John had purple sweet potato for a few times but this is first time I prepared something savory and fishy for him. Before that, I made sweet potato porridge with instant cereal and the purple colour was much brighter and darker than this. Today, I used sweet potato for its colour. I am trying give my boy all 5 different colours in his food whenever is possible. Yesterday's lunch was porridge was greenish colour, with broccoli, cauliflower and carrot.
Back to this porridge, I cooked porridge and fish separately, reasons being I was not sure if John is ok with the fishy taste and I wanted to have different flavour of porridge for his dinner. Cook porridge with finely diced sweet potato as usual. Meanwhile steam a small fish or a cut of fish with few slices ginger and soy sauce. Then, mix together porridge and flaked fish.
I let T try some, at first he did not think it was nice judged by its colour. But once he tasted it, he said it was nice. John finished everything in the bowl, I was happy to see him licking his lips contentedly.
2 comments:
I always make sure I have more than one colour in his porridge and different colours the next day. But I could never get 5 colours. Any idea to share?
Julie,
What I am doing is look around at the market to get colourful veggies and fruits. I am also trying to give John at least one serve (size of his fist) of fruit a day, so he has tasted quite a long list of fruits considering he is still a "new eater".
John has tasted:
Red/Orange: Carrot, Sweet Potato, Pumpkin, Capsicum, Orange, Strawberry (he doesn't like it), Water Melon, Papaya
Yellow: Banana, Corn, Capsicum, Durian, Manggo,
Green: Broccoli, Snap Pea, Bittergourd, Cabbage
White: Cauliflower, Potato (yellow?) Apple (he can't eat the peel yet, so white?), Doufu, Rambutan, Mangosteen,
Black/Purple/Blue/Brown: Purple Sweet Potato, Seaweed, Dragon Fruit,
Going to try:
- Black Fungus
- Mushroom
- Purple Cabbage
- Leek
- Tomato (been thinking how to prepare it)
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