Delicious Pasta Baby Food Recipes

These simple pasta baby food recipes are full of flavour and use fresh, healthy ingredients to create some delectable dishes for baby!

These recipes are suitable for babies from around six months of age and are ideal if your baby is just learning to chew. Try chopping the cooked pasta very finely - I used to do this with a pair of kitchen scissors. As your baby's chewing skills improve, you can chop the pasta a little more roughly.

Another option is to buy bags of tiny pasta shapes made just for babies, then use them in place of the types of pasta listed in these recipes.

Remember to apply the four day rule as you introduce each new food to your baby - this will help you identify any potential allergies and digestive problems that may arise. Please note that some of these recipes contain tomatoes - some parents prefer to delay the introduction of tomatoes until their babies are at least 10 months of age.

Nutritious pasta baby food recipes

NOTE FOR OUR INTERNATIONAL VISITORS: British vegetable names are used in these recipes - if these are not familiar to you, the following translations may be helpful!

courgette = zucchini

aubergine = egg-plant

swede = rutabaga

spring onions = scallions or green onions

Pasta Baby Food Recipes - Quick And Easy Cheese Sauce

4oz cream cheese, cubed
2oz Parmesan, grated
3fl oz milk
pinch nutmeg

Place the cream cheese, Parmesan and milk in a suitable dish and microwave on MEDIUM for about 6-8 mins, stirring every 2 mins.
When the sauce is smooth, stir in the nutmeg.
Toss the sauce with hot, cooked pasta.

Pasta Baby Food Recipes - Pasta Ratatouille

4 oz uncooked pasta (Elbow Macaroni works well)
1 tbsp olive oil
1/2 medium onion, chopped
1 small aubergine, diced
1 small courgette, diced
8oz fresh, ripe tomatoes, chopped
2 tbsp fresh basil, chopped
1tbsp Parmesan, grated

Prepare the pasta as per the directions on the package, then drain.
Meanwhile, in a large frying pan, saute the onion in the oil over a medium heat for 1 min.
Add the aubergine and courgette, then saute the vegetables until tender, stirring frequently (about 5-10 mins).
Remove the vegetables from the frying pan and set aside.
Using the same frying pan, cook the tomatoes over a high heat, until the liquid is reduced by almost half.
Add the basil and cook for 1 min, then add the aubergine, courgette, onion and pasta.
Sprinkle with the parmesan cheese.

Pasta Baby Food Recipes - Vegetable Lasagna

8oz dry lasagna
1/2 onion, chopped
1/2 green pepper, chopped
8oz broccoli, chopped
8oz cauliflower, chopped
4oz aubergine, chopped
8oz cottage cheese
8oz grated mozzarella
8oz tomato sauce
6fl oz tomato juice
1/2 tbsp olive oil
pinch basil
pinch oregano

Preheat oven to 350 deg F, 180 deg C.
Put the oil into the bottom of an oven-proof dish.
Cover the bottom of the dish with a layer of uncooked lasagna, overlapping the edges slightly.
Cover the lasagna with half of the onions, aubergines, cauliflower and peppers.
Cover the vegetables with half of the cottage cheese and half of the mozzarella.
Pour half of the tomato sauce over the cheese.
Add the herbs, then repeat the process, starting with the lasagna and using the rest of the ingredients.
Pour the tomato juice over the completed layers, then bake for one hour.

Pasta Baby Food Recipes - Creamy Vegetable Pasta Sauce

8oz cottage cheese
2tbsp Parmesan
1tbsp homemade chicken stock
1/2 medium onion, chopped
4oz broccoli, chopped
1 small carrot, peeled and grated
4oz cauliflower, chopped
1/2 red pepper, sliced
2oz mushrooms, sliced

Place the cottage cheese and Parmesan in a blender and blend until smooth. Set aside.
In a saucepan, saute the onion in the stock over a medium heat.
When the onion is tender, add all the vegetables except for the mushrooms and cook for 5 mins.
Add the mushrooms and continue to cook until all the vegetables are tender.
Stir in the cheese mixture and warm through over a low heat.
Serve over cooked pasta.

Pasta Baby Food Recipes - Pasta With Asparagus

5oz tagliatelle
2tbsp butter
2oz onion, finely chopped
8oz asparagus, peeled
2tbsp homemade chicken stock
2tbsp fresh lemon juice (optional)
2oz grated Parmesan
3oz grated Mozzarella

Cook the pasta as per the directions on the packet, then drain and keep warm.
Cut the asparagus diagonally into 1/2" pieces.
Melt the butter over a medium heat in a large frying pan.
Add the onion and saute until tender, stirring frequently, (about 5 mins).
Add the asparagus and cook for 3 mins, stirring frequently.
Add the lemon juice (if using) and stock and cook for a further minute.
Remove from the heat and toss with the pasta and Parmesan.
Top with the Mozzarella.

Pasta Baby Food Recipes - Vegetable Fettuccine With Mint

1 celery stalk, chopped
1 carrot, peeled and chopped
6oz fettuccine
1tbsp olive oil
2tbsp fresh mint, chopped

Place the carrot and celery into a pan of water and bring to the boil.
Add the fettuccine and cook at a high simmer until tender.
Drain.
Warm the olive oil, then stir in the mint.
Pour the mint oil over the pasta and vegetables and serve.

Feel free to experiment with the vegetables used here, to create the perfect pasta dish for your little one.
And sit back to watch him enjoy a delicious meal, home-cooked by his favourite chef - you!

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