It is very important that the baby’s first food after breast milk has a delicate consistency. Such food is easier to digest and is easier to digest by the child’s imperfect digestive system.
This is why various puddings are so good. This is no longer pureed, creamy puree, but it is not yet solid food. One of the first puddings on a baby's menu is rice pudding.
Benefits of rice pudding for a child
- Rice is very healthy for children. It does not irritate the stomach, gently enveloping its walls, contains many vitamins and minerals, necessary for the full development and growth of the child.
- Vitamin E and B vitamins have a good effect on the mucous membranes and the functioning of the nervous system.
- Minerals calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and potassium are responsible for the health of teeth and bones, remove excess fluid from the body.
- Rice does not contain gluten which often causes allergic reactions, so rice pudding can be introduced into your baby’s diet without fear of developing allergies.
- Rice is extremely high in calories. If your baby is not gaining weight well, this dish will help balance weight and quickly replenish lost energy.
- Rice pudding with apples is easy to eat due to its delicate consistency, it is rich in vitamins and minerals, saturates well with energy. Apples improve peristalsis and contain iron. This is a great option for a hearty and healthy dinner.
Rice pudding with apples is a multi-component dish, which, in addition to rice, includes milk, sugar, apples, and spices. In fact, the pudding is made from rice milk porridge with additives. This means that your baby should already be familiar with all the ingredients individually and not be confused about them.
- Its consistency is somewhere between puree and solid food. To cope with the dish, the baby must have at least 6-8 teeth and minimally developed chewing skills.
- All this suggests that rice puddinggood for the diet of children from 10 months to 1 year.
- The best varieties of rice for baby food are the varieties that cook well. It could be round or medium grain rice. When choosing a variety, consider your baby’s needs: short-grain rice is higher in calories, boils better and contains more starch compared to medium-grain rice.
- Before cooking rice, you need to prepare it. To do this, the cereal is sorted, washed and soaked in warm water for about a quarter of an hour.
- If you have not introduced cow's milk into your child's diet, the pudding can be prepared using an adapted milk formula. If you are introducing cow's milk for the first time, dilute it with water in a 1:1 ratio or use baby milk. When choosing industrial milk, do not forget about the shelf life; the milk must be fresh.
- Whether you add sugar to the pudding is your choice. You can add a little brown sugar, or rely on the sweetness of the apples. Usually their taste is enough to make the pudding taste good.
Rice pudding - recipe
Making rice and apple pudding for the baby.
Required Ingredients
- rice – 35-40 grams;
- water – 100 ml;
- 1 medium apple;
- milk – 200 ml;
- egg - 1 piece;
- sugar (optional) – 10 grams;
- butter – 5 grams.
Cooking sequence
- Boil the prepared rice in water.
- Add milk and half the sugar to the finished rice.
- Boil the porridge until smooth; it should be viscous and quite thick.
- Separate the white from the yolk.
- Beat the egg whites into a thick foam.
- Mix the yolk with the rest of the sugar.
- Peel the apple and grate it.
- Pour the yolk, ground with sugar, and grated apple into the prepared milk rice porridge.
- Stir.
- Carefully fold in the whipped egg white.
- Place the mixture in a steamer pan, greased with oil.
- Cook for 20 minutes.
Rice pudding can also be prepared in a slow cooker using the “baking” mode. For children over one and a half years old, the pudding can be baked in the oven until golden brown.
1. Cream pudding
Ingredients:
- sour cream 20% fat - 200 gr.
- chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
- sugar - 0.5 cups
- flour - 3 tbsp.
- vanillin - a pinch
- lemon (or rather its zest)
- butter - 1 tbsp.
First you need to remove the zest from half the lemon.
Break eggs into a bowl and add sugar.
Beat with a mixer until the sugar dissolves and the mass increases in volume - this will take about 5-7 minutes.
Add sour cream, flour and vanillin to the sweet egg mixture (you can use vanilla sugar instead).
Add lemon zest and mix thoroughly.
It is good to prepare such a pudding and serve it in portions - fill the baking molds, greased with butter, with the resulting mass (you can safely fill it to the top, since the pudding will not rise much during the baking process).
Place in a suitable large mold, fill it with water so that it reaches 1/3 of the height of the molds. Bake in a preheated oven at 200 degrees. oven for about 20-25 minutes. Cool the finished creamy pudding and serve, topped with jam or jam.
2. Peach pudding
Ingredients:
- Butter - 120 g,
- premium flour - 120 g,
- granulated sugar - 370 g,
- chicken egg - 6-7 pcs.,
- ground almonds - 70 g,
- peaches - 600 g,
- milk - 320 g,
- biscuit - 50 g,
- vanillin,
- salt.
Preparation:
Mix milk, vanilla, butter and salt. Stir ingredients and bring to a boil over medium heat.
