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Weaning recipe: Pea pesto with pasta shapes

Pea pesto with pasta shapes

Weaning recipe: Pea pesto with pasta shapes

Name: Weaning recipe: Pea pesto with pasta shapes
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Makes 100g - enough for baby and parent
Cuisine: Italian
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

Caroline Hire – Food writer

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Makes 100g - enough for baby and parent

Easy

Prep: 5 mins

Cook: 10 mins

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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

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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For the pesto

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

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Nutrition: per tsp of pesto for baby & 50g cooked weight pasta

kcal103
fat3g
saturates0.5g
carbs16g
sugars0.4g
fibre1g
protein3g
salt0.1g

Method

step 1

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.
step 2

Cook the pasta according to the pack instructions, then stir through a little pesto. Babies should need about one teaspoon for a serving.
step 3

Cover and keep the remaining pesto in the fridge for up to 3 days.

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