Bolognese Sauce

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Red meat provides the best source of iron for your baby and a baby’s requirements for iron are particularly high between 6 months and 2 years.  To make the stock you could use a very diluted beef stock cube so that the salt level is very low. The sauteed red onion, leek, carrot and apple add a delicious flavour to this Bolognese

 

Italian Food - Bolognese Sauce

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Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp sunflower oil
  • 1 small red onion, finely chopped (55g)
  • 1 small leek white part only (55g)
  • 50g grated carrot
  • 20g chopped celery
  • half small apple, grated
  • a little water
  • 1 small clove garlic, crushed
  • 200 ml passata
  • 150g lean minced beef
  • 75 ml beef stock
  • 1 tsp tomato puree
  • 60g Annabel Karmel's Mini Pasta Shells

 

Method

Heat the oil in a saucepan and sauté the onion, leek, grated carrot, celery and grated apple for 10 minutes.

Sprinkle with a little water after a few minutes and cover with a lid.

Meanwhile, brown the minced meat in a dry frying pan.

Add the garlic and sauté for 30 seconds.

Transfer the vegetables to a food processor , add the passata and whiz until blended. 

Pour the tomato and vegetable sauce over the meat, add the stock and tomato puree and cook over a low heat for about 20 minutes.

Meanwhile cook the pasta shells according to the packet instructions.

Once cooked, drain and toss with the sauce.

 

Information

From 8 months
Makes 4 portions
Suitable for Freezing
Prep time 6 minutes
Cooking time 40 minutes
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emehmed
wrote on 28 Apr, 2010.

It took my son a few attempts to eat a whole portion of this; probably just the texture more than anything. He wolfs it down now after 2 months. I used a 500g pack of mince and made loads!

 
donnafc09
wrote on 14 Jan, 2010.

i wanted to join this site as im strugglin to find different things to cook for my 2 daughters every day