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This homemadeBones Beef Baby Food is a great addition to your baby'southward favorite purees for actress protein and flavour! It's an incredibly uncomplicated recipe with big flavor and nutrition! Information technology's perfect as a Stage One Baby Food – 4-half-dozen+ months.

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Medically reviewed and co-written by Jamie Johnson, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN), and Lauren Braaten, Pediatric Occupational Therapist (OT).

Beef Baby Food

Beefiness, it's what's for infant'southward dinner! Beef puree, that is. 😉

This beef puree is loaded with so many great nutrients that your baby needs in social club to thrive – protein, iron, calcium and folate.

And while it may seem counter-intuitive and perhaps weird (or at least information technology did to me), beef puree 🥩 is a great commencement food for your baby.

But because it's a food-dumbo puree doesn't mean your baby needs bowls upon bowls of it. Since beefiness puree has a somewhat intense flavor, a few spoonfuls added to your baby's favorite veggie or fruit puree should be enough.

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Beefiness Puree Video

Watch this video to run across how piece of cake it is to make your infant homemade Beef Puree!

Reasons to Honey this Beef Puree

  • simple yet flavorful
  • packed with protein
  • great to add to any other fruit or veggie puree that baby loves
  • infant food for iv-6 months and up
  • phase 1 babe food
  • freezer-friendly
  • homemade
Spread of ingredients needed for this recipe - beef, dried herbs and broth.

Ingredients

Brand sure to read the recipe bill of fare beneath for full ingredients and instructions!

  • Beef: Since beefiness is the star of the show in this puree, we are going to beginning with a good slice of meat. We are going to use 8oz of chuck stew meat or cubed sirloin beef. Y'all can as well easily scale upwardly this recipe if y'all desire more than 12 ounces of baby nutrient.
  • Broth: To get that rich, deep beefiness flavor, we volition melt our beef in beef goop. I recommend using a low-sodium, sodium-complimentary, or free-range beef bone broth for this recipe. You can besides employ any of those variations above with a vegetable broth also. If you lot don't have any of those on mitt, you can use h2o.
  • Oregano: Nosotros are adding dried oregano to give the puree a little more complex sense of taste. This tin can easily exist omitted if you prefer or yous can substitute in dried parsley, basil, rosemary, thyme or cilantro.

Grass-Fed Beef: I recommend using grass-fed beefiness for this recipe, if possible. Grass-fed beef volition accept more healthy fats, more gratuitous Omega-iii fatty acids (healthy fats), vitamins A, Eastward, and B too equally more antioxidants.

Wellness Benefits of Beef

  • Poly peptide: Beef is an excellent source of protein, which is essential for proper growth and evolution of all organ systems and maintaining and repairing tissues. Information technology is considered a complete protein, meaning it has all of the amino acids that are needed to make poly peptide.
  • Atomic number 26: Beef is a good source of iron, needed for making carmine claret cells, neurodevelopment and preventing fe deficiency anemia, and zinc, needed for growth and development and supporting the immune system.
  • B12: Beef is also high in B12, which is essential for encephalon development and good for you reddish blood cells.
  • Choline: can likewise be found in beef, which is also important for encephalon growth and development.
Saucepan with cooked beef inside.
Blender with cooked beef.
Blender with pureed beef.
Gray baby bowl with baby spoon resting on top with a teal napkin on table.

Pace-by-Step Instructions

  1. Boil: In a medium saucepan, bring the cubed beef, goop, and oregano to a boil over medium heat.
  2. Simmer: Turn the heat down to depression and comprehend the saucepan. Simmer for fifteen-xx minutes or until the beefiness is just cooked through. Let it cool slightly.
  3. Puree:Using a slotted spoon, transfer the beefiness to a blender or food processor and puree until yous reach your desired consistency, adding goop in ane/4 cup increments if needed.
  4. Eat: Serve to your baby plain or added into another puree.
  5. Freeze: Store a small portion in the fridge and freeze the rest for another repast.

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  • Saucepans
  • Blender or Food Processor
  • Freezer Tray
  • Storage Containers for Fridge
  • Stasher Pocketbook
  • bib with catch pocket
  • Saucepans
Freezer container with beef puree inside.

Oftentimes Asked Questions

When can baby eat beef puree?

Babies tin have beef as one of their first foods. When a baby can starting time on solids is determined by their own rate of development, which generally comes between 4-6 months of age. Some of the developmental milestones babies need to reach in order to start solids include: if your baby has solid command of their caput and neck, if your infant has doubled in weight, and if your infant is reaching for or opening their oral cavity when you eat (meet my guide here). Before you lot start your baby on purees, you should consult with your pediatrician to make sure your child is developmentally ready.