Add flour little by little into the boiling mixture.
Cool the finished mass, add egg yolks and 110 g of sugar. Mix everything well.
Beat the egg whites and 70 g of sugar into a thick foam and mix with the rest of the mixture.
Grease a baking dish with oil, place ½ of the dough in it, sprinkle almonds, grated biscuit on top and top with slices of peaches. Place the rest of the dough on top.
Steam the sweet product for 40 minutes.
Make syrup from the remaining sugar and 300 g of water. Add some peaches to it. This will make a great gravy for the finished pudding.
3. Oatmeal pudding
- several types of whole grain cereals - 4 tbsp.
- egg - 1 pc.
- milk - 4 tbsp.
- flour - 1 tbsp.
- raisins - 2 tbsp.
- apple - 1 pc.
- carrots - 1/2 pcs.
- vegetable oil - 1 tsp.
Before you start preparing the pudding, you need to turn on and preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Pour boiling water over the raisins and flakes (for the flakes, use enough water to make a thick porridge).
Cut the apple into small cubes and grate the carrots on a coarse grater.
Drain the water from the raisins and add to the cereal along with the chopped apple and carrots.
Now this “porridge” needs to be mixed with flour, milk and egg yolk.
Beat the whites with a mixer into a strong foam and carefully add them to the prepared mixture.
Grease baking molds with vegetable oil and fill with the resulting mixture.
Place in the oven to bake for 20-25 minutes. Healthy pudding for a child made from whole grain cereals is ready!
Before serving to the children, cool the pudding and pour over the jam.
This recipe uses several types of cereal, but you can safely make pudding simply from oatmeal. You can add any fruit; pumpkin and sweet berries also work well.
4. Semolina pudding for children
Ingredients:
- milk - 400 ml.
- semolina - 4-5 tbsp.
- water - 200 ml.
- butter - 2 tbsp.
- sugar - 2 tbsp.
- egg - 2 pcs.
- honey - 2 tbsp.
- cinnamon - a pinch
- raspberries - 100 gr.
- starch - 10 gr.
In a saucepan, mix honey and cinnamon until smooth. Heat the mixture over low heat, but do not bring it to a boil. Allow the mixture to cool to room temperature.
Pour water into the milk and bring everything to a boil. Then pour semolina mixed with sugar into the milk in a thin stream. Stirring constantly, cook the semolina for 20 minutes. Don't stop stirring the porridge, otherwise it will burn!
Using a whisk or blender, beat the eggs, butter and honey-cinnamon mixture until smooth.
Pour the resulting mixture into the prepared semolina porridge and mix again.
Grease the molds with butter and fill them with the prepared semolina pudding. Place the filled molds in the refrigerator until hardened, about 2 hours.
The finished pudding can be poured with berry sauce directly in the mold, or the pudding can be tipped onto a plate.
To prepare berry sauce for semolina pudding, pour 1 tbsp. water and bring the compote to a boil, and then pour in the starch diluted in 1 tbsp. water and thicken the mixture.
Semolina pudding for children with berry sauce is ready!
5. Pumpkin pudding
Ingredients for 2 servings:
- pumpkin (weight without peel and pulp) - 300 gr.
- milk - 100 ml.
- semolina - 1 tbsp.
- granulated sugar - 1 tsp.
- salt - 0.25 tsp.
- chicken egg - 1 pc.
- butter and semolina to prepare the molds for baking.
Wash the pumpkin, cut off the necessary part. Peel the pumpkin from the peel and pulp, cut into small pieces of arbitrary shape.
Boil milk in a small saucepan and place the prepared pumpkin pieces in it.
Cook the pumpkin over low heat until completely softened, about 15-20 minutes.
Puree the pumpkin with milk using an immersion blender or rub through a sieve.
Place semolina, granulated sugar and salt in a saucepan with pumpkin puree. Mix well.
Place the saucepan with pumpkin puree on the fire, bring to a boil and cook over low heat until the semolina is ready, about 10-15 minutes. Remove the finished puree from the heat and cool.
Wash the chicken egg. Separate the white from the yolk. Place the yolk in the cooled pumpkin puree and grind thoroughly.
Place the egg white in a clean, spacious container and beat well with a whisk.
Add the beaten egg white to the saucepan with the pumpkin puree and mix gently from bottom to top, trying to keep the mixture airy.
Grease baking pans with butter and sprinkle with semolina.
Place the pumpkin pudding mixture into the prepared molds. Place the molds with pumpkin pudding in an oven preheated to 190 degrees for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown.
Remove the finished pudding from the oven and let it cool until warm before serving.
6. Rice pudding for children
Ingredients:
- rice cereal - 5 tbsp. spoons
- apple - 1 pc.
- milk - 1 glass
- egg - 1 pc.
