You can offer corn to your baby as soon as you start complementary feeding. The soft texture and sweet flavor of corn make this porridge one of babies’ favorites, and it’s super nutritious too, since it contains vitamin B, iron, potassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium.
Learn how to make this porridge at home, step by step, quickly and easily.
How to Make Cornstarch Porridge for Babies
- In a separate bowl, put two teaspoons of fine corn flour or cornstarch. Add a little cold breast milk or formula and whisk very well until you have a smooth mixture with no lumps.
- Heat the rest of the milk in a small saucepan over medium heat.
- When it’s just about to boil, turn the heat down to low and slowly add the corn flour dissolved in milk, whisking constantly so no lumps form. The mixture will gradually get thicker. Ideally it should have the consistency of a cream: if it’s too thick your baby won’t want it, and if it’s too runny it will be hard to feed.
- Stir for about 10 minutes and it’s ready. Remove from the heat, let it cool, and you can serve it to your baby.
Tips and Tricks for Corn Porridge
- You can make your own corn flour with a coffee grinder (make sure it’s perfectly clean), grinding the kernels until the cereal turns to powder. The advantage of making it yourself is that you can try different varieties of corn: popcorn, cacahuazintle, jala, nal tel or whichever is grown in your region.
- From your baby’s first birthday you can use cow’s milk instead of breast milk, or even plant-based milks such as oat, almond, etc.
- Instead of fine corn flour you can use polenta.
- You can sprinkle it with a little cinnamon. Delicious!
- Your baby can eat this porridge from 4 months if their pediatrician recommends it.
- For answers to other questions, see the frequently asked questions about homemade baby cereals
