This post is for babies who have completed 10 months and just starting their 11th month.
Below is my baby’s schedule for this month. This schedule is just for your reference. Please don’t try to fit your baby in this schedule. Let your baby decide his/her schedule to nap. And you choose a wise time (to feed solids) that suits you and your baby.
10 months baby schedule
6 AM | Breastmilk(BM) |
6 - 8.40 AM | Sleep |
8.40 - 8.50 AM | BM |
9.30 - 9.40 AM | Breakfast |
10.30 - 10.40 AM | Bath |
11 - 11.10 AM | BM |
11.15 AM - 12.30 PM | Nap |
12.30 - 12.40 PM | BM |
1.15 - 1.30 PM | Lunch |
2.50- 3 PM | BM |
3.10 - 4.40 PM | Nap |
4.40 - 4.50 PM | BM |
5.20 to 5.30 PM | Snack |
6.20 - 6.30 PM | BM |
7.20 - 7.30 PM | Dinner |
9 - 9.15 PM | BM |
9.30 PM - 12.30 AM | Sleep |
12.30 AM | BM |
3.30 AM | BM |
Please have a look at the previous food charts(click here for link) to check if you have introduced all those foods before introducing the foods mentioned in this 10 months food chart. In this month, you can add a mid-morning snack(preferably fruits). But, I didn’t add an extra snack as my baby was still taking mid-morning nap and so she didn’t need it. If you could fit a brunch time snack in your baby’s schedule, you can very well got for it.
- I planned to give Goat liver & Mutton last month, but couldn’t get fresh ones and so gave this month.
- New food – Chicken & chicken liver, Cottage cheese/Paneer(Could have given after completing 8 months), Chick peas/Sundal(both black & white), Cow peas/Thattha payaru.
- If you have any queries, pls read this post(click here) on Frequently Asked Questions and that will have answers to most of your questions.
10 months baby food chart
Day | Breakfast | Lunch | Evening Snack | Dinner |
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Day 1 | ![]() Old fashioned rolled oats porridge cooked with grated cashew & pista. Click here for recipe.. See last point in tips section .. | ![]() Carrot khichdi 🥕 (link)using home made rice + fried gram khichdi powder(link). | ![]() Peeled & chopped plums. I slightly handmash while feeding. | ![]() White rava upma. I just took out a portion from our upma for baby. It had 3 uncut green chillies.. Not so spicy as they were uncut. After taking out baby’s portion, I added salt , mixed well & just kept closed off the stove for 5 mins for us. If your baby can’t handle this texture, you can add little water or mash with banana and give. Recipe same as my wheat rava upma(link) but used white rava. |
Day 2 | ![]() Avocado 🥑 and banana 🍌 | ![]() Matta rice mashed with mutton soup and a small piece of liver. Added liver with other mutton pieces while cooking soup. Chopped the liver, minced it using potato masher and fed. Follow the same chicken soup recipe for mutton. Click here for Chicken soup recipe. | ![]() Orange chunks 🍊 | ![]() Idli with reheated mutton soup from afternoon.. I planned to give liver last month but I couldn’t get fresh one.. So delayed much... |
Day 3 | ![]() Sweet potato 🍠 paratha with curd. Pressure cook 🍠 for 2 whistles. Peel the skin and mash well with potato masher. Add generous pinches of asafoetida, turmeric(optional) & roasted cumin powder, mix well and make big balls. Roll chapathi dough, place a 🍠 ball , pleat the corners of rolled dough around the ball, join together & pinch out excess dough. Gently press down, dust with dry wheat flour and roll to thin paratha: Cook in hot Tawa by applying sesame oil & flipping both sides. Cook in medium flame as simmering will harden the parathas. Immediately transfer to a hot pack & keep closed. Cut out thick edges & feed only the soft parts with stuffing. The parathas were so soft that I didn’t require curd. I put small pieces in a plate & she herself picked & ate it happily.. She loved it so much. Every baby is different. My first one loved porridges & coconut milk based bland dishes..but this gal is loving chapathis, parathas & spicy curries... | ![]() Rice with cauliflower kurma. In pressure cooker, add little water, place a bowl with wet cauliflower florets, close with a plate & cook for 3 whistles. In coconut oil, 