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Weaning recipe: Easy baby pasta sauce

Name: Weaning recipe: Easy baby pasta sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Makes 24 baby sized portions
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

Adam Shaw

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Makes 24 baby sized portions

Easy

Prep: 5 mins

Cook: 20 mins

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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

Dairy-free

Egg-free

Gluten-free

Healthy

Vegan

Vegetarian

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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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

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Nutrition: Per serving

kcal24
fat1g

low
saturates0.1g
carbs3g
sugars3g
fibre1g
protein0.6g
salt0.01g

Method

step 1

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.
step 2

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.
step 3

Combine all the ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth-ish
step 4

Stir into cooked pasta (fusilli works best as the sauce clings so well to it).
step 5

Any leftover can be frozen (try freezing in ice cube trays for perfect baby-sized portions).

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