Feeding 1-year-old children is a process in which it is necessary not only to prepare tasty and healthy food, but also try to feed the little fidget.
For this, all family members, household items, and sometimes fairy-tale characters can be involved.
But still, the success of feeding depends on how appetizing our dish looks and what its taste will be.
Today we will meet the most the best recipes meatballs for children under 1 year.
The child's alimentary tract must be well developed;
Excess protein can strain the kidneys;
The daily diet of a one-year-old baby should be 80 grams;
Accustom your child to solid foods. Try to reduce the amount of pureed vegetables in the diet of a child who is over 7 months old. He should develop chewing reflexes.
The technology for preparing meatballs for children is not much different from preparing them for adults..
For example:
The broth is boiled twice:
Meatballs are poured into boiled water and boiled for five to ten minutes;
Then the water is poured out, new distilled water is added, which should boil;
Place the meatballs into the new water that has boiled and cook for another 10 minutes before adding the next ingredients.
They try not to use frying, but in our article we will offer an interesting recipe for its supporters.
Potatoes for soup are cut into small cubes to make it easier for the baby to chew.
Carrots and, if necessary, onions must be grated on the finest grater. Some children don't really like the look of carrots and onions they see in soup. But you can show your imagination and cut the carrots into a star, a circle or a flower. This will arouse the baby's interest in the new dish.
No hot spices are added.
Meatballs for children are a universal dish that can be prepared as the first or second dish. And you can even, after boiling a delicious soup, serve the “extra” meatballs with any other side dish.
Variations of meat for minced meat can be different: pork + beef, beef + turkey, beef + veal, veal + rabbit, chicken, or you can use each of them in its pure form.
You can add to the basic recipe for meatball soup:
Vermicelli, noodles, spider web. Now there are very interesting and varied variations that may interest the baby. It is recommended to take instant cooking and add it 3 minutes before it’s ready. And if you have ordinary stars or shells, then add them after the potatoes.
Rice. It is introduced into the child’s diet at 7 months. But keep in mind that this cereal has fastening properties.
Zucchini, cauliflower. Try treating your child to soup with the addition of the above products. To do this, finely chop them into cubes and add them to the soup immediately after the potatoes.
Cheese. It is best to grate it on a fine grater and pour it into the soup immediately before use. Cheese will give the dish a unique taste.
Green. Finely chopped parsley will add not only color and aroma to the soup, but also various vitamins.
As a side dish for meatballs for 1-year-old children, you can use mashed potatoes, thin porridge, pureed carrots, cauliflower or other vegetables, as well as various types croup
Beef – 100 grams
Pork (lean) – 80 grams
White bread (crumb or roll) – 20 grams
Egg white – 1 pc.
Salt - to taste
Greens - optional
Cooking method:
Pass the beef and pork through a meat grinder. Soak the bread in water. Add soaked bread to the resulting minced meat and egg white. Mix everything thoroughly. Form small balls and boil them in salted water with herbs until tender.
Chicken breast – 200 grams
Potatoes – 100 grams
Milk - 60 ml
Chicken broth – 400 ml
Salt, bay leaf, herbs - to taste
Unfortunately, chicken is considered allergenic, so introduce it into your diet after a year. Be sure to start with a small piece and watch your baby's reaction.
Cooking method:
Grind chicken breast by passing it through a meat grinder or twisting it in a blender. Boil the potatoes. Add milk and potatoes to the resulting minced meat and mix everything thoroughly. Form small balls and boil them in chicken broth, which you first salt and put bay leaves and herbs in it.
Minced pork – 100 grams
Ground beef – 100 grams
Quail eggs – 2 pcs. or 1 chicken egg
Semolina – 3 tsp.
Cooking method:
In our recipe we use ready-made minced meat, but you can prepare it yourself. As always, it all depends on the time that mommy has.
1. Mix two types of minced meat.
2. Add eggs, salt to taste and the required amount of semolina, which will give special tenderness to the meatballs.
3. Form balls and cook in salted water until tender. If desired, turn the resulting meatballs into soup by adding potatoes and carrots.
Tender beef or turkey pulp – 200 grams
Milk (whole, medium fat) – 30 ml
Egg white – 1 piece
Salt - to taste
Cooking method:
1. Remove film and veins from lean beef or turkey.
2. Pass it through a meat grinder, preferably twice.
3. Beat the egg white until foamy.
4. Add milk, whipped egg white, a pinch of salt to the resulting beef fart and mix everything well.
5. Roll into large balls and boil them in boiling water over low heat for 10 minutes.
Minced meat – 200 grams
Egg – 1 pc.
Salt - to taste
Cooking method:
1. Add to any minced meat egg and salt.
2. Roll out small balls.
3. Place them in a saucepan or frying pan with a small amount of water or broth, about half the height of the meatballs.
4. Simmer over low heat for 10-15 minutes or use a double boiler.
Beef (raw or boiled) – 100 grams
Cottage cheese (4.5%) – 2 tbsp.
