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We love eggs in our house, in fact it is one of our absolutely favorite healthy breakfasts ever! It’s perfect quick, healthy breakfast option for your baby and toddler. But, how do you give eggs to a new baby starting baby led weaning? In little baby led weaning muffins of course! The best part about this recipe is that it is full of yummy ingredients, veggies, cheese, and they are easy to pick up for little hands and boy do they taste amazing!I make a GINORMOUS batch and freeze the lot of them! That way I always have a healthy breakfast or snack on hand for those busy days.
Try this simple breakfast recipe if you have a picky eater as well. The cuteness of the little egg muffins is sure to make even the fussiest of eaters curios about what these egg cups have in store.
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How many do these egg muffins feed?
This recipe makes 24 mini muffins or 12 large. I packed in a kids handful of veggies into each one; spinach, peppers, tomatoes, topped with a little cheese and voila! Delicious healthy breakfast muffins that are the perfect size for baby led weaning and a brilliant finger food for babies too!
Make the clean up process even easier by using a silicon muffin tin or muffin cups. The egg muffins will slip right out of the tin without any mess!
Make these mini muffins with any veggie combination!
One of the best parts about these healthy breakfast muffins is that they are SO customizable! I love to put a finely chopped handful of veggies into the egg mixture to add the extra boost of healthy vegetables for my baby. I use spinach, pepper, and tomato in this recipe, but feel free to swap out those veggies for whatever you like. Some other great options to add would be some finely chopped mushrooms, broccoli, potato, or onion!
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Ingredients
6eggs
60ml1/4 cup milk
1teaspoonbutter
1large handful of spinach
6cherry tomatoes
1red bell pepper
200gbuffalo mozerella diced
Black pepper to season
Method
Pre-heat oven to 180ºC.
Whisk together the eggs and milk until they are light and fluffy.
Use the butter to lightly coat a muffin tin then, divide the mixture equally into a muffin tin. They should all be roughly half filled.
Finely chop the spinach and pepper and quarter the cherry tomatoes. Place about a tablespoon of spinach leaves into each muffin, top with a little pepper and add half of a tomato to each one.
Add a little cheese to each muffin then a sprinkle of pepper. Finally use a spoon to press the vegetables down so they are covered in egg.
Bake in the oven for 25 minutes until golden.
Cool before serving.
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Recipe Notes & Tips
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When your baby first starts solids at around 6 months, foods can be served in rectangular strips that are easy to pick up (think the size of an adult pinky). For eggs, a great way to do this is a well-cooked omelet, cut up into strips.
Let them thaw in the fridge overnight before reheating again. To warm them from frozen, they should cook in an air fryer for 15 minutes at 350ºF. Why are my egg muffins spongy? Egg muffins will have a less desirable texture when cooked at a high temperature without a water bath.
You can introduce eggs to your baby around the same time you introduce solid foods, which is around 6 months old. In the beginning, however, you'll want to start with very soft or pureed foods (which can include whole grain infant cereals) before you progress to offering more textured foods.
Eggs contain valuable nutrients that support brain health and can therefore play a crucial role in infant development. Because of this, eggs are an excellent food to serve when starting solids as a puree or as a finger food for baby-led weaning.
Eggs can be offered to babies as soon as they're ready to start solids, usually around 6 months. It's important to remember that your baby is unique and that rather than going by the calendar, you need to make sure your baby is DEVELOPMENTALLY ready to start solids.
You can start weaning with single vegetables and fruits – try blended, mashed, or soft cooked sticks of parsnip, broccoli, potato, yam, sweet potato, carrot, apple or pear. You could also try baby rice mixed with your baby's usual milk. Make sure any cooked food has cooled right down before offering it to your baby.
Use shredded mozzarella or cheddar, or get creative with your favorite cheese.flour- you may use regular or almond flour. This is the key ingredient that helps to prevent the muffins from being wet and spongy when reheating.
Why Do My Egg Muffins Deflate? The truth is – that's normal for them to deflate (although not completely concave). Though they're called muffins, these are basically bite-sized mini frittatas. The whisked eggs will have air bubbles that expand, due to heat, while cooking.
These babies should be introduced to peanut-containing products around 6 months of age; peanut-containing products should be maintained as part of their diet to prevent a peanut allergy from developing.
Baby-led weaning is an alternative method to spoon-feeding when it comes to introducing your baby to solid foods at around 6 months of age. With this method, your baby feeds themself with foods cut into sticks or strips no bigger than your pinky finger.
While butter might not be among the very first foods you debut on the high chair tray — and you'll probably want to serve it on something, rather than as a solo pat — kids should be developmentally ready for it at 6 months old and beyond.
The Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) gives the go-ahead for starting a variety of solid foods from around 6 months old — and bread can be included from this age. When you do decide to debut a bit of sourdough or ciabatta, just be sure it's not accompanied by other foods new to your child.
The World Health Organisation recommends that children under the age of two consume no or minimal sugar, hence parents should consider a baby smash cake or first birthday cake that are baby friendly and baby safe for their littles ones.
You can start weaning with single vegetables and fruits – try blended, mashed, or soft cooked sticks of parsnip, broccoli, potato, yam, sweet potato, carrot, apple or pear. You could also try baby rice mixed with your baby's usual milk. Make sure any cooked food has cooled right down before offering it to your baby.
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