Porridge Recipe for 6-12 month old baby

Hi Menaga,

I see that u uses the same recipe that I have been using for all my babies but one vegetable that I always like have in the porridge ie. tomato. Would like to advise here that it is not good and healthy to blend or mash the porridge as baby and mummy would be in deep trouble in the future.

To get a smooth and soft texture of porridge, use a slow cooker to cook for more than 3 hours, advisable not more than that. I have started all my three babies with porridge since the age of 3 mths old and they have turned out to be SUPERB in food consuming without any fuss and hassle. When they reached 6 to 7 mths old, I would start them with rice and soup, macaronis with soup or spaghetti style and tung sum fun.

U can use dried oysters, fresh/dried scallops, beef, lamb, fish etc., do be adventurous in creating the ingredients.

Pooisun, suggest u to cook the porridge with the slow cooker early in the morning, ie. 6.00 or 6.30 a.m. for about 1 hour with high temperature, then u can bring the cooker over to your MIL's place to continue to cook with slow temperature for another 2 or 3 hours for lunch. Off the cooker during lunch and on back 1 hour before dinner to heat up for dinner. This is better than u cook the night before which is too long where I m afraid that it would be overcooked with the nutrients gone by then.