Make sure you include some oily fish like salmon in your baby’s diet a couple of times a week. This provides essential fatty acids which are important for brain development and a baby’s brain triples in size during the first year.

There are various homemade weaning recipes which you can cook for your baby. Salmon with Broccoli & Cheese Sauce is a simple and easy to make weaning recipe winch is healthy too.

Try this homemade weaning recipe, your baby would love it...

Ingredients

75g salmon fillet, skinned
A small knob of butter
50g broccoli florets

15g butter
15g flour
200 ml milk
20g gruyere cheese, grated
 2 tbsp  parmesan cheese, grated
2 tbsp  mascarpone

Method:

Put the salmon in a suitable dish and dot with butter. Cover with cling film, leaving an air vent and microwave for about one and a half   minutes. Meanwhile steam the broccoli florets for about 4 minutes

To make the cheese sauce, melt the butter, stir in the flour and cook for one minute .  Gradually whisk in the milk, then continue to stir over a low heat for 3 minutes until the sauce thickens.  Take off the heat, stir in the gruyere and parmesan until melted, then stir in the mascarpone.

Flake the salmon and finely chop the broccoli and stir into the cheese sauce..

Information:
Suitable from 6 months
Prep time 6 minutes
Cooking time 25 minutes
Suitable for freezing

MAKES 3 PORTIONS