Ideas to cook pasta for toddler

Hi,

I would like to try pasta for my son. Please share your pasta recipes.

Thanks,
Kavya

Hi Kavya,
This is how I make it for my daughter. You can shred veggies like carrot, potato, cabbage and add peas if you like, saute the veggie with salt and tomato sauce is optionally added . Mix the pasta nicely with the veggies once it is done, add little salt in the pasta also. Garnish with coriander if you like.
Hope this helps.

make a nice creamy pasta for the child, boil the pasta a little more tender, and boil the veg u want to add too, like cubed potato 1/2, cubed carrots 1/2 and 3 to 4 beans also cubed. now get a tsp of butter melt and add 1/2 tsp of maida and mix well and add milk to it, without lumping slowly add just one cube of cheese shredded and a little pepper add less salt if the cheese has it now mix all together, and serve, garnish with coriander if she likes it.

u can also make this with just spinach, cook palak as leaves and then cut them into tiny shreds and add here instead of veg..it would still be creamy.sunkan

Hi kavya

I am not sure if your son likes vegies, as my son does not like the look of them. So this is how I made pasta for him.
Cook all vegs you might want to add in the pressure cooker or just by any other boiling method. Cook pasta as usual (by cooking it in boiling water with added salt and oil). Blend all these vegies, in the belnder with butter. Now mix the cooked pasta and the blended soup and bring them to a boil.
Its healthy and easy. Hope this works for you.

Originally Posted by kavya007

Hi,

I would like to try pasta for my son. Please share your pasta recipes.

Thanks,
Kavya

Hi Kavya, I made this chunky pasta and my son liked it a lot and ate up even the capsicum without any complaints (and he's the type who says veges are bad for his health!). This is not the creamy type so i guess you can also blend it if your son runs away from chunks of veges. And also I buy pasta from organic shops with spinach, beetroot added for the colour and so more wholesome. Now for the sauce:
2 tbsp olive oil
1/2 of a medium sized onion, chopped finely
2 cloves of garlic, very finely chopped
1 carrot, peeled and finely chopped (how fine depends on the child)
1 celery stick, finely chopped
1 red capsicum, seeds removed and finely cubed
salt and pepper to taste
a 400g can of canned tomatoes (whole tomatoes, peeled in their juice), chopped roughly (or substitute with 4-5 fresh tomatoes
briefly blanched in boiling water and skin removed)
little bit of sugar (if the tomatoes are not ripe and upto taste)
1/2 tsp each oregano and thyme (or any dried herb... mixed or whatever you have)
grated cheese to serve
any pasta shape (mine has a craze for maccaroni at the moment)
Heat up the oil, and stir fry the onions and garlic until soft. Add the carrots, celery and stir for 3-4 minutes. Add the capsicum, sprinkle some salt and let it cook for about 4 minutes. Then add the tomatoes, herbs, salt to taste, pepper and sugar and let the sauce cook over medium heat for about 10-15 minutes or until thick (this depends on the juice of the tomatoes). You can add and subtract types of veges. I even added some mushrooms... stir-fried them separately in butter and then added to the sauce. Also I tried crumbled paneer instead of regular cheese. I kept the sauce in fridge for a week without trouble.
Latha

very simple ideas, good for lunch box:
a) cook pasta in boiling water and drain, mix salt and ghee; mix pine nuts or other kind, like cashews. In skillet eat ghee or olive oil and add garlic and the pasta. we can also add mushrooms or other things but is also fine like this. My kids love it.
b) always have some grated parmesan cheese and mix with the cooked pasta
c) some oil in skillet and fry some crushed tofu or paneer; add salt and something that you feel your kid likes like paprika or garlic, etc. Add the cooked pasta
d) the traditional macaronni and cheese cooked in the milk and cheese sauce explained in a previous post
d) pasta with our dal cooked in tomato sauce