1/4 big onion 🧅 chopped, 1 peeled garlic clove, 1 small pinch peeled ginger. Once onions are transparent, add 1/2 chopped tomato 🍅, pinch turmeric powder. Once mushy, add 1 heaped tablespoon grated coconut & 1 coriander stalk with leaves. Stir well, add 1/4 tsp coriander powder, 1/2 pinch of homemade kulambu podi/gravy powder(link), 10 fennel seeds/sombu, 1 whole cashewnut, 20 fried gram/pottukadalai & switch off. Cool down & grind to smooth paste with a tbsp of fresh & thick curd. In coconut oil, 1 small pattai/cinnamon stick, 1 clove/krambu, curry leaf, cooked cauliflower, ground paste, required water. Cook closed in medium flame for 10 mins. Remove leaf, clove & cinnamon. The gravy was so creamy & delicious.. | ![]() California plums - Peeled & chopped. I never gave berries or any imported fruits to Nilaa, when she was a baby in India. I gave her chikoo, white guava, pink guava, ice apple, kamala orange, papaya, melons, virupachi & nendhran bananas.. Give local fresh fruits available in ur locality. | ![]() Idli with reheated cauliflower curry from afternoon.. |
Day 4 | ![]() Dosai with coconut chutney.. No need to fry the fried gram again, from this month.. Ground fried gram/ pottukadalai, coconut and lil ginger with water to thin consistency.. Tempered with sesame oil, mustard & curry leaves.. | ![]() Beets rice - In a pan, sesame oil, nearly half of a small green chilli without seeds, curry leaves, grated beetroot, water lil above immersing level. Cook closed for 12 to 15 mins in medium flame. Remove leaves & chilli. Take out some cooked beets and save for dinner. Refrigerate it once cooled. Add ghee & cooked rice to the pan and mash well with potato masher. Transfer to bowl & squeeze some lemon juice 🍋 .. | ![]() Grated raw Apple 🍎 | ![]() Idli with beetroot chutney. Sesame oil, 1 or 2 red chillies, 1 tbsp skinless whole white urad dal. Once golden, add chopped 1/2 big onion.. Once fried, add 1 or 2 tbsp grated coconut..In few seconds, add grated, cooked beetroot(reserved from lunch). Switch off in 1 min. Cool & grind smooth without chilli , with water. Take out baby portion & then grind again with chilli & rock salt for others. Temper both with sesame oil, mustard & curry leaves.. yummm |
Day 5 | ![]() Homemade wheat cerelac(link) | ![]() Rice with Fish stew using White bass fish. I gave half of the shown tail piece, without skin , bones and flesh near the bones and gills. Recipe - In coconut oil, mustard, curry leaves, 1/4 onion, 1 crushed garlic, small piece peeled ginger, 1/4 green chilli without seeds. Once onions turn translucent, add 1/2 tomato & a big pinch turmeric powder. Fry until mushy. Add 1/2 cup second coconut milk, cleaned fish without scales (preferably tail piece as it will have only central bones). Cook closed in medium flame for 5 mins. Turn fish and cook closed for 3 mins. Then, add 1/4 cup first coconut milk, pinch pepper powder and cook open in low flame for 2 mins. Add 1 torn curry leaf & uncut coriander stalk with leaves, Switch off & keep closed away from the stove. Used 1/4 cup grated coconut to extract milk. | ![]() Orange chunks 🍊 | ![]() Idiyappam with fish stew from afternoon. I refrigerated it and reheated in low flame for just 1 boil. Baby loved it & had one more idiyappam.. Give it as early dinner, 2 hours before sleep. If baby has not yet started to walk with support, don’t give this in night. U shall give in morning & afternoon. Idiyappam flour is just like making millet flour in this post(link). Just replace Foxtail millet/Thinai with raw rice/Pacharisi. After grinding to flour, dry roast in low flame until hot to touch. Cool down and store in refrigerator. Boil water with lil oil, pour boiling water to rice flour and mix to form soft dough. Squeeze using idiyappam press over a cloth on idli plate. Once water in idlipot comes to rolling boil, place idli plates with idiyappam and steam just for 5 mins. Too much of steaming will make idiyappam rubbery. |
