Baby Led Weaning Sweet Potato Fries

Sweet potato is one of my absolute favourite ingredients to use when baby led weaning – it’s so, so versatile! Take these baby led weaning sweet potato fries for example, another amazing way to cook sweet potato in a baby-friendly way that your little one will love!

Sweet potato for babies

Why do I love offering sweet potato so much to my babies? Well, the nutritional value and health benefits speak for themselves!

Sweet potatoes are:

• Rich in vitamin C
• They contain tons of vitamin B6
• A good source of potassium and magnesium
• Great for heart and brain health
• Amazing fuel source for energy

I love that they can be mashed, spiralized, grated or sliced – offering a multitude of options when creating recipes for babies!

Baby led weaning sweet potato fries

We have been huge fans of sweet potato fries for years. We always order them every time we go to Nandos and it’s something we regularly cook up at home.

Of course, when creating sweet potato fries for babies, there was a couple of changes we needed to make to our usual way of making them.

Firstly, we ditched the salt. Babies don’t need tons of salt and as much as we love our salty sweet potato fries, when it comes to making them for baby, we totally omit the salt.

Secondly, we usually add lashings of paprika and cayenne – these two spices are a little too much for such a little one. So for this recipe we stuck with a tiny bit of garlic powder and a couple of twists of cracked black pepper.

What goes well with these sweet potato fries for babies?

The options are endless when it comes to what you can serve along with these baby led weaning sweet potato fries. Some of our favourite pairings include:

• Quinoa and Beetroot Burger
• Sweet Potato and Spinach Burger
• Chicken Nuggets for Babies
• Fish Fingers for Babies

What did Felix think of these baby led weaning sweet potato fries?

Felix could not wait to dig in! He really enjoyed them, using his gums to munch through.

The way these sweet potato fries for babies are cut is really helpful for younger babies who use their whole first to pick up the food. They can hold the stick in their fist and munch on the end of it!