Baby and toddler recipes
🍤 Prawn and pea egg fried rice
Speedy egg fried rice with cooked prawns, peas and spring onion, flavoured with ginger and a little sesame oil rather than salty soy sauce.
Makes about 2 baby portions plus 2 adult
Ingredients
- 200g cooked Basmati rice (cooled within an hour and chilled, no more than a day old)
- 100g cooked Prawns (peeled, finely chopped)
- 2 Egg (beaten)
- 80g frozen Pea
- 2 Spring onion (finely sliced)
- 1 tsp Ginger (grated)
- 1 tsp Sesame oil
- 1 tbsp Rapeseed oil
Method
- Heat the oil in a wok and scramble the eggs until fully set, then tip onto a plate.
- Add the ginger and spring onion and stir for 30 seconds.
- Add the rice and peas and stir fry for 4 minutes until steaming hot all the way through.
- Return the egg, add the prawns and stir until everything is piping hot.
- Drizzle with the sesame oil and serve.
Serving it to your baby
At 10 months, chop the prawns small and squash the peas. Press the rice into small balls if your baby finds loose rice tricky to pick up.
For the rest of the family
Add soy sauce, chilli and extra spring onion to the adult portions after baby's has been served.
Storing and reheating
Best eaten straight away. Because the rice has already been cooked and reheated, do not keep or reheat leftovers, and do not freeze.
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Questions parents ask
When can babies eat prawns?
Cooked prawns are fine from around 6 months. Prawns are crustaceans, a common allergen, so introduce them on their own first, then keep offering them.
Is fried rice safe for babies?
Yes, as long as the rice was cooled quickly after cooking, kept in the fridge for no more than a day, and reheated until steaming hot just once.
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