Get Baby To Love Broccoli

It is important to get your children started out on veggies early on in life and there are veggies that infants will find easy to digest and nutritious.

Broccoli Soup. Age: 12 to 24 month (or whole family to enjoy).

Ingredients:

• 1 large or two medium broccoli clusters (as fresh as possible)
•  Salt –note very small pinch for children and/or to taste for the rest of the family (3 tsp.)
•  Water
•  Olive Oil

Cooking:

• Bring water to a boil in a large stock pot.
• Add the salt (please remember the amount depending on the persons eating). Add broccoli florets and boil rapidly.
• Your broccoli is ready when you can pierce it with little or no effort.
• Remove the stock pan from the stove burner.
• DO NOT POUR THE WATER OUT!
• Use a slotted spoon to add broccoli to a blender but be careful because it’s boiling hot!
• Pour enough of the water left over from cooking the broccoli to fill the blender half way.
• Use several pulses on your blender to break the broccoli up and then puree for several seconds.
• Pour soup into shallow bowl.
• Drizzle lightly with olive oil and serve at once! Delicious!

Your little children and the whole family will love this healthy soup.