Pancakes are one of my favourite foods when doing baby led weaning. Not only are they so simple to make, but they taste delicious and I don’t think I’ve ever met a person who dislikes them, including these amazing beetroot pancakes for babies.
As much as I love a good old fashion scotch pancake or crepes, when it comes to feeding my baby (and my toddler!), it’s important to me that they are getting as many nutrients as possible from their food.
Before now I’ve attempted sweet potato pancakes and butternut squash pancakes, but this week I tried something completely different.
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Why Beetroot Pancakes?
I’ve made it my Spring resolution to get to Aldi more and buy their Super Six offers to try and incorporate more fruit and veggies into my diet because I am so guilty of living off ready meals and boring beige foods.
This week one of their offers was on beetroot, a food I don’t ever really eat. Over the past week I’ve incorporated it into salads and placed it on Dexter’s plate along with whatever he is having but invariably it hasn’t been touched, so this afternoon I decided to make pancakes with some of it and they were a huge hit.
Why use Beetroot?
Beetroot is becoming a baby led weaning staple ingredient for us at the moment. Why give beetroot to your baby? Well, it contains a whole load of vitamins and minerals which are great for baby:
- fibre
- folate
- potassium
- iron
- vitamin C
- vitamin b6
- calcium
All of these nutrients will be beneficial for your baby to consume whilst the fibre could potentially help with constipation.
Did Dex like these beetroot pancakes?
I don’t know if it was the colour of them, the shape or just that they were good old delicious pancakes but he ate the whole lot and I felt a whole lot better that he was getting some veggies in his diet after being at home with Daddy all week and living on fish fingers and sweet potato fries.
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How can this recipe be adapted?
Feel free to add a little bit of maple syrup or icing sugar to make the pancakes more palatable for older ones, but for babies under 1, I recommend serving them just as they come.
We followed baby led weaning from six months and Dex didn’t have any sugar until he turned one and although he loves his chocolate now, he never asks me for it.
Hello, is it 1/2 cup beets?
Hi Jenny,
Thanks for your comment. In the UK we buy packaged cooked beetroot and for this recipe I used half a pack of one cooked beet 🙂
I hope that helps!
Hi Nicola, keen to try this recipe here in Australia. I saw your comment clarifying you use “half a pack of one cooked beet” – could you possibly provide a measurement in grams for the beetroot? Thanks!