Baby Food Recipes for 6 to 8 Months: 10 Seasonal Purées and Meals from Morocco

The market is overflowing with squash, turnips and carrots, a pot of harira is simmering, and your baby has just turned 6 months. You don't need jars to feed them well: a few baby recipes for 6 months and up, made at home with seasonal vegetables, are enough to vary their meals without spending your evenings in the kitchen.

Here are 10 simple recipes, designed for 6 to 8 months and inspired by Moroccan cooking, followed by a method for cooking in one go and storing safely. If your baby is on their very first spoonfuls, start with our basic vegetable purées; for fruit, see our compotes with no added sugar.

The golden rules before you cook

• No salt, no sugar, no stock cube, including in the cooking water (NHS). No honey before age 1 (French Society of Paediatrics, SFP).
• Flavour all the same: spices and aromatic herbs bring colour and taste, the SFP reminds us. Cumin, cinnamon, turmeric, parsley, coriander or mint all have their place.
• Iron at least twice a day between 6 and 12 months: meat, poultry, fish, egg, pulses or fortified cereals (Quebec guide Mieux vivre, INSPQ).
• A little fat: the SFP advises adding 1 to 2 teaspoons of raw vegetable oil to vegetables every day before age 1, favouring rapeseed or walnut for their omega-3s, and sometimes alternating with a little butter.
• Meat, fish or egg: about 10 g a day before age 1, at a single meal (SFP). A quarter of a hard-boiled egg equals 10 g of meat.
• Textures that evolve: smooth at first, then mashed and lumpy as soon as your baby copes (NHS).

Cook by steaming or in a little water, until a fork goes in easily; then blend or mash with a little cooking water (INSPQ).

At the market: what's in season?

Seasonal, local produce is what the SFP encourages for home cooking. According to the seasonal guide published by Le360:

From 6 months: 4 smooth purées

1. Squash and red lentils with cumin

300 g of peeled squash (garaa) and 40 g of rinsed red lentils, cooked together in unsalted water until the lentils fall apart. Blend finely with a pinch of cumin and a little cooking water. Autumn-winter, rich in iron.

2. Cauliflower, potato and parsley

200 g of cauliflower florets and one potato, steamed, blended with a few parsley leaves. A less sweet flavour that is worth offering early (NHS). Autumn-winter.

3. Minted peas

200 g of shelled peas and one small potato, cooked then blended very finely with two mint leaves; pass through a sieve if skins remain. Spring-summer.

4. Courgette and chicken with coriander

30 g of skinless chicken breast, cooked in plenty of water until it falls apart with a fork (INSPQ), and two steamed courgettes. Blend with a little unsalted cooking liquid and a few sprigs of coriander. Makes 3 portions. Spring-summer, rich in iron.

Around 7-8 months: 5 little meals to mash

5. Baby's gentle harira

Take a ladle of the family harira before adding the salt, smen (aged clarified butter) and stock cube: lentils, chickpeas, tomato, coriander and parsley. Blend finely at 7 months, mash with a fork around 8 months. All year, rich in iron.

6. Split-pea bissara

100 g of rinsed split peas, a garlic clove and a pinch of cumin, cooked in plenty of unsalted water until they fall apart. Blend, then add a drizzle of olive oil when serving. Winter, rich in iron.

7. Mild zaalouk with egg

One peeled aubergine and two peeled, deseeded tomatoes, softened under a lid with a splash of water and a pinch of cumin, then mashed. Add a quarter of a well-cooked hard-boiled egg, mashed: a simple way to introduce egg, an allergenic food to offer early (see our article on allergens in babies). Summer-autumn.

8. White fish with mild chermoula

30 g of white fish fillet steamed or poached, with a cooked carrot and potato. Check with your fingertips that no bones remain, then mash everything with parsley, coriander, a pinch of cumin and a drizzle of oil. The SFP advises fish twice a week. All year.

9. Turkey, turnip and carrot, tagine-style

30 g of diced turkey escalope, one turnip and one carrot, cooked under a lid with a splash of water, a pinch of turmeric and ginger, until everything is very tender. Blend roughly or mash. Autumn-winter, rich in iron.

A fruit, no cooking and no sugar

10. Mashed avocado and banana

Half a ripe avocado and half a ripe banana, mashed with a fork at the last moment. Ripe, soft fruit such as banana can be served raw, washed and peeled (INSPQ). Around 8 months, cut them into big sticks to hold if your baby is already eating pieces on their own.

Cooking in bulk and storing

Batch cooking works very well for babies, as long as you respect the cold chain. Cool preparations as fast as possible, ideally within 1 to 2 hours (NHS), then follow the INSPQ cube method:

1. Pour the still-warm purée into clean ice-cube trays.
2. Cover and leave to cool in the fridge.
3. Freeze for 8 to 12 hours.
4. Transfer the cubes to a freezer bag, press out the air, and note the name and date.

The NHS keeps to 2 days in the fridge for cooked dishes. In summer, and even more when the chergui (the hot dry wind) blows, always keep to the shorter time. A defrosted purée is never refrozen (INSPQ).

From the shop

Cooking, storing and serving their meals

A fork and a saucepan are enough to start. A cooking food processor saves time, and good airtight pots make freezing in portions easier.

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Defrosting and reheating safely

• Defrost in the fridge overnight, or in the microwave on defrost setting, and use within 24 hours (NHS).
• Reheat only the amount for the meal, in a saucepan, in a bain-marie or in the microwave (INSPQ).
• Heat right through, then let it cool: in the microwave, stir well, wait about thirty seconds and check the temperature on the inside of your wrist (INSPQ, NHS).
• Only once: a dish is not reheated twice (NHS), and leftovers of reheated purée or from the plate are thrown away (INSPQ, NHS).

After 8 months, pieces take up more room: our recipes for 8 to 12 months take over.