Lika Dlugach, "Children's Menu": recipes

Of course, every parent wants his baby to grow up a healthy and strong child. But for this an important factor is a healthy, healthy and balanced diet. A children's menu with Lika Dlugach will help mothers of little whims to improve the child’s appetite, diversify and enrich his diet and maintain the usefulness of the products in the cooked dish.

The child and his taste preferences

How many oddities are found in children's eating habits. Some categorically refuse to try a new product unknown to them, others do not want to eat vegetables in any way, still others hate fish, and even turn their nose back on its smell. This often happens even for mothers who have extraordinary culinary talents. Lika Dlugach, whose recipes are always creative and do not require special expenses, copes with this problem perfectly.

The main thing is to remember that a child, like an adult, has every right to his own taste preferences. Lika Dlugach believes that fears because the baby does not have the necessary substances, which, for example, are found in carrots, because he does not want to eat it, are unfounded. A child has the right not to like carrots just because he does not like it. Perhaps he will never eat her in his life at all. And absolutely nothing will happen to him. And in order not to be nervous from scratch, you must follow the rule that states that the child has the right not to love any of the products. This is his taste and his preferences. It’s just worth taking a closer look - something a child eats one or even two of a certain category of products. For example, he doesn’t eat an apple, but he eats up a pear with a banana, or refuses from oats, but at the same time he eats buckwheat porridge with pleasure.

A few ways to make friends with an unloved food

"Eat with your eyes"

According to Lika Dlugach, you first need to make sure that the child refuses to eat only because he really does not like food, and not because he feels bad from it. After all, it is possible that the consistency of a product simply causes involuntary spasms - too soft, lumpy, jelly-like and others. Also, the child may not like the color of the product from which he turns his nose. For example, a chicken cut into obscure pieces on a baby’s plate may simply not cause appetite, but a whole baked chicken with a golden crust is easy. There is a great chance that if the child is ready to "eat with his eyes," he will certainly try at ease.

Product Story

It may be necessary for the child to know as much as possible about the product - how it is made, grown, mined, prepared, and so on. Lika Dlugach, whose recipes are increasingly gaining popularity among mothers, always approaches this issue thoroughly. In her opinion, a joint shopping trip helps in this regard. Choosing certain products, you must definitely explain to the baby their origin. Such a chain of interesting and exciting events, such as the selection of products, acquaintance, purchase, home delivery, washing, cooking, can be an impetus for trying out something new even for the most fastidious child.

Good example

Another way is a good example. If there is something with great appetite, while praising the palatability of the consumed product, and even periodically drawing in the smell of food, but at the same time not offering it to the child, even a skeptical kid will not be able to resist it and will certainly want to try out this delicious miracle, which led the rest into such delight.

Cook together

It is worth attracting the child to the cooking process, as Lika Dlugach does, give him the opportunity to dream, add something new to a previously known dish. Make a step-by-step master class, capture this action on the camera. Here, certainly, no one can resist the temptation to try the creation of their own hands.

Lika Dlugach, "Children's Menu": recipes. Finnish Salmon Soup

Extremely tasty, very easy to prepare soup.

Ingredients:

• salmon or trout fillet - 300 g (with salmon the soup turns out to be more saturated and fat);
• potatoes - 3 pcs. medium size;
• onion - 1 small or half large;
• dill - a small bunch;
• 20% cream - 150 ml (cream with a fat content of less than 20% may curdle);
• water - 1.5 l;
• salt.

Cooking:

1. Finely chop onions and dill. Peel the potatoes and cut into cubes.
2. Dill, potatoes and onions should be put in a pan, add water and bring to a boil. Cook until cooked for about 7 minutes.
3. While preparing vegetables, you need to rinse the fish, dry with a napkin, remove the bones, cut into cubes with a diameter of about 2 cm, put in soup. Cook for another 5 minutes, salt.
4. Then pour the cream, bring to a boil and remove from heat.

Meatballs in Tomato Sauce

And one more wonderful recipe from the “children's menu” series. Lika Dlugach recommends cooking this dish, quoting Carlson from the tale "Baby and Carlson." After all, this is one of the favorite dishes of an entertaining man with a motor. The child will probably want to try it.

Ingredients:

• chicken fillet - 600 g;
• egg - 1 pc;
• onion - 1 pc;
• bread - 3 slices;
• garlic - 1 clove (if you do not like the garlic flavor, you can do without it);
• vegetable oil;
• butter - 20 g;
• shabby canned tomatoes - 500 ml;
• 20% cream - 50 ml;
• sugar - 1 teaspoon;
• salt.

Cooking:

1. It is necessary to cut off the crust of bread, soak it in water, squeeze. Chicken fillet, garlic (if needed), onion, chopped bread in a meat grinder or blender. Add the egg to the resulting minced meat, salt and knead well.
2. From minced meat you need to mold meatballs with a diameter of not more than 3 cm. This is easily done with a teaspoon. Meatballs need to be quickly fried in vegetable oil from all sides, but so that they only lightly brown, and do not fry until the end.
3. Next, put the meatballs in the pan. Heat the mashed tomatoes in a ladle, add butter, sugar, cream, salt to them. Then the resulting sauce must be poured meatballs and darken them under the lid for 30 minutes.

Noodles with vegetables

But this dish is especially fond of Lika Dlugach for its colorfulness and ease of preparation. The children's menu, the recipes of which, it is worth noting, are all simple and interesting, does not require much time.

Ingredients:

• noodles - 250 g (you can use any - wheat, barley, rye);
• onion - 1 small or half large;
• zucchini - 1 pc;
• young zucchini - 1 pc;
• medium carrot - 1 pc;
• Chinese salad - 2 large leaves;
• vegetable oil - 5 tbsp. spoons;
• sesame oil - 1 tbsp. the spoon;
• soy sauce - 3 tbsp. spoons.

Cooking:

1. Zucchini, carrots, lettuce and zucchini need to be cut into strips, and onions in half rings.
2. Heat vegetable oil in a pan with a high side, fry the onions until transparent. Then add the remaining vegetables and fry all together, constantly stirring, another 7-8 minutes.
3. Boil the noodles, put them in a colander, and then rinse with cold water.
4. Add sesame oil and soy sauce to the vegetables, let it boil, put the noodles, mix, and let it burn for another 3 minutes.

It is worth noting that many tips on how to make a child interested in a particular food, as well as simple cooking, Lika Dlugach described in her book "How to feed a child?"