Do you want to please your baby with a delicious dish that he will definitely like? Make pizza - one of the favorite treats for children of completely different ages and taste preferences!
Despite the widespread belief that pizza is harmful to health, nutritionists say the opposite, insisting that if all cooking rules are followed, this dish can even be healthy.
The key is to choose healthy toppings and avoid fatty sauces and processed foods. Give preference to boiled meat or minced meat prepared at home, and then pizza can be served even to a child aged 2 years!
We have collected simple and delicious pizza recipes for kids, which will not harm the child’s growing body and will definitely cheer him up.
How to prepare pizza dough?
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Let's start with the most important thing - preparing universal pizza dough. For kids, it is not at all necessary to prepare large-sized cakes; you can limit yourself to mini-pizza, the size of a saucer.
Ingredients:
- Sour cream – 200 g
- Eggs – 2 pcs.
- Butter – 50 g
- Soda - 1/3 tsp.
- Flour – 2 half-liter jars
How to cook?
Melt the butter and cool it. Mix sour cream with soda and stir, add eggs and butter. Knead, add 2/3 cans of flour and knead the dough. We use the rest of the flour for rolling. From the finished dough we make small circles with a small side - this way the pizza will be juicier.
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Pizza with chicken and tomatoes
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Ingredients:
- Tomato – 2-3 pcs.
- Chicken fillet – 1 pc.
- Sour cream – 1 tbsp. l.
- Hard cheese – 30-50 g
- Greens - to taste
How to cook?
Finely chop all the ingredients and add sour cream to them, mix. Grate some of the tomatoes onto a fine grater and brush the resulting mixture onto the crust, then add the filling, the remaining tomatoes cut into rings, finely chopped herbs and sprinkle with cheese. Bake at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes, sprinkle with grated cheese before serving.
Cheese pizza wrapped in cone
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Ingredients:
- Hard cheese – 100 g
- Mozzarella – 250 g
- Parmesan – 50 g
- Tomato – 2 pcs.
- Basil
How to cook?
We cut out a cone from cardboard, fasten it with a stapler and wrap it with foil on all sides. Roll out the dough, cut out circles and put them inside the cones. Place them in the oven and bake the dough at 200-220 degrees for 5-10 minutes.
We fill the finished cakes with a filling of finely grated tomatoes and cheeses, and put them back in the oven until ready. Sprinkle the finished pizza with Parmesan and garnish with basil.
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How to make pizza for children at home? There’s no need to be too clever here: you take any pizza dough, take whatever topping you can get your hands on, and then use your imagination!
Among the food products there are a huge number of those from which you can lay out all sorts of funny mosaics. For example, I came across making smiling faces from four classic ingredients that are very often found in pizza fillings: eyes - from olives, cheeks - from tomatoes, mouth - from salami, nose - from champignon. See what you have at your disposal - and go ahead! I guarantee the kids will love it! Well, maybe older teenagers will start telling you that they are no longer children, and they can have pizza WITHOUT ALL THIS, but the little ones will be guaranteed to be happy!
Of course, it makes sense to first study the tastes of the audience - among children it often happens that someone does not eat something. Well, we need to monitor the quality of sausages. But I think if you always control what your children eat, you will do it without me.
Knead the dough from 400 g flour, 250 ml water, 2 tbsp. vegetable oil, 1 tbsp. pizza seasoning, 1 tsp. salt and the amount of yeast required for 400 g of flour according to the instructions on the package (I used 5-6 g, but yeast may vary from manufacturer to manufacturer). Knead for about 10 minutes, you should get a smooth lump.
Cover the container with the dough with film or a lid and let it rise 2-3 times in a warm place.
When the dough has risen, cut the olives into halves along the axis, the tomatoes along the axis, the sausage into half circles, and the champignons into pucks.
Three cheeses on a coarse grater.
We begin to heat the oven to the maximum temperature available for you. For me it’s up to 300°C.
Roll out the dough to about 3-4 mm thick.
We cut out circles of children's pizzas from it with some not-so-small bowl.
Place the pieces on baking sheets on top of pastry paper. You should get at least 8 pizzas, that's 2 baking sheets.
