When the child turns six months old, the pediatrician recommends starting to introduce complementary foods . Most often it is with zucchini and begin acquaintance of the baby with vegetables. For a child up to a year, it is recommended to give mashed potatoes in pure form, but for older children - with different ingredients: butter, sugar, eggs, greens, vegetables, fruits or cereals. Zucchini is considered to be one of the most useful products for children. it is easily digested and contains a large number of vitamins, salts, iron and calcium.
How to cook mashed potatoes?
There are general principles for the preparation of vegetable purees from courgettes:
- Correctly choose vegetables. Suitable and zucchini, and ordinary zucchini. Vegetables must be young, always with a whole skin.
- Wash zucchini, cut off the peel from it, remove the seeds from the vegetable and soak for two hours.
- Prepare in any way: boil in water or steamer, put out, bake in the oven. It will be ready in 15-20 minutes.
- Mix with additional ingredients according to the recipe.
- Wipe through a sieve or grind with a blender.
Recipes of baby puree from zucchini
Mashed potatoes with semolina
Ingredients:
- 1/3 of a small vegetable marrow;
- 1 tsp semolina groats;
- 1 tsp Sahara;
- 1 yolk;
- 5 g of butter;
- ½ cup of milk.
If the child has an allergy, the milk is replaced by water, the manga - rice flour, sugar - fructose.
Preparation
Peeled and soaked zucchini finely cut into cubes. Mix the milk with yolk, sugar and manga. Pour over the zucchini. In the double boiler set the "steaming steam" mode and set for 20 minutes. Or filled zucchini boil, stirring constantly, over low heat. Blender the finished mixture with a blender. Before serving, add the butter to the plate.
Mashed potatoes with apple
Ingredients:
- ½ vegetable marrow;
- 1 apple;
- 1 tsp. Sugar, if an apple with sourness.
Preparation
Peeled zucchini and apple cut into cubes, removing the core from them. Vegetables cook separately (how to boil the mashed potatoes was mentioned earlier). Boil the vegetables and rub them together. Put on a fire and bring to a boil. Then add sugar to taste and cool.
Prepared by such recipes puree from courgettes for a child he will surely like.