Finger Food Recipe for Baby – Zucchini and Potato Cakes
Here’s a tasty finger food recipe for baby you might like to try this weekend. It yields 4 large or 8 small and yummy cakes, so you might like to use the extras as a side dish for the rest of the family… alternatively, you can freeze the cakes to serve on another day when you have no time to cook!
To Make Baby’s Zucchini and Potato Cakes You Will Need…
1 zucchini (courgette)
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp onion, finely chopped
1 medium potato, peeled
2 egg yolks
4 tsp whole wheat bread crumbs
1 tsp fresh chives, finely chopped
Saute the onion in a little olive oil for a few minutes until tender.
Grate the potato and zucchini into a bowl, then squeeze thoroughly to remove as much of their liquid as you can.
Add the onion, egg yolk, bread crumbs and seasonings and mix well.
Heat a little olive oil in a frying pan/skillet.
Divide the mixture into four to eight balls (depending on the size you want the cakes to be), drop each ball into the frying pan and flatten with a spatula.
Cook for a few minutes until the underside is brown, turn, and cook for a further few minutes.
Serve when cooled to a safe handling temperature!
These are a great way to include zucchini in baby’s diet, but are also delicious made with carrot instead, or even a combination of the two!
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Once I combined all the ingredients I had a difficult time keeping everything together when I formed balls. It was especially difficult in the pan and almost impossible to flip. However, they still taste good! Any suggestions?
Lisa, the most important thing is to squeeze the ingredients as hard as you can – it’s essential to get rid of all that liquid as the mixture can be quite ‘loose’ if it’s too wet. Another tip is really to flatten those balls quite hard, firmly pressing them down into the pan – this gets everything to stick together quite effectively. If all else fails, you can always stir in some extra breadcrumbs to help everything bind together a bit better. Hope this helps
What age would you recommend this for? My son is 6 months and loves zucchini but this seems too chucky …?
It’s always difficult to recommend an age for finger foods as abilities/preferences vary so much from one baby to another. However, although soft, these are fairly ‘textured’ and best suited to babies accustomed to a little biting and chewing. Our youngest son was enjoying them from around 9 to 10 months.
Thanks for the recipe, plan on making it for my 9 1/2 month old, looking for something differnt to try him on. and will definatly try this
Hope he likes them x