Sweet Potato Pancakes Baby Led Weaning Recipe

Looking for a delicious and quick breakfast or lunch recipe? Try these sweet potato pancakes baby will love! Not only do they use two simple ingredients, but they’re delicious and healthy too boot!

Why offer sweet potato to your baby?

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

What sort of sweet potato should I use?

Sweet potato is packaged and sold in many different formats including frozen, fresh or pureed in a can.

I have made this recipe using both frozen and fresh sweet potato and either works really well!

Having a stash of frozen sweet potato is always handy to have in the freezer so you can throw it into curries or use it to make recipes such as these sweet potato pancakes or sweet potato fritters.

How do you make sweet potato pancakes for baby?

• Get a medium sweet potato and steam until soft, then mash it with the back of your fork until a puree forms.

• Add one egg and whisk the concoction together with a fork until it became batter-like.

• Use any oil or butter to grease the pan, this time I used fry-light for ease. I then dolloped 2 – 3 tablespoons of the batter into the pan.

• Leave the sweet potato pancakes to fry for 2-3 minutes before tentatively turning them with a large spatula. This bit can get pretty messy, just make sure you take your time and don’t panic if a bit of the batter comes loose. A nice hot hob helps!

• Once flipped, press down on the pancakes with your spatula to flatten them slightly and ensure they are cooked right through. Leave them again for another 2-3 minutes.

How to serve sweet potato pancakes to your baby

Once cooked, I placed sweet potato pancakes on our Munchkin White Hot Plates to cool (these clever plates tell you when the food has sufficiently cooled enough to give to baby) and then serve them alongside some fruit.

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What do the babies think of sweet potato pancakes?

These sweet potato pancakes are super easy for baby to pick up and very soft so they smush easily in baby’s mouth. They do create a lot of baby led weaning mess though, as they easily fall apart in baby’s hand. Dexter had lots of fun trying to pick up the bits that fell apart though.