Si En's Weaning Diary: Beetroot Puree

Beetroot! It's another vegetable that I've never eaten all of my life but discovered it during Si en's weaning journey.

I was so happy to stumble upon it as it would have made the rainbow diet so much easier. 
If you havent heard of it before, rainbow diet means choosing fruits and vegetables of every color in the rainbow.

Eating the full rainbow of foods regularly helps give your body the nutrients it needs. In addition to fiber, vitamins and minerals, naturally colored foods contain what are known as phytochemicals. These powerful nutrients are the disease-fighting substances that also give fruits and vegetables their array of colors.
Research has shown that eating a variety of these nutrients can work together to:

• Strengthen your immune system
• Lower your risk for certain cancers
• Help ward off type 2 diabetes
• Reduce high blood pressure
• Prevent some eye diseases
• Maintain urinary tract health
• Maintain heart health
• Improve memory
• Help build strong bones and teeth

Another thing that I stumbled upon is that beetroot has high soluble fibre content, making it the most ideal natural laxative.  So if your child has constipation problems while adjusting to semi solid food or bad digestion days you'll know what natural remedies you could take.

How to cook:
- Skin the beetroot
- Dice into small cubes and steam for 15mins
- Remove the water and blend/mash it into puree.
- If you would like to freeze it, wait for it to cool down before spooning it into the ice cube trays to freeze.  Try to finish the frozen food by a week if possible.

Sidenote:  Please do not be alarmed to see your baby's poo red colour the next day though.