A baby breakfast puree with the delicious tropical flavors of banana and coconut. This recipe uses ground oats or oat flour for a perfectly smooth texture. Oats and coconut milk are decent sources of iron for vegetarian and vegan babies. This recipe is also the perfect filling for a breakfast squeeze pouch for older babies and toddlers.
Every baby has one food that they will reliably eat, and when Odette was little, it seemed to be banana. I think this is a common “safe” food for little ones! In this puree recipe it’s combined with oat flour, pineapple and coconut to make a tropical inspired breakfast!
When looking for vegetarian iron rich first foods for your baby, we tend to focus on green vegetables, beans and pulses – but don’t overlook the humble oat! Oats are a decent iron source, as well as all the other nutritional benefits they provide. And adding them into smooth baby food is easy as can be, if you have a bag of oat flour to hand.
Coconut milk is also a modest source of iron, so as well as being a key source of yumminess here it allows us to double up on the iron sources!
To get the most from the iron content of the oats and coconut milk, we need to add a source of Vitamin C to increase absorption. This is where the pineapple comes in! The inclusion of pineapple makes the iron more bio-available to your baby.
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What is Oat Flour?
Oat flour is just very finely ground oats. You can either buy a bag from the shop (I use Bob’s Red Mill brand), or make your own with rolled oats.
Can I freeze this?
Yes! It can be frozen for up to 6 months.
Banana Coconut Baby Oats {Iron Rich Baby Food}
Ingredients
- 1 Tbsp oat flour, or finely ground oats
- 1 large banana
- 2 Tbsp coconut milk
- 2 small chunks of fresh pineapple
- Pinch or two of cinnamon
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients until smooth in a food processor or baby food maker.
looks so creamy and delicious!! Beautiful 🙂
Thank you! Not gonna lie, I ate lots of it myself 🙂
looks so creamy and delicious!! Beautiful 🙂
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Coconut and banana is the best flavour combo! This is so tasty, baby loved it.
Coconut and banana is the best flavour combo! This is so tasty, baby loved it.
Thanks for sharing! Are you supposed to cook the oats before adding to the blender? Also why does it say it takes 5hrs to prep and make?? Thanks!
Hahaha oops! It was supposed to be 5 minutes – I fixed that 🙂
No need to pre cook the oats if they’re ground to a really fine powder, they will soften right up once they mix in with all the moisture from the coconut milk.
I cannot wait to try this for my little guy. Where did the adorable black and white spoon come from?! It’s adorable!!!
I hope he likes it! The spoon is from H&M Home. To be honest though it’s a really deep spoon so actually doesn’t work for a baby… but it just looked nice in the photo! Haha!
I cannot wait to try this for my little guy. Where did the adorable black and white spoon come from?! It’s adorable!!!
can you give coconut milk to a 6 month old? I replaced it with breastmik because I wasnt sure!
Yes, they absolutely can, though it depends on the introduction schedule you are following. I live in the UK and the recommendation here is that from 6 months, they can pretty much eat anything except for honey and added salt. Some people prefer to follow phased introduction schedules and that’s fine too, but they might put coconut milk at a later point. My girl was eating coconut milk in purees from 6 months and many of the pre packaged pouches intended for that age include coconut milk. As I mentioned in the post though, coconut milk as a FOOD is great for this age but not as a MILK. I didn’t look at it as a replacement for breastmilk, just part of her supplementary diet.
Is this a cold purée? Or can you heat it up?
Cold but you can definitely warm it up – works either way!
Can’t wait to try it! Sounds delicious
Amazing recipe which went down a treat. Can you freeze it in portions?
So happy to hear this! Yes you can freeze it for up to 6 months.
I would like to try this recipe but my 10 mos old baby is allergic to oats…what can I substitute the oat flour with?? Will almond meal work?
I don’t see why not – you may just need a different amount to get the right thickness.
So keen to try – thank you for the inspiration. Do you use coconut milk from a can (like what you would add to a curry) or coconut milk that you might have with coffee, etc?
From a can, like the stuff you’d add to a curry. Full fat version. Enjoy! 🙂
Seems like a really good recipe and I can’t wait to try it. Just to clarify, it this green banana or ripe banana?
Ripe banana! Enjoy 🙂
Creamy and delicious! My LO loved it! I have coconut milk powder so I subbed and used 1 tbsp of that, I also added like a quarter tsp of date sugar. Definitely a keeper! Thank you!
This is wonderful to hear, thank you so much for your feedback 🙂
How long would this last in the fridge please?
A few days, but it may turn brown because bananas have a tendency to do that. I always put mine straight into the freezer.
Taste so yummy! I have just batched made some. I’m a little confused about the portion sizes though, I spilt the amount into two portions, but they portions look small, would you recommend mu giving my 7 month old this as one portion? Thanks so much
So glad you liked it! Portion sizes are so subjective. I split this into 5 teeny tiny cubes because neither of my babies ate a lot at that age but if your little one is taking well to solids they can have as much as they want! That said, giving them the whole batch as one portion would be around 250 calories so that’s a pretty hefty meal for a baby (bananas, oats and coconut milk are all very calorie dense even if the amount seems small) and the ingredients in large quantities could be constipating so I personally would look at just serving the half batch but adding something else to the meal with high water content such as cucumbers or berries.
You don’t cook the oats for this recipe?
Nope, there is no need, they are finely ground so the moisture will very quickly soften them up.