Egg - one
Butter – 1 tsp.
Cooking method:
1. Pass the meat through a meat grinder: boiled – 1 time, raw – 2 times.
2. Add cottage cheese, egg, butter, salt. If the child suffers from allergies, then use only the yolk, since the white is more allergenic.
3. Mix everything very well and form balls the size of a small walnut.
4. Steam: from boiled meat - 10 minutes, from raw meat - 20-30 minutes.
Potatoes – 1 medium piece.
Carrots – 1 piece
Minced chicken (fillet + onion) – 200 grams of minced meat and one small onion
Straw noodles – two zhmeni
Salt to taste
Cooking method:
1. Place a saucepan with the required amount of water on the fire and bring it to a boil.
2. Form meatballs from minced meat
3. Place the prepared meatballs in boiling water and cook for about five minutes.
4. Then drain the water from the meatballs using a colander.
5. Pour new water into the saucepan, bring it to a boil and lower the already cooked meatballs for another 10 minutes.
6. Cut the potatoes into small cubes so that it is convenient for the baby to chew.
7. Grate the carrots on the finest grater.
8. Add potatoes and carrots to the broth in which the meatballs are cooked.
9. Salt to taste, adding a little salt.
10. After the potatoes are ready, add the instant noodles and cook for about another five minutes.
Olive oil 1 tbsp.
Water – 1 tbsp. + 200 ml
Leek -1 small head
Carrots – 1 small piece
Bell pepper (it is advisable to give it to a child who has turned 10) – half a peppercorn
Potatoes – 1 medium piece
Preparation of frying: In a saucepan, dilute olive oil and water in a 1:1 combination. Add finely chopped onion and grated carrots and pepper. Let it simmer on the stove for about 5 minutes.
Cooking method:
1. Prepare meatballs in any way you like.
2. Pour 200 ml of water into the frying pan and bring to a boil.
3. Throw potatoes cut into small cubes and prepared meatballs into boiling water.
4. Cook the soup until done, about 20 minutes.
Beef (you can use any other type of meat) – 300 grams
Rice (pre-washed and soaked in water) – 100-120 ml
Potatoes (small in size) – 1-2 pcs.
Carrots (medium) – 1 pc.
Small onion – 1 pc.
Cauliflower – 300 grams
Quail egg – 3 pcs.
Cooking method:
1. Twist the beef and onions in any convenient way.
2. Add eggs and mix the minced meat thoroughly.
3. Form meatballs.
4. Peel the potatoes and cut them into small cubes.
5. Place in boiling salted water and cook for 20 minutes:
Potato
Carrots (finely grated or cut into florets)
6. Meanwhile, boil the meatballs for 10 minutes in another water and drain in a colander.
7. Wash and disassemble cauliflower on inflorescences.
8. 10 minutes before the soup is ready, add boiled meatballs and cauliflower florets into it.
You can buy minced meat for meatballs ready-made, or you can prepare it yourself. It all depends on your abilities, desires and availability of free time. The fact that you at least know what you put in it will speak in favor of self-prepared minced meat.If the minced meatballs are liquid, add a little semolina to it. It will thicken the consistency and give the dish itself a delicate taste.
Meatballs for one-year-old children can be prepared in advance and placed in the freezer. This will make the process of preparing lunch much easier for your restless baby. Thaw them in hot broth before using.
Be sure to skim the foam from the soup - this will make it transparent and improve its appearance.
Do not offer your baby yesterday's soup.
We hope that meatball soup will appeal not only to 1-year-old children, but to your entire family! Bon appetit!
Good day, dear parents. Today you will learn how to cook meatballs for children. You will learn recipes for cooking both beef and chicken meat. Let's look at the features of preparing this dish for little toddlers.
Chicken meatballs for a child can be prepared using the following ingredients:
Meatballs prepared according to this recipe will turn out very appetizing, and the meat will be very tender.
You will need:
To cook beef meatballs, you need to prepare the following ingredients:
For toddlers over three years old, meatballs can be fried and served with a delicious sauce.
For this recipe you need to have:
I prepared meatballs for my child according to exactly this recipe, sometimes replacing the quail eggs with one chicken egg. They turn out to be quite tasty, both for individual consumption and when added to soup.
For a 1 year old baby, you can prepare this dish in a double boiler or in a steam bath. For this recipe We will use chicken. So you will need:
Now you know how and how much to cook meatballs for toddlers. Don’t forget that the cooking time is directly affected by the type of meat used, the cooking method (boiled, steamed or in a slow cooker) and the size of the balls. Treat your little one with meatballs as an addition to porridge or puree, or add them to children's soup.