Spread passata (sautéed tomatoes) or pizza sauce over the dough, about 1 tbsp. per serving.
Sprinkle pizza with cheese.
On each pizza we put a face with eyes, cheeks, nose and mouth.
We bake the pizzas in the oven at the highest temperature available to you until done - until the edges are golden brown. For me, at 300 degrees on medium with air circulation, it took 5 minutes.
You can decorate children's pizza with basil leaves. The children will be happy! In fact, they do not always understand that the faces were laid out on purpose and did not happen by accident, but they are always happy about them. Tested on several generations of kindergarteners, primary schoolchildren, and now this recipe has been passed on to high school with my son.
Delight your picky little ones with funny pizzas with faces! Today I want to share the idea of designing a children's mini pizza for our beloved children, which can be prepared from available products! Prepare these mini-pizzas and the problem of how to feed the kids for today will be solved!
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Pizza with veal
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Ingredients:
- Veal – 250 g
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Cheese - 200 g
- Butter - 50 g
- Garlic – 2 cloves
- Tomato - 3 pcs.
- Salt
How to cook?
Finely chop the onion and cut the veal into strips. Fry in olive oil, add chopped garlic and salt. Cut the tomatoes into small cubes. Grease a baking sheet with butter and place the fried veal and tomatoes on the rolled out dough. Sprinkle with grated cheese and place in the oven. Bake at 220 degrees for 20-30 minutes.
Step-by-step preparation
Step 1:
For pizza, you can use ready-made dough, but I prepared it in a bread machine. It’s no problem for me and I really appreciate it, because I have three small children! We load the products in the following sequence
Sugar, salt, vegetable oil, milk and 50 ml water
Step 4:
Turn on the “Dough Kneading” program. After 2-3 minutes, open the lid and add 150 ml. boiling water The result is choux pastry, it is very pliable to work with and soft for several days.
Step 5:
Load products in the order specified in your bread machine model. We got this little bun
Step 6:
While the dough is preparing, cut the ingredients and prepare the sauce. I didn’t have time to do this, so the photo shows the finished dough. Boil the chicken in advance and grind in a blender
Prepare the sauce: place onion and garlic in heated oil, sauté a little
Add tomato juice and turn up the heat. After 10 minutes, add tomato paste and wait until the liquid evaporates
Step 9:
Rub in a blender or through a sieve. The sauce is ready! Add Provencal herbs to it during cooking and get Italian marinara sauce! I didn’t add it today because... my kids don't really like them
Step 10:
We make these faces from the dough - the base for pizza. Half of this amount of dough was used, and from the second half we made an adult pizza.
Lubricate with the resulting sauce
Step 12:
Sprinkle with boiled chicken and then cheese and leave to rise a little. Then bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 30 minutes. Find your way around your oven
Step 13:
While the pizzas are baking, let's cut the ingredients. I have a little more in the description of the products for the filling - I wrote with a margin so that you can choose the beautiful pieces you need, and the remaining products will be useful for an adult pizza. I made the sausage patch using a glass and a straw
Our pizzas are ready. Now all that remains is to decorate them beautifully.
Step 15:
Let's decorate. Now you can call the kids, they will be happy to help you at this stage!
My kids really liked these pizzas. Try cooking it too!
Pizza super meaty
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Ingredients:
- Bacon – 170 g
- Beef – 120 g
- Pepperoni – 100 g
- Cheese - 220 g
- Homemade tomato sauce - ⅔ cup
How to cook?
Cut the beef into small pieces and fry in olive oil. Drain off any excess liquid, brush the dough with sauce, and top the crust with beef, pepperoni slices, and bacon slices. Add grated cheese and place the pizza in the oven for 10-15 minutes.
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Creative ideas
Let's look at interesting design ideas. Pizza face. Oval-shaped pieces of cheese will be the whites of the eyes. Make the pupils from olives. For the mouth and nose, take thin slices of green sweet pepper.
Pizza for children “Clock”. Place round pieces of ham along the edge of the flatbread and place olives between them. This way you have a dial. Cover the rest of the flatbread with grated cheese. Place one olive in the center. “Attach” arrows from thin pieces of green bell pepper to it.
