Light soups should definitely be included in the children's menu. The first courses intended for the nutrition of children should not be excessively fatty and rich, as well as spicy, spicy.
Diet soups are the basis of the diet of young children. The first courses that do not contain hot spices, harmful additives are called children's first courses. Such soups are prepared on non-rich meat or fish broths. Vegetable soups are also popular.
When preparing meals for babies, special attention is paid to serving. Children may not like puree soup, but if green pea eyes or some funny decorations appear on its surface, the appetite increases. There are many recipes for preparing first courses for the smallest family members.
Children's soup with fish meatballs
Fish is a source of calcium, phosphorus and other valuable minerals necessary for the normal development of a child's body. To make a delicious and healthy homemade soup with fish meatballs, you will need:
- 100 g fish fillet (preferably pike perch or cod);
- a slice of wheat bread;
- some butter;
- 100 ml of milk;
- a handful of green beans;
- egg yolk;
- 2 potatoes;
- half a celery root;
- salt to taste.
Cooking steps:
- Rinse the fish fillets well. Soak a slice of bread (it is better to take wheat bread or a loaf) in milk. When the bread is very soft, pass it through a meat grinder along with fish fillets 2 times. If there is no meat grinder, you can grind the bread with fish with a blender, but in this case the structure of the minced meat will turn out to be less uniform.
- Add butter, egg yolk to the minced meat. Salt the mixture quite a bit, as the soup is intended for baby food, and mix well. Blind meatballs from the mass. Their size should be about the size of a walnut. A little trick - you need to wet your hands before forming the meatballs so that the minced meat does not stick to them.
- Peel the celery root and potatoes. Dice vegetables. Rinse the green beans well and chop not very coarsely.
- Pour water into a saucepan and put celery cubes with potatoes. Boil for 10 minutes, then add the beans and put the meatballs in the vegetable broth. Cook the soup for about 5 minutes. The meatballs should float to the surface.
- Pour the soup into bowls and serve. You can decorate the dish with chopped herbs, which are an additional source of vitamins.
Vegetable broccoli soup
Vegetable soups have a minimum calorie content and are even suitable for feeding babies. Broccoli is a vegetable that contains a lot of vitamins and minerals, so nutritionists recommend using this ingredient when making soups for children. To make a simple soup you will need:
- 100 g broccoli;
- 2 potato tubers;
- small carrots;
- half an onion;
- a little vegetable oil;
- salt;
- a tomato.
Cooking steps:
- Divide the broccoli into inflorescences, remove very hard parts and spoiled areas.
- Peel potatoes and carrots. Cut potato tubers into cubes, and carrots into thin slices or grate. Finely chop the peeled onion. Cut the tomato crosswise in the upper part, and then scald with boiling water and remove the skin. Cut the tomato into cubes.
- In a frying pan, fry quite a bit onions and carrots. The vegetables should not burn. It is enough to fry them with stirring for 1 minute to soften them slightly.
- Pour water into a saucepan, put potatoes and broccoli, boil for about 7 minutes. Then put the fried onions with carrots, tomato cubes in it, add a little salt and cook for about 10 minutes more.
Pumpkin cream soup for babies
Pumpkin-based soups are great for kids. The first courses in the form of mashed potatoes can be given even to babies from the age of 10 months. To prepare such a soup, you will need:
- 300 g pumpkin;
- potato tuber;
- small young carrot;
- 1 tsp olive oil;
- half an onion.
Cooking steps:
- First, peel the pumpkin and cut into large cubes. It is better to choose pumpkin with dense orange or bright yellow flesh for the soup. These varieties contain the highest amount of vitamins and are characterized by a high sugar content.
- Peel potatoes, carrots and onions. Cut the potatoes and young carrots into small cubes, and finely chop the onion. If the carrots are large and tough, it is better to grate them so that they boil faster.
- Pour water into a saucepan, put carrots, potatoes and onions, boil for about 7 minutes, then add pumpkin cubes and cook another 5-7. All vegetables should be soft.
- Drain some of the vegetable broth into a cup, add a spoonful of olive oil and puree the soup with a blender. If the soup is too thick, you can add more broth. You can replace some of the broth with cream. But this is permissible only for feeding babies from 2 years old.
Buckwheat soup
A very tasty and aromatic soup can be prepared on the basis of chicken broth with the addition of buckwheat. This will require the following ingredients:
- 150 g chicken breast;
- half a carrot;
- 2 tbsp. l buckwheat;
- half an onion;
- large potato tuber.
Cooking steps:
- Rinse a piece of chicken breast, put it in a saucepan with cold water, bring to a boil, then drain the water and bring to a boil again, cook for about 15 minutes. Foam forms during cooking. It must be removed with a slotted spoon.
- Peel potatoes, carrots and onions. Chop the onion very finely. Cut the potatoes into cubes and the carrots into thin circles.
- Remove the chicken breast from the broth and cut the meat into pieces. You can disassemble it into thin fibers by hand.
- Add vegetables to the broth and cook for about 5 minutes. Sort the buckwheat, sort out the black and damaged cereals, rinse and pour into a saucepan. Cook the soup for another 10 minutes. Add chopped chicken breast to it 2 minutes before being ready.
You can add some chopped herbs to each serving.
Pea puree soup for children
The classic smoked pea soup is not suitable for baby food. To prepare a dish that can be perfect for a children's menu, you will need:
- 100 g of meat (preferably chicken or beef);
- 1-2 tbsp peas;
- large potato tuber;
- small carrots;
- a quarter of an onion.
Cooking steps:
- Put the meat in a saucepan with water, bring to a boil, then drain the broth, add a new portion of water and cook for about 20 minutes. It is necessary that the meat is cooked completely, and then chop from the broth.
- Soak peas in water for 2 hours. Put the peas in a boiling broth and cook for 1-1.5 hours. Add diced potatoes and finely chopped onion and carrots cut into thin slices 20 minutes before readiness.
- 5 minutes before being ready, put the chopped meat into the soup. You can puree it with a blender or simply pour it into plates.
Milk soup for children
Milk soups can be offered even to children under 1 year old. To make an unusually simple, but tasty and healthy dish, you will need:
- 1, 5 glasses of milk;
- a little sugar;
- butter;
- spider web pasta (2 tablespoons).
Cooking steps:
- Pour the milk into a heavy-bottomed saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Pour pasta into milk and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. If the soup is not stirred, the pasta can clump and settle to the bottom.
- Add a little sugar and butter to the soup. You can skip the butter in this recipe. You should focus on the age of the child.
Milk soups are recommended to be included in the children's menu every week. If you need to prepare a meal for a baby with a pronounced allergy to cow's milk protein, you can replace the milk with a diluted milk formula.
