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Gourmet Sweet Potato Cubes – A Yummy Finger Food For Baby

Updated: July 17, 2023

Vegetables like sweet potato, pumpkin and butternut squash are absolutely delicious when cut into cubes, roasted and served as a finger food.

Roasting gives them a sort of ‘skin’ that makes them easier for baby to pick up – and also brings out the richness of their flavours.

Sweet potato cubes

Our homemade baby food recipe for today is extremely simple – but it takes the flavour of roasted sweet potato or squash to a whole new level!

If you’re a regular visitor to our site, you’ll know that we love to incorporate aromatic spices into many of our baby food recipes – in part for the way they enhance the taste of the recipe… and sometimes for the additional health benefits they add to the dish!

As a result, we have five ‘non-picky’ children who adore a truly flavours from all types of cuisines, making cooking for them (or travelling with them) an absolute pleasure!

Read more about introducing ingredients like spices, herbs, garlic etc here

Baby's sweet potato cubes

To Make Gourmet Sweet Potato Cubes for Baby You Will Need…

1 medium sweet potato, peeled and cut into 3/4 inch cubes
1 pinch each of turmeric, cinnamon, paprika and cumin
1 tbsp olive oil or pure coconut oil

Combine the spices with the oil (if you wish, you can heat a small saucepan and ‘toast’ the spices for a minute or two first, to really bring out their flavour!).

Toss the sweet potato cubes in the spiced oil mixture until thoroughly coated.

Preheat the oven to 350 deg F (180 deg C).

Place the sweet potato cubes in a roasting tin and cook for between 20-30 minutes until tender, shaking the tin from time to time to turn them.

Cool and serve… mmm!

Sweet potato cubes for baby

More sweet potato baby food recipes
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Yield: 2 to 4 servings

Gourmet Sweet Potato Cubes - A Yummy Finger Food For Baby

Baby's sweet potato cubes

This baby food recipe for sweet potato cubes is extremely simple - but it takes the flavour of roasted sweet potato to a whole new level!

Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 medium sweet potato, peeled and cut into 3/4 inch cubes
  • 1 pinch each of turmeric, cinnamon, paprika and cumin
  • 1 tbsp olive oil or pure coconut oil

Instructions

  1. Combine the spices with the oil (if you wish, you can heat a small saucepan and 'toast' the spices for a minute or two first, to really bring out their flavour!).
  2. Toss the sweet potato cubes in the spiced oil mixture until thoroughly coated.
  3. Preheat the oven to 350 deg F (180 deg C).
  4. Place the sweet potato cubes in a roasting tin and cook for between 20-30 minutes until tender, shaking the tin from time to time to turn them.
  5. Cool and serve... mmm!

Jude

Sunday 5th of February 2012

My 16 month old loved these too. Very tasty. Next time I am going to try dusting them with a little corn starch to make them crispier.

Christine

Sunday 5th of February 2012

Glad they went down well with baby :)

chrissyjoy

Friday 13th of January 2012

made these 2 nights ago. my 16mo and I loved them :) even my boyfriend had a serving!

Christine

Friday 13th of January 2012

Wonderful - so glad you all enjoyed them! Thanks for letting us know :)

Jill

Tuesday 7th of June 2011

Can you freeze these afterwards?

Christine

Wednesday 8th of June 2011

The only problem we've found with freezing them is that it affects their texture and they don't always hold together as well once thawed (they tend to be 'wetter' and mushier). We once used Cuban sweet potato instead and they were better thawed - probably because they have a dry texture anyway, so they weren't affected as much by being frozen.

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