If you have a rice cooker and access to a Japanese grocery store, making baby food is a snap. Standard recipe is 1.5 small cups (270 ml total) rice, small fish (shirasu), a couple of carrots, dried wakame. Just peel and grate the carrots, then chop up the wakame as small as possible (it will expand when it gets wet) and throw all in the rice cooker. The small fish are actually already cooked so you don’t have to worry about the fish not being cooked properly. Set the rice cooker to okayu (congee) mode and turn it on. For bonus protein, sometimes we put a hard boiled egg yolk or two, or some diced tofu. This made enough to fill three tupperwares full of food for baby.
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