+Beetroot n Rice (+Baby Food)..;)

Post Title: +Beetroot n Rice Baby Food)..;)

Cooking Time: 10 - 15Mins
Serves: 1

What goes Inside:

1. Fresh / Frozen Beetroot cubes(i used fresh): 4-5 nos Medium sized(boiled or steamed).
2. Cooked Rice: 2-3 Tablespoons.
3. Salt: To Taste
4. Ghee/Clarified Butter: 1 Tsp.

How to put it together:

• Boil 1 Cup of water in a small pan, once it begins to boil,
• Wash,peel and dice the beetroot into medium sized cubes. Now add these cubes to hot water and boil until cooked(they cook real quick, in fact blanching is a very good idea at this point, but since i had the idea of making beetroot subzi for a side dish on my lunch menu i chose to cook it a little further).
• Take a small mixer jar add the cooked rice i took 2-3 table spoons as that is the amount my little one takes in one feed you could add or reduce the rice and cooked beetroot cubes as per your baby's eating habit/requirement.
• Now carefully drain out the hot water into a bowl(so you can use it later to correct the consistency of the baby's food later) and add  a few cubes to the mixer jar with rice, add salt and ghee, blend.
• I blended it to a coarse grind since my child is now in her 9th month, and for the fussy eater that she is i found she ate this pretty happily. which only made me more happier..;)

Notes:

Don't leave the Beetroot in the hot water for more than 5 minutes, (if you are blanching)remember to take them out in time or else it might lose the nutrients.
Ensure your rice must be well cooked.
you can use the water in which you blanched/boil the beetroot if you feel the rice n beetroot ground is too thick to adjust the consistency to which your child is used to.
Each child is an individual, do not compare your child to any other, as they are not born to those parents or family nor are they born with the same genes as them.
Take care of all the comfort levels of your child so she/he does not have too much of a problem adjusting his palettes to the new food.
Don't be disheartened if your child does not take to the taste of a certain food instantly, i was once told by my pediatrician some children take up to 20 attempts to begin liking something and eat it. My child eat this in the first attempt, but has not accepted formula milk so far, i have been trying to give her some for the past 1.5 months everyday 2 times, now after so many attempts last night she took about 30ml of it, my joy was multiplied 10 fold..;).