What I love most about sharing my baby led weaning recipes on my lovely little lunch box is meeting and talking to you beautiful mama’s!
I love receiving your emails and comments and adore hearing all about your baby led weaning wins.
Lately, a lot of mama’s about to embark on the baby led weaning journey have been asking me the same question, ‘I am really confused about what foods to begin baby led weaning with, do you have any recommendations?’.
My answer each and every time: vegetable fritters.
When we first began baby led weaning with Miss G. vegetable fritters were our go to meal!
No only are they super simple to prepare and jam packed with a tonne of wonderful vegetables but they’re the perfect shape and texture for teeny tiny little hands to hold and nibble on with ease. When beginning baby led weaning always keep in mind food offered to your little one should be chip shaped (i.e. long and rectangle) and have a texture that is able to be squished between your finger and thumb.
So far I have conjured up batches of sweet corn fritters, zucchini fritters, pea fritters, sweet potato fritters and carrot fritters and Miss G. has adored them all.
And although we may be nine months into our baby led weaning journey, Miss G’s. still adores her vege packed fritters so today I cooked us up a batch of gorgeously golden spinach and ricotta fritters. Unbelievably simple to prepare, these delicious fritters are chock full of spinach and flavoured with lemon zest and a little parmesan cheese.
Miss G. couldn’t wait to tuck in and quickly gobbled up two spinach flecked fritters along with a simple salad of tomato and zucchini ribbons.
To read more of my tips on getting started with baby led weaning click here.
To create a batch of these gorgeously golden spinach & ricotta fritters simply…
Begin by placing the ricotta, spinach, parmesan, flour, eggs and lemon zest into a large bowl.
Mix thoroughly to combine.
Heat a non stick frypan to medium heat and drizzle in a little olive oil. Use two tablespoons to ladle the mixture onto the fry pan and cook for 2-3 minutes each side or until golden.
Place the fried fritters onto an oven tray lined with baking paper and pop into the oven for 5 to 10 minutes or until the fritters are cooked through.
Allow to cool slightly before serving alongside a simple salad of chopped tomato and ribbons of zucchini.
spinach & ricotta fritters
INGREDIENTS
500 grams fresh ricotta
250 grams frozen spinach, thawed and squeezed of excess water (or 500 grams baby spinach, steamed)
1 cup parmesan
2 eggs
6 tbs plain flour
zest of 1 lemon
olive oil, to fry in
cherry tomatoes and zucchini ribbons, to serve
METHOD
Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius (350F). Place the ricotta, spinach, parmesan, eggs, plain flour and lemon zest into a large bowl and mix thoroughly to combine. Heat a nonstick frypan to medium heat and drizzle in a little olive oil. Use two tablespoons to ladle the batter into the frypan, cook for 2-3 minutes each side or until golden. Place the fritters onto an oven tray lined with baking paper and bake for 5-10 minutes or until cooked through. Allow to cool slightly before serving alongside a simple salad of chopped cherry tomatoes and ribbons of zucchini. Enjoy x
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Loving this recipe and the variety of fritters you have made 🙂
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I really like hearing other people’s baby led weaning suggestions. This is a lovely blog with heaps of great ideas for your bub. Help spread the baby led weaning (BLW) word! FYI BLW is considered gold standard for feeding by dieticians!
This must be yummy!! And look at those teeny tiny fingers 🙂 So cute
Hehehehe thank you! My little one loves to cook! X
How did you do the ribbon of zucchini? Is it cooked? Thanks!
Hi! I create the ribbons of zucchini using a potato peeler. I serve them raw, they make a great salad. Happy cooking! X
Just just found your blog through Pinterest and WOW!!! Thank you so much for this. 🙂 You have some AMAZING recipes and I’m hoping my little guy will love them. Can’t wait to get in the kitchen!
Welcome! I am so happy you discovered my blog and are excited to try out some recipes! Good luck with your little one and please report back, I’d love to know how you go! X
Hello! I’m making the spinach fritters right now for my little one. I love all your recipe ideas. I was wondering if it would be possible for you to show “cups” along with “grams”. I’m finding it hard to measure everything out perfectly. I can’t wait to give my baby these spinach fritters when she wakes up!
Oh I will try! I hope you’re little one enjoyed the spinach fritters! Happy cooking! x
Is it possible to freeze these and would you defrost in the fridge the day before?! Sorry prob a silly question but I don’t cook! Thanks
Just found your recipes. I LOVE them! I can’t wait to make these for my little guy. I’m wondering if you ever freeze the extras to serve again later? If so, do they hold up well?
Do you think you could use kale instead of spinach as we have some growing in our garden and looking for things to use it in!?
Absolutely! Kale would be lovely. Happy cooking x
Silly question – but do i need to deseed the tomatoes for a 13 mth old baby? From your photo’s it looks like you have just used chopped baby tomatoes. BTW your blog is absolutely fantastic. So simple and such sensible ideas for babies.
