Beetroots or Beets are colourful, delicious vegetables that can be fed to your babies/toddlers who are over 10 months of age. This recipe of Beetroot poriyal is a delicious preparation as it is prepared with butter and flavoured with curry leaves and asafoetida.
Beets are great source of iron, improves digestion of your babies and improves the circulation of blood to the brain thereby making your baby/toddler more healthy and active.
Serve the Beetroot Poriyal as a baby/ toddler food along with a meal of curd rice and dal chawal as a complete meal for your baby toddler who is above 10 months and older.
If you like this recipe of Beetroot Poriyal, here are a few more vegetables recipes for babies/toddlers
Cuisine: Indian
Course: Lunch
Diet: Vegetarian
Equipments Used: Hard Anodized Pressure Cooker, Hard Anodised Kadai (Wok)
Cooks in 10 M
Total in 15 M
To begin making Beetroot Poriyal or Sabzi for Toddlers, wash and peel the skin off the beetroot.
Cut them into small pieces and set aside.
In the beetroot in pressure cooker, add 2 tablespoons water along with a pinch of salt.
Cook the beetroots for one whistle and release the pressure of the cooker immediately. Set aside.
In a pan add 1/2 a teaspoon of butter and allow it to melt over medium heat.
Once the butter has melted, add 1/2 a teaspoon of mustard seeds and let it crackle
After the mustard seeds have crackled, lower the heat and add a pinch of asafoetida. Add finely chopped curry leaves into the pan.
Next add in the cooked beetroots and give it all a good mix.
Cook on low heat for a couple of minutes and turn off the heat.
Beetroot Poriyal or Sabzi for Toddlers is ready to be served.
Serve the Beetroot Poriyal as a baby/ toddler food along with a meal of curd rice and dal chawal as a complete meal for your baby toddler who is above 10 months and older.