Day 6 | ![]() Venpongal with sambar. For pongal, soaked raw rice and moongdal for 20 mins, washed and added 4 times water, 1 inch peeled ginger, asafoetida, roasted cumin & pepper powders, lil olive oil - Cooked for 4 whistles. Took out small portion for baby and then added salt & tempered with pepper, cumin seeds, curry leaves, chillies, more ginger & coriander leaves for us.. Sambar recipe in lunch. | ![]() Mashed Matta rice with ghee & Carrot sambar - Pressure cook toor dal(soaked for 20 mins & washed), tomato, carrot, asafoetida, turmeric powder & lil sesame oil for 5 whistles. In sesame oil, mustard, curry leaves, small onions. Once fried, in sim, add asafoetida, generous pinches of roasted cumin powder, sambar powder, coriander powder, dal water. After 2 mins add mashed dal, cooked carrots, uncut coriander stalk with leaves. Switch off in 2 to 3 mins.. | ![]() Grated Apple 🍎 | ![]() Plain wheat dosai. Click here for recipe with tips. |
Day 7 | ![]() Fruit bowl - Avocado 🥑 & chopped cherries 🍒 Peel the skin of cherries.. | ![]() Rasam rice with Pomfret / Vaaval fish fry. Marinate fish with turmeric, roasted cumin & pepper powders, lemon juice for half an hour to 1 hour. In hot tawa, pour 1 or 2 tsp coconut oil & fry fish for 6 mins . 2 mins in each side without skin and 1 min each on sides with skin.. that’s it.. too much of frying will harden the fish.. Fish shouldn’t be under-cooked as well. 6 mins on a hot tawa in medium heat will cook the fish perfectly.. Feed without skin & bones.. | ![]() Orange chunks 🍊 | ![]() Rasam rice. Click here for Tomato Rasam recipe. |
Day 8 | ![]() Cherries 🍒 smoothie .. Just like my strawberry smoothie(link) | ![]() Rice with Paneer Makhani. In a pan, add 1 cup water, 1 chopped tomato, 1/4 big onion chopped, 1 garlic clove, 1 small piece peeled ginger, 1 lil piece cinnamon, 1 small clove, 1 pinch cardamom powder, 1 whole cashew, 1 pinch homemade plain chilli powder. Cook closed in low-medium flame for 20 mins. Cool down and grind to fine paste along with 1 tbsp thick & fresh curd. In a pan, add a tsp butter, 1/4 bay leaf, 2 fresh homemade paneer cubes. Fry for a minute & pour the ground paste. Rinse mixie jar using 1/4 cup water & pour it as well. Add 1 uncut coriander stalk with leaves.Cook open in medium flame for 2 mins & cook closed in low flame for 2 mins.. | ![]() Red plums - Peeled & chopped .. I slightly hand-mash while feeding.. | ![]() Layered chapathi(link) with reheated Paneer Makhani from afternoon.. As I am giving paneer for the first time today, didn’t give paneer cubes for dinner. Just gave the gravy.. No cow’s milk below 1 year.. But curd can be given after completing 6 months and paneer can be given after completing 8 months.. For homemade paneer recipe, click here.. To make cubes, just cover the cloth and put a weight on it(like a big vessel filled with water) for 3 hours.. Then refrigerate for 2 hours and then cut into cubes.. |
Day 9 | ![]() Sprouted Ragi porridge. Link for porridge. Link for sprouted ragi flour. | ![]() Malabar spinach / Pasalai keerai masiyal - Same as my spinach mash recipe(link). Just skipped chilli & replaced tamarind with 1/4 tomato. | ![]() Peeled and chopped black grapes.. I slightly hand-mash while feeding. | ![]() Idli with tomato 🍅 chutney . Just fried onions + tomatoes and added few coriander leaves before switching off. Cooled and ground.. |
Day 10 | ![]() Lotus seeds cerelac / instant porridge with mashed banana - Click here for recipe. | ![]() Ashgourd buttermilk gravy / Vellai Poosanikai mor kuzhambu - Same recipe as in this link. Use 2 tbsp fresh curd for baby. Just skip salt while cooking veggie. Use few cooked veggies & 2 tbsp cooked water for baby’s gravy. Skip green chillies while grinding coconut, take 1 tbsp ground stuff for baby’s gravy and then add chillies & grind for others. While tempering baby’s curry, avoid fenugreek & urad dal.. just use 1/4 red chilli without seeds. | ![]() Orange chunks 🍊 | ![]() Idli with Coriander + Mint chutney. Sesame oil - whole urad dal without skin, red chilli. Once dal browned, add tamarind, coriander & Mint leaves. Once leaves shrink, add grated coconut. Grind without chilli & tamarind for baby. Then grind for others with salt. Add lil water while grinding. Temper with mustard, Urad dal and curry leaves. Lastly pour the tempering with mustard & curry leaves without urad dal to baby portion. No need to do 2 tadka. U can use the same for both. |