Mini pizza with pineapple and Italian sausage
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Ingredients:
- Canned pineapple - 1 can
- Italian sausages – 200 g
- Mozzarella – 230 g
- Homemade tomato sauce - ⅔ cup
How to cook?
Fry Italian sausages without oil over medium heat, drain off excess fat and add finely chopped pineapple pieces to the pan, fry until golden brown.
Brush small pizza crusts with tomato sauce, add toppings and sprinkle with mozzarella. Bake for 10-15 minutes.
Vitamin pizza with broccoli and cauliflower
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Ingredients:
- Broccoli and cauliflower – 400 g
- Egg – 1 pc.
- Hard cheese – 100 g
- Tomatoes – 2 pcs.
- Olive oil – 2 tsp.
- Salt
How to cook?
Grind the cabbage in a blender and place in the oven for 5 minutes. Bake at 180 degrees and cool. Add the egg, olive oil, grated cheese and a pinch of salt to the resulting cabbage mixture. Grind the tomato using a blender, grease the pizza crust with the tomato mixture and put the cabbage filling on top, sprinkle with grated cheese. Place the pizza in the oven and bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees.
Pizza recipe for children
- First you need to prepare the filling. First, clean the chicken meat from veins and cut into pieces (small).
- Then place the basil leaves and chopped tomatoes in a blender. Puree everything, then add salt to taste.
- Now prepare the dough. To do this, pour flour (sifted) into a bowl, add a pinch of salt and baking powder. Stir. Then add the egg and cottage cheese. Mix the mixture thoroughly with a fork.
- Then pour in olive oil and milk. Knead into a homogeneous dough. Then divide into eight pieces. Make a small circle out of each (you can do it with your hands or use a rolling pin).
- Then pour in tomato juice, add fillet pieces, and spread over the surface of the pizza. Then add three or four chiliegini.
- Then transfer the prepared pizzas to a baking sheet, which you have previously covered with parchment.
- Pizza for a child is baked in an oven preheated to two hundred degrees for 20 minutes.
Vegetable pizza with cheese
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Ingredients:
- Vegetables (tomatoes, zucchini, broccoli, carrots, green peas, onions) - to your taste
- Cream - 200 ml.
- Eggs – 2 pcs.
- Cheese
- Salt
How to cook?
Cut the vegetables and cook. Place finely chopped vegetables to taste on the rolled out dough. In a separate container, mix the cream with the eggs, stir, add salt and grated cheese. Pour the mixture over the pizza and bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
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Secrets of working with dough
What are the subtleties of working with the dough? Irina Conte, who lived in Rome for ten years and studied the local cuisine well, will talk about this. Now she conducts master classes for those who want to learn how to cook Italian cuisine, including pizza.
“Knead the dough well - let it be saturated with air bubbles, become elastic and pleasant to the touch. And then be sure to let it rest for a while under a damp cloth or cling film. During this time, the ingredients will come into contact with each other, exchange flavors and aromas, and the yeast will begin to secrete the necessary enzymes to make the dough rise, become light, fluffy, airy and tasty. If you use MAKFA flour, designed specifically for pizza, the dough will turn out exactly like this.
Before rolling it out, sprinkle the table not with flour, but with semolina, because excess flour will change the texture of the pizza, and we don’t need that at all. It is better to form the cake not with a rolling pin, but with your hands, otherwise the dough will need additional time to rise. Make the edges a little thicker, otherwise they will become dry and hard during baking.
Bake the pizza for 8-10 minutes at 250°C, provided that the dough is not very thick and the filling does not need to be cooked.”
Blueberry sweet pizza
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Ingredients:
- Curd cheese – 120 g
- Blueberry jam - 1/3 cup
- Grated mozzarella cheese – 1 cup
- Fresh blueberries – 1 cup
How to cook?
Grease the pre-baked pizza crust with cottage cheese. Top with a layer of blueberry jam, sprinkle with mozzarella and then fresh blueberries.
Place the pizza in an oven preheated to 210 degrees and bake for 15-20 minutes until the cheese is completely melted. It is better to serve pizza to the children's table when it has cooled.
What should we give up?
A pizza recipe for children should be as healthy and tasty as possible. Many ingredients familiar to adults will have to be excluded, because the child may either not like them, or they may be harmful to him.
