Chicken and Leek Casserole

This is a pretty easy dish to make that would suit a baby in the earlier stages of weaning if blended appropriately. I leave it lumpy for T at the moment. It's a great dish, because he's started to go through a phase of refusing green vegetables when presented as a finger food, but is quite happy to eat them when mixed in with something else.


Ingredients
1 chicken breast, diced
250mls salt free vegetable or chicken stock
1 large potato, chopped
1 medium leek, chopped, 
1 medium carrot, chopped
1/2 onion, diced, 
1 tbsp organic rapeseed oil

 Method

1. In a large saucepan, soften the onion in the oil
2. Add the chopped potato, carrot and leek and continue to soften (but not brown) in the pan.
    

   

   
   
   

3. Add the chicken and continue to cook
4. Once the chicken is cooked through, pour in the stock, place a lid on the pan, and simmer for about 20minutes (you want the potato to be cooked through and soft), stir occasionally. 
5. Blend, puree or mash as appropriate to your child

Top tip - If you are feeling lazy (and aren't we all somedays), then cook the chicken, leek and potato as above, but add some mixed frozen vegetables to the saucepan with the stock to increase the veg content. 

Two dish batch cooking

Because of T's cow's milk allergy, I cook a lot of his meals from scratch so that I know exactly what is in them. 

To make things easier, I batch cook, but I also make more than one dish at once, especially if they have similar ingredients. 

Here, I'll show you a quick and easy way to make one-pot beef bolognese, and cottage pie with minimal fuss. 

Products: Salt Free Stock Cubes

Babies under 1 year should have no more than 1g of salt in their diet. These stock cubes from boots are fantastic as they contain NO salt. 

As I cook a lot of Little T's meals from scratch, I can be sure that he's getting well under the daily limit with these stock cubes. 

See the link here which talks about daily salt limits for babies (NHS website) 

TOP TIP - if you don't need a whole cube (each cube makes 500mls stock) then just cut the cube into 4 and adjust your liquid amounts appropriately! 

1 cube - 500mls boiling water. 

1/2 cube - 250mls

1/4 cube - 125mls

I use these in everything!

These stock cubes come available in vegetable, chicken and beef. I find that I use the vegetable ones the most. 

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