Have you explored the world of Thermo-Cooking? My friend, Melanie, has been sharing her love of her Bellini Kitchen Master with me for a year. It’s a huge trend in Europe, Asia and Australia. When we received a machine of our own to test, I was about to feed the baby. Boom! I had an epiphany. “I could make my own baby food for a fraction of the price.” Learning how to make your own baby food is so easy! Here are two recipes you can easily adapt to your own flavor combinations.
How To Make Your Own Baby Food:
For Chicken, Rice, Sweet Potato Baby Food Recipe:
Ingredients:
1 sweet potato, peeled and chopped
1 chicken breast filet (about 8 ounces)
1 cup rice
1/4 cup apple juice (optional)
For Apple Pear Baby Food:
1 apple, chopped
1 pear, chopped
To Make The Baby Food:
Directions:
Chicken Rice Sweet Potato:
Using the Bellini Kitchen Master, steam the chicken while the rice is cooking. Once chicken is done, chop into pieces. I cooked the sweet potato in the Bellini until done (about 15 minutes), then added the chopped chicken and rice. I blended the chicken, rice and sweet potato together until pureed. The mixture was a little thick so I added apple juice to make it a thinner consistency. This is totally optional.
Apple Pear:
I cooked the apple and pear chunks until tender (about 15 minutes) and then pureed the mixture for approximately one minute.
This baby food is gluten free and has no preservatives. To store the baby food I purchased small containers from the local dollar store. If you plan to use the baby food soon, store it in the fridge. If you make a large batch, the baby food can be frozen for up to three months. It’s so wonderful to be able to make my own baby food with a minimal time commitment!
Now that I’ve tested the Bellini Kitchen Master, I love it and here’s why.
* It has 8 functions, allowing me to chop, mix, mince, whip, knead, blend, stir, cook, fry, and steam all using a single device.
* It allows me to cook an entire meal at once. By using the included attachments, I can cook my meat and veggies at the same time.
* It’s easy to clean. Really, it’s self cleaning. Just follow the included instructions and it is clean within minutes.
* I don’t have to stand and stir. I admit, I am bad about needing to stir something, but getting engrossed in something else. Yeah, my family is not a fan of burned food. This eliminates the hassle. I just turn it on and it stirs for me. I seriously love being able to do something else while my dinner cooks on its own.
Here’s a short video that explains how it works.
Of course, I had a few concerns with the Bellini Kitchen Master that I want to address:
* It’s pricey upfront. I’m not a person who wants to spend lots of money unless I know I will love the product. I calculated up the cost of the 8 machines it would replace in my kitchen and found it was about the same or less than the price of quality appliances. Plus, it saves a lot of room in my cabinets. One Bellini Kitchen Master versus 8 appliances? That’s a lot of space.
Want to save some money? Right now there’s a $200 coupon for the machine, making it $399 if you purchase
it from the Bellini Kitchen website. Use the code CAVIAR to get your discount. You can also use the coupon at Bed, Bath & Beyond. The Bellini Kitchen Master is also available on Amazon.
* Read the instructions before using the machine. It’s a little complicated to learn how to use the machine. The directions make it much easier. For example, the included kitchen scale and the Bellini Kitchen Master look like they only measure in Celsius, but they can be switched to Fahrenheit for those of us in the US.
* The lid can be a little difficult to go on to the machine. Adding a little oil to the seal of the lid can help.
The Bellini Kitchen Master has a complete list of recipes online to help you get started. You can get social with them on Facebook at @cedarlaneculinary and Twitter @BelliniKM.
Have you ever tried to make your own baby food? What flavor combinations do you like best?
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Would you like to try the Bellini Kitchen Master? One lucky reader will win one of their own (Retail Value $599)
Want more chances to win? Visit my friend, Melanie, at 2 Boys, 1 Girl and A Crazy Mom. She’s sharing one of her favorite recipes and giving away a Bellini Kitchen Master too!
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I like that it stirs for you and you don’t have to stand at a stove and stir.
I really like the Self Cleaning Feature.
I like the 8 functions and easy to understand front
It chops and it stirs. I mean, this is amazing! A lot of recipes i use call for a lot of chopping and it is just so much work and so time-consuming. This would be great.