- You will definitely have to give up mayonnaise, because the product is very dangerous for an adult. For the children's digestive system, the high calorie content, preservatives, emulsifiers and harmful fats that mayonnaise is generous with are too much of a burden.
- Where there is mayonnaise, there is often ketchup. The advertisement tries to convince that it contains only fresh tomatoes and nothing else. We lost faith in its naturalness a long time ago. In fact, in addition to tomatoes, it contains starch, vinegar, preservatives, dyes, gum, stabilizers and other components undesirable for children.
- Mushrooms are another food that is undesirable for a child. Some mothers even limit its use until the age of 14. The culprit is chitin and harmful substances that mushrooms easily absorb when growing. Therefore, we choose recipes for making children's beer without this product.
- Onions are an excellent helper for children's immunity, but few children love them because of their specific taste. If your child is suspicious of it, then let the pizza recipe be without onions.
- The same situation occurs with olives and olives. For young children, this choice may seem strange if they do not like the product. Therefore, before cooking, be sure to consult your little expert about the composition of the pizza.
- Smoked meats and sausage are another not the best option for serving on a children's table. And here's why: modern types of sausages contain harmful fats, soy, starch, carcinogens, egg powder and other harmful ingredients.
- Our usual pizza toppings often include seafood. But some modern types of seafood are produced using components that are hazardous to children's health. Besides, kids just don’t like their taste.
How to cook pizza at home without these (oh, how delicious!) ingredients, so that you get a healthy and satisfying dish for children? Many recipes are perfect for both a weekday dinner and a child’s birthday: you’ll see that you won’t be able to drag little guests away by the ears from such a treat!
Chocolate pizza
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Ingredients:
- Melted butter – 2 tsp.
- Chocolate cream - 1/4 cup
- Dark chocolate chips - 1/2 cup
- Milk chocolate chips – 2 tbsp. l.
- White chocolate chips - 2 tbsp. l.
- Chopped hazelnuts - 2 tbsp. l.
How to cook?
Grease shortbreads with a small edge and place in the oven. Bake at 230 degrees until it is covered with a crust. Grease the hot finished cakes with chocolate cream, sprinkle with chocolate chips from dark, milk and white chocolate, and put them back in the oven for 1 minute. Sprinkle the pizza with nuts and serve.
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Pizza with cream cheese, berries and strawberries
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Ingredients:
- Mascarpone cheese – 100 g
- Strawberry – 25 g
- Blueberries – 25 g
- Blackberries – 25 g
- Raspberries – 25 g
- Chocolate cream – 80 g
- Powdered sugar
- Mint
How to cook?
Grease shortbreads with a small edge and place in the oven. Bake at 230 degrees until it is covered with a crust. Grease the finished cakes with mascarpone cheese. If desired, it can be replaced with any other cream cheese or even condensed milk.
Grease the cakes with chocolate cream, cut the strawberries into two parts and place them on the pizza. Add a mix of berries, sprinkle with powdered sugar and decorate with mint leaves.
Optimal age and input features
It is important that children’s diet includes homemade pizza, not store-bought, and only with ingredients that are safe for the child.
- According to doctors, even the lightest pizza should not appear in the diet of a toddler under two years of age.
- The first pizza your child tries should be as single-ingredient as possible. For example, you can put tomato sauce and mozzarella on the dough.
- The first dish should include ingredients that the baby is already familiar with. It must contain no harmful ingredients.
- The first time the little one is given a very small portion of the finished product. It is better if the child tries pizza in the morning, so that there is enough time to monitor the response of his body.
- It is important to know that side effects can appear even two days after eating pizza. Therefore, it is extremely necessary not to introduce any new foods into the children's diet during this period of time.
- If the child’s body reacted normally to this dish, you can give him pizza again, but only in the same form as the first time (freshly prepared with the same ingredients).
- If negative manifestations appear, acquaintance with pizza should be postponed until at least three years.
- Parents should know that even after the baby gets acquainted with pizza and reacts normally to it, this dish should not be present in the children's diet more than once every two weeks, and then in small quantities.
My son first tried pizza when he was four years old. The child really liked this dish. Since then, pizza has been an essential component of the holiday table.
