Tart baby food

Agutka

Hi, need some help rescuing a puree. Want to start introducing meat to baby's diet, so asked hubby to make his bolognese without the baddies such as sugar or salt. Unfortunately it has come out rather acidic, even after it was pureed with the pasta.
Baby not happy, so I promised them I'd find a solution by asking on here. Please help us make the spag bol more palatable.
The ingredients were mince, onion, garlic, tinned tomato, tomato puree, basil leaves, spaghetti. Forgot mushrooms and held off the stock cubes and salt.
Thank you in advance

Ice_2

when my DS was little I used to do him mince beef with mash potatoe pureed he loved it...:D

Penelope_Penguin

how about grated carrot. courgette, sweet potato?

Penny. x

MRSMCAWBER

how about grated apple..that should sweeten it up a bit or as its allready cooked stew a little apple and fold it in...and any extras they can have for pud

Agutka

So much for trying to get him off sweet foods. Next time we'll go easy on the tomato sauce, in the meantime we have 18 portions to fix. I'll try adding veg purees or fruit to them as we go along. Thanks.

debbym

Yep the acidic taste is from the tomatoes - next time try adding only a sqidge of tomato puree to the mix and bulking out the meat sauce with carrots/squash/sweet potatoes/parsnip all nice and sweet and puree easily so won't give a funny texture. If you are cooking for yourselves and saving a portion for the baby rather than cooking two meals you can add a tin of toms to yours afterwards.

debbym

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

how about grated apple..that should sweeten it up a bit or as its allready cooked stew a little apple and fold it in...and any extras they can have for pud

If using apple puree for babies use eating apple rather than cooking apple then you don't have tart apple puree as well;)