Day 11 | ![]() Paniyaram using baby’s saltless idli batter.. With coconut milk. Added dry ginger powder(sukku) to coconut, ground with water & extracted milk. I add water again and extract second milk as well & add it to the first milk. | ![]() Kala chana kurma - Pressure cook soaked(overnight) black sundal for 10 whistles in high flame. In coconut oil, 1/4 big onion, 1 garlic clove. Once onion turns pink, a small ginger, 1/2 ripe tomato & generous pinch turmeric powder. Once tomato turns mushy, add 1 tbsp grated coconut. After 1 minute, add 1/8 tsp coriander powder, 1 pinch plain chilli powder. Stir once, switch off & add 10 fennel seeds & 1 coriander stalk with leaves. Let it cool down in the pan itself. Once cooled, grind with little water. From second time, u can also grind some cooked sundal along with coconut stuff.. In pan, coconut oil, 1 small cinnamon stick, 1 clove, 2 curry leaves, 10 cooked black sundal without skin, ground paste with 1/2 cup water. Add more water if u want more gravy. Cook closed in medium flame for 10 mins. Mash sundal using fingers and feed. Giving sundal as such might cause choking hazard.. | ![]() Peeled & chopped Red plums. Hand-mash while feeding.. | ![]() Dosa with reheated Kala chana kurma from afternoon .. |
Day 12 | ![]() Black Urad porridge cooked with black sesame seeds powder. Used my mom’s urad kali powder. This powder recipe is in my instagram post(link). I just took a tsp of powder mixed well with 1/2 cup water. Added pinch each of roasted and ground sesame seeds powders to it and cooked in sim for 10 mins. Added ghee at the end.. | ![]() Cabbage 🥬 kootu.. Soak Moong dal for 30 mins. Cook dal, water to immerse dal, turmeric, asafoetida, chopped cabbage for 4 whistles. Mash well with potato masher. In coconut oil, add mustard. Once spluttered, simmer & add curry leaves, chopped small onions, very small piece of red chilli without seeds, pinch each of asafoetida & roasted cumin powder, 1 uncut coriander stalk with leaves, mashed (dal+ cabbage) with little cooked water. Will thicken in 1 minute. Remove chilli & leaves. Add ghee, mashed rice & feed. If ur baby can’t handle fried onion bits, u can add a chopped small onion while cooking dal. | ![]() Grated Apple 🍎 | ![]() White Rava upma. In sesame oil, mustard, curry leaves, 1/4 green chilli without seeds, small onion, 1/4 tomato without skin & seeds, pinch turmeric powder, nearly 1 cup hot boiling water. Cook closed in medium flame for 5 mins. Open, add roasted rava, stir well & cook closed for 5 mins. Stir in between. Switch off and keep closed for 10 mins. Remove leaf & chilli. |
Day 13 | ![]() Old fashioned rolled oats porridge cooked with grated walnut and peanut.. Click here for recipe.. See last point in tips section .. | ![]() Chayote squash/ Chow chow sambar. Pressure cook toor dal(soaked for 30 mins), tomato, turmeric, asafoetida, chopped chow chow, lil sesame oil for 4 to 5 whistles. In sesame oil, add mustard. Once spluttered, in sim add chopped small onion, curry leaves, pinch each of (asafoetida, roasted cumin, coriander & sambar powders). Add 1 uncut coriander stalk with leaves, cooked (dal + veggie + water). Switch off in 2 to 3 mins. If ur baby can’t handle fried onion bits, u can cook it along with dal. | ![]() Grated Apple 🍎 | ![]() Whole wheat dosai. Click here for recipe and tips. I put small pieces in a plate .. She picked & ate it all by herself. No teeth yet .. Wheat dosai is too soft to try as finger food.. |
Day 14 | ![]() Sweet potato 🍠. Pressure cooked 2 whistles with water till immersing level, peeled & chopped. While feeding 🍠 , always have a bowl of water to dip your hands to avoid dry feed.. | ![]() Beetroot + Mint rice. Coconut oil, mustard, curry leaves, grated beets, pinch each of turmeric & plain chilli powder, water till immersing level. Cook closed for 10 mins. Open & add finely chopped 5 mint leaves. Cook for 2 mins or until desired consistency. Add to mashed rice, ghee.. Add few lemon drops & mix just before feeding. | ![]() Chopped cherries 🍒 Peel the skin if it is very thick. Hand-mash while feeding. | ![]() Red aval/poha porridge. Wash & soak a tbsp of red aval for 20 mins. Mash it well with hand and cook in low-med flame with 1/4 cup water, lil ghee and a pinch of roasted cumin/jeera powder. Cook for 5 mins until it thickens. Feed warm. |
