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Soft chicken and rice bowl

Soft chicken and rice bowl

Ingredients

  • 1 small chicken thigh, boneless and skinless
  • 4 tbsp rice
  • 1 small carrot, finely diced
  • 200 ml unsalted stock or water

Contains: None of the common allergens

Method

  1. Dice the chicken small — no piece wider than your little fingernail.
  2. Put everything in a small pan and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes, until the rice is soft and the chicken is cooked right through with no pink.
  3. Check the texture: it should be soft enough to squash against the roof of your mouth with your tongue.
  4. Cool to lukewarm and let your baby eat it by hand or spoon, as they prefer.
Safety: Cooked right through, with no pink and no pink juices.
Storage: Fridge 1 day. Rice is best eaten the day it is cooked.
Tip: Thigh meat stays soft where breast goes dry and stringy, which is the usual reason a baby spits chicken out.

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