Egg Fried Rice With Fresh Garden Peas and Smoked River Cobbler

Ever given a toddler some peas still in the pods to play with? I tried this with little one and spent the next hour watching his fascination as he removed all the peas from the pods. He even tried some of them.

I like this because it's good to give children an idea of where their food comes from. When he'd finished he said "pack awaaaay!" and tried to put the peas back inside the pods. How cute. This is the main part of the recipe that little one can help with as it does involve more cooking although he/she can mix it all together at the end.

This recipe is a good way to get and egg in the diet if they won't eat the and also reduces the radius of mess for when they eat rice since it all sticks together.

Ingredients
1 cup rice
Approx 8 pea pods
1 egg
1 fillet of smoked river cobbler (note that this can be replaced with a different fish they prefer such as cod or trout.)

Method
Show little one how to shell the peas. Boil the rice and peas together in a saucepan until cooked. Drain and put back in the saucepan. Crack an egg into this mixture and mix up until the egg is cooked and the rice and peas are covered. Fry the fish in a little olive oil. Before serving, break it up and make sure there are no bones. Ensure that if you are using a smoke fish that you serve dinner with a cup of water since it tends to be fairly salty.