Day 15 | ![]() Homemade instant wheat cerelac - Click here for recipe. | ![]() Mutton kheema curry - In groundnut oil, add 2 small onions, 2 garlic cloves. Once onions start to change color, add 1/2 small tomato chopped, 1/8 tsp turmeric powder. Once tomatoes are mushy, add small peeled ginger, 1/4 tsp coriander powder, 1 pinch plain chilli powder. Stir once & add 1 tbsp grated coconut. Switch off in 1 min and add 10 fennel seeds/sombu, 1 clove/krambu, 1 small cinnamon/pattai, 1 pinch cardamom powder. Let it cool in the pan itself. Once cooled, grind to smooth paste adding 1/4 cup water. In pressure cooker, groundnut oil, curry leaf, ground paste. saute for 1 min, add minced mutton(Clean mutton piece & very finely chop like kothu kari using butcher knife) & saute for 1 more min. Rinse mixie jar with 1/4 cup water & add along with 1 more cup water. Cook in high flame for 8 to 10 whistles. Add curry to rice and mash well with potato masher.. | ![]() Orange chunks 🍊 | ![]() Chapathi(corners trimmed) with reheated mutton curry(without mutton pieces) from afternoon.. Baby loved this curry so much ☺️ |
Day 16 | ![]() Lotus seeds cerelac with mashed banana 🍌 Click here for recipe. | ![]() Palak paneer. I used baby spinach. The same recipe as my spinach masiyal(link). No chilli, salt & tamarind for baby. Added tomato, peeled ginger & whole cashewnut after frying onions. Ground the stuffs with 1 tbsp fresh curd. In butter, 1/4 bay leaf, ground stuff with lil water, 1/2 pinch homemade garam masala (it has cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, coriander, chilli). Garam masala is just optional. Add homemade paneer cubes and cook in medium flame for 3 mins. | ![]() Peeled & chopped, ripened red plums.. I slightly press with fingers to mash while feeding. | ![]() Idly with coconut milk. Flax seeds powder on idli is to differentiate saltless idli. I usually click upside down. Today, I quickly dropped the other side into the coconut milk & so just clicked as it is. Added dry ginger powder/ Sukku thool along with coconut, ground with water and extracted the milk. Extracted second milk too and mixed with the first one to thin down the milk. Don’t skip dry ginger powder when giving coconut milk in night. Give early, at least 2 hours before sleep for proper digestion. |
Day 17 | ![]() Finger Millet / Ragi puttu with banana. Click here for Recipe, but minus salt , sweet and coconut. The puttu was too soft without any hard particles. If u hav any such particles, discard it or u can even sieve after cooking too.. Just mashed with banana and it turned like a soft paste/ kool consistency making it easy for baby to swallow as such .. If u still feel it is dry, u can add some coconut milk or just plain water to moist it, but I didn’t need any..Do give with banana only, else it will be dry for babies to swallow.. My baby loved it 😋 | ![]() Green gram curry cooked with cabbage.. Mixed with mashed Matta rice and ghee.. Click here for recipe.. See last point in Tips section.. | ![]() Peeled and chopped, ripened Red plums.. Slightly hand-mash while feeding. | ![]() Idli with reheated green gram curry from afternoon.. |
