Avocado Puree (Homemade Baby Food)
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Avocado is one of the best first foods to introduce to your baby. It is buttery, creamy, and super soft and has amazing health benefits to aid in your baby’s growth and brain development.
It was actually my daughter’s first solid food and it quickly became a favorite of hers! When I was first introducing avocado to baby, I mixed avocado and breast milk together to form a creamy liquid. Making avocado puree for babies is totally effortless.
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With just a quick mash up I was able to create a healthy food that I felt good about giving both of my kids when they were starting on solids!
👩🏽🍳 Why I Love This Recipe
My baby avocado puree requires no special equipment and takes just minutes to make. All you need is a ripe avocado, a little liquid, and a fork or blender. I would often double or triple the recipe and store it in the fridge or freezer, which made it great for meal prep. It’s also incredibly convenient for busy parents.
Avocados are also a nutritional powerhouse! They are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, and just half an avocado provides a good portion of your daily values of Vitamins C, E, K, Folate, Magnesium, Potassium, most B Vitamins, and about 19% of your total fat needs (source).
Plus, my homemade avocado first baby food is less sweet than many other types of baby puree and has a similar fat content to mother’s milk, making it easier for babies to digest. I have found, through my experience with my own kids and with working with other parents, that it’s important to keep a baby’s diet simple and limit the amount of sugar.
My recipe is 100% baby approved! Babies love the creamy, buttery texture of this puree and it’s easy for them to swallow. And as your baby grows, you can try different variations and mix-ins to keep things interesting like combining it with my blueberry baby food or my green bean puree.
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🥘 Ingredients
My avocado baby food recipe is the easiest recipe ever. At its most minimal form, you will only need 1 avocado! Scroll down to the recipe card at the bottom of the post for more details.
Avocado: Nutrient-rich avocado makes a wonderful first food for babies with healthy fats and vitamins (source). I always used organic avocado when making baby food.
Breast Milk, Formula, Or Water: You’ll need a small amount of liquid to create the perfect creamy texture. If using water, I’ve found that you just need a little or it can get runny. If you’re mixing avocado and breastmilk or formula I recommend doing it right before serving. You can’t store this baby food after it’s been mixed with breastmilk or formula.
🔪 How To Make Avocado Puree For Baby
The great news is that learning how to make avocado baby food is super easy! If you’re wondering do you cook avocado for baby food, the answer is no! It requires no cooking at all, and there are two simple ways to do it: blend or mash!
Watch my video below for a step-by-step guide on how to puree avocado for baby.
Prepare Avocado: To begin, I cut open my ripe avocado, remove the pit, scoop the flesh out, and discard the peels. When making my avocado puree recipe for baby all of the skin should be removed.
Blend: There are two methods for how to puree avocado. You can blend the whole avocado in a small food processor or use a fork to make mashed avocado for baby. If you’re using a blender, I recommend a high powered blender to make the puree in bulk – like a Vitamix!
Serve: If serving immediately mix pureed avocado with breast milk, formula, or water to reach desired consistency. If freezing for later use, divide into an ice cube tray, cover, and store in the freezer. When ready to serve, thaw out the prepared avocado, mix milk, and feed.
✔️ How To Choose The Best Avocado
Most grocery stores have avocados available at various stages of ripeness. If you plan to make my avocado baby puree in a few days from now, I suggest choosing hard avocados that have time to soften. If you want to make the puree right away, select an avocado that is dark brown on the outside and slightly indents when pushing against the skin.
Avoid an overly ripe and mushy avocado. Also, if you can afford it, I recommend using 100% organic ingredients for your baby’s food.
🥑 How To Cut An Avocado
I cut fresh avocados in half with a sharp knife, gently twisting to separate the two halves. I remove the pit either with my hands or by carefully hitting my knife into it and then twisting to remove the seed from the flesh. Then, I scoop the avocado flesh out with a spoon.
Once the flesh is removed, you don’t have to cut the avocado any further. My avocado recipe for baby has you mash or blend the whole fruit.
