Baby cereals - general principles and methods of preparation
Baby porridge is introduced as a complementary food into the diet of a child from 7-10 months. After all, it’s time for the baby to receive a more complete and balanced diet. You can buy special instant baby cereals, but you can not give "quick" cereals, such as granola, with various fillers. They are not adapted for the stomach of a small child, contain dyes, flavor enhancers and other food substitutes. What can cause a baby to have an allergy or an upset stomach. It is best to cook porridge yourself from natural cereals. And you can start with rice. This cereal does not contain gluten, is completely hypoallergenic, absolutely does not irritate the intestines. And then gradually in the menu you can enter cereals from other cereals. Children up to a year of boil porridge of a liquid consistency.
Baby cereals - preparation of products
If dishes are prepared for children, then the processing and preparation of products should be approached with particular care. All cereals, except semolina, are moved, i.e. inspected visually to exclude the ingress of foreign small objects, and then washed several times. If vegetables or fruits are included in the dish, they must be thoroughly washed under water and cleaned. And then they, according to the recipe, are cut into pieces or rubbed on a grater.
If there is a small child in the house, it is advisable to immediately buy a measuring cup with divisions, so that it is convenient to measure the amount of cereal or liquid. For children up to a year, whole grains of any cereal must be ground to a state of flour, and then cook porridge. It’s convenient to use a coffee grinder. If there is no coffee grinder, then the prepared porridge is wiped through a sieve or grinded with a blender and diluted to the desired consistency with water or milk mixtures (breast milk).
Baby cereals - the best recipes
Recipe 1: Rice porridge with apple for children
Such porridge can begin to be introduced into the baby's diet from six months. Yes, and older children will eat it with pleasure. Rice porridge can be cooked with or without an apple. Children from one year old can cook rice in milk and add a little sugar, fructose or jam from a plate. Rice grains must first be ground in a coffee grinder or blender.
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons of rice, 250 ml of water, butter, a small apple.
Cooking method
Pour the crushed rice with water, add the apple (first it needs to be peeled and cut into pieces). Cook porridge for 15 minutes, then beat in a blender until mashed, put butter. If porridge is cooked for babies up to a year, you can add milk mixture or breast milk.
Recipe 2: Semolina for children
Semolina is recommended for children from one year old. Milk is diluted in half with water. From three years, you can cook porridge in one milk. It is believed that semolina is boiled for 10-15 minutes. During this time, she manages to boil well, but also loses a certain amount of protein and nutrients. Therefore, the cooking technology is better to change: boil the porridge for two to three minutes, then remove from the stove and wrap in a towel for 10-15 minutes. During this time, porridge will swell and reach readiness.
Ingredients: semolina - 4 teaspoons, 250 ml of liquid (125 ml of milk + 125 ml of water), sugar (fructose), butter - 5 g.
Cooking method
Bring liquid to a boil and fill in semolina. It is convenient to do this through a sieve. Firstly, the groats are sifted in thin streams and no lumps are formed, and secondly, if any garbage gets in the groats, it will remain in the sieve.
Let the porridge boil for about two minutes, remove from heat and wrap in a towel or blanket for 10 minutes. In a bowl of porridge add butter, sugar or jam and mix well.
Recipe 3: Oatmeal with Banana for Kids
To prevent oatmeal porridge, you can serve it with jam, honey or various fruits - a banana, grated strawberries, or an apple.
Ingredients: 3 tbsp oatmeal flakes, a glass of milk, ½ banana, salt, 1 tsp. Sahara.
Cooking method:
Boil milk (you can dilute it with water), add sugar, a pinch of salt, pour oatmeal. Make a small fire and cook for half an hour. Let the oatmeal cool, add chopped banana and beat with a blender.
Recipe 4: Corn porridge with milk for children
Porridge for children over one year old. If you will cook it for babies, grind the grits first before the state of flour in a coffee grinder or whisk ready-made porridge in a blender. If porridge is cooked for children over a year old, add butter to a bowl and sweeten with jam, sugar or honey.
Ingredients: 3 tbsp. tablespoons of cereals, 250 ml of water, 100 ml of milk.
Cooking method
Stir 3 tbsp in water. tablespoons cereals, boil. Make a small fire and cook for 20 minutes. Beat porridge in a blender (if necessary).
Then pour milk into the mass, bring to a boil and cook over low heat for 5-10 minutes. At the end, add a piece of oil, you can put a grated banana.
Recipe 5: Buckwheat porridge with milk for children
For children's cereals, it is better to buy unroasted buckwheat (light yellow-green) - it contains more nutrients. But ordinary buckwheat is also suitable.
Ingredients: buckwheat - ½ cup, water - 1.5 cup, ½ cup milk, 10 g butter, to taste sugar and salt.
Cooking method
Pour buckwheat with water, bring to a boil. Reduce the fire and cook, closing the lid, until the water boils, for about 15 minutes. Remove from heat, wrap in a towel for 10 minutes, so that buckwheat mash. Add milk to the porridge, salt, sweeten and bring to a boil. Remove from heat, add butter. Serve the porridge warm.
Recipe 6: Millet porridge with pumpkin for children
Fresh pumpkin is stored until spring, without losing its beneficial properties. Therefore, in the winter months, it will help the child get the necessary vitamins. Casseroles, pancakes, porridge are cooked from it. They turn out juicy and tasty and are liked by many children.
Ingredients: ½ cup millet, a glass of milk, 2 small slices of pumpkin (about a glass if cut into pieces), sugar and salt, butter.
Cooking method:
Pour millet with water so that it covers the grain by about 2 centimeters. Cook for 15 minutes, turn off the fire, leave the porridge on the stove. At this time, you can do pumpkin.
Cut the pumpkin into small pieces, pour milk and put to boil. As soon as it boils and becomes soft, it must be drained and added to millet porridge. Salt, sweeten, if the porridge turns out to be thick, add hot milk and boil for 3 minutes. Add oil and serve.
Baby cereals - useful tips from experienced chefs
If the baby eats poorly, you can be interested in it - make a drawing of the droplets of jam on the porridge - the sun, a typewriter, a bunny, a flower. Or garnish with pieces of fruit or berries.
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