Technological map No. 39. Name of products and their weight.
Cooking technology and quality requirements.
First you need to prepare the vegetables. Firstly, carrots. It needs to be peeled and cut into small cubes (more like triangles). Next, the carrots need to be simmered with butter. To do this, take a small saucepan, put it on low heat, add half (about 7 grams) of butter, a couple of tablespoons of water and cook it for just a minute or two. Since we will still be cooking it in the soup, we don’t need it to be completely cooked.
We need to blanch the onion and then saute it. Blanching is simply pouring boiling water or steam over a vegetable. But at the same time, if we take boiling water (and this is the most convenient), then a colander will not help us, since we need the onions to lie in this very boiling water for about a minute. This is done in order to remove its pungent odor and bitterness.
Cut the onion into small cubes, pour boiling water for a minute. Then drain the water.
Heat the pan, add the remaining butter and onion. Sauté over low heat for about a minute. It just needs to become translucent and not brown.
Peel the potatoes and cut into small cubes.
I had chicken broth that I cooked the night before. Therefore, I used half a liter of broth and 0.4 liters of water. If you use only water, then you should understand that the taste of the soup will be simpler than with broth.
Place a saucepan with broth (water) on the fire, add potatoes, bring to a boil, reduce heat, close the lid and leave for five minutes. Add salt to taste. Next, add the onions and carrots and cook for another five minutes.
In the meantime, let's make meatballs. The meat is minced twice to make it more tender. Cut the onion into small cubes and blanch. Add strained onion and half an egg to the minced meat (beat lightly with a fork in a mug and pour half). I had a small homemade egg, weighing only 30 grams, so I allowed myself to add a whole one. Next, add salt, water and mix the minced meat thoroughly.
If you see that the minced meat is a little thinner than you would like, beat it off. Just pick it up with your hand and throw it back into the bowl 20-30 times. After this simple procedure, the minced meat will become a little denser and more elastic.
Since we are talking about soup for small children, the size of the meatballs should be appropriate - about 10 grams, which is about a little less than the size of a walnut. But you can make them larger and then simply break them with a fork right in the plate. Extremely time-saving, since small meatballs take up time. Sculpt with wet hands.
Next, according to technology, they (meatballs) must be boiled separately from the soup in a small amount of water. Apparently this is done in order to allocate equal amounts to each child. Place three or four meatballs on a plate and pour in the soup.
We'll throw them straight into the soup. After the meatballs, increase the heat, bring the soup to a boil again, close the lid and simmer over low heat for another five minutes. If you made the meatballs a little larger, then about 7-10 minutes.
Check the soup for salt. If you really want it, it’s time to add some salt.
If you have introduced sour cream to your child’s diet, you can serve it with it and, for example, chopped parsley or dill. And if you are pouring it for yourself or your husband, then it’s fine to add some pepper.
When my children were still very small, for example, my eldest son really loved these puree soups. I was absolutely lazy to chew. And for small children about a year old, in whose diet you have already introduced almost all vegetables and meat (in this case, it is better to replace beef with veal), you can puree this very soup in a blender. By the way, I ate it with pleasure exactly in this form, remembering how I finished everything after my little children... Nostalgia :)
OK it's all over Now. I’ll just say that you can simplify your body movements a little. For example, do not let the carrots soak, but immediately add them to the sautéing process with the onions, the blanching of which, by the way, can also be skipped. Well, when you make meatballs, just twist the onion with minced meat (again, skipping blanching). This is the case if the taste and smell of onions do not bother you in any way, which in any case will disperse during heat treatment.
All. Bon appetit to you and your kids!
Children have a unique diet, not the same as adults. Their diet should not contain spicy seasonings, food should not be fried or fatty. All this negatively affects the still fragile children's stomach.
Dishes intended for baby food must certainly be stewed, boiled, baked in the oven, or steamed or. This is especially true for those children for whom dietary nutrition is recommended.
However, this does not mean that such food is monotonous and tasteless. Quite the contrary, it is appetizing and very healthy. In dishes prepared using one of the above methods, all the vitamins and nutrients necessary for the child are preserved.
In addition, if you prepare children's soup correctly or bake meat in the oven, believe me, they are somewhat on par with fried foods. And the children's soup with meatballs is simply delicious. It is prepared quite simply and quickly.