💭 Expert Tips
My #1 Secret Tip when making my easy avocado puree for your baby is to mix it with breast milk or formula right before serving. Mixing just before serving prevents bacterial growth, maintains the best texture, and ensures your baby gets the maximum nutritional benefits from both the avocado and the milk.
Other Tips To Keep In Mind:
- Prevent Browning: Avocado can brown quickly once exposed to air. To minimize browning, you can add a small amount of lemon or lime juice to the puree. Another option is to store the puree in an airtight container with plastic wrap pressed directly onto the surface to limit air exposure.
- Use A Fine Mesh Sieve: For an ultra-smooth puree, pass the mashed or blended avocado through a fine mesh sieve. This ensures there are no lumps, making it easier for younger babies to swallow.
- Speed Up Avocado Ripening: To ripen avocados quickly, I’ll place them in a brown paper bag with an apple or banana. The ethylene gas produced by these fruits speeds up the ripening process. Check the avocados daily to ensure they don’t become overripe.
🍽 How To Serve To Baby
If you prefer a clean space with minimal clean up, you will want to spoon feed your baby. However, if you are opting for baby led weaning, you can place the puree in front of your little one and let them explore on their own terms. I did both types of feeding techniques with my kids, and found a combination worked best.
Here are some of the different ways to serve my homemade avocado baby food based on age, as well as your child’s preference:
- Avocado puree for 4 month baby: Super simple avocado is a perfect first food for babies! I recommend feeding mashed avocado/puree to babies 4 months and up. Place the puree in a bowl and feed it to your baby with a spoon. Once they get a little older you can explore different textures and shapes.
- Avocado puree for 6 month old baby: If you are exploring baby led weaning, you can offer thick strips of avocado. Place the avocado on their high chair tray and let them experiment. To help with gripping, leave part of the skin on or roll the avocado slices in hemp seeds.
- Avocado puree for 9-10 month old baby: At this age your baby can enjoy more finger food. Try putting cubed avocado in baby’s bowl and let them naturally explore the taste and feel.
Other Ways To Use Pureed Avocado
- Make my baby food avocado recipe as a dip for fruits and vegetables
- Use it as a spread for sandwiches or avocado toast with honey (note: don’t use honey for babies under 1 year of age)
- In avocado quesadillas or this healthy guacamole
- As a sauce for pasta
- Mixed with pressure cooker quinoa, couscous, or brown rice
- As a topping for pizza
- Use my baby avocado recipe as an additional ingredient in smoothies (like this avocado peanut butter smoothie), muffins, or even healthy cookies!
Ultimately, there are so many suggestions on how to feed a baby avocado. Go with what works best for you and your little one!
📖 Avocado Baby Food Combinations
Avocados are a great first food for babies because of their mild flavor. They pair really well with a variety of other fruits, veggies, and grains to create delicious and nutritious baby food purees. There are so many baby friendly avocado recipes you can try out! Here are some of my favorite avocado puree ideas to get you started:
Avocado Puree Pairings
- Soft Fruits And Veggies: If you aren’t sure of what to mix with my avocado puree for baby, start with foods similar in texture like bananas, apples, or sweet potato puree.
- Other Fruits: Mangoes, peaches, blueberries, pineapple, and strawberries all taste great with pureed avocado.
- Green Veggies: Try other pairings like mixing with spinach, broccoli, zucchini puree or pea puree.
- Root Veggies: Veggies like potatoes, butternut squash, and carrots all mix well with avocado food for baby.
- On Its Own: When your baby is little, it’s great on its own! Most little ones love this avocado stage 1 baby food. Honestly, sometimes my kids, who are older now, will still just eat avocado as a snack!
- With Grains: You can put the smooth puree on small sticks of toast or teething crackers. You could also mix it into baby oatmeal or baby cereal.
- With Dairy Or Plant Based Protein: Try mixing it with yogurt or cottage cheese! You can also puree it with chickpeas, lentils, or white beans for an avocado “hummus.”
