• Noodle and pork stirfry followed by fruity ice lollies

Main course: Noodle and pork stirfry

This is a great dish as you can add all sorts of different vegetables. Babies like it as it has so many different ingredients and they love eating it with their fingers, picking bits out!

Ingredients
1 tbs sunflower oil
100g minced lean pork
½ small onion, sliced
1 clove garlic, crushed and chopped
1 tsp grated ginger
½ small red pepper
1 tbs peas
2 mushrooms, sliced
handful of beansprouts
50g cooked noodles
1/2 tbs. soy sauce

Heat the oil in a pan, add the pork stir well to break up and cook for 8 minutes.

Add the onion, garlic and ginger and cook for a further 5 minutes until the onion is soft.

Slice the pepper into strips and add to the pan along with the peas and mushrooms, cook for 6 minutes, stirring frequently. 

Add the beansprouts, noodles and soy sauce, mix well and cook for 4-5 minutes, stirring constantly so that it dose not stick on the bottom.

Allow to cool slightly before serving.

Pudding: Fruity ice lollies

In hardware shops you can find lollypop moulds and wooden sticks. If this is a little too advanced for your baby just make up ice cubes of the mixture and serve melting in a little dish, it's a new sensation and texture for discovery.

Choose from any of the following fruits: melon, strawberry, raspberry, mango, paw paw, banana, seedless grapes, and passion fruit mixed with any of the following juices: cranberry, apple, orange, grape, grapefruit or prune.

Ingredients
1 kiwi, peeled and liquidised
100ml fresh orange juice

Mix the kiwi and orange juice together in a jug.

Pour the fruit juice mixture into the lolly mould and place in the freezer to chill for at least one hour. Use within 2 weeks.

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Other recipes this month:

• Butternut and sweet potato (4 months)
• Chicken and potato pie (7 months)