Babies grow up day by day. Apart from their good appetite, their requirements for supplementary foods are getting higher and higher. They not only need nutrition matching, but also ensure that simple foods such as color, aroma and taste, rice paste, vegetable paste and meat paste can no longer be filled (burnt) with them without adding additional condiments.
Are there any recipes that can not only make the baby happy to eat, but also are simple, time-consuming, laborious, nutritious and delicious?
Don’t say, there are such recipes. They all have a common feature, that is, they make full use of steaming and boiling cooking methods, which can not only save cooking time, but also retain nutrients in food materials to the maximum extent.
Let’s take a look at how to cook a meal for the baby by steaming and boiling.
First Meal: Steamed Rice and Steamed Vegetables
Step 1 Steamed rice
Technical difficulty:
Preparation time: 10 ~ 20 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Main Material
Rice, brown rice, pork (sliced), yam (sliced), kelp (diced), chestnut (cut in half), flower bean
Auxiliary materials
Starch, rapeseed oil, sesame oil, scallion, garlic, sesame
Practice
1. Pour the processed yam, kelp, rice, brown rice, garlic, flower beans and other ingredients into a bowl and mix, add a small amount of sesame oil and stir evenly.
2. Treat pork slices with starch and vegetable oil, spread them on the well-stirred rice, and then spread a layer of chestnuts.
3. Steam the rice in a steamer or high-voltage electric rice cooker, and sprinkle scallion segments and sesame seeds fried in advance on it after taking it out of the cooker.
Step 2 Steamed Vegetables
Technical difficulty:
Preparation time: 10 ~ 20 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Main Material
Green beans, pumpkin (sliced), chicken breast (chopped), seafood mushroom (diced)
Auxiliary materials
Starch, Rapeseed Oil, Sesame Oil, Sesame
Practice
1. Stir chicken and diced seafood mushrooms evenly with starch and vegetable oil (the meat grasped with starch and vegetable oil tastes smoother and tender), knead them into balls, and decorate them with pumpkin slices.
2. Wash the green beans, put them into the pan and add water, put the steaming rack on the pan, put the prepared chicken and pumpkin on the steaming rack, and cook the green beans and steamed vegetables simultaneously.
3. After cooking, sprinkle sesame seeds fried in advance on the steamed vegetables, peel off the green beans and put them into a bowl.
Ding Ma’s Comments on
Adding brown rice, potatoes (such as yams and sweet potatoes), beans (such as mung beans and flower beans) and other ingredients when steaming rice can make up for the loss of a large amount of B vitamins and dietary fiber in refined rice and make nutrients more comprehensive.
Meat, bean products, vegetables, bacteria and algae, coarse cereals and other food materials are matched to make the diet more diversified. At the same time, steaming has less loss of vitamins and other nutrients in food than frying, and in the steaming process, people do not need to keep in front of the pan all the time, thus saving time relatively.
Second meal: cooking and noodles
Noodles in Vegetable Soup
Technical difficulty:
Preparation time: 10 ~ 20 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Main Material
Pig liver (diced), noodles (broken), tomato (diced), water bamboo (shredded), balsam pear (sliced)
Auxiliary materials
Garlic, shredded ginger, scallion, rapeseed oil
Practice
1. Put a small amount of base oil into the pan, stir-fry tomatoes, stir-fry juice, add water to boil.
2. Add noodles, pork liver, water bamboo, balsam pear, shredded ginger and garlic to the pan, and sprinkle scallion segments when leaving the pan.
Ding Ma’s Comments on
Pig liver is rich in high-quality protein and is a high-quality source of heme iron, vitamin A and vitamin B2. However, care should be taken not to overdose it when giving it to your baby. You can eat it 1-2 times a week and not more than 20g at a time.
The baby’s diet should be kept light as far as possible. No salt should be added within 1 year old, and less salt should be eaten within 1-3 years old. Other condiments such as soy sauce, monosodium glutamate and chicken essence also have relatively high salt content, and also need to be limited. The total amount per day should not exceed 1 gram.
When parents cook in Beibao, they can make more use of the natural flavor of food materials to enhance flavor, such as tomatoes, garlic, chives, sesame, onions, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc.
Meal 3: Pasta with Stuffing
Steamed buns, dumplings, steamed dumplings
Technical difficulty:
Preparation time: 2 hours for dumplings and steamed dumplings, 3 hours for steamed buns
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Main Material
Flour, lean pork (chopped), thousands of thin pieces (diced), carrots (diced), onions (diced), black fungus (diced), black rice + glutinous rice (soaked in the refrigerator for one day in advance for easy cooking)
Auxiliary materials
Segments of scallion, garlic, camellia oil, sesame oil, rapeseed oil
Practice
1. Dough: Dumplings or steamed dumplings need to be kneaded. Steamed buns need to ferment the dough. After the dough is kneaded, stuffing can be prepared between the wakes.
2. Stuffing: Chop and dice all kinds of materials and stir evenly.
3. Rolling out dough: This is a technical job. Rolling out to the appropriate size and thickness as needed is enough. The dough for steamed dumplings is thinner than that for dumplings.
4. Bag: It’s really casual to wrap it like what. Practice makes perfect. More bags will look better. At first, just make sure it doesn’t spread out. Also pay attention to the small size of the bag, which is convenient for the baby to eat and take, and is not easy to cause waste.
5. It takes a lot of time to do it once, but fortunately, it can be frozen and preserved quickly and can be eaten several times. Overall, it still saves time. After dumplings are ready, they can be directly put into the freezer of the refrigerator for quick freezing. Steamed buns (steamed buns) can be quickly frozen while hot after steaming. When eating, they can be steamed or boiled with 2-3.
Ding Ma’s Comments on
Steamed buns, dumplings and other foods can be made with rich ingredients to increase the diversity of daily meals.
Take the recipe in this article as an example, Flour and black rice, glutinous rice can provide carbohydrate and cereal protein, Pork and thousands of pieces (bean products) provide high-quality protein and fat-soluble vitamins and minerals, carrots, onions and black fungus provide water-soluble vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber, vegetable oil provides unsaturated fatty acids and vitamin E, onion, garlic, sesame oil and onion can enhance flavor and flavor of food.
Quick freezing is also a storage method that has less loss of nutrients in food. If you are worried about the shortage of vitamins and dietary fiber, you can cut some fresh vegetables and put them in when cooking.
Although steamed buns and steamed dumplings that need to be heated repeatedly will lose some nutrients, mainly vitamin C and a small amount of B vitamins, the loss is limited, and the main nutrients including protein are not lost, which can also be made up with some fresh vegetables and fruits.
Share a few tips
Although it is a laborious task to prepare food for the baby, there are also some tips to reduce the burden on parents:
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Take a small portion of each of the ingredients prepared for adults and match them reasonably, so that they can be used to make supplementary foods for babies, and it is not necessary to prepare ingredients specially for children.
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Use the freezer compartment of the refrigerator to prepare quick-frozen food for children. You can eat it several times at a time, which can appropriately reduce the pressure of cooking.
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Taking advantage of the opportunity to cook other meals (stew or cooking) to steam supplementary food for the baby, the loss of food nutrients is less, time is saved, and energy is saved.
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When buying vegetables, one should pay attention to the matching of the color, taste and type of ingredients, so as to give balanced nutrition to children and the whole family.
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If the baby does not have food allergy, the ingredients in the above recipes can be freely replaced by [principle of similar exchange], for example, pork and beef can be replaced with fish and shrimp meat, flower beans can be replaced with mung beans, red beans, etc.