Oven-roasted veggie sticks
Serves 4 - 5
A little work
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Roast carrots, parsnips, swede or sweet potatoes with peppers to make this tasty finger food, suitable from 9 months
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- 750g Mixed root vegetablessuch as carrots, parsnips, swede or sweet potatoes
- 1 Red pepper
- 1 Yellow or orange pepper
- 2tbsp Olive oil
Method
step 1
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas mark 4.
step 2
Wash the root vegetables vigorously, peel or scrape and cut into long chunks.
step 3
Peel and de-seed the peppers, then chop into chunky sticks about 1.5cm wide.
step 4
Spread the root vegetables out on a greased baking tray and brush them with the olive oil until evenly coated.
step 5
Roast in the oven for 30 minutes, then add the pepper sticks and continue roasting for a further 10 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender when pierced with a fork.
step 6
Serve as a finger food for toddlers, or mash the roasted root vegetables for babies.