Saturday, 13 July 2013

Spinach and prawn pasta

This one's a nice light dinner for a hot day, and seriously easy!

You need:
One pack of jumbo prawns, I cooked from raw but you can use cooked ones, just make sure they're hot.
About half a bag of baby spinach, roughly torn.
As many cherry tomatoes as your dear heart desires, halved.
Spaghetti or linguine.
Juice of half a lemon, one clove of garlic, finely chopped, a tablespoon of olive oil and some freshly ground black pepper.

Cook the pasta in a large pot of boiling water. Just before it's done, add the spinach. Let the spinach wilt slightly, then dump the lot in a colander. Add in the cherry tomatoes and cooked prawns and stir through.
In a cup mix the garlic, pepper, oil and lemon. You can also add some dried chilli flakes if you like.
Pour the oil mixture over the pasta and mix through.
Serve topped generously with grated parmesan. Parmesan is a little high in salt so if baby is under one or has already had some salt that day you can just leave it out.

As regards the prawns, shellfish is perfectly safe for babies as long as it's thoroughly cooked. If there is any history of allergies though introduce it very carefully. Don't introduce it with any other new foods, and wait three days after introducing it to add more new foods.


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