Baby Friendly 1 Pot Tomato Rice

This is a really simple 1 pot/rice cooker rice and it tasted really good! I'd rate it a difficulty level 2 out of 5. It takes about 15 minutes to prepare and let the rice cooker do the works. Adriel loves this and so do I even though I'm on a low carb diet XD 

Baby Friendly 1 Pot Tomato Rice

1.5 cups rice 

1/2 broccoli, diced

1 carrot, diced

1/3 pack shinmeiji mushrooms, diced

4 cloves of garlic

2 cups water mixed with chicken stock (I used 1.5 cups stock and 0.5 cups water, use all chicken stock if stock is home cooked)

200g beef slices

1 chicken leg

1 tomato, marked with a X the top

Put all into rice cooker and cook as per white rice function! Yummy! 😍

Baby Friendly Oyakudon

This is a simple dish that Adriel surprisingly likes! It's pretty simple to cook too!

I'd rate it a difficulty level 3 out of 5 and it takes about 30 minutes to cook, given that rice is cooked. 

Adriel loves it (: He ate the meat and veg via a preloaded spoon.

Baby Friendly Oyakydon Recipe

This recipe serves 2-3 pax

2 onions, sliced

1/2 broccoli 

2 chicken thighs, cubed

1 pack bonito flakes + hot water OR stock 

2 eggs

Method

1. Fry onions with olive oil till slightly translucent.

2. Add chicken and fry for 2 mins.

3. Add stock/bonito flakes + enough hot water to cover ingredients.

4. Put lid on and boil for 5 mins with lid on.

5. Add broccoli and boil for another 3 mins with lid on.

6. Add egg and boil for 2 more mins without lid.

(Ensuring that egg is cooked through for babies/toddlers)

6. Enjoy!

Baby Friendly 1 Pan Udon

I love 1 pan dishes and here is a rendition I love! 

It takes about 20 minutes to prepare and I'd rate it a difficulty level 2 out of 5.

Baby Friendly 1 Pan Udon

This recipe feeds 2-3 pax

 200g Ground beef

4 -5 pieces of da bai cai, sliced

1/2 packet white button mushroom, sliced

1 carrot, sliced, 

1 packet Enoki mushroom

 1 egg, fried in sheet form

1/2 broccoli 

 1 piece udon (frozen from don don donki) or 1 to 2 packs of regular udon

  Tesco's garlic bread spices (salt free) or any dried herbs you like

garlic powder 

black pepper 

olive oil

Method

1. Fry egg with some olive oil in a sheet form and slice

2. In the hot pan with olive oil,  fry mushroom till softened. 

3. Add minced beef. Season with herbs, garlic powder and black pepper.

4. Add in all vegetables and Enoki mushroom, stir fry and cook for 4 mins.

5. Add in udon and cook for time required in package. 

6. Season with black pepper, herbs and garlic powder.

7. Serve. 

Baby Friendly Creamy Pasta

This recipe was highly raved by mama Angie in the BLW group that I'm in. Original recipe is from Mother Queen Z. The sauce is really creamy but it was well liked by hubby. It was okay for Adriel but way too creamy for my liking. Then again, you may like it so here I am to share it (:

This recipe takes 30 minutes to prepare and I'd rate it a difficulty level 3 out of 5. 

Baby Friendly Creamy Pasta

This recipe feeds 2 - 3 pax

6oz fresh milk

10g plain flour

20g grated cheese

10g cream cheese

50g broccoli, cut into bite sized portions

1 carrot, sliced

1 stalk of celery, sliced

Olive oil

cooked pasta, enough for 2-3 pax

garlic powder

dried herb of choice (oregano, rosemary all work)

Method

1. Cook olive oil, milk and flour on low heat till it thickens.

2. Add in cheeses and mix well.  

3. Add in garlic powder and dried herb.

4. Add in veggie and reduce heat. Enable vegetables to cook through. You may choose to boil/steam it beforehand too.

5. Add in pasta and serve.

6. Enjoy! 

Baby Friendly Salmon Fried Rice

Adriel loves rice. His first try of this salmon fried rice had him having 3 servings non stop cos he just loved it so much! (: I love adding lots of ingredients to it so here's my rendition.

I'd rate it a difficulty level 2 out of 5 and it takes about 30 mins to prepare, given that rice has already been cooked.

Baby Friendly Salmon Fried Rice Recipe

Serves 3 - 4

1 cup rice, cooked and cooled (I prefer overnight rice but if that is a concern for you, cook it, cool it, refrigerate it for a few hours and use it. Overnight rice seems to be tastier for fried rice!)