- butter - 1 teaspoon
- sugar
Rinse the rice well until the water becomes clear. Then pour the rice into a saucepan, add cold water and place over medium heat.
When the cereal is ready, pour in the milk.
Then add sugar and salt.
Cook the porridge until done. It should be quite thick.
While the rice is cooking, you need to separate the white from the yolk and add sugar to the yolk. Mix everything thoroughly.
Peel and grate the apple.
When the porridge is ready, add the apple and yolk.
Mix the rice and apples well.
Beat the whites into a fluffy white foam.
Add egg whites to rice mixture.
Mix carefully.
Grease the baking dish with oil.
Transfer the rice mixture into a mold and place it in a steamer or oven.
Bake the rice pudding in the oven for twenty minutes.
If you cook rice pudding in an air fryer, the cooking time will be ten minutes, at the same temperature, with a low fan speed.
Then you need to remove the pudding from the mold, cool slightly and serve it.
7. Liver pudding
Ingredients:
- chicken liver - 0.5 kg.
- milk - 0.5 l.
- egg (white) - 1 pc.
- butter - 50 gr.
- salt - to taste
- dill greens - a bunch
- parsley - bunch
- white crackers - 50 gr.
Place the liver in a saucepan and cover with water.
Place the pan on the fire and boil the liver until tender, adding a little salt to the water.
You need to cook the liver for about 30 minutes.
Rub the finished liver through a sieve or grind in a blender.
Pour the milk into a bowl or pan and soak the crackers in it.
Beat the egg whites until foamy.
Then gradually add the ground liver, milk and breadcrumbs into the egg mass.
Stir softened butter into the mixture, then add chopped dill and parsley.
Preheat the oven to 170 - 180 degrees.
Grease the pudding baking pan with vegetable oil.
Place the resulting mixture in a mold and place it in the oven.
Bake the liver pudding for 10 minutes.
8. Carrot pudding
Ingredients:
- carrots - 4 pcs.
- milk - 100g.
- butter - 70 gr.
- sugar - 70 gr.
- eggs - 2 pcs.
- semolina - 3 tbsp.
- breadcrumbs -50 gr.
- vegetable oil - 50 gr.
Preparation:
Peel the carrots and grate them on a fine grater. Take a large frying pan, heat it, add a little vegetable oil, add carrots, add milk and butter, and simmer. Add sugar to the carrots and simmer a little more. Then gradually add semolina and simmer until the mixture thickens. Remove the pan from the heat and leave to cool.
Break the eggs and separate the yolks from the whites. When the carrot mixture has cooled, add the yolks and whites whipped into a thick foam.
Grease a baking dish with vegetable oil and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Place the carrot mixture in it and place in a preheated oven. Bake for 30-35 minutes. at t=180-200 gr.
Serve with sour cream or milk sauce.
Today I am happy to share with you an interesting recipe for a children's table dish. So, tasty and healthy rice pudding with apple.
The preparation time for this pudding ranges around 30 minutes, which is relatively short. For baking, you can use either a conventional oven or air fryer or a steamer. The dish turns out very airy and tasty, so I highly recommend trying it!
Rice pudding with apple can be introduced into a child’s diet already from one and a half years. Although, in principle, it is possible a little earlier, if by that time the baby has already acquired a sufficient number of teeth for chewing and masters these same chewing skills.
Ingredients
- Rice - 3 tablespoons;
- Apple - 1 piece;
- Milk - 1 glass;
- Egg - 1 pc;
- Butter - 1 teaspoon;
- Sugar – 2 teaspoons;
Preparation
Pour rice into a saucepan, rinse it thoroughly, add cold water and cook.
When the rice is ready, pour a glass of milk, a teaspoon of sugar and a pinch of salt into the pan and continue to cook the rice. After a few minutes we should have a sticky rice porridge.
Please note that the porridge must be cooked to such a thick state; if it turns out to be liquid, the pudding will not work and will fall apart.
Rice milk porridge
While the rice is cooking, separate the yolk from the white. Add a teaspoon of sugar to the yolk and mix thoroughly.
Beat the whites into a thick foam.
Protein foam Peel the apple and grate it on a fine grater.
Three apples When the rice porridge is ready, pour the apple and yolk into the pan. After this, add the protein and mix very well.
Rice mass Now take a baking dish (ours is 🙂), grease the bottom with butter, pour in the rice mixture and put it in the oven, air fryer or steamer.
Our bear Bake until a delicious crust forms.
Ready! Oven or steamer
20 minutes at 180 degrees.
Air fryer
10 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees and low fan speed.
10 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees and medium fan speed.
That's it, take our pudding out of the mold and serve!
Rice pudding with apple Bon appetit!