Meatball soup is suitable for children over 1.5 years old
To prepare it you will need the following products:
- minced young beef or lean pork - 250 g
- carrots - 1 pc.
- egg - 1 pc.
- onion - 1 pc.
- potatoes - 2 pcs.
- dill greens
Children's soup with meatballs - recipe with photo:
To obtain minced meat, pass the pulp of young beef or pork through a meat grinder with a fine grid 2 times. For mothers like me, who have meat or minced meat prepared for future use, as they say, and are in the freezer, it is necessary to defrost it before cooking. Finely chop the onion.
Leave half for minced meat, pour the other half into a pan of boiling water.
Add onion, salt to the minced meat and break one egg. Mix everything well.
From the minced meat we form round meatballs for the soup.
Place the meatballs in the pan and cook over low heat for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, while the meatballs are cooking, cut the potatoes into small square pieces.
Cut the carrots into strips.
Add the vegetables one by one to the pan with the meatballs and cook the soup until tender.
At the very end of cooking, add a spoonful of olive oil and dill.
Tender and healthy - this is how meatballs for a child should be, prepared at home from chicken, beef, turkey or fish.
Very often the question arises, what to feed a child? After all, food for a child should be healthy and tasty, and always creative. A simple soup is not as fun to eat as homemade soup with baby chicken meatballs.
- Minced meat 200 grams (chicken)
- Onion 1 piece
- Carrot 1 piece
- Ghee 1 teaspoon
- Salt To taste
- Water 1 liter
- Greens For serving
- Pasta 50 grams (small noodles)
At this time, while the vegetables are stewing, make the meatballs. It is best to grind the chicken yourself and make minced meat, or buy it from a trusted place. Knead the minced meat with your hands, add salt and spices if you know that your child likes something special.
Cook the meatballs with noodles for 5-6 minutes, then add the fried vegetables. Add a little salt and cook for another 2-3 minutes until done.
We serve the soup with greens, they are very healthy and tasty. My child also loves adding sour cream to this soup. All is ready.
How to cook it?
Preheat the oven to 190 degrees. In a large bowl, combine the minced meat, egg, bread crumbs, milk, onion, salt and marjoram. Form into small equal-sized balls. Place them in a deep baking dish. Mix them in it with flour, broth, water, sour cream and milk. Bring to a boil on the stove and cook for 2 minutes. Then remove from heat, transfer to oven and bake for 50 minutes. Garnish with cheese and parsley and serve.
Recipe 2: meatballs for children (step-by-step photos)
We tell you how to cook meatballs for children. As soon as a child switches to adult solid food, many mothers are tormented by the question: What to please their baby with, healthy and tasty. A dish for a child should be made only from fresh and high-quality products. It is better to cook just before lunch or you can make semi-finished products and freeze them.
- minced sirloin or chicken breast,
- medium sized carrots
- half an onion per 300 grams of minced meat,
- a couple of quail eggs to give the minced meat viscosity,
- semolina to roll our balls.
Under no circumstances should salt or pepper be used while the child is small. You can add a little greenery. I already had ready-made minced meat, if you have chicken fillet, you need to turn it in a meat grinder a couple of times. You can immediately add carrots and onions, directly into the meat grinder.
To begin, grate the carrots on a fine grater and finely chop the onion.
The ingredients must be combined and mixed thoroughly.
If the mince is liquid, one egg will be enough.
We make small balls of the same shape from our minced meat, about 2 cm in diameter. For a child, size is not important, especially when they need to be chopped with a fork. It is necessary to calculate the weight in portions, for example, two meatballs for lunch.
For children, foods are steamed or boiled. A double boiler works well; you can add fresh vegetables and meatballs to create a healthy and tasty dish. Or just boil them with any side dish, they cook quickly.
Recipe 3: meatball soup for a child
Beef for meatballs can be replaced with chicken or fish.
- Beef (pulp) – 300 g
- Potatoes – 3 pcs.
- Carrots – 3 thin roots
- Noodles – 80 g
- Onion – 1 head
- Salt - to taste
Grind the meat prepared for meatballs twice through a meat grinder along with the onion. Add salt to the minced meat and mix everything well. From this mixture, roll into small balls into meatballs.