Day 18 | ![]() Avocado 🥑 I usually mash it with banana and give but banana was not ripe today.. She didn’t like to eat it as such.. She just ate half of half and turned her head away.. | ![]() Sundal/channa kurma. In coconut oil, 1/4 chopped big onion, 2 small garlic cloves. Once onions start to change color, add 1 small ripened tomato chopped, 1 big pinch turmeric powder, small peeled ginger piece. Once tomatoes are mushy, add 1 chopped tbsp grated coconut, 1/4 tsp coriander powder, 1 pinch chilli powder, 1/2 pinch cardamom powder, 10 sombu/fennel seeds, few chopped coriander leaves. Stir once and switch off. Let it cool in the pan itself. Once cooled, grind to smooth paste with 1/4 cup water. In coconut oil, small cinnamon, 1 clove, 2 curry leaves, ground paste, cooked( soaked overnight & pressure cooked with water for 10 whistles in high flame) & peeled white channa, 1 cup or more water as required. Cook closed in medium flame for 10 mins. Mash channa with hand & feed to avoid choking.. U can even grind channa with coconut & other stuffs to make it smoother for babies.. | ![]() Grated raw apple 🍎 | ![]() Mini idlis with reheated channa kurma from afternoon.. |
Day 19 | ![]() Sprouted Ragi porridge. Click here for recipe. | ![]() Tomato rasam with grilled pomfret/vaaval fish. I have shown the fish after removing skin and bones. I keep the fish in a separate plate, take out the fleshy parts and check for bones twice and then transfer to baby’s bowl. | ![]() Papaya pieces. I slightly hand-mash while feeding. | ![]() Rice with reheated tomato rasam from afternoon.. Click here for Rasam recipe. |
Day 20 | ![]() Carrot smoothie 🥕 Chop 1 carrot & add to a bowl. Sprinkle a pinch roasted cumin powder (optional) & lil water just to wet the carrots & close with a lid. Pour lil water in pressure cooker & keep this bowl inside. Cook for 5 to 6 whistles. Take out, cool down & blend with 2 tbsp thick & fresh curd. Yumm 😋 | ![]() Thandu keerai Paruppu kootu. Pressure cooked moongdal (soaked for 20 mins & washed), tomato, garlic, small onions, asafoetida, turmeric powder, sesame oil for 3 to 4 whistles. In coconut oil, mustard, chopped greens(only leaves without stems). Fry for a min & add water. Cook open until 70% cooked. Then add cooked & mashed dal with lil cooked water, 1/2 tsp (coconut+ jeera+ dry red chillies) paste. Cook for 3 mins & switch off. I ground for family pot & just took 1/2 tsp from that paste for baby. I cooked dal for all & took 2 tbsp for baby. U can skip coconut paste & just add a pinch of sambar powder when cooking greens. | ![]() Orange chunks 🍊 | ![]() Plain wheat dosai. Click here for recipe details with video. |
Day 21 | ![]() Ragi idli with Coconut green chutney. 👉Ragi mini idli - 1 cup Ragi flour, 1/2 cup idli rice, 1/4 cup urad dal, 1/4 cup poha, 1/8 tsp fenugreek seeds.. First mix Ragi flour with little water in a bowl.. grind each other ingredients separately(but urad & methi seeds together) and add to the bowl.. Mix well and ferment overnight. Use grinder if using whole Ragi.. 👉 Chutney - In sesame oil, handful of mint & coriander leaves(equal amounts). Once wilted, add 1/4 cup grated coconut. Saute once, Switch off and add 1 small piece of peeled ginger & 1 tbsp fried gram/pottukadalai. Once cooled, grind with required water & temper with mustard & curry leaves. For adults, u can just grind with green chilli and salt & do the same tempering along with little urad dal.. | ![]() Carrot khichdi 🥕 (link) using homemade Rice + Fried gram/Pottukadalai khichdi powder(link) | ![]() Grated raw apple 🍎 | ![]() White Rava upma. In sesame oil, mustard, curry leaves, 1/4 green chilli without seeds, small onion, 1/4 tomato without skin & seeds, nearly 1 cup hot boiling water. Cook closed in medium flame for 5 mins. Open, add roasted rava, stir well & cook closed for 5 mins. Stir in between. Switch off and keep closed for 10 mins. Remove leaf & chilli. |
Day 22 | ![]() Fruit bowl- Banana 🍌 and watermelon strips.. Gave 🍉 strips as finger food.. A much safer finger food.. | ![]() Mashed Matta rice with Dal soup gravy. Pressure cook 1 tbsp moong dal, 1 cup water, 1 ripe tomato chopped, 1 garlic clove, 1 chopped small onion, 1/2 chopped carrot, 1/2 pinch sambar powder, pinch each of asafoetida, turmeric, pepper & roasted cumin powders for 4 to 5 whistles. Mash well. In a pan, lil sesame oil, 1 small cinnamon stick, 1/4 bay leaf, 2 curry leaves, 1 uncut coriander stalk with leaves, cooked and mashed dal. Let it boil until desired consistency. | ![]() She loved watermelon so much. So gave 🍉 strips & she enjoyed picking it & eating on her own !! | ![]() Idiyappam with reheated dal soup curry from afternoon..A perfect baby-friendly gravy - Approved by many moms 😁 For idiyappam recipe, pls scroll up to Day 5 dinner. |
