Courgette & Carrot Egg Waffles
Allergen lists cover the priority allergens in the recipe as written. Always check your own ingredient labels, and introduce each new allergen on its own first.
Ingredients
- 3 medium eggs
- 60 g porridge oats, blitzed to a rough flour (choose oats labelled gluten-free if avoiding gluten cross-contact)
- 80 g courgette, coarsely grated and squeezed very dry in a clean cloth
- 60 g carrot, finely grated
- 40 g full-fat plain pasteurised yogurt
- ½ tsp mild sweet paprika or dried oregano (no salt)
- 5 ml (1 tsp) olive oil for brushing the waffle plates
Method
- 1. Preheat a waffle iron on a medium setting and brush both plates with olive oil.
- 2. Squeeze the grated courgette hard in a clean cloth — a surprising amount of water comes out, and skipping this step gives soggy waffles that steam instead of setting.
- 3. Whisk the eggs with the yogurt, then stir in the oat flour, grated vegetables and paprika. Rest the batter for 5 minutes so the oats hydrate and thicken it.
- 4. Spoon the batter into the iron, close, and cook for 4-5 minutes per batch until firm, golden and dry to the touch, with no soft raw batter in the middle.
- 5. Cool on a rack for 5 minutes — waffles hold heat in their pockets — then cut to the right shape for your baby.
- 6. Extra waffles freeze well between sheets of baking paper; reheat from frozen in a toaster and cool before serving.
How to serve by age
6–8 months
Cut each waffle into finger-length batons about 8 cm long and 2.5 cm wide (roughly two adult fingers wide) so it can be clamped in the whole-hand palmar grasp with an end protruding for chewing.
9–12 months
Cut into 1 cm pea-sized squares along the waffle grid lines and offer 6-8 at a time, which invites the precise thumb-and-forefinger pincer pick-up babies are refining at this age.
Paediatric note
Once egg has been introduced without reaction, the evidence supports keeping it in the diet regularly — roughly two to three times a week — because sustained exposure is what maintains tolerance, whereas long gaps can allow sensitisation to re-emerge. Batch-freezing waffles makes that consistency realistic on busy mornings. Oats are not wheat and carry no wheat allergen of their own, but they are usually milled and packed alongside wheat, so choose a pack labelled gluten-free if your baby is avoiding gluten.
Source guidance: https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/feeding-nutrition/Pages/default.aspx
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