Meat in baby food

Babies grow very fast and already literally in 8 months from a birth they need to give meat dishes a little. But in the preparation of children's meat cuisine there is a huge difference in comparison with the adult and before you start to prepare a meat dish for the baby, you need to delve into the subtleties of this cooking. How to cook meat properly, which dishes are the most preferable and from what sorts of meat?


If we talk about a baby who has more than a year, then his diet is completely different and does not look like an infant's diet. The organism of a single child is very different, he has matured and is able to take foodapproximated to an adult, all the functions of the body have become stronger. By this time the baby gets milk teeth, at first there are 8 of them, already at 1.5 years old about 12, and two years old the kid has 20 teeth in his chewing arsenal. At the same time, the baby smoked a lot of food, knows their taste, the body can take them all correctly and digest, i.e. all enzymes are already fully developed. That's why you need to make a variety in food and give the baby more dense products in composition.

When the baby begins to chew more solid food, digestive juices start to be allocated more intensively, accordingly the food is better absorbed, but it is necessary to accustom gradually to chewing food. It is very bad if a child after a year does not learn to eat food that needs to be chewed, it will be even more difficult for him to eat fruit and vegetables by pieces, and also meat.

Children consume all food in grated form for up to a year, but in 1.5 years the baby must eat vegetables in raw and stewed form, meat in vikotkotlet, meatballs and souffle, as well as a variety of casseroles, although they are soft, but they need to be chewed. When the child is 2 years old, the diet should be supplemented again, this time it is necessary to start giving salads from raw and boiled fish, cutlets and stew, and after 2.6 years you can give him boiled meat safely, but you need to grind it.

At the age of 2.6 years to 5 years, a child can consume about 100 grams of meat per day, not crushed. It can be such a watch as: different meat goulash with vegetables in sauce, with carrots and onions, as well as tangerine and vegetable stews, this dish looks like goulash, only potatoes and other vegetables are necessarily added.

It is necessary to diversify the food, for this you can give a child schnitzel, in kind or in chopped, i.e. as cutlets or minced meat, cakes filled with cakes, also it can be finely chopped pieces of pork. Such meat is first fried in oil, and then thoroughly stewed. At six years old the child must necessarily eat 100 grams of poultry or meat per day, this meat can be in fried, boiled or fried. It is very useful for children to eat chilled and fresh meat, it can be turkey, veal or beef, pork, but without fat, rabbit and Ibaranin, except for this venison or horse meat. In a word, at 6 years old, the child can switch to full-grown adult food.

Processing meat for the baby

It is important not just to cook, but to cook properly, because, depending on the method, nutrients are lost or stored. It is not true that the more meat is heat treated, the more useful things disappear and if the meat is lean, then from such meat all the vitamins, minerals and nutrients are removed. Meat, which is stiff, you need to soar for a long time or to boil, which means that it is useful to kill in it. this is food for the child, respectively, there is a risk of an infectious disease. It is worth remembering that the most nutritional value is lost if the meat is fried or boiled in large pieces. In order to preserve the nutritional value, it is recommended to extinguish meat, it is very useful to bake meat on the floor, also to prepare meat with meatballs or cutlets.

The fact is that even if the cutlet is fried, then it contains a nutritional value more than a roasted piece of meat, and if in a cutlet add bread, it will absorb the juice and fat from the meat in which all the useful substances are stored and stores them. If the cutlet is well fried, then it forms a brown crust, for an adult this is good, but for children such a crust becomes a mucosal irritant. This is a fairly serious problem, because the mucous membrane of the esophagus is significantly damaged and the baby is experiencing unpleasant sensations, burning. That is why little children are recommended to cook cutlets, baking or carcassing them, it is very good to cook napar. If you cook meat, then it is worth knowing that some of the beneficial substances (vitamins, hormones, drugs that gave animals) go into the bbu. In addition to this content, broths strongly stimulate digestion, so it is worth limiting the food to such broths. This applies to adult children, and even more so to the year, their digestion is only being formed and can suffer.

