Crushed Mushroom Pasta Sauce

Mushrooms = A no go zone for children!! But this yummy sauce will have them eating them in front of your very own eyes!!!

INGREDIENTS

1 Punnet of button mushrooms
200 ml crushed tomato
3 garlic cloves crushed
Salt to taste
Chilli flakes to taste
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp dried oregano

METHOD

Blitz the mushrooms until small pieces

Heat up the oil with the oregano and chilli flakes. Wait for the oil to sizzle

Add in the mushrooms and garlic. Sauté until a little water is released from the mushrooms

Pour in the crushed tomato with salt. Stir and cook through on a slow heat for 20 minutes, Stirring occasionally

Serve on a bed of cooked fusilili or penne pasta

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A Perfect Pasta Sauce For Children

A hearty, robust vegetable pasta sauce where no vegetables are in sight! Excellent for the fussy toddler or child that loves pasta with comforting tomato sauce. The hidden vegetable component in this sauce makes life easier for you and your children. It’s a win-win situation, where you are providing them with their vegetable intake and they are simply getting their lovely tomato pasta sauce and penne!

So very tasty and good for you! My little ones devoured this and wanted more. I hope your precious stars enjoy it as much as mine did!
Have a beautiful weekend! Much love D x

INGREDIENTS

1 shallot
1 large courgette
2 sticks celery
3 garlic cloves
2 tomatoes
1 tbsp olive oil
400g tomato passata
1 vegetable stock cube
½ tsp dried oregano
⅓ tsp garlic granules
Salt to taste
⅓ tsp sugar

Pre cooked penne (al dente)

METHOD

• Place all the vegetables with the garlic in a food processor and blitz into a fine paste

• Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan with the dried oregano

• Stir in the paste and cook for 5-7 minutes on a low simmer

• Pour in the passata, crumble in the stock cube and add the garlic granules and sugar. Stir well and simmer on a low heat for 20-30 minutes, stirring occasionally

• Serve with the penne that will seep the sauce into the shells and grate over some cheddar cheese!