Hi i'm Sandra I am a community chef working with NHS Greater Glasgow and
Clyde and today we are doing a very quick and easy recipe from the fun first foods booklet
it is stewed apples with apricots and as you can see we need very few ingredients
all you need for this one is some tinned fruit in its own fruit juice okay any type of tin
fruit will do we're using apricots today and an apple so we're going to be stewing the apple
okay so before we begin it's really important that you give your hands a wash so i've washed my hands
and just make sure that all your utensils and your surroundings is nice and clean
good idea to give your baby's high chair a little clean and also wash your baby's hands before
you give them their meal and with the apple of course make sure you give it a little scrub as
well before we use it so i've got my apple here so i'm just going to peel it so i've
got a peeler here today you can use a peeler or a knife and you just want to take this skin off
so it's important to take the skin off and any fruit or vegetables before you give it to your
your baby especially in the early stages
okay and then i'm just going to quarter the apple so first
okay remove the core and then actually the smaller that you chop this the quicker it will cook
i'll just chop up a little bit more
okay so we're just going to add in the apple into the pot
and then we are going to add an around two tablespoons of water
and just keep some water handy because you might need more while the apples are cooking
okay and we're just going to put the cooker on and just start to heat up that water
okay so now we're just going to add in um some apricots so we're just adding in five
half apricots here so i'm just going to open up the tin
you can use a little bit of the juice as well so i'm going to put a little bit of that into the pot
and just remember it's in its own fruit juice so um no syrups or added sugars going in so i'm now
just going to take out five halves and we're going to chop these up before adding them in to the pot
okay so like the apples just chopping them up okay and adding that in with the apples
and we're just going to bring this up to a simmer and just let it simmer
out until it's they're all both nice and and soft okay because we just want to mash it down
so we're not pureeing anything we're just giving it a nice mash so you still want a little bit of
texture but you want it cooked out so it's soft enough i'm just gonna put my cooker on
okay and with what's left in the can just make sure you take out the tin out the can put it into
a little container something just maybe got a lid you can store it in the fridge for up to two days
it can also be used as a finger food so you could slice it up into something that the baby can hold
in their hand and they can eat that themselves we just want to soften this fruits we want to
cook the apples and the apricots until they're nice and soft so that we can mash them down
okay so we still want a little bit of texture we're not pureeing we're just mashing it
okay so once your fruit is nice and soft i'm going to take that off the heat and
we're going to use a potato masher we're just going to mash that down
okay so texture as i said it's really important to have some lumps and bumps
in case i'm using a potato masher but you can use a fork as well too to mash it down okay so as you
can see we've got a lovely consistency there and there's still a few lumps and bumps in it
okay so just put this back up here and get your baby bowl
okay and this is enough for two to three portions so we're just going to take enough
for one portion now depending on what stage your baby's at and you know all babies are different
one baby might have just one big spoonful another baby might have quite a few spoonfuls
so just see how much your baby can take but don't worry about it too much because
they're still getting their main nutrients from their breasts or their formula milk
okay so here we have our stewed apple and our tinned apricots and i'm just going to compare this
to our shop bought version so we have one here in case as you can see there is a difference in texture
this one's got a lot more texture than this one which is very pureed this one's actually
advertised for babies four to six months and you know now we're actually encouraging parents to
feed their baby from around six months and you would be introducing more texture and some
lumps and bumps into that as well so this one is a lot more suitable than the shop bought one
so this one actually costs two times more than the one that you would make yourself
in the house and also the manufacturers have actually added two types of fruit juices to this
which as we know fruit juice is just not good for the baby's new teeth coming in
okay so the benefits of making it yourself is you've got the nice colours there you've
got the texture it's so much cheaper to make it yourself and this is stuff that you could have
in your store cupboard you can have in the freezer or you can use tinned fruit or fresh okay so that
is our stewed apple and apricots all finished and it's all ready to serve to your baby remember you
can get the recipe in the fun first foods booklet along with lots of other recipes for you to try.