Carefully pour 1.2 liters of cold water into the pan with meatballs, place over high heat and bring to a boil.
Remove any foam that forms on the surface of the broth. Turn down the heat.
Place diced potatoes into the meat broth and bring to a boil.
Add thinly sliced carrots and let simmer for 10 minutes.
Add noodles and cook over low heat until tender, 6-10 minutes.
Bon appetit.
How to prepare this first dish?
The recipe for meatball soup for children is as follows. Mince the garlic and chop the onion, celery and carrots. Add salt and lightly fry in vegetable oil until the onion is soft and translucent (about five minutes).
In a small bowl, beat eggs and vegetable oil. Add salt and minced chicken and mix very well. Cool the mixture slightly and then form it into balls.
In a large saucepan, add broth, 2 cups water and some fresh dill. When the mixture reaches a boil, add the prepared minced meat balls. Leave them to cook for thirty minutes. Then add the vegetables and continue cooking for another 10-15 minutes. For very young children, vegetables do not need to be fried first.
Recipe 4: Turkey Meatballs for Kids
Turkey meatballs are perfect as a main dish on any table. They are a good alternative to cutlets that are more familiar to us, but at the same time they are much healthier and have a more unusual taste. We will make today's delicious meat balls from minced turkey: you can buy it ready-made or cook it at home from a piece of fresh poultry fillet. The vegetable component of the minced meat will be carrots and zucchini.
You can add some onion or garlic to your turkey meatballs if you like. At home, you can prepare meat balls with any ingredients.
The step-by-step recipe with photos that we have presented below will tell you how to bake tender and juicy turkey meatballs and make them as healthy as possible. The basis will be steaming, and only then will we brown the meatballs in the oven. To make the meatballs more filling, we will add boiled rice to them: this way you can serve the dish even without side dishes. Cooking will not take much time, but the result will pleasantly surprise you and you will love the tender steamed turkey meatballs.
- turkey meat - 500 gr
- carrots - 1 pc.
- zucchini - 1 piece
- dried thyme - to taste
- cereals, rice - 150-200 g
- parmesan cheese - to taste
- olive oil - to taste
- salt - to taste
To prepare such simple and tender meatballs, we will need turkey fillet, which we will carefully grind in a meat grinder or in any other way known to you. To diversify the taste of the meat balls, we will add finely chopped carrots and one similarly chopped zucchini to the lean minced meat. Mix the ingredients thoroughly and add salt and dried thyme to taste. Wash and boil the rice in advance, and then add it to the meat: a third of the total meat is enough. Mix all the minced meat thoroughly until smooth, and then form it into neat small balls.
The bottom and sides of the multicooker bowl can be greased with olive oil or butter. Also, if necessary, reduce the amount of fat, you can line the mold with regular crumpled cabbage leaves. The turkey meatballs will steam for 10 minutes.
These meatballs can already be served as a main Lenten dish, however, you can make them even more appetizing and tender. Therefore, we place the meat balls on a baking sheet and sprinkle them with grated Parmesan cheese on top. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees in advance and place the baking sheet with meatballs in the uppermost compartment. Bake the dish for 8-10 minutes until golden brown and completely cooked.
We serve the finished dish hot and with a wide variety of salads. Steamed minced turkey meatballs with rice are ready.
Recipe 5: meatballs for children 1 year old (with photo)
Some experts say that it is very useful for children to prepare light meat dishes, especially when they are very young. Here is a recipe for making rabbit fillet meatballs for children under one year old. Then, based on them, you can prepare a wonderful soup.
- Rabbit fillet -0.6 kg;
- Fresh cabbage - 300 g;
- Carrots - 1 piece;
- Onion - 1 piece;
- Potatoes - 1 piece;
- Spices - to taste.
Wash the meat thoroughly and cut into pieces.
We make minced meat, cabbage, carrots and potatoes. I use an electric meat grinder for these purposes.
Add chopped onion and mix. There should still be more meat than vegetables. To make the minced meat softer, you can mince it twice.
Now let's form the meatballs. Wet your hands first, the meat will not stick.
And now the meatballs for a 1-year-old child are ready, you can immediately prepare the soup.
