Weaning recipe: Pea pesto with pasta shapes
A fresh and flavour-packed homemade pesto with peas and pine nuts, that you and your toddler are sure to love. Perfect for when your child is moving onto more substantial meals
- Prep:5 mins
Cook:10 mins
- Easy
Nutrition per serving
- kcal 103
- fat 3g
- saturates 0.5g
- carbs 16g
- sugars 0.4g
- fibre 1g
- protein 3g
- salt 0.1g
Ingredients
- 50g frozen peas
- 20g pine nuts, toasted
- 20g Parmesan, grated, plus extra for sprinkling on adult portion
- around 8 basil leaves
- 5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- cooked pasta shapes, to serve
Method
Tip the peas into a food processor, along with the pine nuts, Parmesan, basil and olive oil. Blitz until smooth. You may need to use a spatula to scrape the sides of the bowl a few times. It should be a really smooth consistency with no chunks of pine nut for babies.
Cook the pasta according to the pack instructions, then stir through a little pesto. Babies should need about one teaspoon for a serving.
Cover and keep the remaining pesto in the fridge for up to 3 days.