If you want to make the time for thermal processing shorter, then the meat should be prepared in advance. To do this, cut the meat to release it from the tendons, films and hard fibers, thoroughly rinse it with a piece and in slicing. It is worth recommending to have good cutting knives that will allow you to cut off any meat quickly and qualitatively. Frozen meat should be thawed gradually, in a microwave oven or at room temperature, but in no case in water, otherwise the meat will lose almost all the useful properties.

Preparation of meat sauce

Meat puree is one of the first dishes of solid food, which the baby starts eating from 8 months and earlier. It is introduced gradually from 5 to 20 grams, then 20-40 grams in 9 months, and so on increasing, in a year you can give 60-70 grams per day. If you do not cook mashed potatoes, then those that are on sale are quite suitable, but it's better to do them yourself, especially it's not difficult.

You need raw meat, depending on the age of the baby, immediately note that it will decrease 2 times during cooking. If you want to get 60 grams of the finished product for a baby 1 year, then take 120 grams of meat for cooking. Also you need butter - 2 grams, milk heated 15 grams or the same amount of milk mixture. Meat pre-disassemble from the tendons and the film, then cut into pieces and fill the meat with water, put the pot under the cover. How long it will be stewed depends on the size of the pieces and what kind of meat you use. Pork, veal or rabbit, of course, will be cooked faster than beef or mutton, but not less than an hour and not more than two. After the meat is ready, it must be grinded through a meat grinder, also watch the meat grinder clean, before using, you need to sip the meat grinder with boiling water. Mixed with butter and hot milk, then the mass of mashed potatoes will be homogeneous. After the meat is ground, the mashed potatoes should be put in the oven and boiled for 10 minutes. If the child has reached the age of 10 months and has a good meal of common mashed potatoes, then it is possible to make variants denser and train to a more solid food. Just do not grind the meat several times, and pass it once through a meat grinder. Then look at how the baby eats such puree, if he does not want it, then add some soft and juicy vegetables to this mashed potatoes.

Preparation of souffle, meatballs and cutlets

At the age of one and a half year to 2.6 years, the baby needs up to 80 grams of meat a day, and at the very time to give cutlets, soufflé and meatballs. For this, we need raw meat -160 g, bread - 10 g, butter - 4 g, milk boiled-20 g. Be sure to process the meat from the films and tendons, pass through the meat grinder, then put the mashed bread there and again grind. In this mass add a little milk, then make cutlets. Frying pan or baking tray should be smeared with a little oil, splashing water there, laying cutlets and stewing under a closed lid for half an hour.

If there is a steamer, then this is even better, then you can make some meatballs with vegetables. In the steamer, where about 10 minutes of meatballs were prepared, add vegetables to the water, then boil for another 15 minutes with the lid open. Using the pot, when it is still raw, you can add the boiled rice, then put out the meatballs or meatballs in sour cream of low fat content or in cream.

A simple souffle. For him, you need poultry or animal meat, enough 160 grams, egg chicken, wheat flour - 6 grams, milk - 20 grams, butter - 8 grams. After the meat is cooked, it needs to grind the namasorubke preferably a couple of times, then add the flour, egg yolk and milk, mix the mass, and the last to add the egg whipped egg to the foam. For baking, you need molds lubricated with oil, put the mass in them and put the vat for 20-30 minutes.

How to store and heat the finished food

Often the food is cooked for a couple of days if it's fish or meat. If you pre-cooked the meat and it's cooled, then you can make minced meat or cut into pieces, or make azu, then pack it tightly and freeze the freezer. It is important to know that frozen meat can only be defrosted once, i.e. freezing, divide it directly into the correct amount. If the egg is already cooked and there is no milk in it, then it can be stored in the refrigerator in the vial compartment, but it is necessarily hermetically sealed. In this case, the food will last for 3 days.

As for meat puree, it should be cooked and immediately baked, as well as vegetable dishes. The more food is stored or several times warmed up, the less vitamins and vitamins are in it, so warm up a little, not the whole cooked portion. Try to feed the kids constantly freshly prepared dishes - this is the guarantee of the child's health.