Recipes for Young Toddlers: 18-24 Months
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Trying New Foods
The recipes included in this collection offer simple ethnic dishes with modifications to make them toddler friendly but still tasty to the rest of the family. These recipes include dishes inspired by favorite foods from around the world.
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Pumpkin Dip
Canned pumpkin makes it easy to whip up this sweet dip. Make sure to purchase 100% pure pumpkin and not pumpkin pie filling.
For your toddler:
• Serve the dip with peeled apple slices, banana slices, or cinnamon pita chips.
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Love Your Lima Beans Dip
For your toddler:
• Serve the dip with tender raw vegetables like pea pods and cucumber halves or slightly steamed carrot sticks and broccoli florets.
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Asian Peanut Dip
For your toddler:
• Serve the dip with tender raw vegetables like pea pods and cucumber halves or slightly steamed carrot sticks and broccoli florets.
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Risotto Primavera
• Cook the vegetables 2 to 3 minutes longer.
• Serve a spoonful of risotto and vegetables.
• Cut the vegetables into bite-sized pieces.
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Mediterranean Salmon Salad
For your toddler:
• Omit the black pepper from the fish.
• Toss a spoonful of hot orzo with a small handful of torn spinach until the spinach wilts and the mixture is cool.
• Shred a small amount of salmon and add it to the mixture. Add olives and cheese, if desired.
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Sweet-and-Sour Chicken
For your toddler:
• Omit the chile paste; adults can sprinkle red pepper flakes over their portions.
• Cut a piece of chicken and a spoonful of vegetables into small pieces.
• Serve it over rice in a small bowl or on a rimmed plate.
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Chipotle Pork Soft Tacos with Pineapple Salsa
For your toddler:
• When making the salsa, cut extra fruit into small bite-sized pieces for baby.
• Omit the black pepper and chipotle peppers; after removing the baby’s pork, parents can add peppers at end of simmering in Step 2.
• Cut the pork into bite-sized pieces.
• Serve the pork and fruit pieces as finger foods on a plate with a warmed corn tortilla.
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Pork and Squash Stir-Fry
For your toddler:
• Reserve 3 or 4 cubes of squash following Step 1.
• Sauté 1 strip of pork in a separate pan until done.
• Cut the squash into bite-sized pieces, and shred the pork.
• Serve the pork and squash with rice.
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Zucchini with Corn and Cilantro
• Omit the black pepper; parents can it add at the table, if desired.
• Serve a spoonful as a side with any meat, fish, poultry, or tofu.