Toddler’s Homemade Pasta Sauce

My toddler loves pasta so much that he could eat pasta everyday without complaining. This is the main reason why I need to cook my own sauce using fresh herbs and vegetables so that he could get all the good things. I am one of those lucky moms who could give vegetables to her child effortless.

I used to buy those commercial bottled pasta sauce, because they are so convenient, but they are high in salt and sugar. I started to cook pasta with my homemade sauce (not this recipe) when I was 7 months pregnant with Nathan. I was forced to eat pasta because it was the only carbohydrate that my body could tolerate without increasing my blood sugar level. I could not even start to tell how bored I am with pasta day and night. My obstetrician even told me eat pasta in different shapes and sizes so I could get not as bored as eating the same shape everyday. For goodness sake, they are all the same taste to me, and I didn’t even care about the shape, as long as they could fulfilled my hunger. Oh my how I suffered in eating department while pregnant.

Anyway, you could use any vegetables that suit your toddler taste. You could also adding some other ingredients to enrich the flavour. I want to share this ingredients because this is what I call basic pasta sauce ingredients. I usually freeze them in ice blocks after I pureed the vegetable. Whenever I want to cook pasta for my toddler, I just took some of the cubes out and cook them with anything (such as grilled zucchini, eggplants, or mushrooms) that suit him so he will not get bored.

Ingredients

• 1 medium carrot
• 1 half small bunch of broccoli
• 1 medium zucchini
• 1 stalk of celery
• 5 tomatoes
• herbs like basil or parsley
• 1 small onion, mince finely
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 2 tbsp of tomato sauce
• salt and sugar to taste
• 2 tbsp of olive oil