Sincerely,
Pediatricians recommend introducing complementary foods to babies as early as 6 months, starting with vegetable puree or porridge. Next, fermented milk products are introduced - kefir and cottage cheese: from 8 months for breastfed babies, from 5 months - for artificially fed babies.
Cottage cheese is one of the healthiest dairy products, containing more calcium than regular milk. It is this element that is the basis of the entire human bone skeleton. Without sufficient calcium intake, a child experiences delays in both physical and mental development and delayed teething.
All fermented milk products, including cottage cheese, contain beneficial bacteria that improve intestinal motility. And kefir and cottage cheese are needed for the child’s immune system.
Cooking Basics
Pudding is a traditional English dish, the basis of which is not always cottage cheese. Puddings can be prepared either sweet, with fruits, berries, cottage cheese or semolina, or with meat, fish and vegetables. The pudding itself is an airy mass, most often containing beaten egg whites, which give the finished dish airiness and lightness.
The simplest option is ground baby pudding made from cottage cheese mixed with beaten egg whites and sugar, baked in the oven. This dish can be either baked in the oven or steamed. But the first option guarantees the presence of a golden brown crust. Curd pudding for a child over 1.5 years old differs from adult recipes. It contains a minimum of additives, but only healthy and approved products. This delicate dish is ideal for an afternoon snack or a light dinner, since it is known that active absorption of calcium occurs in the afternoon and at night.
We have selected 3 simple curd pudding recipes for kids that are tasty, fluffy and healthy.
Curd and apple version
Ingredients
- 300 g cottage cheese
- 1 egg
- 1.5 tablespoons sugar
- 2 large apples
- 4 tablespoons butter
Cooking steps
Wash the apples thoroughly, peel and cut into small cubes. Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve or grind in a blender, add egg and sugar. Mix the whole mass well.
Grease a muffin tin with oil and pour the curd mixture into it. Sprinkle the curd pudding with butter on top and bake in the oven until done.
To give the dish a more festive look, you can pour it with any syrup or jam, decorate it with berries or pieces of fruit.
On a note
Cottage cheese and apple pudding can be prepared as a festive dish for a baby’s birthday or for an afternoon snack. So, the process of making pudding.
Steamed with raisins
Ingredients
- 100 g cottage cheese
- 1.5 teaspoons semolina
- 1/2 egg
- 1 teaspoon raisins
- 1.5 teaspoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons cream
- 2 teaspoons milk
- 1/2 teaspoon butter
- 1 teaspoon breadcrumbs
Cooking steps
Rub the cottage cheese, add washed raisins, mashed egg and yolk with sugar, to which added milk, semolina and melted butter. Mix everything thoroughly and combine with the whipped egg white.
Place the mixture in a pan greased and sprinkled with breadcrumbs, cover with a lid and place in a large saucepan half filled with water.
Place the pan in the oven for 40-50 minutes. Pour boiled cream over the finished curd pudding.
“Mommy, I really want something sweet and pretty.” True, a captivating childish request. And what mother wouldn’t react to this? The first thing that comes to mind is, of course, pudding. It’s both sweet and can be decorated beautifully, and children eat it more willingly than a simple one.
Pudding takes its roots from distant, foggy England. Classic English pudding is made from milk, sugar, flour and eggs. As a rule, fruits and spices are added to the pudding. And this delicacy is usually served cold. In England, pudding is an integral tradition of the Christmas table. The required ingredients of this delicacy are raisins, prunes, honey and almonds.
And even in classic English literature, in the book “Alice in Wonderland,” Alice is introduced to pudding.
Many children really like puddings, because they are not only cute in appearance, but also very tasty and nutritious. And besides, there are practically no difficulties in preparing such delicacies. And if you get a little creative, you can create a whole game by decorating the pudding, thereby turning it into a car or a house. After all, while playing, the child develops better and, in this case, eats better.
Puddings for children are distinguished by their relatively delicate and fluffy consistency.
To bake it, experts recommend using a special mold with a hole in the middle.
Typically the baking process occurs as follows. The prepared mass is poured into a mold and placed first in a slightly preheated oven. And gradually the temperature is raised to two hundred, two hundred and twenty-five degrees. This rule must be followed so that a dense, crispy crust does not form on the surface of the pudding very quickly, which may even burn. And the middle of your delicacy will remain raw. And when removed from the oven, such a pudding will settle very quickly.
You can additionally decorate the finished pudding with various patterns, drawings, figures, strawberries, raspberries, kiwis, bananas, in general, the flight of your imagination is not limited to anything.
Also, don’t forget that pudding can be not only sweet and with fruit. It can also be prepared in broth with the addition of chicken, liver, fish, and so on. In this case, puddings can be given to a baby up to a year. Pay your attention to this fact.
And if you also involve your baby in the process of making your masterpiece, then believe me, this delicacy will remain his favorite dish for a long time. After all, he “made it” himself.
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