Beef option
Meatballs for a child are an ideal dish, and there are several explanations for this. First of all, they are very versatile. You can add whatever you want to them, including hiding a ton of healthy vegetables that kids don't like so much. Secondly, they are very easy to prepare. The concept is very simple: just put all the ingredients in a bowl, mix, create tiny balls with your hands and bake or boil. And even if they don’t turn out completely round, it’s not a big deal.
Plus, the meatballs freeze well. This way, you can safely double the amount of ingredients for a recipe, cook a large number of meat balls, cook some at once, and put the rest in the freezer. This is especially true if you are making meatballs for children under one year old, and a very small amount of food is needed for one meal. When you need to cook the next batch, just take them out of the freezer and start boiling or baking as usual, just 6-8 minutes longer.
For the beef version you will need the following:
- 500 grams of minced lean beef;
- 900 grams of boiled quinoa;
- 1 large apple;
- 2 tablespoons of tomato paste without salt;
- 1 egg;
- 3 tablespoons olive oil.
Recipe 6: Minced chicken meatballs for children
Today we offer you an amazing dish that will please your little gourmets - meatballs for children. This recipe will very soon become special, as your baby will be delighted with it. This amazing dish can be served as a main dish, or as one of the ingredients in soup. Meatballs can be decorated very beautifully and served in a fabulous interpretation, which kids will absolutely love.
- Minced chicken – 300 g
- Chicken eggs – 1 piece
- Rusks – 2 tbsp.
- Butter – 1 tsp.
- Milk – 150 ml
- Flour – 1 tbsp.
- Carrots to taste
- Greens to taste
First, let's gather all the ingredients together.
We make minced chicken or just buy it. Now mix with a raw egg, adding a little salt and pepper. Add breadcrumbs and mix everything thoroughly. Using thick minced meat, make small meatballs.
Boil water and cook the formed meatballs in it for 15 minutes. At this time, you need to heat the flour in a clean, dry frying pan, and then add milk to it. We do this in order to prepare an amazing milk sauce.
We take out the cooked meatballs and add them to the milk sauce. Simmer everything for 6-8 minutes. Meatballs for kids are ready to serve! Bon appetit!
Lentil option
Lentil and turkey meatballs are delicious and healthy. They are ideal for consumption alone or as an ingredient in soup. Because this food combination is high in fiber and protein, your baby will feel full for a long time. For this dish you will need:
- 3/4 cup green lentils;
- 2 glasses of water;
- 1 small carrot (about 100 grams);
- 1 small onion (about 70 grams);
- 1 large egg;
- 1/2 spoon of tea salt;
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme;
- half a glass of bread crumbs;
- 500 grams of minced turkey.
Recipe 7: Chicken meatballs for a child
- minced chicken - 150 gr.;
- carrots - quarter;
- onion - slice;
- dill - 2 sprigs;
- semolina - 1 tsp;
- sour cream 20% - 1 tsp.
Chop the dill and add to the minced meat.
Chop a small piece of onion very finely and add it to the minced meat.
Grate a piece of carrot as finely as possible and add it to the minced meat.
Add a little salt and ground black pepper and grind the minced meat with a fork so that all the components are reunited and the juice is released.
Add a teaspoon of semolina to the minced meat. (in the photo it looks like a tablespoon, but in fact, it is a standard teaspoon. And a teaspoon of sour cream. This is so that the minced meat does not crumble and keeps the shape of the meatballs well.
That's it, our minced meat is ready. Now you need to knead it thoroughly with your hands and beat it several times in a bowl. As a result of all these manipulations, we get a lump like this. Cover the bowl with minced meat with a lid (plate, film, etc.) and put it in the refrigerator for 40 minutes.
We take the minced meat out of the refrigerator and form it into balls of the desired diameter. I have these small, standard meatballs
Now a little about the cooking method. Through trial and error, I chose exactly this method, which I will talk about later, because the meatballs then turn out very juicy and tender, and tasty, of course.
I don’t have a modern double boiler, but I have this iron “sieve” that fits into a saucepan of any diameter. Pour a little water into the saucepan, cover with a lid, and you get a double boiler of the simplest design.
But, I also put a sheet of foil on this iron thing so that all the juice of the prepared food does not flow down, but remains in the foil.
