Making Baby Food: Mashed Papaya Recipe

Papaya is sweet, tasty and packed with folate and vitamin C. The fruit is widely available in tropical countries like Malaysia and Indonesia and considerably cheap. Papaya is quite easy to be processed into simple home-made baby food, such as mashed banana. No blender or other electrical machine is required to make mashed papaya, unless you prefer to steam the fruit first before offering it to your baby.

I made a little bit of mashed papaya to my little foodie and I am amazed with how quick baby Naomi finished her first small bowl of mashed papaya. No fuss and no playing with food in her mouth.

Little foodie enjoying her first papaya.

Mashed Papaya

Ingredients:

1 slice of fully ripened papaya, peeled and…