Fish in the form of complementary foods, small children begin to give quite late, at about 7-9 months. Often, fish products cause allergic reactions in infants, so they must be introduced gradually and very cautiously into the children's diet, starting at a dose of half a teaspoonful. Usually they prepare mashed potatoes, light soufflé or steam meatballs.
Give the fish better in the morning, carefully watching the reaction of the baby. At the same time, it is impossible to introduce another new product, it will be more difficult to determine what caused the allergic reaction.
If the allergy is absent, the amount of fish can be gradually increased, but at the same time fish days are arranged for the child not more often 2-3 times a week. Meat souffle on such days can not be given.
The recipe for a fish souffle for children consists of white, low-fat fish: pike perch, pike, cod, perch. Fish are cleaned most carefully from the skin and especially from all, even the smallest bones.
Baby fish soufflé
Ingredients:
- fish fillet - 150 g;
- butter;
- Wheat flour;
- milk - 40 ml;
- egg - 1 piece;
- salt.
Preparation
We clean fish from bones and peels. Half of the fish is boiled, and together with the raw part, we grind the meat grinder twice through a fine grate. From milk and flour, prepare the sauce in the form of a thick jelly, add fish, yolk and melted butter, mix thoroughly. Whisk the egg whites and mix them with the mixture. Once again, gently stir. Spread the mass in a mold, oiled. On a couple of lead up to readiness. We pour melted butter.
Fish is an important source of high-grade proteins, which differ little from the proteins of meat from warm-blooded animals. The usefulness of fish, especially for a growing child's body is the high content of mineral salts such as phosphorus and calcium.
Sea fish, as well as other marine animals, are richer in microelements, especially iodine, than meat or river fish. But it is better to introduce marine fish into the children's menu after a year.