A bread purée? Yes, really! This is the easiest homemade baby cereal you can make for your little one. It’s ready in just 10 minutes and has all the nutrients and energy your baby needs to grow up healthy.
How to Make Quick Baby Cereal
- Tear the slice of bread into small pieces by hand and put them in a bowl. If the crust is very hard, you can use just the crumb.
- Warm the milk in a small saucepan or in the microwave until lukewarm.
- Pour the milk into the bowl with the bread a little at a time, pressing the bread with a fork so it soaks it up.
- Be careful: every bread needs a different amount of milk, and if you pour it in all at once you can end up with soup. It’s better to add a little less, and then add more if you see dry pieces of bread.
- Let it rest for 5 minutes, then mash with a fork until you get a purée texture. If the bread crust is a bit hard and you can’t mash it well, you can blend the whole mixture until smooth, or simply remove the crust.
- If it has cooled down a bit while resting, give it a short zap in the microwave so it’s lukewarm again. Put it on a plate and it’s ready to serve to your baby. They’ll love it!
Tips and Tricks
- This purée has as many variations as there are types of bread: gluten-free, sourdough, corn, spelt, buckwheat, rye, whole wheat…
- If you use a seeded bread, make sure your baby has already tried all the ingredients, since there can be many different ones: sesame, poppy seeds, sunflower seeds, nuts, etc. And instead of using a fork, blend it with a blender or food processor.
- To make it tastier, you can sprinkle on a little cinnamon.
- It’s a great breakfast for your baby, and if your baby is over 10 months old, you can make it with whole cow’s milk.
