Spicy baby food?

[jabberwocky]

My ds ( 13 mos) loves to get into the fridge when I have the door open. He consistently reaches for the hot sauce bottle and puts the top in his mouth with no ill effect. I'm wondering if we should spice up his food a bit.

Ds2 at 11 months loves chillis and curries, and ds1 was the same. If you eat spicy food, then give him a try of yours.

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lovely recipe called chicken paprika which we make for ds who is 2 now but he had it from about 14-15 months.....
want me to post the recipe for you?

I'm encouraged. Will give him a taste today and see what happens!

lottie loved a veggie korma before she turned into a fussy 2 year and a bit year old.

Posts crossed popsycal. Yes, please post the recipe. I would love to have some inspiration.

chicken paprika
1.peel a couple of onions and fry them
2. get chicken pieces (cut up chicken breast is best) and roll them in a bit of flour
3. fry them in a separate frying pan (not really eesential to have two pans but better with timing that way) - cook til 'browned' then put in pan with onions
4. add a couple of peppers chopped up and a dessert spoon of paprika (the recipe says take out the chicken for this but I never do as it is only part cooked at this stage - but i shove it to one side of the pan and put the paprika over onions and pepper)
5. cook for afew minutes
6. add a couple of tomatoes chopped up
7. add 300ml chicken stock (i just use boiling water though)
8. cover and simmer for abotu 20 mins tiil chicken is cooked

9. take out chicken
10. put 1tablespoon of cornflour into a mug with a little bit of cold water in then stir that into the sauce
11. stir constantly and bring it to the boil
12. add 50ml of soured cream - simmer but don't boil as cream will go yucky
13. pour sauce on chicken

serve with rice or couscous

sounds more tricky than it is really

also, the baby organix website has a few spicy recipes!

Thnks so much popsycal!

the annabel karmel site doesnt seem to have anything spicy on it but it does have afew nice recipes on....

might like 'morrocan chicken'....

'moroccan' chicken (

fry up some onion and bits of chicken til browned
any other veg you could add too
add passata or tinned tomatoes and some water...bring to the boil then simmer for about 15-20 mins
when simmering, add chopped dried apricots and raisins (always a winner in our house)
serve with rice or couscous

very vague sorry!
ds wont eat any of these now though....suddenly became fussy at two!

He loves chicken and rice so this one would definitely be a hit. I gave him some rice off my plate that had a little curry sauce the other night and he seemed to like it. I guess I've really held back too long with trying different foods. Poor little tyke. He's probably been bored stiff with what I've been giving him.

at 13 months, ds was eating 'chunky' food, but if your ds isnt used to it, you might want to whiz it up a bit in a blender

Will do. I've been taking the easy way out and really need to take him to the next level of eating.

jabberwocky, my Ds (now 3) has always loved spicy foods and will eat the spiciest of curry that DH and I can't handle!
Keep offering him different tastes I say, I love it that my DS will try pretty much anything, at least once anyway.

Agree with Yorkiegirl U would not believe the spicey things that the neighbourhood Bengali kids used 2 eat, even the littlest ones.

Do it! We offered DS spicey foods as a baby and he loved them, course e is going through the 'i'll only eat pasta and carrots' phase at the moment but introducing lots of different flavours is a good thing.

My kids all loved garlic and spices at this age. In fact, at 13 mos dd1 would ONLY eat veggies that had been cooked in garlic! Now of course (4.5) she only eats fish fingers and boiled potato, but I am hoping the taste for it is still in there somewhere!

Both my children preferred spiced (but not hot spicy) food from as soon as they were weaned. Dd also likes moderately hot spicy stuff, but ds doesn't. ( I think it's mostly because dd, being female, has the good sense to drink some milk with hot spicy food, and ds, being male, just shouts a lot).