Weaning recipe: Pea pesto with pasta shapes
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- Makes 100g - enough for baby and parent
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For the pesto
- 50g frozen peas
- 20g pine nutstoasted
- 20g parmesangrated, plus extra for sprinkling on adult portion
- around 8 basil leaves
- 5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- cooked pastashapes, to serve
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.