Children's nutrition should be varied and healthy so that the child grows up healthy. Every time, preparing another portion for their child, mothers try to make it not only tasty, but also in such a way that even the most capricious kids do not refuse food. Today we will tell you a few secrets for preparing meatballs for the children's menu.
Meatballs for children under one year of age are best prepared from lean and dietary meat. Turkey or rabbit pulp is suitable for this. Starting from the age of one year, meatballs for a child can already be made from lean beef or pork, as well as from veal or chicken.
Starting from the age of two, dishes with fish balls are prepared for children. If a child does not like the overly pronounced taste of fish, such meatballs can be added to soup, then some of the flavor is lost.
For small children, it is best to form meatballs from boiled meat, since today it is impossible to be completely sure that it does not contain traces of hormonal drugs or antibiotics. During cooking, all unnecessary substances, if any, go into the broth. The broth itself should not be given to children.
Turkey Meatball Soup for Kids takes a little time to make. In addition, due to the vegetables and lean meat, the soup is very healthy for a small child.
Ingredients:
Preparation
Wash the turkey meat and place it in a pan with water. After boiling, boil for half an hour. Meanwhile, put a second pan of water on the fire. You need about 700 ml of water. Peel and cut into cubes potatoes, carrots, onions and garlic. When the pot of water boils, add the onions and carrots. After boiling again, cook the vegetables for another 10 minutes and add the potatoes and garlic. Cook all the vegetables for another 20 minutes.
We take the cooked turkey meat out of the broth and pass it through a meat grinder 2 times or grind it with a blender. Add eggs to the meat and form meatballs. Here you can show your imagination and mold interesting shapes out of meatballs to make it more interesting for your baby to eat.
Place the meatballs in a pan with vegetables when the potatoes are cooked. After the meatballs float to the surface, cook the soup for another two minutes, salt it and, if desired, add a bay leaf to the soup.
Steamed meatballs for children can be made from chicken or any other meat, as well as fish.
Ingredients:
Preparation
We pass the chicken meat through a meat grinder twice. Beat the egg into the resulting mass and add all the other ingredients, mixing them well. From the resulting minced meat we form meatballs and steam them until cooked.
These meatballs can be added to vegetable broth or served as a separate dish. Also, meatballs prepared in this way can be additionally placed in the oven for 20 minutes, after pouring them with milk sauce and sprinkling with grated cheese.
Turkey is ideal as the first meat food for 1-year-old children. This bird requires high-quality food and similar housing conditions. Therefore, its meat is of high quality and useful composition. In addition, it is dietary, does not contain cholesterol and is not allergenic. Such indicators allow us to consider it the most suitable for a children's menu.
It is best for a child's stomach to digest and assimilate ground meat. Tender turkey meatballs always turn out soft and juicy. Poultry breast, which is free of fat and bones, is suitable for their preparation. They are easy to prepare and, most importantly, quick, which is important for busy young parents.
The greatest benefits are retained in the steamed product.
But both boiled and baked in the oven meat balls kids and adults will like it. It’s worth taking note of the best children’s recipes for kids and preparing them only the healthiest dishes from minced meat.
You won’t find salt in recipes until you are one year old, since it is not recommended for feeding infants. The same goes for spices and seasonings. They are introduced into the diet of babies much later. Pediatricians recommend simple and healthy products. They are introduced little by little, taking into account the reaction of the child’s body to the new food component.
Ingredients:
Cooking process
Ingredients:
Step by step recipe
If you don’t want to add fat at all, you can place scalded cabbage leaves on the bottom.
Cook the meatballs on the “Stew” option for 30 minutes. Afterwards, leave them to warm up in the bowl of the device for another 10 minutes.
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Cooking process
Cooking instructions
Spices in children's soup will be redundant. But vermicelli is not suitable for satiety.
You can pour a small amount of small ones pasta along with vegetables (towards the end of cooking the soup). This is done in order not to cook the vermicelli for a long time, otherwise it will boil and deprive the broth of its appetizing transparency.
Cooking method
Cooking instructions
Meatballs for babies can be prepared with the addition of many dietary ingredients acceptable for use in children's diets. Instead of rice, hypoallergenic buckwheat is a good choice. Delicious added to minced meat oatmeal. If you grind oatmeal, it can be added to gravy instead of wheat flour.
Turkey meat is combined with pumpkin. Grated vegetable in minced meat will give the meatballs more juiciness and a sweetish taste.
It is also delicious to cook turkey meatballs with the addition of millet, cooked until half cooked. They are combined with potatoes, zucchini, and broccoli. Caring and enterprising mothers and fathers can come up with many delicious variations. The benefits of such nutrition for the growth and development of the baby are obvious. And the taste is simply incredible.
See also the recipe for tender turkey meatballs in the oven. Your kids will definitely love this recipe. Bon appetit!
