• Roast sausage with green cheesy rice followed by mango hedgehogs

Main course: Roast sausage with green cheesy rice

I find roasting sausages the easiest way to cook them: simply place in a non-stick roasting tin, in a pre-heated oven at 180°C, 350F, gas mark 4. Cook for 25 to 30 minutes until the sausages are brown all over. I always cook the whole packet as a few cold sausages in the fridge are a great snack.

Ingredients
1 roast sausage
2 tbs. brown rice
1 small head broccoli, finely chopped
1 tsp. peas
1 green bean diced
sprig parsley chopped
25g cheddar cheese, grated

Place the rice in a pan and cover with water, simmer for 30 minutes, add all the green vegetables and cook for a further 7 minutes, drain well, add the parsley and grated cheese stir well and serve topped with the sliced roast sausage.

Mango Hedgehogs

Give your baby a taste of the Tropics!

Ingredients
1 mango

Cut the mango in half and remove the stone then, using a small knife, score the fruit in lengths, cutting through the flesh but not as far as the skin. 

Do this again, this time cutting the flesh across the other way and again leaving the skin intact. 

Now pick up the mango half and invert the skin, so that the flesh appears on the outer side, making a domed shape with little cubes of mango that can be bitten off. 

Little ones love this as the flesh is juicy and sweet and they can easily bite it off – it is messy so be warned!

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Other recipes this month:

• Cauliflower and sweet potato puree (4 months)
• Tuna and butterbean puree (7 months)

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