200g salmon, diced

1/2 corn, diced

4 - 5 pieces of long bean, diced

1/2 box white button mushroom, diced

1 carrot, diced

6 prawns, diced (optional)

4 eggs

Olive oil

black pepper

garlic powder (optional)

1. Heat up olive oil in pan. 

2. Stir fry mushroom till softened.

3. Add in all corn, long bean, carrot and prawns and stir fry.

4. Add rice and stir fry, breaking rice up.

5. Mix eggs and pour evenly into rice.

6. Stir fry, ensuring that rice is coated as evenly as possible.

7. Add salmon. Fry. Season with black pepper. Add garlic powder if you fancy. I LOVE GARLIC POWDER (: 

8. Enjoy! 

Adriel sure loves his fried rice! (: 

Baby Friendly Waffles

These waffles are easy to whip up and freeze really well. I do not use sugar but use banana to sweeten it instead. You can even add blueberries to make blueberry waffles! Yum! They're crunchy on the outside yet soft and fluffy on the inside. 

This recipe takes about 30 minutes to whip up 1 batch of them.. I'd rate them a difficulty level 3 out of 5. 

Baby Friendly Waffles

1 ripe banana

160g cake flour

2 tsp baking powder

1 egg separated + 1 egg white 

250ml fresh milk

3 tbsp oil

1/2 tsp cinammon 

1 tbsp vanilla bean paste

1. Mix dry ingredients together. 

2. Add banana, egg yolk, milk, oil & vanilla bean paste in. 

3. Whisk up egg whites till stiff peaks are formed. 

4. Fold in egg whites into yolk batter in 3 additions. 

5. Cook as per waffle machine's instructions. I did about 4 mins each.

NOTE: This has a very faint sweetness to it so feel free to add 1 more banana, replacing 20 to 30ml milk or add a few tbsp of castor sugar if you'd like to sweeten it..

Baby Friendly Veggie & Mushroom (Creamy) Risotto

I've been away for too long! I have not been baking much but I've been cooking quite a bit for the family. Here are a few baby friendly recipes I'd love to share! Here's a risotto I love to cook that has got Adriel's heart. It allows me to add lots of veggie that he sometimes would not eat otherwise.

It requires constant stirring when cooking so be ready to stir for a good 20 mins or so but the results are so worth the effort (: I'd rate it a difficulty level 3 out of 5 and it takes about 40 mins in all to prepare and cook.

Veggie & Mushroom (Creamy) Risotto Recipe 

Serves 4

1 onion (yellow)

1 carrot

5 to 8 white button mushrooms 

1/2 pack Shinmeiji mushroom 

1 stalk celery

1/2 broccoli

1.25 cup Arborio rice

Stock (about 700ml to 1 litre)

1 tbsp butter 

Olive oil

cooking cream (If you like the creamy version)

NOTE: You can add any veggie you like. I did cauliflowers and pumpkins too and they tasted great.

1, Chop up everything into small pieces. 

2. Add butter to pan. Melt the butter and cook on medium heat.

3. Stir fry onions till translucent. Put in all vegetables except broccoli and stir fry for a few minutes.

4. Add in rice. Stir fry for 2 mins. 

5. Add in 1 ladle of warm/hot stock. Crank heat down to low. 

6. Stir. And stir! And stir!

7. Stir till liquid does not run down the middle when you run your spatula through the middle of pan. 8. Add in next ladle of stock. Do it in many additions. Stir, dry and repeat. 

9. 0 mins into cooking, add broccoli. 

10. Takes about 20 mins. Taste rice for doneness. Add cream in place of stock in the last 5 mins of cooking if you like a creamy risotto. You can also add some freshly grated Parmesan cheese if you'd like. 

11. Enjoy!

Gordon Ramsay's Herb Crusted Rack of Lamb

This herb crusted lamb is a favourite of both hubby and I and it's a recipe I've been cooking very often. Even Adriel has it with us. I've tried it a couple of times with and without a couple ingredients so I'll list those I find optional in the recipe. 

I adopted the recipe from this site but I made adjustments according to our fancy as we went along. 

Adriel's portion! He sure is eating better lately! 

Anyway, this recipe feeds 2 - 3 depending on how much meat you'd fancy. I usually serve it with greens and fruits. The recipe takes about 40 minutes in all to prepare and I'd rate it a difficulty level 3 out of 5.