- Different Spices: Try a pinch of lemon juice, cumin, coriander, or even curry powder.
- Ideas For Toddlers: As your baby gets older try adding the puree to smoothies, avocado toast, guacamole, or on top of Mexican food! You can pair avocado with small pieces of chicken breast, or if you are vegan, substitute with tofu.
- Baby Friendly Guacamole: Try experimenting with different flavors by blending avocado with lime juice, olive oil, kosher salt, and 1 garlic clove. This is perfect to pair with Mexican recipes or Spanish recipes, and the whole family can enjoy it too!
🧊 Storage Directions
After you learn how to prepare avocado for baby, it’s just as important to know how to store it properly so it stays fresh. And if you’ve been wondering – can you freeze pureed avocado for baby? Yes! You totally can!
Fridge
I store extra puree in an airtight container in the fridge for the next day. I recommend finding small food storage containers that leave less room for air, and evenly portion it out. You can add a squeeze of fresh lemon juice or lime juice to the exposed part of the puree to prevent browning if desired.
Freezer
When freezing, I divide my avocado puree baby food evenly into an ice cube tray. Wrap it tightly with plastic wrap or use a freezer storage bag. You can also find baby food container trays that come with lids to cover like these Mumi & Bubi ice cube trays. I love them because they come with a cover, a recipe book, and the cubes are super easy to get out. One ice cube is equal to 1 tablespoon or 1 ounce of food.
Once the cubes are frozen (takes about 4-6 hours), pop them out of the ice cube trays and transfer them to a ziptop freezer safe bag for easy storage.
Reheating Or Thawing
When preparing avocado for baby, I would always thaw any frozen puree in the fridge the night before use. You can also thaw it by placing the puree cube in a small bowl over another bowl of hot water and letting it sit to defrost. Once defrosted, mix with breast milk, formula, or water to reach the desired consistency.
❓Recipe FAQs
When can babies have avocado?
You may be wondering – when can you introduce avocados to baby? This will depend on their own personal development and when they are ready to start solid foods, but typically it’s around 4-6 months of age. I gave both of my kids avocado as their first food when they were around 5 months old.
Pay attention to gross motor skills for an indication that your baby is ready! This could include having strong neck and head control, sitting, and lifting objects to the mouth.
Is avocado a common allergen for babies?
No, avocado is not considered to be a common allergen for babies! However, if this is your first time giving avocado to baby I recommend starting off with a smaller portion of avocado and waiting for 2-3 days to observe for any signs of an allergic reaction such as a rash or upset stomach.
Can I steam avocado for baby food?
While technically you can steam avocado mash for baby, you don’t have to! There isn’t any need to steam or cook avocado for baby food since it is already so soft and creamy! This makes it super easy – you do not have to worry about extra steps like you might with other produce. Simply cut, scoop, and mash for an easy creamy puree.
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Avocado Puree: Baby’s First Food
My creamy avocado puree recipe is a perfect first food for your baby! Packed with essential nutrients for growth and development, it requires no special equipment and is ready in less than 5 minutes. This avocado baby food will quickly become one of your favorite baby food recipes, and the best part is that babies love it!
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 80kcal
Ingredients
- 1 avocado mashed
Instructions
If Serving Fresh / Immediately
- Mash the avocado with a fork or blend it in a food processor.
- Mix with breastmilk, formula or water to reach desired consistency.
If Freezing
- Mash the avocado with a fork or blend it in a food processor.
- Divide into ice cube trays, wrap/cover, and freeze.
- Thaw in the fridge the night before use, or thaw by putting the ice cube in a bowl over a bowl of hot water on the counter to defrost.
- Once defrosted, mix with breastmilk, formula or water to reach desired consistency and serve immediately.
Notes
- Use ripe avocados that are soft and easy to mash.
- Store the puree in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months.
- If you are making this puree to store in the fridge or freezer, do not add breastmilk or formula before storing it. Only add breastmilk or formula right before serving.
