Chicken Vegetable Puree

When I was having a hard time feeding Gwynnie and every mealtime was a major battle.  My friend, Shera gave me this recipe. It's a wonderful recipe and a life saver. I don't have a picture of the puree since Gwynnie has moved on from puree to toddler food by the time I started this blog. Sorry about that! But please do share the picture if you decide to make one for your baby.

This recipe is amazing, it has very nice aroma that even made my husband and I wanted to take a bite of it.

Disclaimer for this recipe: the quantity of the ingredients (except for the chicken) are not exact, it's a rough estimate. I always approximate how much vegetables i have to put in this dish.

1 chicken thigh
1 cup chicken stock
1 clove garlic, thinly sliced
1 clove shallot, thinly sliced
1/4 onion, minced
1/2 big red tomato
1/3 small carrot or butternut squash
1 small potato or sweet potato
celery
1 tbsp butter

1. In a heavy bottomed saucepan on low heat, melt butter and sautee onion until translucent, add garlic & shallot, cook for about 1 minute.
2. Add tomato, sautee for another minute. Add carrot, potato & celery, sautee for about 2 minutes.
3. Pour the chicken stock until it slightly cover the vegetables. Let it simmer for about 3 minutes. Add the chicken thigh and add more stock barely covering the chicken.  Put on the lid and let it simmer for 1 hour or until the meat comes off from the bone and stock has reduced more than half.
4. Remove bones from chicken and let it cool before putting it in food processor.
5. Puree and serve.

You can always replace the vegetables with any vegetables you want to put. Mushroom, celery, broccoli, you name it. I used to change the vegetables selection every 2-3 days.

Salmon Bites

This is a very simple and delicious recipe. I started making bite size pieces for my daughter when she didn't want to eat anything else other than her Gerber's puff. So I figured if I make her food in bite size pieces, she will think it's one of her snacks and eat it. It worked and I never looked back.

Salmon Bites:

150 gr salmon
1 cup flour
1 egg
1 cup panko flour
1/2 cup parmagiano reggiano cheese, finely grated

1. Heat the oven to 175 C
2. Prepare 3 bowls for the flour, egg and panko
3. Mix panko and parmagiano cheese
4. Cubed salmon into bite size pieces
5. Coat the cubes in this order: flour-egg-panko paramgiano
6. Put the bites in a baking tray lined with parchment paper and bake for 15 minutes.