It's familiar taste and smell will help the baby to relate to the new food. After several days, formula or water can be added. Try mixing it with orange juice occasionally. Your baby may enjoy the novel taste. For the first year baby's meal times are unlikely to coincide with your own.
First meals require concentration and harmony.
Choose a time when the household is in order and when there will be no disturbances. An immature digestive system is probably best able to cope with solid food at the midmorning feed. Morning hunger will have to be satisfied by the early morning bottle or breast feed, but by now the baby has been active and building an appetite for several hours. If your baby is really hungry, it is unlikely they'll accept a new, unfamiliar food and will mostly likely not co-operate. Taking the edge off the hunger by offering half of the normal feed is possibly the most satisfactory approach.