Weaning recipe: Easy baby pasta sauce
By Adam Shaw
Pack in the veg in this easy pasta sauce. Created especially for young children, it’s a healthy sauce that will get young ones familiar with new flavours
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Prep:5 mins
Cook:20 mins
- Easy
Nutrition per serving
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kcal 24
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fat 1g
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saturates 0.1g
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carbs 3g
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sugars 0g
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fibre 1g
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protein 0.6g
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salt 0.01g
Ingredients
- approx 12 medium-sized tomatoes, quartered
- 1 red pepper, stalk removed, de-seeded and roughly chopped
- 3-4 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1 large (or 2 smaller) courgettes, topped and tailed and thickly sliced
- 1 red onion, peeled and cut into 1/8ths
- 3 carrots, peeled and grated
- 1 tbsp dried basil
- 1 tbsp dried oregano
- 1 tbsp and 1 tsp olive oil
Method
Set the oven to 180 (fan assisted). Place the tomatoes, red pepper, courgette and red onion in a deep baking tray. Sprinkle over the herbs and add the tablespoon of olive oil and mix well. Cook for around 20 minutes.
Meanwhile heat the remaining olive oil in a pan and gently fry the carrots on a medium heat for 5-6 minutes then set aside.
Combine all the ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth-ish
Stir into cooked pasta (fusilli works best as the sauce clings so well to it).
Any leftover can be frozen (try freezing in ice cube trays for perfect baby-sized portions).
