Roasted Vegetable Sticks

Ingredients:

• 1 small beet
• 1 medium carrot
• 1/4 celeriac
• 1 small parsnip
• 1 small potato
• 1/2 red or yellow bell pepper
• 1/2 small sweet potato
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• 2-3 Tbsp olive oil for brushing

Directions:

• Preheat the oven to 350*F.
• Peel all the vegetables (except the bell pepper) and cut all except the parsnip and sweet potato into the size of thick fries about 2in long.
• Make parsnip and sweet potato slightly larger.
• Wash bell pepper well, deseed them, and cut them into stripes about 1/2in wide.
• Stire the ground cumin into the oil.  Brush some oil onto a baking sheet and heat in the over for 2-3 minutes until hot.
• Plce the vegetable sticks on the baking sheet and brush each all over with oil.
• Return to the oven and bake for 20-30 minutes until tender.
• When cooked, place stick on paper towels to cool and absorb any excess oil.

*Taken from The Big Book of Recipes for Babies, Toddlers, & Children*