Children's menu: 5 recipes for porridge for children
Why porridge? It's very simple - cereals contain a huge amount of a wide variety of nutrients: vitamins and minerals, proteins, fats and carbohydrates. The baby's body is provided with all the substances it needs. In addition, cereals have a great influence on the work of the gastrointestinal tract in the most appropriate way.
Buckwheat porridge liquid
Porridge is well suited as a breakfast for both little toddlers and those who are older. The following ingredients are required for cooking:
1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 glass of water
- 2 tbsp. spoons of buckwheat;
- 1 teaspoon of butter;
- salt, sugar - to taste.
How to cook:
Rinse the buckwheat thoroughly with running water, fill it with water, bring to a boil. Reduce the heat, add salt and cook for 30–40 minutes. Then add milk to the pan and continue to cook the porridge for 15 minutes. Add butter and sugar to the finished porridge.
Semolina porridge with jam
This porridge is eaten with pleasure even by children who do not like semolina in principle, so the recipe should be taken into account by caring mothers of "little ones" and "whims". To prepare porridge, you will need the following ingredients:
1 tbsp. a spoonful of semolina;
- 1 teaspoon of butter;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of jam.
How to cook:
Sift the groats through a sieve. Boil water, reduce heat, add cereal. In this case, the water must be stirred continuously so that lumps do not appear. Salt the porridge and cook until tender, stirring occasionally - only three minutes. You can add any jam you like to the finished porridge, as well as butter, mix thoroughly.
Millet porridge with pumpkin
The taste of porridge with pumpkin turns out to be peculiar, it is liked by most children. In order to prepare it, you need to prepare the ingredients:
1/2 glass of water
- 3/4 cup milk
- 2 tbsp. spoons of millet groats;
- 100 grams of pumpkin;
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar syrup;
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of butter;
- salt to taste.
How to cook:
Remove the seeds from the pumpkin pulp, cut into small cubes and put in a saucepan. Pour a little water so that it covers the pumpkin a little. Boil the pumpkin until tender, that is, until it becomes soft. Next, wipe the pumpkin through a sieve, season it with sugar syrup and salt.
Next, you need to cook millet porridge. To do this, sort the millet, rinse in several waters. Pour boiling water over the cereals. Drain the water, pour the cereal with clean water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cook for about 30 minutes. During the cooking process, it is necessary to stir the cereals periodically. Boil the milk 5 minutes until ready. Pour hot milk over the prepared porridge, mix it with pumpkin puree, cook for 5 minutes. Add butter to porridge before serving. You can also cook rice and semolina.
Rice porridge with prunes
For older kids, you can cook rice porridge with prunes. Young children should not cook it: prunes have a mild laxative effect.
To make porridge, you need the following ingredients:
1/4 cup water
- 3/4 cup milk
- 2 tbsp. spoons of rice;
- 10 prunes;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sugar syrup;
- 2 teaspoons of butter;
- salt to taste;
- 1 chicken egg or 2 quail eggs.
How to cook:
Rinse prunes, remove seeds, soak for about 2 hours. Next, boil it in the same water for 30 minutes. Put the rice to cook. While it is cooking, beat the egg white with the sugar syrup until frothy. Mix the prepared porridge with the resulting mixture.
Next, take a baking dish, grease it with oil. Put half of the rice porridge on the bottom, and prune pieces on top. Next, lay out the remaining porridge, grease with butter again. Place the baking sheet in an oven heated to 180 degrees. You need to bake the porridge for about 20 minutes. Rice porridge with prunes is ready.
Corn porridge
Corn porridge is also good for a child. But you need to remember that cereals are quite difficult for the body to digest. Therefore, it can only be prepared for children who are 8 months old.
For cooking, you need the following ingredients:
1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 glass of water
- 3 tbsp. spoons of corn grits;
- 1 banana;
- 2 teaspoons of butter;
- salt, sugar - to taste.
How to cook:
Rinse the groats in cold water, put on gas, cook until tender - about 40 minutes. Pass the cooked porridge through a sieve, add hot milk. Mash banana with a fork until puree, mix with porridge. Add butter, serve.
Today we have told you only about some recipes for porridge for children. You can come up with your own recipe, for example, on vegetable or fruit broth, meat broth, more liquid, crumbly, viscous, semi-viscous. You can also experiment with fillers. Try dried apricots, raisins, nuts, berries, fruits.
Author: Zhanna Sh. (Specially for Calorizator.ru)
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