When adding meat supplementary food to your baby, you can gradually add meat in the order of white first and then red. Chicken is a warm food, rich in protein, fat, vitamins and minerals, and is very suitable for feeding babies in their early stages. However, if the chicken is mixed into a puree alone, the taste will be a bit dull. It is best to mix it with some other ingredients to make a puree.
Carrots are rich in carotene, but carotene is a substance that is only soluble in fat and insoluble in water. Without the help of fat, it is difficult to be absorbed by the body. So I paired carrots with chicken, which not only makes the texture of the chicken more delicate, but also allows the baby to fully absorb the carotene, and it tastes sweet~
Recipe Highlights
Carrots are rich in carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A in the human body and is necessary for skin, vision and normal immune function. Chicken contains fat, which can help absorb carotene.
Chicken is not only a high-protein, low-fat protein food, but also contains mostly unsaturated fatty acids, which are easily absorbed by the baby. It can promptly replenish the calories lost by the baby due to sweating and improve the fatigue of children. , Symptoms of low energy. Chicken is easier to digest and absorb, so eating it for babies is beneficial to the development and health of the body.
Carrot and chicken puree
Recipe: 13g chicken, 13g carrot, 10g rice noodles
Seasoning: none
Cooking method: Boiling
Reference age: 7 months or more
Difficulty level: No difficulty
Tips: Suitable for those who are not allergic to the ingredients in this article Baby.
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1. Prepare ingredients: 13g chicken, 13g carrots, 10g rice noodles.
PS: The taste of chicken breast is a bit spicy, while the taste of chicken leg is relatively tender, so it is best to choose chicken leg when making chicken puree for your baby!
2. First, wash the chicken and peel it. Hold the chicken skin with one hand and gently scrape it with a knife so that the chicken skin can be easily pulled off.
3. Then use a knife to clean off the fat and fascia around the chicken legs.
4. Then cut the chicken legs into small pieces.
PS: Cut into small pieces to make it easier to cook and put it in a blender to make it easier to puree.
5. Peel the carrots and cut into thin slices.
PS: Cutting into thin slices makes it easier to steam the carrot slices.
6. Put the carrot slices into the steamer and steam for about 15 minutes.
7. Pour the chicken into cold water and blanch it until the color turns white.
PS: Blanching chicken in cold water can blanch the blood out of the chicken. If you use hot water, the chicken will be cooked directly and the blood will still remain in the chicken.
8. Blanch the chicken and take it out.
9. In another pot, add the blanched chicken after the water boils and cook.
PS: At this time, you must use hot water to cook the chicken. If you use cold water, the blanched chicken will expand rapidly with heat and shrink with cold, and the texture will become very hard.
10. Put the steamed carrots and cooked chicken into a blender and add 40g of warm water.
11. Use a blender to stir evenly into a fine carrot and chicken puree.
12. Pour the stirred carrot and chicken puree into the rice noodles that have been brewed with warm water in advance, and stir evenly.
PS: When adding pureed food to your baby, you can follow the principle of adding it from thin to thick. Ma Ma can adjust the consistency of the carrot and chicken puree according to the baby's condition. Like the state in the picture below, it is relatively thick.
13. After stirring, this carrot and chicken puree is ready. Give it to your baby to taste while it is hot. If the baby cannot eat it at once, you can also put it in the refrigerator and freeze it. It is recommended to eat it within a week~
Tips on making
Steam the carrots until soft , we can retain more food nutrients through steaming.