipes” and read up on the processes that they used with that particular food, just to make sure that I had a good grasp on it. For green beans, I found this post from Crackers and Carrots (cute name, huh?): Homemade Baby Food Green Beans.
Start with fresh green beans. You will want to wash, trim and snap them into small pieces. Bring a pot of water to a boil with a steamer basket placed inside. Steam the green beans in a steamer basket for approximately 10 minutes or until tender. Save the cooking water!
Puree in a food processor or high-speed blender, adding some of the cooking water until you get the consistency that you desire.
Spoon into ice-cube trays or silicon mini-muffin pans and freeze until solid. Pop them out of the ice-cube trays and vacuum seal or store in freezer plastic storage bags (squeeze as much air out as possible so they last longer) until needed.
Now let’s put it all together…nice and neat, so you can print or save…hint, hint 😉
Here is your ‘recipe’ for Homemade Green Bean Baby Food:
- 1 lb. fresh green bean, washed, trimmed and snapped.
- Put about an inch or so of water in your large stock pot. Add a steamer basket to the pot, making sure that there is no water visible in the basket.
- Bring the water to a boil over high heat.
- Once the water is rapidly boiling, fill the steamer basket with the green beans and cover the pot.
- Steam the green beans for 10 minutes or until tender.
- Remove the cooked green beans and transfer to the food processor.
- Process the cooked green beans until it creates a puree, adding some of the cooking water to thin it out.
- Use a spoon to fill up the ice-cube trays with the green bean puree.
- Place trays of baby food in the freezer and freeze until solid, usually overnight or up to 24 hours.
- Once frozen, pop the cubes of green bean baby food out of the trays and place into either vacuum sealer pouches or freezer storage bags.
- Either vacuum seal the pouches or try to squeeze out as much air as possible out the freezer storage bags.
- Place back in the freezer until needed.
- Thaw as needed. Each cube is approximately 1 ounce of baby food.
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