- Each ice cube = 1oz of food. Also, as your baby gets used to solids, you don’t have to thin out the avocado at all.
Nutrition
Calories: 80kcal | Carbohydrates: 4g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Sodium: 4mg | Potassium: 244mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 0.3g
Tried this with my 4 month old & added the bananas…she loved it.
Yay!! I’m so happy to hear that Lisa!
My baby is 4months can I give him Avocado
Hi! Yes, as long as your pediatrician says that he is ready to start solids!
Hi should I mix lemon in the avocado to keep it from browning or is it better to leave it as is?
Hi Julia! If you plan to freeze it, you don’t necessarily need the lemon (it might oxidize slightly in the freezer but if you have it in an airtight container it should be fine. If you plan to store it in the fridge for a few days, then yes, add lemon! 🙂
Hi Anjali,
My LO is turning 6 month next week. She has been on solids since 4+month and takes 3 meals of solid a day now. I plan to introduce avocado tonight for her dinner meal. Can mix puréed Avocado with Banana puree to give it a little taste?
Hi! Absolutely – you can totally mix avocado and banana – that is a popular combination!! 🙂
Hi.. I added formula to my mashed avocado puree but my 8 months little one didn’t take it because she wanted to sleep first. How long can the puree stay or how can I preserve it.
Thank you
Hi Vivian! It depends on the formula you use – but most will say that after 2 hours you’ll have to throw it out because formula mixed with anything doesn’t last longer than 2 hours at room temp or in the fridge! If you’re making this puree in bulk, I recommend waiting until literally right before serving to mix it with either formula or breastmilk (because the puree by itself will last for up to 4 days in the fridge or 6 months in the freezer, but once mixed with breastmilk or formula its shelf life goes down considerably). Hope that helps!
Hi can I start avacado fr my 4 months old baby
Hi! If your pediatrician says your baby is ready for solids at 4 months, then you can introduce avocado as their first food. Personally, I waited until my kids were about 5.5 months before starting solids, but that’s because I didn’t feel like they were developmentally ready for it at 4 months. Hope that helps!
hiii
glad i found your blog.. im planning to start giving avocados to my 11month old… can i mix it with cerelac or veggies likes sweet potatoes, beans, peas or carrots …
secondly, i would also like to ask if i can freeze the mashed avocado without adding any water..
thanks🤗
Hi! You can totally mix avocado with just about anything – it’s super mild so it will just make any other veggie or puree creamier! You can also freeze it mashed without adding water – that shouldn’t be a problem at all.
Hey!
Avocado Turns brown so easily so wondering if this will happen if I freeze it?🥑
Hi Tiffany! If you freeze it immediately after making it in an airtight container, it won’t turn brown. It might oxidize slightly but it should still remain mostly green. And if you’re worried about it turning brown, you can add a squeeze of lemon juice to the puree which will help it not oxidize at all!
Hi Anjali – just bought your book and I’m super excited!
My babies are 6 months old but being twins and preemies they are I’d say 4 months adjusted. I’m so ready to start solids and decided on avocados.
A couple quick questions – should they be ripe?
Also, what consistency is best for their first solid food taste ever?
Thanks!
Hi Pavitra!! Thanks so much for reaching out! To your questions — avocados on the riper side would be better since they’ll be softer and easier to mash. As for consistency, that’s really up to you based on what you think your babies can handle. If you think they need a thinner puree to start, then I would use a blender to get it super smooth. If you think they’ll be ok with a chunkier mash – then you can just mash it up with a fork. It takes a bit of trial and error to figure it out too. My daughter was totally good with a chunky consistency but my son was not at all! Hope that helps, let me know if you have any other questions and I hope you like the recipes in the book too! 🙂
Can I give steam and then mashed the avacoda and give to my four month old baby
Hi Dhivya! You actually don’t have to steam the avocados – you can just mash them raw. Cooking the avocado will oxidize it so it’ll become discolored. As for whether to start your baby on solids at 4 months (vs. 5 or 6 months), that is something you should discuss with your pediatrician. Hope that helps!
