Pasta with Tuna and Vegetable Sauce

Ingredients :
1/2 red pepper, deseeded and chopped
15ml/1 tablespoon vegetable oil
2 carrot, sliced
115g French or string or runner beans, sliced
2 large tomatoes, skinned, and deseeded and chopped
1 courgette, sliced
55g wholemeal pasta
115g tuna canned in water

Method:
Put the pepper half under a hot grill, skin side uppermost.

When the skin is black and charred allow it to cool, then remove the skin and slice the pepper beneath.

Heat the oil in a pan and add the vegetables.

COver the pan and sweat over a low to medium heat for 10 mins, stirring occassionally to prevent sticking.

Add about 300ml water or no-added salt vegetable stock.

Add the pasta and cook for a further 15 mins until the pasta is cooked.

Transfer to a food processor/liquidiser/mouli.

Drain the tuna and add.

Blend to the desired consistency or chop for older babies.

Cool quickly and portion for freezing.

source : Marshall, J (1997) The ABC of Healthy Eating for Babies & Toddlers - A busy parent's guide, Hodder Headline PLC London