Beets are usually introduced into the children's diet from about one year of age. But, in order to maximally keep all the vitamins in this vegetable, it is best to boil it in a steamer. Let's find out with you how to cook beets for a child.
Soup with beets for baby
Ingredients:
- beet - 1 pc .;
- potatoes - 2 pieces;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- egg - 1 piece;
- sour cream - at will;
- water - 500 ml;
- dill - 1 branch;
- laurel leaf - 1 piece;
- salt.
Preparation
Beetroot and potatoes carefully washing, put in a saucepan, pour hot boiled water and boil for an hour on a weak fire. Ready vegetables are cooled and peeled. Then, potatoes are cut into cubes, and the beet is three on a large grater. Eggs boil, clean and melenko chop. After this, pour water into a small saucepan, bring it to a boil, salt to taste and spread the beetroot.
At the next boil we add potatoes and laurel leaves. After about 5 minutes, throw eggs, chopped garlic and dill. Again, bring everything to the boil and remove the saucepan from the fire. Ready-made baby beetroot is poured into serving plates and filled with olive oil. If your baby is already 1.5 years old, you can add a little sour cream or yogurt without additives.
Recipe for beetroot cutlets for children
Ingredients:
- beet - 2 pcs .;
- bulb - 0.5 pcs .;
- flour - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- chicken egg - 1 piece;
- vegetable oil.
Preparation
My beets and boil in a saucepan, or cook in a double boiler. Finished root and onion is cleaned and crushed with a blender or meat grinder. In the resulting mass, break the egg and mix it. Then we pour a little flour, mix again, a little salt, form beet cutlets and bake for about 15 minutes in a preheated oven at a temperature of 180 degrees.