Beef curry with rice recipe
A quick and simple beef and spinach curry with rice and peas on the side for a finger food. A great recipe to introduce spices to your baby! Freeze the extra portions for handy future meals.
Age: 7 to 9 months
Prep: 10 mins
Cook: 30 mins
Portions: 4
Ingredients
- ¼ medium onion, peeled
- ¼ small tomato
- 160g diced beef
- 1 tsp vegetable oil
- ½ tbsp tomato purée
- ¼ tsp ground turmeric
- ¼ tsp (or pinch) mild chilli powder
- ¼ tsp mild curry powder
- 150ml water
- 40g spinach
- 15g white rice
- 1 tbsp frozen peas
Method
Chop the onion and tomatoes.
Heat oil in pan and add the diced beef. Cook until browned. Then add the onion and tomatoes and cook for 5 minutes.
Add the tomato purée, turmeric, chilli powder, curry powder and water. Bring to the boil, cover and simmer gently for 15-20 minutes until the beef is cooked through and tender. Add a little extra water during cooking if needed.
Meanwhile, in a separate pan of water add the rice and cook for around 10 minutes until cooked. Then drain.
While the curry and rice are cooking, bring a small saucepan of water to the boil, add the peas and cook for around 5 to 6 minutes until soft. You can microwave if preferred.
Roughly chop the spinach, add to the curry pan and cook for a further 3 to 4 minutes.
Blend or mash the cooked curry with cooked rice until it is smooth with soft lumps. Serve ¼ of the curry in a bowl with the rice and the cooked peas on the side as a finger food.
Try serving with a spoon of full fat yoghurt.
