Please help with easy veggie recipes for 11 month old!

[me23]

Hi, I've been using jars since I began weaning at 6 Months and I now want to cook home made food for dd but I'm not a very good cook! Can anyone give me some easy veggie finger foods? also simple recipes that I can cook for all of us.
Is much appreciated x

[me23]

bump!

[CorrieDale]

Pasta with sauce? DS likes the pasta soft! For the sauce: chop an onion finely, fry it over a gentle heat until it's translucent. Add some garlic if wanted. Perhaps a red pepper? Then chuck in a tin of tomatoes or some passata. Cook it down until it's reduced. Add a dash of whatever flavour you fancy - basil, or pesto. Add some soft cheese of the philly variety and BYU. It's good with broccoli, or peas, or sweetcorn or mushrooms.

Really, I'd say that your DD would very likely eat anything the you and DH would! Just minus the salt/quorn/other meaty substitutes. DS isn't keen on rice, but otherwise anything goes. Especially pasta & broccoli in cheese sauce. Well, anything in cheese sauce really. Also likes lentils, all veg and fruit.

[fennel]

hummous with breadsticks, pitta bread or carrot sticks.

cheese chunks

hard boiled egg

chickpeas straight out of the tin were always popular with mine. or you can fry them with a few gentle spices.

you can make your own baked beans quite easily but i haven't bothered.

lentil dahl with rice is very easy and mine loved it as babies, though not as they got older.

mine liked quorn and soya sausages, especially the organic cauldron foods ones.

baked potatoes with all sorts of fillings are very easy.

[Auntymandy]

any veg you eat can be given to baby, just dont add salt if you normally do!
my ds cant eat eggs so be careful introducing them!
cauliflower cheese
Jacket potatoes
etc

[beckybrastraps]

My kids loved (and still love) lentils cooked with onions, carrots and ground coriander, serived with rice. In fact, they love lentils in almost any kind of sauce. I often do them in a tomato-based sauce with pasta. They have some texture, but are still pretty easy for an 11-month old. Or pretend shepherds pie with lentils, beans and veggies in tomato sauce with mashed potato and sweet potato topping. That's popular too. You could use the same mixture to make a lasagne. I also make a sort of pretend minestrone, with veggies, beans and short pasta. All of these are easy to whizz up a bit with a hand-held blender to make the lumps nice and small if necessary. In fact, the shepherd's pie doen't even need that. For finger food, mine like strips of omelette, and with some cooked veggies (carrots, peas, broccoli) and some bread, that's a pretty good meal I think. I'm not veggie, so I don't have that broad a repertoire, but I hope there's something there for you.

[chocolateshoes]

Corn Chowder:

1 large potato (peeled & chopped)
1 lrge crrot (peeled & chopped)
1 onion (chopped)
2 large handfuls frozen sweetcorn
half pint full milk

Put all ingredients (except corn) in saucepn, heat, bring to the boil & cover & simmer - 20 mins.
add sweetcorn - cook another 5 mins.

There - whizz to puree if required.

DS loves this & it is an easy store cupboard recipe. I hte it (don't like milk!) but find it useful to hve a supply in the freezer for when we're having something DS can't have

[chocolateshoes]

DS also loves lasagnes, which are easy & you can vary the fillings. Also great cos you can mke them in advance. eg. Roast loads of veg (peppers, cougette, aubergine) with cherry toms, basil. Make a cheese sauce. Layer up a lasagne adding chopped mozarella to the veg mix. Make 2, so you can freeze one.

[fennel]

little slices (wheels) of corn on the cob have been very popular with mine, they chomp away on them for ages.

[me23]

thankyou everyone these ideas sound great! cant wait to see what dd makes of them. Have an question though, how do I make cheese sauce? see I told you I didn't have a clue about cooking! x

[beckybrastraps]

Buy a tin of cornflour, follow the recipe on the side for white sauce, then add grated cheese.

[chocolateshoes]

I usually follow Delia's suggestion - bung it all in a pan, whisk til it boils & thickens, take off the heat * stir in cheese.

Its defintely worth learning to make cheese sauce cos its the basis to so many good recipes.

[fennel]

the really cheating version of cauli cheese is just steam some cauliflower and grate a bit of cheese on top. no need for that white sauce mess at all.

but i don't really like white sauces in any form and so i never make it.

[Tinker]

Delia's method is foolproof. 20g butter, 20 g plain flour, 175ml of milk - all in one pan. Heat up and whisk at same time. No lumps when I do it this way. When thick add grated cheese. You can freeze it if make too much.

[bourneville]

any delia is fool proof! :)

I used Annabel Karmel early on, but she soon stressed me out because i felt like i should be making all this effort to do fancy stuff etc. now i just do what i feel like and repeat meals a lot. You don't have to do anything too complicated. We have baked beans on toast a lot here! It must be hard if you haven't cooked much before, luckily i had got into cooking a fair bit before having dd!