I put the meatballs in this foil and pour a little water so that they don’t stick.
I close the foil and cover the saucepan with a lid.
In this way, the meatballs are cooked for about 30 minutes. They turn out very juicy with a little gravy. They taste amazing, they just melt in your mouth. The child eats them with pleasure. You can serve them with any side dish: porridge, potato or vegetable puree, pasta, etc. We had them with buckwheat.
Recipe 8: fish balls for children (step by step)
Fish balls are a dietary dish for children that can be offered to a child with any side dish - vegetables or cereals. Fish meatballs prepared according to this recipe turn out very tender and juicy. Thanks to the small size of the meatballs and delicate consistency, meatballs are convenient and easy to eat for children under one year old and a little older, who have not yet developed all their teeth.
Ready-made fish balls can be prepared not only as an independent dish, but also as a base for making very tasty fish soup for children.
To prepare fish balls for children, it is best to choose white sea fish: cod, haddock, pollock or hake.
- sea fish – 700 gr. (weight with bones and skin without head)
- white bread – 100 gr.
- milk – 170 ml.
- onion – 1 pc.
- parsley – 20 gr.
- salt – 1 tsp.
- egg – 1 pc.
for the sauce:
- water for broth - 0.5 l.
- flour - 2 tbsp.
- sour cream – 4 tbsp.
- butter – 2 tsp.
- salt - a pinch
Clean the fish: cut off the fins, head, remove the entrails, rinse the fish well under running water.
Separate the fillet from the skin and bones. Cut the fillet into small pieces.
Do not throw away the skin and bones of the fish; they will be needed for the sauce.
If white bread has a hard crust, cut it off. Soak white bread in milk.
Peel the onion and cut into quarters.
Wash the parsley and chop coarsely.
Before you start preparing the minced meat, cook the fish broth for the sauce. To do this, pour the prepared skin and bones with the required amount of water, bring to a boil over low heat and cook the broth for half an hour. Remove the finished broth from the heat.
Proceed to preparing the minced meat. Pass through a meat grinder twice pieces of fish fillet, previously soaked in milk and properly squeezed white bread, onion quarters, chopped parsley.
In a separate bowl, beat the raw egg well.
Add the egg to the minced fish and stir. Salt the minced meat and mix again.
With wet hands, form the minced fish into meatballs the size of a walnut.
Steam the meatballs for 10 minutes or place them in boiling water and cook for 10-15 minutes over medium heat until tender.
While the meatballs are cooking, prepare the sauce. Fry the flour in a frying pan until creamy and has a slight nutty smell.
Pour fish broth into the pan with flour, constantly stirring the mixture with a spatula so that no lumps form. If lumps still appear, the sauce must be strained. Let the sauce simmer over low heat for 2-3 minutes.
Feeding 1-year-old children is a process in which it is necessary not only to prepare tasty and healthy food, but also to try to feed the little fidget.
For this purpose, 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 get acquainted with the best meatball recipes for children under 1 year old.
At what age should it be introduced into the diet?
Every mother wonders when to start feeding her baby soup. Pediatricians disagree. Some experts allow the introduction of liquid from 6 months, others allow only after 11–12.
But there is also a common opinion, which most doctors adhere to - breastfed children are given the first dose later than babies fed formula.
It is worth noting that the soup is easy to prepare. Even a beginner can master its recipe, especially since the dish can be cooked both on the stove and in a slow cooker.
What ingredients to use
The kids' first friends on their menu are vegetables; they are what the soup is cooked with. Potatoes, carrots and white cabbage will be a good addition to lean broth. It is better to offer meat and dishes from it at one and a half years.
Introduction Tips:
- It is recommended to give meat to your baby after he has tasted the puree from this product.
- You can accustom your child to new food by adding it to already familiar dishes, for example, broth with vegetables.
- For the first time, 1–2 tsp will be enough for the child. soup, then increase the volume by 1-2 tablespoons.
- For a balanced diet, prepare different broths. Alternate milk, vegetable, meat and fish soups daily, taking into account the age range.
The inclusion of new dishes in the children's menu depends on the baby's development, the presence of teeth and individual food preferences.