I would like to make many of the soup recipes beginning with the Tomato Soup.
My favorite feature is that it stirs itself so you don’t have to stand and stir.
Laurie Emerson
I can’t eat solid foods, this is a great product for me to have
I like the 8 functions.
My favorite feature is that it is very versatile with 8 functions including mix, whip, knead, blend, and cook.
I love all the wonderful features. This would make making meals so much easier.
I like the variety of functions. It’s a great addition to the kitchen.
I would like to try and make make apple & pear baby food
I love the 8 functions that it has, that’s impressive and would be very helpful.
Looks super easy to clean.
I love the fry feature, but I would love to make some jams with it!
I would make the apple pear! I also love the 8 different functions. Amazing!
I love that it can stir for you. I hate standing and stirring things.
I love all the attachments. I love the knead, chop and blend features
I like that it has 8 functions so I can get a lot of use from it.
I would love to use this machine to help chop veggies for my beef stew.
The apple pear recipe.is something is one I want to try.
I would like to make baby food with this.
I love it is self stirring!
I would love to make different flavored applesauces with it.
I love that it is easy to clean.
I love any device that can do it all. The fact I can cook and prep food all in one kitchen tool is wonderful. I would make organic foods with it.
I love how I could cook with it.
This would be great for my apartment. There’s not a lot of counter space and since this would replace 5 different appliances I can’t think of anything better.
Small kitchen so this would be great!
My favorite thing is that it stirs for you.
I would make a roast and veggies for starters! What a space saver with all those functions.
The best feature is the fact that you can cook in a blender. Yes, great Idea and only one pan to clean.
I would make the apple pear recipe.
I AM AT THE AGE OF 67 NEED MY FOOD GROUNDED UP,BUT MY GRANDSON IS 5 MONTHS OLD NEED THIS,READY FOR TABLE FOOD!!!!!
I like that you can cook a whole meal at one time.
I love that I can make my own baby food for my granddaughter.
i would like to make Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
I’m wondering if I can make steel cut oatmeal in it. Think it would be worth a try.
My favorite feature is that it has 8 functions!
My favorite feature is definitely that it has 8 functions in one! This would be a huge time saver and convenience for me!
I like the 8 functions
My favorite recipe would be the Apple Pear
My daughter will be having a baby soon so I would gift it to them so they could make baby food.
I like that it is 8 in one. It can chop, mix, mince, whip, knead, blend, stir, cook, fry, and steam all using a single device.
I like that it is easy to clean.
I would make a chicken dish
I like that it can chop and save me counter space because it we replacing some of the items
I wish I had one of those when I had my little people because I did make a lot of the baby food they ate at home. Those are great recipes!
I would use it to make apple sauce
Bellini comes with a steamer too! That’s such an awesome kitchen tool!
Hello, I would love to use the Bellini Kitchen Master to make Jams and mayonnaise, hummus and rissoto. Thanks for a great giveaway!
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I love the 8 different functions.
my fave feature is that it can chop and mince
I love all the features of blender.
I would “attempt” to make the
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Homemade baby food is so much better than relying on all the store bought ones. I think these are awesome recipes and they’re all natural as well. No need to worry about preservatives or anything of the like.
I love that I could replace 8 different appliance with this one, what a space saver!
My favorite feature is that it has Adjustable temperature control! The first thing I would make in the Bellini is Pineapple Applesauce! So yummy!
When I saw baby food maker I literally thought blender. This thing frys and stirs by itself. Crazy!
I would make strawberry applesauce.
The Bellini Kitchen Master is quite the machine, what’s not to love about it all! My favorite feature would have to be the kneading of dough, we make a lot bread and pizza in our house.
I would make my own baby food with it as well as so many other recipes.
I would love to make anything with vegetables / fruit; this is a great time to inspire children to better healthy eating styles!
I love how many uses this thing has!!
i love that you can do everything with just 1 machine .. can blend cook everything and you dont have pull out the blender and cook it on the stove .. i would love to make some homemade baby food
It can stir while the food cooks-great for chili, which I’ve burnt many times.
That looks like an amazing product. You can chop, blend, then steam a meal all in the same appliance. Not to mention the Pulse that allows you to make crushed ice and the ability to make smoothies all in one. This would even be great for hot coffee drinks.
We have a 7 month old who is just starting solids and would love to be able to make her food. I love that this 8 different functions.
I love that it stirs itself.
My favorite feature of the bellini is that you can fix an entire meal all at once. Really neat!
I live all the functions,so convenient.
I’d make chili con carne.
I love that it can do it’s own stirring! That way I can be working on other things while dinner is being made!
Looks like it can do the work of several machines without taking much space!
I like how many features it has, but I also like that it’s easy to clean.
I love that this takes the place of so many kitchen appliances but only takes a small place.
I would like to try the apple pear recipe.
I love how many things it can do and that I can cook different things at the same time.
I don’t have human babies to cook for but I rescue and feed several kittens and cats. I would love to be able to make fresh from scratch cat food for them.
I like how easily everything comes apart to clean, makes you want to use it daily
I’m anxious to experiment with this baby. Making banana bread is a favorite in our house so this will be really awesome.
I would love to make the Cupcake al cioccolato di Halloween recipe.
I love that it’s so easy to clean! I find with other machines that if it takes me too long to clean them, I’ll use them once or twice then they just sit in my kitchen cabinets or pantry not being used!
I would make banana bread
I’d make Cupcake al cioccolato di Halloween
I find it amazing that you can chop and cook in the same machine!
I love that it has so many features all in one machine.
I love that it has eight features that is amazing. I would make banana bread first.
I like that it’s easy to clean – if I have an appliance that is impossible to clean I don’t want to use it
My favorite feature is that it saves a lot of time while cooking delicious food that we would not be able to cook by ourselves. I would use it to shred vegetables, make banana shakes, steam chicken, salmon and broccoli, grind nuts. I would also make my bread/pizza dough in my Bellini
I would make lemon curd for cupcake fillings!
I would use this to make chili.
I would like to make Chicken, Bacon and Pea Risotto
I would love to make puddings without the constant stirring.
I like the self cleaning feature.
This is awesome! Making your own baby food allows you to be in control of what goes into it, unlike store bought.
We love our chili in the southwest and would love to win this
Has 8 features which means you don’t have to buy as many products and it saves space
I like that you can both chop and cook in the same device
I’d make salsa
This looks so much healthier than the stuff in stores. I have no doubt it’s healthier as well!
I’d like to cook up pumpkin with turkey.
I did try making baby food with my kids. I wish I had done it more. It was nice to know exactly what they were getting.
I would like to try the chili con carne recipe.
I’d make the apple pear recipe.
This is absolutely a great idea. I wish I knew this when my son is starting to eat
I would like to make all kinds of healthy cauliflower dishes!
Your baby food actually looks delicious. I wish I had one of these when my kids were babies. This would’ve really helped me out.
That is a great product. Wish I had this when I was making baby food for my youngest a couple of years ago.
I made my kids their baby food when they were little, but this is so much easier! And homemade is so much healthier if you’re mindful of the ingredients that you use.
My favorite feature is the eight different functions.
i never heard of the Bellini kitchen blender. Wow this looks good. When i have babies I do want to make my own baby food!
I Love The Self Cleaning Feature!
This brand looks like it has some top-notch products.
The preparation of the baby food was really neat to see, with ingenious starting ingredients and a finished look that appeared as if it was bought as baby food in the store!
I like that the whole cooking process can be done in one machine! It would be great to cook a soup or stew in.
I like the space saving of eight machines in one. And easy to clean is always great.
I used to love making my own baby food for my babies. I miss it!
Wow that looks pretty awesome! I don’t do baby good, all my kiddos do BLW once ready for food, but I could use this type of machine for so many other things!
What an incredible machine! My sister in law just gave birth and I know she really wants to make her own baby food and I think this Bellini kitchen master is the quintessential product for getting it done! Can’t wait to share this post wth her!
Making you own baby food is a great idea because you than know what is going in to the little ones body. The Bellini Kitchen Master would be great to use for making your baby food. I will have to share this with my niece for her little ones. Thanks for shairng the information.
I like the 8 functions plus it is easy to clean
I love that you can cook a whole meal at one time! What a time saver!
I used to make all of my own baby food and loved it. I can see why the Bellini would be a huge help!
