Annabel Karmel's Zucchini and pea "soup"

[debetha]

Modified from the Anabel Karmel book.

Makes 2 adult portions and 4 baby portions.

 Ingredients:
1˝ small onions, peeled and finely chopped
45g or ˝ oz butter
150g or 2oz courgette, trimmed and thinly sliced
2 large potatoes (about 450g or 15 oz), peeled and chopped
120ml or 4 fl oz chicken or vegetable stock (if cooking for a LO under one year, there's a recipie for salt-less stock that I'll type at the end of this one)
75g or 1oz frozen peas
Sauté the onion in the butter until softened. Add the courgette, potato and stock. Bring to the boil, then cover and simmer for 12 minutes. Add the frozen peas, bring to the boil again, then reduce the heat and continue to cook for 4-5 minutes. Puree in a blender.
 
Makes 2 adult portions and 4 baby portions
Ingredients:
1˝ small onions, peeled and quartered
45g or ˝ oz butter
150g or 2oz courgette, trimmed and roughly sliced
2 large potatoes (about 450g or 15 oz), peeled and chopped
120ml or 4 fl oz chicken or vegetable stock (I have made a batch of saltless veg stock and frozen in ice cube sized portions, used 1 cube and 120 ml water)
75g or 1oz frozen peas



Preparation:
Chop onion on speed 7 for 5 secs, scrape down sides
Add butter and sautee for 3 mins on 100, speed 1
Add zucchini and chop for a few seconds on speed 5. Add potato, stock and cook for 12 mins on 100, reverse, speed 1, with MC in place
Add peas and cook for further 3.5 mins 100 speed 1, also with MC in place.
Puree well.


Tips/Hints: Made this today for dd, and also had a bowl myself for lunch with a TMX bagel. Great flavour but rather too potatoe-y for my liking - a bit like flavoured mash, so next time I would consider reducing the potato content. On the plus side, makes it a nice thicker texture for dd, as I find soups harder to feed to her if they are too runny. Not sure how it will freeze, also because of the potato content. But it says it should be OK. Hoping the onion content doesn't give her wind 

[rostess]

I've made this a couple of times now and my 10 month old loves it.

[debetha]

 
Just found her lovely lentil recipe which is my daughter's fave - will make again and write down the conversion for the forum. It isn't hard - you can find it on her website. dd has 4ths or 5ths of it (and this is a baby who often eats only half a serve)
Cheers
Deb

[rostess]

I find most of her recipes convert well to the tmx as long as I remember to halve the liquid to allow for the lack of evaporation.  I made the salmon cakes from her 100 top finger foods for ds this afternoon who has been a bit fussy due to a bad cold, and he wolfed it down.  I find her food really tasty, especially the finger foods.

[sals77]

Thanks for this! Anyone converted any other annabel-style savory meals for understood 1s ? My older daughter loved annabel meals and I'm now looking at converting them to TM for my second bubs.

[rostess]

The main thing I have found when making her recipes is that I need to reduce the liquid by half as there isn't the same amount of evaporation that you get when cooking on the stove top.

[rostess]

I just realized that I repeated what I said in my post from months ago! :-S