Vegetable recipes
6-15 months
One small bowl
Lauki and Carrot Mash
From six months. Sieve it as well as mashing it for the first few weeks.
What you need
- 1/2 cup lauki (bottle gourd), peeled and cubed
- 1 small carrot, peeled and cubed
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 tsp ghee, optional
How to make it
- 1 Steam or pressure cook the lauki and carrot with the water until very soft, about 10 minutes.
- 2 Mash them together, saving the cooking water.
- 3 Loosen the mash with that water until it spoons easily.
- 4 Stir in the ghee if you are using it, and cool before serving.
Swaps
Pumpkin, dudhi or beetroot all mash the same way. Introduce one new vegetable at a time.
Keeping it
Keeps covered in the fridge for up to 24 hours. Warm through before serving and never reheat twice.