Hidden Vegetable Sauce

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This is a great way to get children to eat vegetables. There are four vegetables blended into the tomato sauce and what they can’t see, they can’t pick out. You could make this using any of the pasta shapes.

 

Hidden Vegetable Sauce

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We all know that we should include 5 portions of fruit and vegetables in our diet. As well as providing vitamins and minerals they help to protect us against cancers and heart disease. In general the more colourful the food, the more nutritious it is as the actual pigment contains antioxidants. So a red grapefruit is better for you than an ordinary grapefruit and an orange fleshed sweet potato is better for you than an ordinary potato. It is important to ensure that you include a good variety of colours to make sure you are getting a good balance in your diet.

  

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp light olive oil
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 75g carrot, chopped
  • 1/2 stick celery, chopped
  • 50g courgette, chopped
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed
  • 1 tbsp tomato puree
  • 400ml passata
  • 100 ml vegetable stock
  • 250g Annabel Karmel Alphabet Pasta

 

Method

Heat the oil in a pan. Add the onion, carrot and celery and cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Add the courgette and cook for a further 5 minutes.

Add the crushed garlic and cook for one minute.

Stir in the tomato puree, passata and vegetable stock.

Cover and simmer for about 20 minutes.

Puree with an electric hand blender.

Cook the Alphabet Pasta in boiling water according to the instructions on the packet, then drain and stir into the sauce.

 

Information

From 9 months
Suitable for freezing
MAKES 4 PORTIONS
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reebee90
wrote on 16 Aug, 2011.

Hi, This may sound extremely stupid but is it the sauce I can freeze or the whole thing and then defrost it? Thank you x

 
shammyjaie
wrote on 13 Mar, 2010.

i gave my 9month old chicken curry with
potatoe she loved it

 
elamira
wrote on 20 Jan, 2010.

Just made this today for my 10 and half month old. Instead of celery i added pork so he can get his protein. I let him try some when i'd made it and i couldn't get more on the spoon quick enough! He loves it! Great recipe. :)