Green Chia Arepitas
From 6 months · 5 small arepas · 25 min
Ingredients
What you'll need
- Masa harina
- Chia seeds
- Spinach
Method
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How to prepare each food
Masa harina
Mix with water to form dough. Cook on a skillet until fully set and slightly browned.
Serve as thick pieces for easy holding.
Chia seeds
Chia seeds must always be soaked first, never given dry. Stir them into milk, water, or a fruit puree and let them sit until they swell into a soft gel, usually 10 to 15 minutes. Mix the gel into oatmeal, yogurt, or mashed fruit. Dry seeds soak up liquid and can clump, so soaking is the key step.
Soaked into a soft gel and mixed into food. Never dry.
Dry chia seeds absorb liquid quickly and can clump or swell, so they should never be offered dry or sprinkled on top of food. Always soak them into a soft gel first; hydrated chia is soft and low risk.
Spinach
Cook spinach until soft and wilted, then chop it finely or puree it. It blends easily into other purees, mashed vegetables, yogurt, or well-cooked egg. Serve it folded into a carrier food rather than as loose leaves.
Finely chopped after cooking, or pureed and folded into another food.
Not a high-risk choking food, but a whole raw leaf can bunch up or stick to the roof of the mouth. Cook spinach until wilted and chop it finely, or blend it into a puree, yogurt, egg, or sauce so it mixes through rather than sitting as a loose leaf.
Putting it together
Small corn-flour arepas kneaded with spinach and chia, pan-cooked until golden on both sides.
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Chat with Lumi in the appGeneral informational content, not medical advice. Always consult your pediatrician about introducing new foods, especially if your baby has any medical conditions or family history of allergies.
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