How to start complementary feeding
To begin with, one spoon of broth, which is used as an additive to vegetable puree, is enough. If the new product is suitable, then increase the portions every day to 30 ml. But until the baby is one year old, you should not give more than 50 ml.
After a year, you can safely introduce chicken, beef, and meatballs made from them into your diet. At this time, there is no longer any need to limit portions. At 1–2 years old, a child can safely eat 200–250 ml of meat broth.
After 12 months, babies are also prepared meatballs and cutlets from chicken or turkey, if meat broth is suitable.
Meatballs for children - basic cooking principles
First of all, I would like to note that this product is loved by both children and adults.
Because it is very nourishing, tasty, aromatic and appetizing. But before introducing this dish into your child’s diet, you must remember that: 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.
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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 food and add it 3 minutes before it is 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.
Greenery
. 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 of cereals.
Types of soups
In cooking, there are thousands of recipes for various soups. Depending on the products included, they can be divided into the following types:
- Vegetable . Such dishes basically contain only vegetables and some permitted seasonings, and nothing else. While the child is not allowed to eat meat or fish, the mother can cook him vegetable soup with a puree consistency.
- Meat . Soups with meat broth can be given starting from a year (in general, at the same time as the meat itself). The first meat soups may contain ground turkey or rabbit meat. And only after the child learns to chew the meat in pieces. Meatball soup falls into this category.
- Fishy . In principle, it is not prohibited to introduce fish broth soup into the diet at the same time as meat broth. The broth is prepared from low-fat varieties.
- Cereal (pasta) . Children's soup is cooked by adding various cereals (rice, buckwheat, corn) or pasta, vermicelli, noodles to vegetable or meat broth.
- Dairy . The basis of the soup is milk, and the components can be various cereals, pasta, and noodles.
- Mushroom . The basis for cooking is different types of mushrooms, but soups with such broth should not be offered to children under 3 years of age, as well as mushrooms in their pure form (and some pediatricians even recommend abstaining from mushroom dishes until the age of 7).
- Cheesy . In this case, cheese is used as an addition to meat or vegetable broth. It is better to choose varieties that melt and melt well.
All other types, such as rassolnik (with pickled cucumbers), kharcho, solyanka, should not be offered to a child under 3 years old due to the high content of salt, spices and herbs.
Recipe 2. Baby chicken meatballs
Ingredients:
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 the 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 add bay leaves and herbs to.
Recipe 3. Meatballs with semolina
Ingredients:
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.
Recipe 4. Meatballs from dietary meats for children
Ingredients:
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.
Recipe 6. Meatballs with cottage cheese “Tender”
Ingredients:
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.
Pork version
As noted above, this meat is rarely used to make meatballs for children. But this dish is something of an exception, as it has a delicate taste and texture. For it you will need:
- 750 grams of minced lean pork;
- 1 egg;
- half a glass of bread crumbs;
- half a glass of milk;
- half a glass of chopped onion;
- 1.5 l.h. salt;
- 1/2 tablespoon of marjoram;
- 2 tablespoons flour;
- 4 tablespoons vegetable oil;
- 1 glass of meat or chicken low-fat broth;
- 1 glass of water;
- 3/4 cup sour cream;
- half a glass of milk.
Recipe 7. Meatball and noodle soup for children
Ingredients (per 1 liter of water):
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.
Recipe 8. Soup with frying
Ingredients (for 1 serving):
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.
How to cook meatballs with spinach?
Preheat the oven to 200°C. Place the spinach, olive oil and lemon zest in a food processor and blend until smooth. Place this mixture in a bowl with the minced chicken, bread crumbs and salt and mix until combined.
Using a tablespoon and your hands, make balls the size of walnuts. Place them in a deep baking dish, lightly greased. If you are preparing meatballs for a 1 year old child, bake them for 25-30 minutes and do not add anything else. If you are making dinner for older children, first bake the meat balls for five minutes, then pour freshly prepared tomato sauce over them and bake for another 15 minutes.
How to make sauce? Heat olive oil in a deep frying pan over low heat. Sauté onion and garlic until soft, 3-4 minutes. Add the tomato paste, pureed tomatoes and water and continue cooking for another 10-15 minutes until the sauce has reduced in volume and becomes thick.