All young parents are concerned with the question of which mashed potatoes can already be given to a baby, and with which it is better to wait? How to choose the right ingredients and make puree for babies? Let's try to answer these questions.
With what puree to begin?
Begin to give mashed potatoes to babies you need gradually, and it must necessarily be one-component. It is better to start with a mature softened banana, it can be given already from two months.
When can I give mashed potatoes?
- At 3 months you can already give apple puree . It is enough to start with a teaspoon. By 10-12 months bring the volume of puree to 100 g. You can feed the baby puree from banana, prunes (a day for 2-4 teaspoons), use canned mashed potatoes, sold in stores and pharmacies.
- In 3.5 months we begin to give mashed potatoes from vegetables (from potatoes, carrots, carrot-apple, etc.).
- From the age of 4-5 months of age, puree from white marrows and white cabbage are introduced into the ration.
- From the age of 7 months, you can start to give meat puree for babies.
Recipes puree for babies
Vegetable puree
First you need to do one-component, and when the baby is trying mashed potatoes from different vegetables, they can be mixed together. For the first complementary meal, mashed potatoes from a zucchini, broccoli.
1. Broccoli puree
Ingredients:
- 3-4 inflorescences of broccoli (by weight approximately 100 g);
- 1 tsp vegetable oil (preferably olive or linseed).
Preparation:
Rinse the inflorescence of cabbage and boil in water or steam. Broccoli is boiled quickly - in just 15 minutes. Cook the boiled vegetable in a gruel with a blender, if necessary, add a little water to the desired density. In the finished mashed potatoes add butter.
2. Puree from cauliflower with carrots
Ingredients:
- 1 carrot;
- 150 g of cauliflower;
- a piece of butter.
Preparation:
Clean and wash my vegetables. We cut carrots and pour a little water, start to cook. When the carrot is already soft, we also add the cabbage divided into inflorescences. You need to cook on low heat until the vegetables soften to such an extent that they can be kneaded in porridge (about 15 minutes after laying the cauliflower). Finished vegetables wipe on a small grater, pour hot broth or optional milk. Again, put a slow fire and boil for 2 minutes. Add the butter to the ready-made puree. Such mashed potatoes can be given when the child has already learned the first vegetable lures.
Meat puree
1. Puree puree
Ingredients:
- low-fat pork fillet;
- water for broth.
Preparation:
Rinse the meat thoroughly, relieve it of fatty interlayers and live, cut into pieces. Within an hour, cook the meat in water without salt. Ready-made pork should be soft and easy to blend into a blender in a homogeneous puree. Bring the dish to the desired consistency with the remaining broth.
2. Child meat puree with carrots
Take the following ingredients:
- a piece of veal (100 gr.);
- 1 carrot;
- a third of a glass of milk or milk mixture;
- a cube of butter.
Preparation
Meat, peeled off from films and grease, rinsed under running water, cut into cubes, put into a pan and poured with water. Bring to a boil, after 5 minutes, replace the water and continue to cook until ready (about 1 hour). Separately cook the carrots (about 20 minutes). Finished meat and carrots twice scrolled in a meat grinder through a fine grate, then ground minced in a blender, adding broth or mixture to a puree state. It is important to rub the meat well, since the kids prefer a homogeneous consistency. Got a piece of meat in a mashed potatoes can permanently turn it away from this tasty and healthy dish. The resulting puree is seasoned with oil.