Being a typical toddler, Oscar does not like eating vegies. Its even harder when his range of vegies is so small. The idea for this recipe came from his dietitian who suggested that I make a thick vegetable sauce and stir it through pasta or rice for him. I was a bit sceptical at first, as I thought it would be bland and I didn’t want to start making separate meals for Oscar. He has always eaten the same food as us and quite often prefers to eat off our plates rather than his own, so the trick would be to find a way to do this in a meal that we would all enjoy. I’ve called this post “Kids Vegie Sauce”, but it is quite adult friendly as well.
My husband calls this vegetable concentrate, but I prefer vegetable sauce as it makes a very good stir-through sauce for pasta and works well as a simmer sauce for cooking with chicken then mixing with rice. Tonight we are having it as a pasta bake.
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can I use plain soy yoghurt instead seeing my 8 month old has an allergy to all dairy.
Hi Lisa, this is also something I haven’t tried but it should work.
There are lots to try out! Let you know how we go!
Thanks. You could also try sweetening up the sauce with some pear sauce or just mashed pears.
I put half a tin of pears and the syrup in and a punch of citric acid. Told hubby to get himself something and eat it before he came home just in case. It’s quite nice now, with extra spring onion, chicken and rice. So glad, I put a heap of containers in the freezer and was wondering what I was going to do with it! Now I willl just add this to it again! Miss 19 months is getting stuck into it too, she gave up on cutlery and is currently eating with her hands 🙂 thanks for your help! Love your site so much! 🙂
I’m so glad you’ve found something that works for you. And thanks for your feedback, this is exactly why I started writing and sharing.
We are 2 weeks into the diet. Just used it as stir through pasta sauce. I added garlic and spring onion to it before cooking but was still quite bland. I’m pregnant and breastfeeding so I’m super sensitive with smells/ tastes etc. I put heaps of salt on mine! Was planning on using as a summer sauce with chicken and rice tomorrow, and know my husband will die if I serve that. We are nut free as hubby can’t eat those. Will use more garlic and spring onion and some rice milk. See how we go! Thanks heaps! Only found your site this morning, going to be trying lots in next few weeks!
Good luck with the elimination diet, I hope you find a lot of recipes here.
I made this today, we are on strict elimination no dairy or soy, and I couldn’t even choke it down! Wasn’t nice. My toddler ate a little, but wasn’t too fond either. Have heaps leftover. Any suggestions of anything else I can add or do to it? Thanks for an awesome site too 🙂
what did you have it with? If you are used to eating highly salted food you may need to add a salt to it,as your taste buds get a huge shock when you start the diet. You could also try mixing it with some rice milk and stirring it through pasta, or as a pasta bake with bread crumbs mixed with Nuttelex on top. You could also fry some spring onions and garlic in a bit of oil with a little bit of salt and stir that through the sauce. If you can have nuts you can also make a cashew and vegetable sauce by mixing some cashew paste through it. Hope this helps.