Can beef be infant's first food?
Yes, beefiness tin can 100% be baby's first nutrient if you want it to be. It is recommended to expect to introduce the meridian eight allergen foods to baby once a few other well tolerated foods accept been introduced, merely otherwise foods can be introduced in any order so choose whatever you are virtually excited for baby to have.

Is beef a common allergen for baby?
No, beef is not a common allergen, however, equally with any food, start with a pocket-sized portion and exist enlightened of any signs that might exist an allergic reaction after introducing information technology.

Does beef cause constipation for babies?
No, beefiness itself is not known to crusade constipation in babies, however it won't really help with constipation either since it lacks fiber. If infant is eating too much meat, it could replace fiber-rich foods, which could cause constipation.

How to Store Beefiness Puree

Refridgerator

You can store this puree in an closed container in the fridge for upward to 3 days.

Freezer

This puree tin can be frozen for up to 2 months.

  • Spoon puree into a freezer storage container. Do non overfill.
  • Identify the lid on the storage container or embrace with a piece of saran wrap, and label with the date and recipe name.
  • Identify the tray into the freezer and allow it freeze completely — preferably overnight.
  • Pop out the infant nutrient cubes and place them in a ziplock baggie or stasher pocketbook. Don't forget to relabel the baggie or stasher bag for future reference.

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Label Tip:Don't forget to label your purees earlier yous place them in the fridge or freezer with the name of the puree and the appointment yous fabricated it. Accept information technology from me; by the stop of the week, you will completely forget what is in your freezer and how long it'due south been there. 😉

Gray baby bowl with beef pure and a small bowl of dried oregano with hand reaching in to stir the puree.

Great Beef Combination Purees

While this beef baby food is great by itself, it tin can be a little intense for some babies. I recommend mixing information technology into one of your baby'southward favorite purees equally an introduction to the rich gustatory modality of beefiness. Here are some corking purees to mix with the beefiness puree:

  • Apples
  • Sweet Tater
  • Pear
  • Carrot
  • Broccoli
  • Pea
  • Mango

PUREE FEEDING TIPS

  • Follow your baby'southward atomic number 82 – when feeding purees from a spoon, sometimes in that location's a tendency to go on offering bites past the bespeak of your baby existence full. Always follow your baby's cues for when they are done eating. Turning away from the spoon, closing her oral cavity, or pushing food away are all signs that your baby is finished with the meal.
  • Endeavour adding a little seasoning or spice to purees– babies similar flavor! Or consider changing the temperature of purees from time to time, to slightly warmed or slightly chilled. Varying these aspects adds to the sensory experience!
  • Throwing spoons is a mutual phase that all babies get through at ane bespeak or some other. One of the best means to handle spoon throwing is to ignore it and keep feeding your baby as usual (with an extra spoon y'all already have at the tabular array). If your babe ends up also throwing back up spoons #ii AND #three, simply encourage your infant to swallow with their hands until they announced to be finished with the meal. ***Give baby plenty of opportunities to practice putting items in and taking items out of containers outside of mealtimes.
Gray baby bowl with baby spoon resting on top with a teal napkin on table.

Recipe Tips

  • Use a Slotted Spoon: When transferring the cooked beef from the saucepan to the blender, brand certain to use a slotted spoon so you don't add also much broth into the puree from the offset. You lot simply desire to add together broth if needed while blending. I had to add a 1/4 cup of broth to the blender while I was pureeing this beefiness.
  • Reheat Gently: If y'all are freezing some of this beef puree, reheat information technology in 20-second intervals. You lot don't want to recook the beef.

Recipe

  • eight ounce beef chuck stew meat, or cubed sirloin beef
  • 2 cups beef or vegetable broth, low or no sodium
  • 1 tsp dried oregano

  • Boil: In a medium saucepan, bring beef, broth and oregano to a eddy over medium heat. Turn to depression and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until beef is cooked all the mode through. Permit cool slightly.

    Saucepan with cooked beef inside.

  • Transfer: Using a slotted spoon, transfer the beef to a blender or food processor, reserve goop.

    Blender with cooked beef.

  • Puree: starting on low and working your style up to high-speed, puree the beefiness until you accomplish your desired consistency, calculation in broth in ane/4 cup increments if needed. I had to add in just 1/iv cup of goop to get the consistency seen in this photograph.

    Blender with pureed beef.

  • Eat: serve to baby plain or added into some other puree.

    Gray baby bowl with beef pure and a small bowl of dried oregano.

  • Freeze: store a modest portion in the fridge and freeze the balance for another meal.

    Freezer container with beef puree inside.

Historic period: 4-6 months and up

Yield: 12 ounces

Storage: Fridge – store in an closed container in the fridge for up to four days or in the freezer for upwardly to 4 months.