Spinach, mushroom and butterbean sandwich filling

I don't know about you but we seem to get stuck on houmous and salad/roasted vegetables as our sandwich fillings. I try to mix it up by making different houmous flavours but it still is nice to try different things. I hadn't tried Little Miss on spinach yet and we had mushrooms to use up so I decided to create a new sandwich filling from these things. The recipe below makes several sandwiches worth for mummy and baby so you may want to reduce the quantities.

Ingredients

-A couple of handfuls of cooked spinach. I used about 8 frozen blocks of spinach (sorry about the mismatch of measurements in this recipe. My brain obviously wasn't fully engaged when I tried this out).
-4 large mushrooms or the equivalent in small
-2 cloves of garlic
-a 400g tin of butterbeans or the equivalent of homecooked butterbeans
-some olive oil/vegetable oil for frying

Method

- Fry the garlic (minced) and chopped mushrooms in the oil until soft and tender
-Cook/defrost the spinach if uncooked
-Put all the ingredients into a food processor and whizz up until it is a little smoother.
-If you don't have a food processor when you chop up your mushrooms make the pieces quite small. Also mash up your butterbeans with a fork. Then the ingredients can all be mixed together.

It is such a simple recipe and a great way to get your little one to try different vegetables and to boost your own vegetable intake. We had it in sandwiches, as a dip for rice cakes and also for vegetables.

The photographs don't really advertise it very well because it is not exactly pretty but it was really popular with Little Miss, especially when the rice cakes were dipped into it.

On mini rice cakes

Not the prettiest but still pretty yummy 

Have to have one for each hand obviously!

All in!

You may notice that it is white bread that is used. We are usually a wholemeal seeded bread kind of family but for little ones the fibre fills up their tummies too much to get enough calories in so white bread is usually recommended (as far as my research has shown me but please check this out for yourselves especially since guidance is always changing!).

I hope the look of it doesn't put you off. I really enjoyed this sandwich filling and will definitely be having it again myself.


JULES XOXO