Omelette popovers recipe
Your baby will love feeding themselves these little pots of cheesy veg omelettes, served with potatoes and green beans.
Age: 7 to 9 months
Prep: 10 mins
Cook: 20 mins
Portions: 2
Ingredients
- ½ tsp vegetable oil
- ½ small onion, peeled (approx 30g)
- 20g full fat hard cheese
- 30g frozen peas
- pinch of mixed herbs
- 1 large egg (approx 60g)
- sprinkle of black pepper (optional)
- 1 tsp water
- 1 new potato (approx 40g)
- 25g trimmed green beans (approx 8)
Method
Preheat the oven to 180C, 160C fan, gas mark 4. Very lightly grease 2 holes of a muffin tin with vegetable oil.
Finely chop the onion and divide equally between the 2 muffin tin holes. Put in the oven for 5 minutes.
Put the peas into a bowl and add the grated cheese and herbs. Add the eggs, black pepper and water to the bowl, and mix with a fork.
Remove the muffin tin from the oven, divide the mixture between the holes and gently stir. Return to the oven for 15 minutes or until golden brown on the top.
While the popovers are cooking add the new potato to a small saucepan of water, bring to the boil, and cook for 5 minutes. Add the green beans to the pan then cook for a further 5 minutes until potatoes and beans are soft.
Allow the popovers to cool for 5 minutes before removing from the tin. Blend or mash the popover until it is smooth with soft lumps, or slice and serve as a finger food and serve with sliced potatoes and green beans.
If you don't have a muffin tin, cook the onions and peas in a frying pan until starting to soften, add the egg mixture and cook for a few minutes to make a whole omelette instead. Slice into fingers for your baby.
Cover or wrap the remaining popover and refrigerate for the next day.
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