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Indian 9 Months old Baby Food Chart, Indian Baby Food recipes, By 9 months, your baby is used to solid foods and might be bored with them. Hence it is important to include a variety of new flavors and textures. You should try introducing minced or chopped food as part of 9 months baby's diet.

Baby is not entirely ready for family foods at this stage, but still, you can offer some. By this time, your baby may try to feed himself with a spoon, he may not be successful in the attempt. But still, it's a good idea to offer one to encourage his self-feeding. Always keep an eye on the baby when he's eating to avoid choking. Also, continue including spices in baby food and finger foods as same as 8 months. Don't force the baby, though, as each baby is unique and adopts eating habits at their own pace. Just keep trying your best to encourage his eating habits.

Always remember that solids food can't replace the nutrients breast milk or formula provides during the first year. So consider including solids in your baby's diet as complementary feeding. Please read 8 months baby food chart (to cross-check the foods you have introduced till 8 months) before you plan a chart for your 9 months baby food. And always consider preferring homemade foods for your baby, which are safe.

What foods can be included in 9 month old baby's diet? 9 Months Baby Food List

At 9 months, you can introduce the below foods in addition to the 8 months baby food chart.

What's new on 9 month old baby food?

Fruits:  watermelon
Vegetables: coconut, Tindora/Ivy Gourd, turnips, asparagus, bell peppers, and almost all seasonal vegetables
Cereals: as same as 8 months
Pulses: as same as 8 months
Dairy: as same as 8 months
Non Vegetarian: chicken ( stock or clear soup)
Spices: as same as 8 months

Complete list of options for 9-month-old of baby food

Here is the complete list of options you can include in 9-month-old baby's diet.
 
Fruits: Apple, Avocado, Banana, Pears, muskmelon, Peaches, Plums, Prune, Chikku, papaya, blueberries, cherries, dates, figs, grapes, kiwi, mangoes, watermelon
Vegetables: Carrot, Pumpkin, Sweet Potato, beetroot, bottle gourd, tomato, ash gourd, green beans, peas, butternut squash, White Potato, broccoli, cauliflower, eggplant, onions, turnips, coconut, Tindora, turnips, asparagus, bell peppers, and almost all seasonal vegetables
Cereals & Grains: Rice, Ragi, Barley, Semolina/Suji/Rava, sabudhana, wheat, broken wheat (Dalia), oats, quinoa
Pulses: Yellow Moong Dal, masoor dal, chickpeas (white & black chana), urad dal, green gram
Dairy: Ghee, Butter, cheese, Curd or Yogurt, cottage cheese (paneer), tofu
Non Vegetarian: Egg yolk, chicken (stock or soup)
Spices: Turmeric, garlic, ginger, asafoetida, cumin seeds, pepper, coriander seeds, fennel seeds, caroms, fenugreek, mustard seeds, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom  (all can be added in little amounts, say a pinch)

Sample Food chart or Diet plan for 9-month-old baby

For 9 months baby, you can offer two meals and a snack that can be finger food or any light snack for a day. Rest should be breastfeeding or formula feeding. Also, if your baby is not ready for finger foods and rejects them same, offer mashed food instead. But continue trying Finger foods once a day for your baby. Hence I have given both options (finger foods & mashed food) in the diet chart. Choose the timings for meals and snacks according to your baby's preference.

How much quantity per day? -9 Months Baby Food Chart 

For the quantity of food, always be guided with your baby's hunger as appetite varies from baby to baby, and most babies change daily. Here is an approximate amount:
  • ¼ to ½ cup of cereal
  • ¼ to ½ cup of vegetables
  • ¼ to ½ cup of fruits
  • 2 to 3 tablespoon of dairy products
  • 4 tablespoon of meat/protein

Introduce one food at a time and follow 3 days rule, which will help determine allergic reactions to a particular food.

9 Month old Baby Food Recipes -9 Months Baby Food Chart 

Here is the collection of 9 Months Baby Food Recipes. Please customize the below sample charts with the mentioned recipes that can be included in 9 months baby’s diet based on availability, convenience, and your baby’s preference.

Sample Food Chart for 9 Months Baby

Here is the sample food chart with recipes (please click on the hyperlink to get the recipes) for 9 month old baby. 9 Months Baby Food Chart

