recipes for chicken dishes for toddlers?

[yingers74]

Anyone got any good recipes suitable for a 21 month old and also good for freezing?

Thanks

chopped cooked chicken
cooked noodles (with no flavouring)
tinned sweetcorn

mix it together and serve or freeze

Mine love these and OK, they aren't that quick to make but this amount makes a lot and you can freeze them:

Homemade Chicken Nuggets

750g minced chicken
175g breadcrumbs
175g grated cheddar
1 tbsp mayo to bind
1 clove garlic
salt and pepper
beaten egg and some fine toast breadcrumbs to coat the nuggets

Preheat oven to 180C. Mix all ingredients up to and including salt and pepper together. Form into walnut sized nuggets and roll them in beaten egg and then in toasted breadcrumbs. You can freeze them now if you want to.

Place on greased baking sheet and cook for about 20 minutes (45 if frozen). Voila!

They don't take long to make and once they are done you can freeze them. They are delicious too!

Fry onion, ( peppers&mushroom too if adventurous). Add chicken,brown, then add some herbs and a can of tomato/passata. Leave to reduce - serve or freeze. Good with rice or pasta. if serving straight away, i add rice to the tomato mix and leave it to cook for 10 mins, with a bit of extra water - like a tomatoey chicken risotto. Something is telling me you can't freeze rice, but having just written it down, it sounds ridiculous. hth

my 2 year old loves chicken risotto too and has done for ages:

fry finely chopped onion in butter and a bit of oil until nice and soft. Add a cupful of risotto rice, stir around so it gets a good coating of buttery oil. Add a big slug of stock (I use Marigold bouillon powder which is quite salty but I make it very weak), then a chopped up chicken breast. Simmer and stir, keep adding stock until rice is done and chicken is poached (about 20 mins). Mine like parsley so I add it but you could leave it out.

very filling and good!

Oh, and meatballs too - good finger food or chopped up in a tomato sauce. Don't use exact quantities, but mix beef and pork mince, some breadcrumbs, parsley and a raw egg, shape into balls and fry/oven bake. I freeze the meatballs raw, and they defrost really quickly in the m/w.

oh sorry, you cant freeze risotto

its yummy though

Enid, i use a very similar chicken risotto recipe but add butternut squash at the same time as the chicken, and a few sage leaves. Far too scrummy for kids, imho!.

mmmmmmmmmm that sounds good, funnily enough I was thinking of bunging some butternut into it the other day. But then saved it, roasted it, fried some pancetta and sage and mixed it all with penne and parmesan....drool...that was for me and dh though

wow, thanks, will try and make some of these at the weekend. i make a rice fish dish based on a karmel recipe, it says it is freezable so I freeze it but someone also told me that you cannot freeze rice but then again I know loads of people who do it! Anyone know a definite answer?

Oh, sounds very yum Enid, may have to use this tomorrow night as have bns and pancetta that need eating up. Thanks v much!