No Steamer, No Problem

Steaming is an excellent way to cook your food items, especially veggies, before you puree them!

Here are some of the benefits of steaming:

• It avoids the loss of nutrients through leaching since the food is not submerged into liquid.
• Cools relatively quickly.
• Works really well on delicate foods, like seafood (yes we will be adding some baby seafoods in the future!).

A lot of people think that you need special equipment to steam and/or find the idea of steaming daunting. I absolutely used to, but it is very easy. I don't own a steamer or even a special steam basket, but I have started steaming anything that will eventually be pureed.

Most people have the following items in their kitchen:

1. Metal collander
2. A stock pot with a lid, even a deep sauce pan can work.

That's it! That's all you need to be able to steam your food.

Step 1: Fill the stock pot with a couple of inches of water.

Step 2: Bring the water to a boil.

Step 3: Place the colander with your food item into the stock pot.

Step 4: Put the lid on the stock pot.

Step 5: Steam for as long you need to until the food is cooked! The time will depend on the food.

Its pretty simple. I hope that you get the idea from the pictures. I would have liked to have offered a better Bird's Eye View, but I am pretty short and was even standing on my tiptoes to get these!