Broccoli Yoghurt Pasta

Lil Sunshine loves yoghurt based pasta so here's her dinner with organic veggie pasta.

Broccoli Greek Yogurt Pasta

Ingredients

2-3 tbsp veggie pasta

1 tsp olive oil

5-6 broccoli florets (chopped )

1 clove of garlic (smashed and chopped finely)

4 tbsp homemade veg/chicken stock

2 tbsp greek yoghurt

1 small onion (chopped)

1/8 tsp basil

1 bay leaf

Black pepper

Method

Cook veggie pasta and set aside.

Pan fry the garlic, onion and bay leaf with the olive oil till fragrant. Add in the broccoli and give it a good toss and cook for another 1 -2min. Add in stock to soften the broccoli and leave it at medium heat for 5 minutes.

Once broccoli is soften, reduce heat and add in greek yoghurt. You may choose to add in flour if the consistency is too watery. Using a handheld blender,  give the mixture a few pulses till desired consistency.

Add a pinch of black pepper and basil and serve with pasta.

 Super Messy but she enjoyed it lots

In case you are wondering what pasta I gave.

Avocado Yoghurt Sandwich

Breakfast once again and for this morning, I wanted to make a sandwich for LO and since I have some avocado in the fridge,  shall mix it with her fav greek yoghurt.

Avocado Yoghurt Spread 

Ingredients

1 Avocado 

1 tbsp greek yoghurt

Method 

Mash the avocado and stir in the yoghurt.

Papaya Mango Yoghurt

What does one do with teething rusks that LO has gotten tired of?  Mix in with yummy yoghurt to add extra crunch and a new texture!

Papaya Mango ! Yoghurt 

Ingredients (makes 2)

1/2 cup papaya

1/3 cup mango 

1/3 cup Greek yoghurt 

2 teething rusks

Method 

Blend the teething rusks and set aside.

Blend the papaya,  mango and Greek yoghurt till desired consistency.

Assemble and it's done!

Snack away!

1st Birthday Smash Cake!

For my lil sunshine's first birthday, i wanted to make her a baby friendly cake that i am confortable with her eating (and smashing) it. It is her birthday so she should have the most fun ! Ok, mummy had loads of fun getting all messy and dirty too . Pics below.

So here is her first birthday smash cake . Improvised from Previous Posting

Banana Yoghurt & Strawberry Oat Cake

Ingredients

1 cup baby oats/ rolled oats

2 ripe bananas

1 tbsp applesauce

1 egg

1/2 cup Greek yoghurt

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp cinnamon powder

1 tsp vanilla essence

2 strawberries (sliced )

Frosting

8 oz of cream cheese (depending on how big is the cake)

2 tbsp appleasauce

2 tsp vanilla essence (optional)

Method

Mix all the ingredients and blend it in a food processor. I used my favorite handheld blender. Pour the mixture into 2 small cake pan.

Bake at 180 degrees for 35 min or until brown. Remove and cool .

This cake is moist and heavy in case you are wondering about the texture.

To assemble, you can refer to this simple you tube video which uses bread as the cake base . Simple Birthday Cake

Since this is her SMASH Cake , let the smashing begin !!

Creamy Cod with Spinach in Greek Yoghurt

Had a real busy Sunday and needed to make a quick dinner for the hungry baby so here it is .

Creamy Cod with Spinach

Ingredients

1 slice of fresh cod

Some ginger for steaming the cod

1/3 cup of baby spinach (roughly chopped)

1/4 cup grated cheddar cheese (I use mild cheddar)

1/2 cup of water/homemade stock

Handful of cherry tomatoes (chopped)

1 clove of garlic 

1/2 shallot of onion

1/4 cup greek yoghurt

Method

Steam the cod with a few slices of ginger.

Stir fry onion and garlic with olive oil/vco/butter and add in the spinach followed by the water. Once the spinach starts to wilt, add in the tomatoes and cheddar and give it a good mix. Lower the heat and stir in the greek yoghurt and the sauce is done!

Remove the cooked cod,  assemble on a plate and pour the creamy spinach sauce over the cod and serve.

Lil sunshine enjoyed it so much and wanted more that I had to add some rice into the remaining sauce (after all the cod is gone) as a top up. 

Salmon Fish Pie in Greek Yoghurt

I have been wanting to try Annabel Karmel's fish pie for some time and finally got down to doing it.  As usual, I adapted it to my preference of Greek Yoghurt and no bake.  :)

Salmon Fish Pie in Greek Yoghurt

Ingredients

1 small sweet potato

1/2 potato 

Salmon (cut into chunks) 

2 tbsp grated cheddar cheese

1/4 cup Greek yoghurt

1/2 cup homemade chicken stock 

1/4 cup garden peas 

1/2 tbsp Corn flour for thickening (optional)

1 bay leave 

Half clove of garlic 

Some onion

Unsalted butter/olive oil

Method 

Steam/boil the sweet potato & potato, cool and mash it together. Set aside.

