Weaning of infants: a recipe “ethnic”

Experience maternity halfway around the world helps to relativize the term “ethnic” especially when applied to weaning. In Argentina, we speak of “a cause” when you stop breastfeeding, and there is a word for that period of porridge and milk which we refer to as weaning. Here the first meals are sweet, and fruit and vegetables.

Some typical recipe from this part of the world and easy to prepare to try new tastes? L ‘homogenized of quinoa and banana, for example. The weight of a typical plant of the Andes, quinoa, which is rich in nutritive properties, with the only trick is to rinse it very well otherwise bitter. Once cooked mix the banana and that’s a sweet and nutritious homogenized.

Among the vegetables initially recommended for weaning my son preferred the mashed carrots and sweet potatoes, boiled and mashed pumpkin and ate it with a pinch of parmesan cheese and olive oil, jelly Argentina thanks to the strong Italian immigrants who brought the culture of these ingredients also Buenos Aires.