Rosemary & Thyme Chicken in Pumpkin & Apple Sauce

Came home late from an outing and had to whip up a quick dinner for the hungry tot and to my dismay, I ran out of homemade tomato sauce so this is my quick fix ! No additional seasoning needed.

Rosemary & Thyme Chicken in Pumpkin Apple Sauce

Ingredients
2 chicken drumsticks
1 cup of pumpkin puree
1/2 cup of water
3 tbsp tomato puree
1 cherry apple (chopped)
1/8 tsp dried thyme
1/4 tsp dried rosemary
2 bay leaves
2 cloves of garlic (chopped)
Olive oil

Method
Stir fry the chopped garlic and bay leaves in olive oil till it is fragrant  , add in the chicken drumstick and let it cook for a while.

Add in pumpkin puree, tomato puree, apples,  water , thyme and rosemary and let it simmer at medium heat for 30 min or until the chicken is nice and tender.

Serve it with rice for a quick and sweet dinner.

You can choose to add some sea salt and black pepper but I omitted both as my little one has a slightly sweet tooth and pumpkin apple sauce is YUMMY!!☺

Sugar free Apple & Raisins Baked Oat Cake

I have been flipping through my recipe books recently for more inspiration and this simple sugar free recipe caught my eye.  Apple, raisins and cinnamon , how lovely !

Apple & Raisins Baked Oat Cake

Ingredients 

2 regular sized apples

1/2 cup raisins

2 cups of rolled oats blended to breadcrumb consistency (see pic)

1 tsp baking powder

1 cup fresh milk

1 egg (beaten)

2 tbsp olive oil

2 tbsp water

Cinnamon powder

Method 

Peel and cut the apples into cubes . Put apples, raisins, water and a pinch of cinnamon into a saucepan and cook for about 10 min till the apple softens. Add more cinnamon if you like.

After cooking the apples, you can choose to mash it but I wanted a smooth consistency so I blended the cooked apples in a processor and then mix it with the raisins.

Put the blended oat, baking powder , egg, milk and oil in another bowl and mix well.

Add in the apple and raisins mixture and mix well again .

Scoop the mixture into well greased moulds and sprinkle some cinnamon on top.

Bake for 30-35 min at 170 degrees. Remove from oven and let it cool and a yummy snack is done !

Banana, Applesauce & Strawberry Oat Fingers

Another late night in the office resulting in me having to prepare something really quick for lil sunshine so I did my all time favourite, oat fingers! This time round, i decided to make a different flavour , combining the sweet banana and applesauce with slightly sourish strawberries.

Banana, Applesauce & Strawberry Oat Fingers

Ingredients 

1/2 banana 

2 tbsp applesauce 

1 big strawberry (chopped)

5 tbsp baby oats/rolled oats (may adjust based on texture)

Method

Mash banana and mix in applesauce, strawberry and oats. The amount of oats should be adjusted based on the consistency of the mixture. If it appears too soft and watery, add in more oats.  Form into fingers and bake at 170 degrees for 15 min. Cool and serve.

This is a very versatile snack and my usual quick Fix.

You can make all sorts of fruity combination but keep banana as the base. Or make pumpkin base with spinach, cheese, corn, herbs etc for other variation. Just need to adjust oats accordingly as some combination can be more liquid.

My Other variations - Pumpkin & Cinnamon & Banana Blueberry

Have fun!

Strawberry Applesauce Bites

Strawberry Applesauce Bites

Ingredients (makes 5 balls)

1/4 cup Applesauce

1/4 cup wheat flour

1/4 cup baby oats

1 Strawberry (diced(

Pinch of cinnamon

Method 

Mix all the ingredients well and form into whatever shapes you desire. Bake at 170 degrees for 15 min.  Cool and serve

Since there is wheat flour in this recipe, the texture is chewy and will be more suitable for babies who can chew well. :)

Banana & Applesauce Cake

Lil sunshine is turning one come end Aug so i decided to embark on my hunt for a healthy birthday cake for her special day . After all these months of giving her well thought out and nutritious food , i'm not ready to expose her to commercial food dye and sugar and all the junk food which she will eventually come to know in future. Hahahah ....

Came across the recipe Healthy Smash Cake and got me really excited since its Sugar free, Dairy free and Eggless. How perfect! But since LO is still toothless (not sure if cake is too dry for her), i decided to make it more mushy and the result is a kueh like texture that's sticky and gooey. Was a little disappointed as the dense consistency made it almost impossible to hold a shape good enough to frost.

Oh well, guess we will just have to eat the ugly cake now. Nom nom nom

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 See how dense it is .

Ingredient :

90g wheat flour

3 bananas

200g applesauce

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/8 tsp nutmeg

1/2 vanilla essence

Method :

Mix mashed banana, appleauce, vanilla essence, nutmeg and cinnamon. Mix in flour and baking powder and ensure everything is well incorporated. Pour in mould and bake for 30 min at 180 degrees.

Lil sunshine seeing the cake for the first time. She was more intrigued by the pretty paper cup and attempted to eat that!

Oooh, this brownish sticky gooey mash actually tastes pretty good.

My kind of food ! *loves it when mummy lets me play with my food*

Can i have more please, mummy ?

After thoughts : This experience gave me inspiration to make more adaptions (i will never learn my lesson right ?hahahaha) so i will attempt to replace flour with oat powder (woohoo, gluten free !) Or search for a steam cake recipe for my base cake.Afterall, kuehs are steamed right ? Who says we must have cake for Birthdays. LO will have a MASH cake instead of a SMASH cake!hehehe