Heat up the sauce pan, add in the unsalted butter, onion, garlic and bay leaf and stir fry till fragrant. Add in salmon chunks and stir fry till slightly cooked. Add in chicken stock and peas and bring to a boil. Once salmon is cooked,  reduce heat and stir in cheese and Greek yoghurt. Add in corn flour to thicken soup if desire. Pour mixture into dish and topped with sweet potato & potato mash.

My only regret, made only enough for lil sunshine and nothing left for me! So yummy......

Healthy Banana & Yoghurt Oatmeal Muffin

I love oats and yoghurt and the idea of mixing them into a muffin mix just sounds ideal for my little one. :)

Most of the recipes i have seen required sugar and since i am way against that, more banana mash will probably do the trick, and it did !

Healthy Banana & Yoghurt Oatmeal Muffin

Ingredients (makes 6)

1 cup baby oats/ rolled oats

2 ripe bananas

1 egg

1/2 cup Greek yoghurt

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp cinnamon powder

Handful of chocolate chips (for tots or adults)

Method

Mix all the ingredients (except choc chips) and blend it in a food processor. I used favorite my handheld blender. Mix in the chocolate chips into the batter as desire. Pour the mixture into muffin cups. Bake at 180 degrees for 25 min or until brown. Cool and serve.

Berries Yoghurt & Butternut Squash Egg

On days that i work , i tend to work really long hours so that leaves me little time to prepare much for lil sunshine. So, i tends to mix and match whatever i can lay my hands on for a quick fix snack.

By the way, dinner is always snack bites as we tend to eat around 8pm. Didn't want her going to bed with a full tummy . 

Yoghurt is my favourite go to snack

Since when Did breakfast becomes dinner ?

The raspberry challenge - popping 1 without even batting an eyelid . Sour !

Healthy Portobello Mushroom Pasta in Greek Yoghurt

It is such a cold and rainy day so what's better than creamy pasta for lunch. However, stubborn me still refuses to use cream for the sauce so i searched around for a healthy version and chanced upon a greek yoghurt base , how apt !

Portobello Mushroom Greek Yogurt Pasta

Ingredients

4 tsp baby pasta

1 tsp olive oil

1 big portobello mushroom (diced)

1 clove garlic (smashed and chopped finely)

3 tbsp homemade chicken stock

2 tbsp greek yoghurt

1/4 tsp basil
1 tsp cheddar cheese (grated)

1/2 tsp wheat flour (optional)

Chopped onions (optional)

Method

Cook baby pasta and set aside. Pan fry the garlic, onion and mushroom with the olive oil . Add in chicken stock to soften the mushroom and leave it at medium heat for 5 minutes. Once mushroom is soften, add in basil and cheddar cheese and mix well. Reduce heat and add in greek yoghurt. You may choose to add in flour if the consistency is too watery. Mix well and serve with pasta.


Since my 11 month baby is toothless , i gave the sauce a few pulses on my handheld blender hence the consistency you see above . I was hoping to share the sauce with her but no, she finished it all by herself ! Leaving me plain pasta :(

A happy messy Baby

Sweet Potato Greek Yoghurt Balls with Baby Pasta

Had to work late tonight so by the time i got home, i had to whip up an easy snack for LO while prepare dinner for the family . Thankfully i got my helper to put the chicken and herb in the slow cooker earlier so that's one dish down. Whew ....

Ok, back to LO, what should i make in 20 min ? A mash of cos ! Easy peasy, dump into steamer while i fry away for dinner . But that will be kinda boring isn't it, i thought. How about adding milk ? Nah .. Cheese ? BORING so that leaves the unopened Greek Yoghurt raising its hands .......me ! Me! ME !

So to cut the story short , CREAMY it should be. (Ta-dah!)

Sweet Potato Greek Yoghurt Balls w Baby Pasta

Ingredients

Half a sweet potato 

1 Tbsp of greek yoghurt (or more if you desire)

4 tsp baby pasta 

Method

Cook baby pasta and set aside . Steam sweet potato and mash.

Mix in greek yoghurt and pasta. Form into balls and pop 1 into mouth to reward yourself. Hahaha, that's MY method !

By the way, i sprinkled some basil leaves to make it more appealing.
Way too yellow for my liking . :p

Why did i decided to add baby pasta to my mash ? Cos i was hoping to give LO some texture to encourage chewing lest she becomes lazy.