Days
Early Morning
 
Breakfast
 
Mid-Morning
Lunch
Evening
Dinner
Bed time
Day 1
BM/FM
BM/FM
Cooked carrot or peas pieces Or Potato Salad (FF)/ 
Mashed carrot or Mashed potatoes
Moong dal khichdi/ Vegetables khichdi/Beetroot Khichdi
BM/FM
Idli/ Steamed Dosa/ Chapati or Roti (dipped
in dal or mildly
spiced sambar)
BM/FM
Day 2
BM/FM
BM/FM
Raw Apple/pear or muskmelon or papaya/chikku or banana (FF)/ mashed banana chikku/ mashed papaya/Mashed Apple or Pear/mashed muskmelon 
Curd rice with homemade Curd / Rice with
Vegetables dal soup
BM/FM
Wheat pancakes
or Wheat porridge/ Dalia Porridge /wheat Apple halwa
BM/FM
Day 3
BM/FM
BM/FM
Crumbled Paneer (FF) or scrambled eggs
Mashed rice with tomato rasam 
BM/FM
Ragi Apple Halwa /Ragi Porridge
with ragi flour / rice noodles or 
steamed rice cakes 
BM/FM
Day 4
BM/FM
BM/FM
Boiled mashed egg yolk (FF) or
mashed sweet potatoes with apple
Rice with dal paneer masala /curd khichdi
BM/FM
Roti with dal
or Oats banana Porridge /Barley Porridge 
BM/FM
Day 5
BM/FM
BM/FM
Toasted bread cubes/ banana pancakes /bread omelette (FF)
Rice with mixed vegetable soup/ mashed ghee rice with egg yolk/oats khichdi
BM/FM
Vegetables dosa or steamed Idli or bread upma
BM/FM
Day 6
BM/FM
BM/FM
Pomegranates Juice/ Apple carrot soup/Pumpkin kheer/Chicken clear soup
Mixed vegetables rice or egg rice Or Dalia Khichdi/Curd Oats
BM/FM
Poha upma or jaggery poha or poha porridge
BM/FM
Day 7
BM/FM
BM/FM
Plain homemade
curd or
plain Lassi
Roti or Chapati with dal or any mild paneer gravy or rice with chickpeas mash /Dahi Chura
BM/FM
Suji Apple kheer or Suji Banana Halwa  or vegetables suji upma
BM/FM
 * BM/FM-Breast milk/Formula Milk, FF-Finger Food

Notes:

  • Sterilize the bowls and spoons in a vessel with hot water for five minutes and keep it immersed in the same vessel before feeding your baby.
  • Never introduce more than one food at a time when introducing solids to your baby.
  • Salt and sugar are not recommended in a baby's food until one year.
  • Check for allergy symptoms when introducing new food to your baby, and stop feeding your if you find any symptoms.
  • Feed your baby with breastmilk or formula milk on demand other than the timings mentioned in the chart.
  • This food chart shows what foods can be included in babies' diets in a particular month. It should not be considered medical advice.
  • Always check with your pediatrician before introducing any new food.
  • Steaming is a healthy option for baby food than pressure cooking. So I prefer steaming using an Idli pot or steamer.

Also, Check out the food charts  for 6 months to 3 years of Homemade Baby food recipes

More Baby Food Charts (6 to 12 Months)

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  1. Baby feeding is really essential and new mothers are always looking for best instructions on their baby feeding issues. As we well known with the fact that our baby need essential and proper nutrition for their growth; here we have found some good collection of baby food especially design for 9 months old and I hope while following these ingredients we are able to get perfect nutritional value for our kids.
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  4. Baby food for your baby is very important. Food for the baby that refuses to let you rest even for a minute. The baby, that even at its most stubborn, never fails to make you smile. Babies are special. So their food should be as well.

  5. I do not want my child to drink milk, but I do not know what the best type on the market ?

  6. Do you mean formula milk?

  7. Hi!! I love your website and use so many of the recipes for my baby.
    I wanted to ask you if you would know what are the quantities of food that is required to be given at each meal? you have written 1/2 cup but how much is that in terms of ml?

    would really help if you could help me with this. Thanks a lot~

  8. The quantity given is approximate and varies from baby to baby. My 1/2 cup is approximately 120 ml

  9. Hi, a really helpful website and ideas n ur website . I appreciate ur effort to post these things. My nine months old baby is having fever . Any home remedies option for him can u suggest? Thank you.

  11. Hi, my 9 month baby dosent like any cereal or porridge (kanji) what i can substitute her
    Thank you in advance

  12. you can start giving all family foods which you cook everyday minus salt and less spices. also try finger foods

  13. Hi when do u give nuts like almond , peanut, cashew to babies

  14. You can start nuts to the baby from 8 months. First, introduce each nut separately to your baby in powdered form or paste form (one at a time) in paste or powder form by adding to baby food to see if it suits her. The nuts powder can be given to babies after introducing each nut, and dry fruits separate. Once you introduced each nuts separate and ruled out allergies, try the nuts powder.

    Start with 1/2 tsp of nuts powder and check whether the baby shows an allergic reaction, check it for three days, and if the baby is not allergic to it, you can increase the amount gradually. Check the nuts powder recipe here:https://gkfooddiary.com/nuts-powder-recipe-for-babies-toddlers-and-kids/

  15. Very detailed and pretty good explanation of all the receipies for little ones.My kid is 9months old now and already bored of the same moong dal khichadi I make and so I was very confused about what should I give him so that he starts enjoying food.Really on your website found so many more options can't wait about my lo reaction when I make something new tomorrow for him!!

  16. Thank you so much for your lovely words:)

  17. My baby is 9months old but she is not at all eating anything after so much of pamper or to show something she will have to a bite what to do I'm worried please suggest any idea

  18. Encourage self-feeding and Try soft finger foods like banana, steamed tiny cut carrots, peas, potato, pasta, etc.

  19. how do i introduce chapati/ roti..my babies are 9 months now

  20. dip it in baby's milk, plain dal or any mild gravy and give.