Homemade Easy baby led weaning Quesadilla recipe is my favorite family meal where everyone including my baby can enjoy this finger food. With all the best ingredients and the avocado flatbread makes it a perfect healthy choice for kids when you are looking to add some calories to their meal. This simple recipe can be made in 15 minutes and it makes a perfect food to carry on while traveling or for picnics.
Ever thought you make the tortillas using avocado and wheat flour (check out this easy 2 ingredient flatbread made using avocado)? This quesadilla is a healthy version perfect for kids if they are picky and you worry about calorie intake. With Avocado, beans and cheese this makes a healthy choice for babies and toddlers. And a fun recipe to pack in lunch box too!
Table of Contents
- Homemade baby led weaning Quesadilla
- What do you need to make this easy baby led waning quesadilla recipe?
- Instructions to make these Easy Homemade Quesadilla recipe
Homemade baby led weaning Quesadilla
This fun recipe can be made within 10 mins! Prepping black beans with veggies sauteed, adding avocado and cheese to avocado flatbread made using avocados and wheat flour. This makes a quick and healthy family meal that you can enjoy for lunch, dinner or snack. These homemade quesadillas are easy to pack in lunch box or for traveling.
While I have tried making black bean quesadilla using the store bought tortillas, I wanted to try on these avocado flat breads that I make at home for kids. This healthy quesadilla ideas was a great success and my picky eater gobbled them without complaining. It is also a great baby led weaning recipe to try with babies.
Baby-led weaning (BLW) is a method of starting solid food for infants that emphasizes allowing them to feed themselves with finger foods, rather than spoon-feeding pureed or mashed foods. The idea behind BLW is to let the baby explore different textures and flavors, encouraging self-feeding and developing their motor and oral skills. It is recommended to start with soft, manageable foods like steamed vegetables, pieces of fruit, or lightly toasted bread, and avoid high-risk foods like nuts, popcorn, and hard candy. It’s important to closely supervise the baby during mealtime and ensure a safe eating environment.
Here are some simple and healthy recipes for baby-led weaning:
- Steamed Vegetables: Simply steam carrots, broccoli, sweet potato, or any other vegetable until tender and cut into manageable sticks or pieces for the baby to hold and eat.
- Soft-Boiled Eggs: Boil an egg for 6-7 minutes, peel, and cut into quarters for the baby to pick up and eat.
- Avocado Toast: Toast a slice of whole grain bread and spread mashed avocado on top.
- Banana Oat Pancakes: Mix together 1 mashed banana, 1 egg, and 1/4 cup of oats. Cook spoonfuls of the mixture in a lightly oiled pan until golden on both sides.
- Applesauce pancakes: Mix 1tbsp homemade applesauce, 1 egg and 1/4 cup of oat flour. Cook spoonful of mixture in a lightly buttered pan until golden on both sides.
- Baked Sweet Potato Fries: Slice a sweet potato into sticks, drizzle with a little oil and bake in the oven at 400°F until crispy.
- Mini Frittatas: Beat 2 eggs with a little milk, pour into a muffin tin with some cooked vegetables and cheese, and bake in the oven until set.
- BLW rice fritters – An easy and healthy recipe using rice flour makes a perfect baby led weaning recipe for babies.
Related: Check out the best high chairs for blw
What do you need to make this easy baby led waning quesadilla recipe?
Here is what you need to make these healthy quesadillas:
- Avocado Flatbread – This is the essential part of the recipe making the base of our quesadillas and with 2 ingredients below, avocado flatbread makes a easy & healthier choice.
- Avocado
- Whole wheat flour
- Black bean filling – A rich creamy protein filled black bean filling that I make is my kids favourite. I sometimes keep a bowl of black bean filling aside and give them with tortilla chips and they love to dip it in and eat. I sneak in all kinds of veggies in this and mash them well so if you have a picky eater – do try this black bean dip.
- Black beans (soaked overnight)
- Onion
- Tomato
- Green Peppers
- Corn
- Salt
- Pepper
- Chilli powder
- Guacamole – More avocado inside makes my mommy heart make this recipe more often. The secret for my guacamole is the extra dash of lime and I have toddlers who eat avocado and guac all day in my house. So naturally I have homemade guac all the time in my refrigerator.
