Baby Omelet

This is my FAVORITE food for Little Joy yet!!!! I HIGHLY recommend it!!

Let me begin this post by giving a firm warning to our readers; eggs tend to be an allergen! Please be very careful when introducing eggs. Egg WHITES are generally the allergy culprit. Doctors will advice you against introducing the WHOLE egg before one year but instead try the egg YOLK. If you, your spouse or anyone in your immediate family is allergic to eggs, I would not introduce even the egg yolk.

This was so much fun to make, feed her and watch her attempt to self feed! I cannot wait to try it again! Remember, if your baby has more than one ingredient listed below, I would recommend introducing them one at a time to eliminate any potential allergies.

Ingredients:

• 2 Egg YOLK (if under one year; and yes TWO egg yolks because just one is not enough to cook well)
• Formula or breastmilk (we used breastmilk; also Little Joy has had whole milk already, so if your baby has had that; its fine too)
• Chunky or pureed veggie of your choice (we used steamed baby carrot chunks)
• Cheese of your choice (we used Monterey Jack Cheese; see this article about cheeses to decide what cheeses are good to start with)

Steps:

1. Prepare and heat up a small frying pan with olive oil or a small pat of butter (this is where I made a mistake because I was so excited about making this; make sure the pan is nice and hot when you put the eggs on it so they wont crumble. If you splash water on the pan the water should "dance around" and sizzle.)
2. Whisk milk and egg yolks together
3. Pour egg mixture into heated and prepared pan
4. Grate the cheese of your choice
5. Scramble eggs
6. Just before they are finished, add the veggie or your choice (chunky steamed baby carrots for us) and scramble until no longer runny
7. Remove from pan and add cheese on top
8. Allow to cool, serve warm but not hot
9. If you are brave----let your little one try this as a finger food!

Miscellaneous: Serve with fruit pieces or pureed fruit for a balanced breakfast! The only thing I will do differently is cook it on a higher heat so that maybe the egg wont be in such small pieces; it was hard for her to self feed. The cheese helped keep it together some. However, maybe thats just how the egg does when it is egg yolk vs the whole egg.

Timing: 9-10 months

Storage: I do not recommend saving any leftovers

Epicutie Rating: Yummy in the Tummy-see right side of page for descriptions

I was shocked by how much Little Joy loved her very first omlete; I was so convinced she wouldn't like it that I had a back up breakfast ready. It was a big omelet but she ate the majority of it. Although I will stick with cereal and fruit as her "go to breakfast" this is a great meal to mix things up once a week!

Step 2: Egg yolk and milk mixture

Step 4: Grated Monterey Jack cheese (we didn't use that much I just made extra to have on hand as a finger food)

Step 6: Adding carrot chunks; I made the chunks a bit smaller than the size I use for her carrot finger food

Step 7: Finished!!

Step 8: Allowing to cool!

Little Joy sampling it as a Finger Food. She must investigate it first of course!