Day 23 | ![]() Red poha/aval sambar pongal. Wash 1 tbsp aval thrice and soak(keep closed) in 2 tbsp water for 15 mins. In sim, ghee, pinch each of asafoetida, roasted cumin & pepper powders, curry leaf, 1 ginger piece, 1 tbsp cooked toordal, cooked carrot(optional) with 2 tbsp dal water(I used the dal that I cooked for our sambar with tomato, carrot, turmeric & asafoetida). Add soaked Aval and let it cook in dal water in sim. Lastly, remove ginger & curry leaf & mash with potato masher. | ![]() Drumstick sambar- Pressure cook toor dal(soaked for 20 mins & washed), tomato, turmeric, garlic, asafoetida, lil sesame oil for 5 whistles. Mash well. Cook drumstick with half-immersed water in a closed bowl for 10 mins in medium flame. In sesame oil, chopped small onion, curry leaf, pinch each of asafoetida, roasted cumin powder, sambar powder, uncut coriander stalk with leaves, mashed dal with cooked water & cooked drumstick with cooked water. Cook for 3 mins or until desired consistency. In drumsticks, just took out the flesh and fed without seeds.. | ![]() Finely chopped strawberries 🍓 Mashed with fingers & fed.. | ![]() Idly with carrot chutney 🥕 Oil + 4 chopped small onions, 1 chopped carrot. Fry & cook closed with water for 10 mins..Lastly add grated coconut for 1 min.. Cool & grind with lil water for baby..Temper with lil mustard..Add salt and fried red chilli & grind for others.. |
Day 24 | ![]() Lotus seeds cerelac with mashed banana. Click here for recipe. | ![]() Beetroot rice with farm fresh Lady’s finger fry. For Beets rice, grate a big disc of beetroot, add to a bowl with 1/3 cup water, 1 pinch each of turmeric and sambar powders. Close with lid and place inside a pressure cooker with little water outside the bowl and cook for 5 to 6 whistles. Open, drain the water along with some beets for dinner. In coconut oil, mustard, curry leaves, cooked beets with lil cooked water. Switch off in 1 min. Add mashed rice to this with lil ghee and mix well. Squeeze few drops of lemon juice 🍋 and feed. For the fry, in coconut oil, mustard, curry 🍃, chopped lady’s finger, turmeric powder, 1 big pinch sambar powder. Cook closed in an iron pan, stirring often. Once cooked well, remove baby portion & add salt, chilli powder & cook for 3 more mins for others.. While feeding, hand mashed lady’s finger with rice and fed. Select tender lady’s fingers for babies.. Don’t worry if u see the lady’s finger seeds in poop.. | ![]() Orange chunks 🍊 | ![]() Idly with reheated beets soup from afternoon.. |
Day 25 | ![]() Paniyaram with coconut milk. Used idli batter and ghee to make paniyaram. Added cardamom powder to coconut, ground with water & extracted milk. I add water again and extract second milk as well & add it to the first milk. | ![]() Mashed Matta rice mixed with ghee and homegrown Methi leaves/Vendhaya keerai Moong dal kootu. Click here for recipe. For baby, skip salt, use just a pinch of sambar powder, 2 tbsp cooked moongdal, 2 tbsp dal water, 1 tbsp coconut paste, 1 tbsp chopped methi leaves, 1/4 cup water to cook greens. | ![]() Grated raw apple 🍎 | ![]() Dosai with Kadhamba chutney.. Sesame oil, 2 red chillies. Fry and take out. Then add 1 big onion chopped, 4 garlic, 1 inch ginger, pinch tamarind, 1 green chilli. Fry for 3 minutes, take out green chilli & tamarind..Then add 2 small tomatoes chopped. Once tomato turns mushy, add few mint and coriander leaves. Once leaves shrink, add 1/4 cup grated coconut & switch off in 1 min. Cool down and grind for baby without chillies & tamarind. Then add the rest along with rock salt & grind for others. Add little water while grinding.. Temper with mustard & urad dal for others and pour just the mustard with little oil tempering at the last to baby portion. No need to do 2 separate tadkas.. |
