Porridge Recipe for 6 months Baby

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Ayyash is now 6 months 10 days. How time flies right? He used to become as small as 3.9 kg when he was born. But now he is 8.6 kg big boy! Alhamdulillah.

So, when a baby reached 6 months, you can start giving him solid food. In Malaysia, the common first solid food to introduce is rice porridge. Even though Ayyash do not eat porridge as much as fruit puree (he really loves fruit!), but I still feed him everyday to make sure that he want to eat rice later on. If not, when he is smart enough to reject food, there will be no more rice for him. 

Since Ayyash is very picky in eating rice porridge, I need to be more creative to think and more hardworking to modify and try new recipes for him. Today, I am making rice porridge with pumpkin for him. 

Tadaa! I really love the yellow colour given by the pumpkin. And that also help to capture Ayyash interest to eat the porridge.

So, how to make this porridge?

First, you need to have rice, pumpkin and anchovies. 

The pumpkin needs to be seeded off. The rice and the anchovies need to be clean well ( I took off the bones as       well)

Put everything inside the pot with water. 

Wait until everything soften and the rice cooked well.

Transfer them to the blender.

Blend well with some water. 

Keep inside the food thermos to keep the warm.

Tips: 

If you do not like pumpkin (not you, the baby. Haha), you can always replace it with carrot, broccoli or chicken and fish.

If you do not like anchovies, just take it off. But remember, anchovies is a good source of calcium for babies.

Add small amount of olive oil to your porridge while cooking it, so that the oil can be the source of fat. 

You can dry blend the rice so that it will cook faster.

Use Zam Zam water during blending of the porridge and selawat banyak-banyak during cooking. 

Then, you will get a healthy porridge

Complete with carbohydrate, protein, minerals, vitamins and fat!