This beef, rice and broccoli bowl combines soft grains, tender vegetables and finely broken-up minced beef. Cook the meat to a measured safe temperature and handle cooked rice promptly to reduce food-safety risks.
Cook minced beef in a pan, breaking apart all clumps, until the thickest portions reach 71°C (160°F) measured with a food thermometer.
Steam the trimmed broccoli until stems and florets crush easily under a fork. Prepare rice until fully tender, using it freshly cooked or correctly cooled and refrigerated.
Blend or finely mash beef, broccoli and cooked rice with a little safe liquid until moist, without firm beef clumps, hard broccoli or compact sticky rice. Stir in olive oil and cool before offering.
Serve as a moist spoon-fed bowl, with fully broken-up cooked mince, entirely tender broccoli and no dense rice clumps. This recipe is not designed as finger food.
This recipe is listed for 8–12 months, so the 6m+ field does not recommend serving it earlier. Within the listed age range and when your baby can manage the texture, blend thoroughly until smooth and moist if appropriate for your baby's developmental stage.
Soft spoon-fed rice with finely broken-up mince and fully tender broccoli; avoid chewy or sticky clumps.
Plain beef, broccoli and rice contain no intentionally added major allergens. Check any packaged stocks, sauces or seasonings separately.
Cool within 1 hour and refrigerate or freeze promptly. If refrigerated, use within 24 hours because the recipe contains cooked rice. Reheat only once until steaming hot throughout, then cool before serving.
Cool within 1 hour and refrigerate or freeze promptly. If refrigerated, use within 24 hours because the recipe contains cooked rice. Reheat only once until steaming hot throughout, then cool before serving.
This guide is informed by current guidelines from leading health organizations:
