Despite the large assortment of canned baby purees, many parents prefer to cook for their little ones themselves. However, in this case, you must carefully follow the rules for processing products.
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Instructions
Step 1
Give preference to steam cooking for preparing children's meals, as it provides the greatest preservation of nutrients. For these purposes, it is more convenient to use a double boiler.
Step 2
Grind food with a meat grinder, grater, wipe through a fine sieve, or use a blender or food processor. Keep your dishes always perfectly clean. For babies 4-7 months old, prepare a semi-liquid puree, for babies 8-10 months old, the consistency of the puree can be thicker. It is necessary to cook mashed dishes up to 1, 5-2 years, but you can not grind the products so thoroughly.
Step 3
Do not use hot seasonings and spices for making baby purees. From 8-9 months it is allowed to add small amounts of onions, dill, garlic, herbs. Children over 1 year old can be slightly salted with mashed potatoes, but not more than 0, 2-0, 3 g of salt per 100 g of product.
Step 4
Give children fresh fruits and berries. Select only ripe fruits for making mashed potatoes, without rot and bruising. Rinse them thoroughly, remove the seeds and peel the skin as needed. Pour boiling water over the fruits and rub them in a blender until puree, the berries are easier to rub through a sieve. Some fruits, for example apricots, plums, need to be boiled a little in a little water, without bringing them to a boil, just so that they become softer.
Step 5
Rinse vegetables with a brush before mashing them. Cut off the rind as thinly as possible, as the vitamins are found on the outside of the fruit. Do not use frozen, green fruits. Rinse vegetables again in running water after cleaning. Then, to remove nitrates and other harmful compounds, soak the fruits in cool water: potatoes for 12-24 hours, other vegetables for 1-2 hours. After that, steam the vegetables. If this is not possible, then cook the food in a small amount of boiling water under the lid. After that, rub them in a puree. Dilute the vegetable puree with milk - breast milk or, after 10 months of age, cow's, vegetable broth, so that the puree is not too thick. In addition, you can add 0.5 tsp vegetable oil.
Step 6
Watch the temperature of the food - mashed potatoes should be about 40 ° C. Make mashed potatoes for your baby just before eating - you can store it in the refrigerator for no more than two hours.
