Hidden Vegetables Tomato Pasta
This is a great way of getting extra vegetables into your child’s diet. You can adapt the recipe to use up any vegetables you have in the fridge.
Kcal: 391.5
Serves 4
10 mins prep
30 mins cooking time
Ingredients
- 240g gluten free pasta (approx. 60g dried pasta a serving)
- 100g Parmesan cheese
Tomato sauce
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 red pepper (chopped finely)
- 1 onion (chopped finely)
- 1 garlic clove (crushed)
- 1 red pepper (chopped finely)
- 1 medium carrot, peeled and grated
- 400g tinned chopped tomato
- 1 tablespoon tomato puree
- 1 vegetable stock cube* need to check
- 200ml water
Notes: * Search our food and drink directory for suitable products.
Method
- Heat oil in pan. Add garlic, onion and red pepper. Cook for 3-4 minutes or until onion and pepper is soft.
- Add grated carrot, stock cube and water and tin of chopped tomatoes, tomato puree. Cook for 15-20 minutes.
- Use a food processor or blender to blend ingredients into a smooth sauce.
- Meanwhile, cook the pasta in boiling water for 8-12 minutes. When ready, combine the pasta and add the sauce. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese.
- You can make the night before and eat as a cold pasta the next day or warm in the morning and place in a thermos food flask.
- Serve with cucumber, carrot and pepper sticks.
Nutritional information per serving
Kcal
391.5
Fat
12.6g
Carbs
53.1g
Protein
16.7g
Fibre
1.9g
Hints and tips:
This is a great way of getting extra vegetables into your child’s diet. You can adapt the recipe to use up any vegetables you have in the fridge. I have added courgette instead of the pepper or you can add in some lentils (which take 15-20 minutes to cook in the sauce) for some extra protein. You can add an extra tin of chopped tomato or extra water to get the correct consistency. You can also add ingredients at the end for variety such as tinned salmon with peas, or tuna and olives.
The tomato sauce is really versatile. You can use the sauce for other meals by freezing it in batches. Just defrost the sauce the night before and heat quickly in the morning when adding to pasta for your child’s lunch.
You can also add on top of a gluten free pizza base for pizza topping, use as a sauce in Bolognese or in a tomato based risotto or you can even heat it up as a tomato soup.