- Avocado
- Lemon
- Salt
- Pepper
- Cilantro
- Cheese (Grated) – Monterey Jack or cheddar cheese tastes awesome and my go to cheese in quesadillas.
- Sour Cream (optional) – You can smear a spoon of sour cream or even give them to dip in but this recipe tastes great without it as well.
Instructions to make these Easy Homemade Quesadilla recipe
To make these healthy quesadilla ideas, here are the easy steps to follow:
- To prepare Bean filling – soak black beans overnight or for up to 8 hours and pressure cook in instant pot for 3 minutes.
- Saute onion, tomato, green peppers and corn in a pan.
- Add cooked black beans to it with a cup of water and let it cook well for a few minutes.
- Add salt, pepper, chilli powder and mix well.
- Mash the black bean filling while its cooking on the stove.
- Meanwhile, prepare guacamole using mashed avocado, lemon, salt and pepper.
- Prepare avocado flatbread using avocado and wholewheat flour. Check out the detailed avocado flatbread recipe here.
- To this flatbread, smear sour cream. Add the black bean filling, guacamole and cheese.
- Cook well on both side until cheese melts.
- You can cut the quesadillas into shapes that is easy to hold with tiny hands and serve them warm or cold.
- You can store the black bean filling and giaamole in refrigerator for up to 3 days.
FAQs Homemade easy quesadilla recipe
1. What can you put in a quesadilla?
You can fill in with black beans or pinto beans, all kinds of vegetables – sauteed or raw and lots of cheese. Some common things that is normally put in quesadilla are beans (black or pinto), onion, tomato, corn, peppers, salsa, cilantro, olives and cheese (Monterey jack or cheddar)
2. What are the steps to make a quesadilla?
Making quesadillas are simple if you have all the ingredients ready.
- Prepare the bean filling.
- Prepare sauteed veggies.
- Prepare salsa and guacamole.
- Heat up tortillas on a hot pan.
- Add cheese, filling, sauteed veggies, guacamole, salsa and wait till cheese melts.
- Fold the tortillas and then cut them into wedges that are easy to eat.
3. What kind of cheese is best for quesadillas?
Using shredded cheese that is either Cheddar or Montrey Jack is the best cheese to use in quesadillas as they give the extra stretch for quesadillas. If you cannot find them, you can try mozzarella too along with Montery Jack.
4. Are homemade quesadillas healthy?
While the regular quesadillas are considered unhealthy, swapping the tortillas with avocado flatbread or homemade flatbread makes it nutricious and healthy.
Homemade Easy Quesadilla Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup cheese (shredded)
- 1 tbsp sour cream
Avocado Flatbread/ Tortillas
- 1 Avocado
- 2 cups Whole wheat flour
Black Bean Filling
- 1 cup Black Beans (soaked)
- 1/2 Onion (chopped)
- 1/2 Tomato (chopped)
- 1/2 Green peppers (chopped)
- 1 cup corn
- 1/2 tbsp chilli powder
- 1/2 tbsp salt
Guacamole
- 1 Avocado
- 1 tbsp Lemon juice
- 1/2 tbsp salt
- 1/2 tbsp pepper
- Cilantro (small bunch)
Instructions
- To prepare Bean filling – soak black beans overnight or for up to 8 hours and pressure cook in instant pot for 3 minutes.
- Saute onion, tomato, green peppers and corn in a pan.
- Add cooked black beans to it with a cup of water and let it cook well for a few minutes.
- Add salt, pepper, chilli powder and mix well.
- Mash the black bean filling while its cooking on the stove.
- Meanwhile, prepare guacamole using mashed avocado, lemon, salt and pepper.
- Prepare avocado flatbread using avocado and wholewheat flour. Check out the detailed avocado flatbread recipe here.
- To this flatbread, smear sour cream. Add the black bean filling, guacamole and cheese.
- Cook well on both side until cheese melts.
- You can cut the quesadillas into shapes that is easy to hold with tiny hands and serve them warm or cold.
- You can store the black bean filling and giaamole in refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Toddlers are a special kind of humans since they don’t even know what’s best for their intake and what’s not. As a mother the best you could do is read this article about how to make a homemade easy quesadilla using avocado flatbread. It’s natural and healthy right from the word go since the first ingredient you think of is an avocado which is purely natural. You gotta try this recipe and follow it to the latter.
Thank you Johnny! Glad you found it helpful!