Day 26 | ![]() Homemade wheat cerelac(link) | ![]() Cow peas/Thatta payaru curry. Dry fry cow peas for 2 mins. Cool it and wash well. Pressure cook with double the water for 4 whistles. Don’t use the cooked water in baby’s curry. In coconut oil, 3 chopped shallots/small onions, 2 small garlic cloves. Once onions start to change color, add 1 chopped small tomato & 1/8 tsp turmeric powder. Once tomatoes are mushy, add 1 tbsp grated coconut. Stir once, switch off & add 1/4 tsp coriander powder, 1/8 tsp roasted cumin powder, 1 big pinch chilli powder. Stir once and let it cool in the pan itself. Once cooled, grind to smooth paste with 1/4 cup water. In coconut oil, mustard, curry 🍃, asafoetida, 1 uncut coriander stalk with leaves, 1 tbsp cooked cow peas, ground paste, 1/2 cup to 1 cup water. Once it starts to boil, cook closed in medium flame for 10 mins. Always mash the cow peas and feed to avoid choking. As mine was too bigger & had thick skin than the ones in India, I fed without skin. U shall even grind it with skin along with coconut stuffs in mixie. | ![]() Well-ripened and chopped Red plums. Too soft. | ![]() Mashed rice with reheated curry(without cow peas) from afternoon. Planned to make chapathi for baby & dosa for us but couldn’t make it out.. So, cooked rice for all !! |
Day 27 | ![]() Red aval sambar pongal. Scroll up to day 23 for recipe. | ![]() Drumsticks sambar. Scroll up to day 23 for recipe. | ![]() Peeled & chopped, ripened pear 🍐 I slightly press with fingers to mash while feeding. | ![]() Plain wheat dosai. Click here for recipe details with video. |
Day 28 | ![]() Aappam with cardamom flavored coconut milk.. Aappam got soaked in the coconut milk before I clicked and so they look shrunken in the pic.. | ![]() Matta rice mashed with Minced chicken curry 🐓 Fed with hand-mashed chicken liver.. In sesame oil, 3 chopped small onions, 2 small garlic cloves. Once onions start to change color, add 1/2 chopped tomato, 1/8 tsp turmeric powder, 1 small piece peeled ginger. Once tomato turns mushy, add grated coconut, 1/4 tsp coriander powder, 1 pinch plain chilli powder, lil cardamom powder, 5 peppercorns/milagu, 10 jeera/cumin seeds, 10 fennel seeds/sombu, 1 clove/krambu, 1 small cinnamon/pattai, 1/2 tsp fried gram/ pottukadalai, 1 whole cashewnut. Stir once & switch off. Let it cool in the pan itself. Once cooled, grind to smooth paste with 1/4 cup water. In cooker, 1 tsp sesame oil, curry leaves, liver, minced chicken. Stir for few seconds & add chopped mint(3 leaves) & chopped coriander(1 stalk with leaves). Stir once & add ground stuff with required(1/2 to 1 cup) water & cook in high flame for 8 whistles.. Mashed rice & curry with minced chicken pieces using potato masher.. | ![]() Orange chunks 🍊 | ![]() Aappam with reheated chicken curry from afternoon. Baby loved this combo very well and she had more mini aappams. You shall find aappam batter recipe(without baking soda) in my instagram post. Click here for link. |
Day 29 | ![]() Rolled Oats porridge cooked with grated pista, walnut & peanut. Click here for recipe.. See last point in tips section .. | ![]() Curd rice with Cauliflower pepper fry.. In coconut oil- mustard, curry leaves, crushed garlic clove, cauliflower florets, big pinch of turmeric powder, roasted cumin powder, pepper powder. Stir once and add water. Cook closed until cauliflower is so soft. Stir now and then. Add more water if required. Once cooked, open and fry till there is no water.. You can pressure cook cauliflower separately and then do the tempering, add masala and cook in low flame with cooked cauliflower for 3+ mins until masalas blend well.. | ![]() Banana 🍌 | ![]() Rice porridge. Afternoon rice, water, pinch jeera powder(optional). Cook for 2 mins & mash with potato masher. |
Day 30 | ![]() Avocado 🥑 and banana 🍌 | ![]() Rice with tomato rasam 🍅 and Lady’s finger fry. In coconut oil, mustard, curry leaves, asafoetida, chopped tender lady’s finger, pinch each turmeric powder & sambar powder. Stir well and cook closed(open & stir often) until cooked soft. Do not fry crispy.. | ![]() Peeled & chopped, ripened pear 🍐 I slightly handmash while feeding. | ![]() Idly with reheated tomato rasam from afternoon.. Click here for rasam recipe. |
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