Hi there…happy to see new recipes for my little one..he is turning 6 months nw..I wanted to know how should I start with weaning …is cereals first or veggies fruits and then cereals like oats ragi kanji
Hi Afrah! I’d recommend starting with mild tasting veggies/fruits first — like avocado, green beans, sweet potato, butternut squash, pear. Then you can move onto stronger tasting veggies (broccoli, spinach, cauliflower, etc.) – and then I’d do more fruits like apples, berries, etc. You can incorporate whole grains like oats or quinoa into any/all of these purees – so you can introduce grains as early or as late as you’d like. Hope that helps!
Hello, hope you are keeping safe! I was browsing through the internet and found your page. I have a two parts question-
1. Planning to feed avocado tonight to my almost 8months old. Usually, avocados are bland and in case she doesn’t like it, can I add salt to the puree?
2. Can I mix veggies with oats? Any recommended recipes?
Thank you and appreciate you taking time out to answer.
Hi Kriti! Thanks for reaching out! To your questions:
1) Typically, I don’t recommend adding salt to your baby’s food until 12 months because their kidneys can’t process more than 1g salt (0.4g sodium) per day. You can try adding lime juice, cilantro and mild spices – like cumin, etc. to make it more palatable to your baby – like a “baby guacamole”!
2) You can! I usually would just cook oats like I’d make them for myself, and then add sweeter veggie purees into it like butternut squash, pumpkin, carrots, zucchini, etc! You can add mild spices to that mixture too if you like!
Hope that helps!
I have a 5 month year old. How much am I supposed to give him eat feeding?
At 5 months, feedings are more for “taste” than full meals — so I’d start with 1 tablespoon per feeding and if he seems like he wants more, increase the amount from there!
Hi there!
Thanks for the quick tips & tricks
My LO is almost 8 months now and i wanted to start avacado and puree it with Orange.. is that ok as a combination?
Hi Kanchan! I have never pureed oranges before to be honest — mainly because they are so fibrous and there is no way to really cook them down — and I think pureed oranges probably wouldn’t taste that appealing since they wouldn’t be smooth. Instead I’d just serve avocado puree to your 8 month old and then take oranges and cut them up into tiny pieces and remove the fibrous membrane from each slice before serving (assuming your 8 month old can gum them without choking). Hope that helps!
Hi!
I hope you are all keeping well and safe!
I have a 6 mos girl, she drinks Similac Pro Sensitive. Could you please kindly share what yogurt you use. Should it be from cow milk or almond milk?
Best,
Iro
Hi! Does your daughter have a diagnosed dairy allergy? Or is she on similac sensitive for just other digestive issues? If she has an actual severe dairy allergy (to all dairy, not just milk) then I’d go with almond milk yogurt but you’ll have to find an organic brand that doesn’t have any sugar added (and I’m not sure if that exists!) If she is ok to eat dairy but just can’t drink milk right now, and if your pediatrician says that cow’s milk yogurt should be ok for her, then I’d go with organic whole cow milk yogurt! Hope that helps!
Can I mix it with carrots (steamed and blended) and use it for the next day? This recipe is super easy but I love adding different stuff to his food! He’s 6 months.
Absolutely! That would work great!
Amazing recipes. I have b started to give my daughter rice kanji but she just hates it. Can you please recommend any better options? Can i give beetroot to my 7 month old ?
Thanks
Hi Brindha! Thanks so much! I’m so glad you’ve been enjoying my recipes! To your question — it’s ok if your daughter doesn’t like rice kanji! Rice kanji isn’t really nutritionally rich either — and oatmeal is a much better choice anyway 🙂 If you haven’t given her anything other than rice kanji, I’d recommend starting with a milder veggie or fruit first like avocado, green beans or butternut squash. And then you can move to beetroot and other fruits/veggies (you can see a bunch of ideas and recipes here). Hope that helps!