I would love to get my own Bellini. Not only for making baby food but to help me with my recipes as well. If I get one of my own, I am assuming my daughter would be at my house everyday making food for her baby. 🙂 Saving the recipes. My grandson is a big eater and he’d love these meals.
So many neat things to make, I might start with apple butter since everyone expects it for Christmas.
I’d love to make the Honey Soy Chicken recipe.
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Applesauce is a food group of its own in our house. The apple pear recipe will go over so well with my girls. I cant wait to try it!
I’d use it to make white bean dip.
id like to own one to make some baby food myself and make some other recipes
My favorite feature is that it has 8 functions available. I love multi-purpose pieces.
My partners dad is a chef so when she was younger he would make all her baby food fresh! I think it has stuck with her as she wants to do it for our kids
Perfect for baby food! My best friend is expecting in February and will be making her own. This machine would be a fabulous gift for her!
I was scared off of making my own baby food. I thought it’d be so challenging. But this makes it so simple to make wholesome food for your little one.
Oh this rocks. You could really get busy making baby food in advance with the Bellini Kitchen Master. I feel like it would make preparing big multi-dish meals so much easier too.
The Chicken, Rice, Sweet Potato sounds delicious and would love to win this!
Wow! The Bellini machine sounds like something that I need in my kitchen. I would have loved to have made my own baby food when my girls were little. I love the feature that it can replace up to 8 kitchen appliances. Kitchen space is a hot commodity around here!
When my kids were infants, I definitely made a lot of their baby food. I used to have fun creating gourmet combinations of fruits, veggies and herbs. This tool sounds so useful for making smooth purees!
I do like that it does have 8 functions also and I would like to make their recipe of: PINA COLADA – KÄSEKUCHEN MIT JOGHURT
I like that it has 8 functions, to chop, mix, mince, whip, knead, blend, stir, cook, fry, and steam .
This looks so great! I would love to make the Warm Spinach Artichoke and Cheese Dip.
Since we don’t have kids, my husband and I have never made our own baby food. However, we know plenty of people who do because they want their kids to have more wholesome food.
I like that it can chop things!
I like that it has 8 functions
My favorite feature is that it’s super easy to clean.
I made the kid’s baby food when they were little. It was so much cheaper and healthier for them.
What a great way to make your own baby food! I wish I had tried making it when my kid were younger, I always assumed it was really hard to do.
This is the perfect shower gift! It’s so much more cost effective if you make your own food not to mention you know exactly what’s going into it!
You make this look so easy and I think oh gosh, I can’t imagine having a baby again. Haha! If I did though I would want to make my own baby food, this is really awesome!
I love that I would only need one appliance on my counter since it has 8 functions.
This looks like a great setup for making your own baby food.
I never made my own baby food but it’s such a great idea. We didn’t have a food processor but they make it so much easier!
I’d love to cook chili with this. The way our family cooks chilli literally takes forever
This is pretty neat. If you can make one – why not, right? Instead of buying without much certainty how healthy or good it would be – just make one. That’s awesome.
This looks like a great product. I never made my own baby food with my son. It is something that I would do now if I had a little one.
I love that you can cook your veggies and your meat at the same time – I’m a student and work 3 jobs and the time saved would give me so much more time to study instead of trying to watch multiple pans.
So, not the most creative recipe, but I would love to make tempered chocolate more easily for holiday cooking and buckeyes! To be honest, anything that simplifies cooking for the family especially on weeknights is a win in my book!
I like that it has 8 functions
I would make lemon curd
I love that this takes the place of so many kitchen appliances and doesn’t take up as much storage room. What a great giveaway!
That thing is awesome! My kids are all way past the baby food stage, but I can still see getting so much use out of that thing. Thanks for sharing!
I love that! I wish i would have made my kids their own baby food. It would have saved so much money.
This really is an impressive machine! I love that I can chop, mix, and mince food with the Bellini! I hate doing these two tasks and this machine would make it more easier for me to cook dinner!
First, I love all the features—the whole unit would save time and money and add versatility to the kitchen. And–GHEE! I found an easy recipe for making ghee, something I would be excited to try.
I would love to make the CHICKEN, BACON AND PEA RISOTTO. Yum!
I would love to make the apple pear recipe. I love how everything comes apart to be cleaned easily. This is such a nice machine. I can’t wait to have one.