Apple mash all the way!!

An Apple a day keeps the doctor away. No arguments there. Which is why I fed my son Rudra a mashed apple everyday for his first eighteen months.

Thanks to Ms Gamedar, my son was fortunate to have a balanced diet comprising of Uggu, properly cooked fruit and other yummy food that was very very good.

Here is the recipe for 'Apple mash':

Ingredients:

. 1 Apple peeled, cored and cut into tiny pieces
. One teaspoon sugar
. One or two tablespoons of milk

Process:

Take the apple pieces in a dish that has a tight fitting cover. I used a steel tiffin box.

Put this box in a pressure cooker and add water to the cooker. About an inch's depth should be fine. Do not add water inside the dish with apples. The moisture in apples is enough to cook them.

Pressure cook for about five whistles. Remove the apple pieces, allow them to cool a little and then blend them with the milk and sugar in a mixer or a blender.

Remove the mash to a bowl, drizzle a lil honey on top and feed baby while the mash is still warm.

I used to feed this as an evening snack and my son used to love it. Can be fed till the child is about two years old. (It's a different story that after he turned two, he learned to say 'oddu'. One of his first phrases was 'apple mammu oddu'. Sigh. The happy part is that my mission was accomplished by then. Ha ha.)

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