I don’t deseed my tomatoes. I simply give them to my little one halved or cut into wedges and she happily munches her way through them. I am so happy to hear you’re enjoying my blog and are finding the recipes useful! Happy cooking and good luck with your little one. x
These look yummy. Can you freeze them ?
Hello. These taste lovely and freshly. Will these freeze well? Also what would I reheat at? Thank you x
hi my baby girl is 7 months and we have just started on baby led weaning. how many teeth did your daughter have when she ate this? Mine only has 2 teeth, so I’m wondering if she will have any trouble with these fritters.
How did I not know about you! Your blog is gorgeous! Im making these tonight for my little one along with the strawberry and apple oat bars. Its SO satisfying when they eat and love what we cook them! Cant wait to start cooking like this! Move over grandma, Im cooking now!
Thank you!
x
Just made them! They taste gorgeous. I cut up strips of puff pastry and sprinkled with cheese then baked them! Really yummy served together. Thanks!
xo
Hi Kaylee, I’ve just recently had a little boy and am learning to cook all over again, thanks for the wonderful baby led feeding ideas…Sheridan
My pleasure. So happy you’re enjoying my ideas xxx
oh i forgot to say, I love the photos on your site..they make the recipes so easy to follow
My daughter and I loved theses I used wholemeal flour instead. These made a great travel snack for the plane.
Love your recipe!
Can I freeze the spinach and ricotta fritters?
Thank you! Yes absolutely! They should last gorgeously in the deep freeze for up to 3 months x
Hi, I’ve got an 8 month old that loves his food! I must admit, I began with spoon led weaning, but I’m ready to encourage a more BLW approach. I love your fritter recipes and can’t wait to try them, they all look so delicious! I see that they can be frozen too, which is a bonus. How would you recommend reheating?
Welcome! I allow to defrost then pop in the microwave to reheat. I hope this helps and good luck with your little one xxx
Hello. I was wondering if the fritters are okay to give to my 8 month old.
You’re blog is absolutely amazing and so far my baby has been more than pleased with everything I’ve given her!
Yes absolutely. I begin fritters with my little ones from six months. Happy eating x
Hi,
I made the fritters for my ten month old son this evening and he couldn’t get enough of them! His enthusiasm was amazing! Thanks for the delicious recipe xx
Would this be a good recipe to use for pre-dinner nibbles?
Oh my – these are seriously yummy! I used fresh spinach leaves that I cooked before adding to the mix.
Not quite sure how I will go leaving some for my baby to eat 😉
Like any other form of exercise it will takes around 4 – 6 weeks
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to the system. The pear contains natural sugars and not
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Nitric Oxide also decreases the recovery time and encourages quick healing.
My nine month old loves these. I prepared one fifth of the ingredients and that made three fritters. The baba had one and I had two with salad 🙂
do you think any other soft cheese besides ricotta (which is not always available where I live) would work? Like mascarpone perhaps?
I love everything on this site! Just making these now…. please, please, please tell me you are making a cookbook of all these goodies!
Hi lovely! I have started to organise advertising on my website and with the proceeds I’ll be able to pay for a designer and editor to work on my cookbook! YIPPEE!!! I have most of the recipes ready to go, I just need an editor to review my work and designer to make it all pretty! Fingers crossed I can get in out into the world very soon! Thanks for your comment xxx
Yay! Thank goodness! Not that I mind coming online, but I am a cookbook hoarder and can’t wait to have it in my collection. I have 9 things on my menu plan for this week week and 8 of the recipes are from you! Thank you for introducing me (and my wee man) to the all holy fritter. And please when you get that editor and designer, make sure they keep those chubby fingers in all the shots – that’s the best part! Thanks again for giving such inspiration to keep our bellies full and happy. xo
So, so tasty – great recipe, thanks! Very fussy baby is tucking in as I write.
Can your fritters be frozen to eat later?
Yes absolutely! X
hi, just found your blog & am going to give the fritters a try, my little man is 6 months & although terrified of BLW (he gags a lot & it scares me!) i really want to get to grips with it so am off on a baby first aid course next week:)
thank you so so much for the amazing site, tips, recipies & links love it!!! j&m x
First aid course is the BEST thing you can do as a parent whether you blw or not. Great work mama. And best of luck with your blw journey! Happy cooking (and eating) xxx
Hi there, i love your blog and all your recipes! I made half the recipe tonight using frozen then thawed spinach and ended up with quite a few fritters. They taste great but mine turned out softer and break apart easily. Is that how they are supposed to be? Also its hard to tell from pictures but each fritter looks pretty small however recipe says to ladle two tablespoons per fritter?
Hi We cooked a batch of these today and our little one loved them, although we have made too many to be consumed all in one go and therefore wanted to make sure we were able to freezer the remaining?
would love your feedback
thanks
Nav
Hi Nav! Apologies for my delayed response! I don’t recommend freezing these fritters – the ricotta doesn’t freeze/defrost that well. Hope that helps. Kayla xx