Puree is a dish that is introduced into the baby's diet one of the first. A child's organism, accustomed to the mother's milk, does not perceive heavy and rough food, so the best option for complementary feeding is puree. There is a large number of a wide variety of recipes for puree for children. Doctors recommend the first time to give the child the same puree, so that the child's body is used to. Then, gradually you can diversify the diet and give the baby a variety of fruit and vegetable purees. It is believed that to start feeding the children for up to a year follows with vegetable puree, for example, potato or squash. In this article you will find interesting recipes, how to cook puree for a child.
Recipe for squash puree for children
Zucchini is one of the most hypoallergenic vegetables. That is why zucchini puree is recommended for the youngest children. Ingredients for cooking:
- 200 grams of zucchini;
- 40 ml of breast milk or milk formula;
- 1 teaspoon of olive oil;
- 1/2 chicken yolk (optional).
Zucchini should be washed, peeled and seeded and cut into small cubes. After that, cubes of zucchini should be lowered into boiling water and cooked for 20 minutes. When cooking water should be so much that it completely covers the vegetables.
Cooked zucchini should be cooled, grate and add to it olive oil, milk and yolk. Stir the mixture thoroughly. Puree is ready!
Vegetable puree from pumpkin and potatoes for children under one year
Puree from a pumpkin turns out very sweet, therefore children eat it with special pleasure. Ingredients for mashed potatoes:
- 80 grams of potatoes;
- 80 grams of pumpkin;
- 50 ml of breast milk or milk formula;
- 1/2 teaspoon of butter.
Pumpkin and potatoes should be thoroughly rinsed and peeled. Pumpkin, too, must be cleaned of seeds. After that, vegetables should be cut into cubes and dip into boiling water so that the water completely covers them. Vegetables should be cooked until cooked.
Ready potatoes and pumpkin should be cooled, grind in a blender (or mash) and add to them milk and butter. After that, the entire mixture must be mixed well. Delicious puree for the baby is ready!
Apple Puree Recipe for Children
To prepare apple puree for children, you need 1 apple, a small pot and 2 glasses of water. The apple should be washed, peeled, placed in a pan and poured with water so that it completely covers the fruit. The apple should be cooked until soft, then cool and grate. To the grated apple, add 2 tablespoons of water, in which it was cooked, and stir the mashed potatoes.
Apples puree is extremely useful for children. Many mothers prefer to cook apple puree for children for the winter. To do this, 1 kilogram of peeled and seeded apples are cooked until ready, kneaded and added to them 100 grams of sugar and 100 ml of cream. The resulting mixture again
Fruit and vegetable puree for children up to one year is an important and useful dish. Cooked from natural products, mashed potatoes provides the children's body with all the necessary vitamins and microelements.
Starting from 8 months, babies can be given special meat purees. Meat puree for children under one year is prepared only from lean meat, after a year children can gradually give pork. Meat should be cut into small pieces, boil until cooked and 2-3 times pass through a meat grinder. After that, to the resulting mashed pot should be added broth (per 100 grams of meat 25 ml broth) and butter (1/2 teaspoon). Puree can be slightly salted and mixed thoroughly.
Vegetable, fruit, meat and soup purees for children cooked at home are much more useful than any baby food purchased at the store.