Cottage cheese is one of the main dishes in the children's menu. The importance of this product for children under one year is very high, since cottage cheese is the main source of protein, calcium and phosphorus in the lure.
When should I inject cottage cheese into my baby's diet?
In this issue, the opinions of pediatricians differ significantly. Doctors of the old, Soviet hardening are advised to feed children with cottage cheese, starting from the age of 5-6 months. More progressive specialists recommend doing this not earlier than 8-9 months, and it is desirable then, when in the diet of the child there are already vegetables, fruits and meat. Breastfed can be offered cottage cheese even later, because they have a consumption of breast milk, there is no shortage of natural protein. For example, pediatricians in the United States designate the introduction of cottage cheese into lure to children only after a year!
How often should you give the child a cottage cheese?
As a rule, the cheese is given to children once a day, usually replacing them with evening (6-hour) feeding. Cottage cheese is introduced, starting literally with a half teaspoon, and gradually, for several months, bringing its amount to 50 g.
If the baby has allergic symptoms after the introduction of cottage cheese, then this product should be excluded from the diet for 1-2 months. Allergies in the child may occur on the fruit supplements contained in the curd, or on the milk protein itself (casein).
How to make cottage cheese for children?
Children under one year are best served with home-made curds or special children's curds of industrial production.
The recipe for home made baby curd is very simple. To make it, you should use homemade or specialized baby milk and a bacterial starter, which must be mixed and placed for several hours in a warm place, or even better to use a yogurt. When the milk turns sour, the topsoil is formed, and the serum separates from below. The container with them must be heated in a water bath until the curdled milk becomes thick and begins to curdle. Then you should throw the resulting curd on gauze and let it drain. The finished curd can be stored in the refrigerator for 24 hours. If the cottage cheese turned dry, dilute it with breast milk before feeding.
Recipes of dishes from cottage cheese for children
The monotonous food quickly bothers the children, and they can even give up the usual curd. Therefore, for children after a year, you can prepare a variety of delicious dishes from cottage cheese. From them will be delighted even those kids who do not like ordinary cottage cheese.
Cottage cheese casseroles
One of the favorite children's treats.
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 200 g;
- egg - 1 piece;
- semolina - 1 tbsp.
- fruits, berries, raisins, nuts, honey to taste.
Preparation
Just add to the curd egg and a little semolina, place this mass in a split form and bake in the oven until golden brown. Also in the casserole for children, you can add fruits and berries, raisins, nuts, dried fruits, and instead of sugar use honey.
Cheesecakes (fried "cutlets" from cottage cheese)
Include in the menu for children after a year, as well as vareniki with cottage cheese.
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 200 g;
- egg - 1 piece;
- sugar - 2 tablespoons;
- flour - 2 tbsp.
Preparation
All components are mixed, hands to form flat cakes, roll in flour and fry on a small amount of butter. And it is better to cook them in a double boiler.
Lazy Vareniki
But lazy vareniki can be offered to a very small crumb.
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 200 g;
- egg - 1 piece;
- flour - 2-3 tablespoons.
Preparation
Mix a soft dough from curd, eggs and flour, roll a long sausage out of it, cut into pieces and put them into boiling water for 5 minutes.
Cottage cheese curd
As for cookies from cottage cheese, it is also a very tasty and useful treat for children.
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 200 r;
- yolk - 2 pieces;
- sugar or honey -2 tablespoons;
- soda - 1/2 teaspoonful;
- flour - how much is required.
Preparation
Mix the cottage cheese, egg yolks, sugar (honey) and soda, add flour just enough to knead a loose knead. Take advantage of gay children's molds to make the cookies not only delicious, but also interesting. Bake cottage cheese biscuits in a hot oven for 20-25 minutes.
Also, as a treat, you can offer the children a curd-banana soufflé, curd dumplings, snails and shells from a tender curd pastry, curd-oat rolls and much more.