lentil recipe for an 8 month old please

[mckenzie]

DD loves the cheesy lentil from Lorraine Kelly's book and I'd like to try some other lentil dishes. If anyone has any suitable recipes I'd be very grateful.
TIA

I give my kids the curried lentils I make for myself.Fry onions,garlic and fresh ginger.Add 250 g of red lentils,give 'em a good stir then add a tin of tomatoes and a tin of coconut milk. Simmer for 25 mins or so.

Add good curry paste or cumin and turmeric at the frying onion stage if you like.

We all love lentils!

From Sara Lewis' Veggie food for Kids:

Baby Spinach Dahl

40g red lentils
1oz long grain rice
1 teaspoon sunflower oil
pinch of ground coriander
pinch of ground turmeric
250ml vegetable stock or water
1oz frozen chopped spinach, or fresh spinach (prepared weight)
1 fresh tomato, skinned, deseeded and finely chopped

2 servings

Put the lentils, rice, spices and stock into a saucepan and bring to the boil. Cover and simmer for 25 minutes or until lentils are soft. stirring occasionally and adding more stock or water if needed.

Stir in the spinach and chopped tomato and cook for 2 minutes. Blend to a smooth, thick puree, adjusting the texture according to the baby's age.

Lentil Hotpot

1 teaspoon sunflower oil
2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
1 carrot, peeled and diced
1 small potato, peeled and diced
Half a garlic clove, crushed (optional)
40g red lentils
200ml vegetable stock or water
2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives

2 servings

Heat the oil in a saucepan, add the onion and fry for 5 minutes until lightly browned. Add the carrot, potato and garlic, if using, then stir in the lentils and stock. Bring to the boil, cover and simmer for 35 minutes, adding more water if needed

Stir the orange juice and herbs in, then mash or chop to suit your baby.

Adapted from Grub on a Grant (v old cookbook from uni days when there were still grants)

I cook this for all of us and puree it for the baby.

Lentil and Potato bake

Slice 400g peeled potatoes.
Grate 100g cheese.
Fry 100g red lentils and 1 large chopped onion until onion is brown.
Cover with water and cook for 10 minutes till water is absorbed.
Fry some chopped spinach for 2 minutes.
Put in a greased dish ? lentils then spinach then potatoes then cheese.
Bake at 200C for 45 min.

The original recipe doesn't have the spinach but I think that might be a bit boring.

i put them in stew!

just cook some lentils, onion, celery, tiny bit of garlic, tomatoes, carrots in water with a dash of mixed herbs and leave to reduce a bit until it's an ice consistency.

if you're using red lentils they will thicken the mixture and the flavours from the veg mean you don't need stock or anything

you can use whatever veg you have lying around

Annabel Karmel's "Lovely Lentils" is still very popuklar in this house as soup! Can't find a link but it's in her baby book. Have the recipe somewhere if you can't find it anywhere else

popular - obviously (I'm v tired!)

You can turn them into a sort of shepherd's pie as well - cook the lentils with veggies and stock in a saucepan, then put them into a casserole dish, cover with mashed potato and bake in the oven. You can always blend the lentil mixture if your baby isn't ready for lumps yet.

the annabel karmel one is fab..will find it for you

lovely lentils

Easy lentil and carrot pasta sauce

Chop an onion and some carrots (a couple of large ones, or several smaller ones). Gently fry in oil a large pan until semi-cooked. Add about half a mug of red lentils and a cup of water, and cook; you may need to add more water because the lentils will absorb plenty. You should end up with a fairly dry mixture of cooked lentils and vegetables. Then add a tin of tomatoes and cook until all the vegetables are soft. Puree or mash depending on the age of your baby, and serve with pasta.

fantastic!! thank you all very much.
(I particularly like the sound of the curry lentils, think that will be on the menu for all of us next week)