Today we offer you to talk about the preparation of children's salads. All the little ones are crazy about these culinary delights, but you need to take the children's menu more seriously. It is necessary to exclude products that are contraindicated in your crumbs, and heavy ingredients, so as not to end the feast with a sick stomach.
Why do mothers and babies love baby salads so much? Recipes that are offered for babies recommend using exclusively healthy ingredients containing healthy minerals and trace elements. The following useful elements can be found in children's dishes:
- vegetables;
- fruits;
- lean meat;
- a fish;
- cheese;
- boiled eggs.
Few rules
In this section, we offer a little talk about some of the rules for preparing children's dishes.
These conditions are very important to remember and always observe when preparing a meal for the baby:
- Use only the freshest foods.
- Be sure to wash vegetables and fruits before cooking.
- The best option is to grow vegetables and fruits at home (without chemical fertilizers).
- Soaking vegetables and fruits for preparing children's dishes is not recommended (if you still decide, then you should limit yourself to fifteen minutes, since during this time you will not be able to lose vitamins and minerals, which are very important for the child).
- Salads are very healthy, especially if served before main courses.
- For normal intestinal motility, children need fiber found in vegetables and fruits.
- If the child is one year old, then the salad should be wiped on a fine grater.
- If the child is two years old, then you can rub vegetables and fruits on a medium grater, one serving of salad - two tablespoons.
- Three-year-olds can already chop the salad with a knife, only finely.
- If you decide to make a fruit salad, then it is better to choose fruits grown in the living area (ideally from your own garden). Why? Everything is simple, we can say that cultures "understand" what their owners need. So they fully satisfy their physiological needs.
- In the preparation of children's salads, in no case should you use purchased additives that contain preservatives.
If you are going to prepare salads for a children's holiday, then you can show imagination and decorate them in the way the baby likes best. For example, lay out a salad in the form of a fairy-tale hero or even make an interesting composition.
Products
Products for children's salads should be exclusively fresh, and if it is vegetables or fruits, then they must go through all stages of processing. If the products are poorly washed, then you can find a lot of unattractive objects on them, such as:
- worm eggs;
- harmful substances and so on.
How is the preparation of fruits and vegetables to be added to the salad in raw form? Those who are not afraid of being treated with boiling water should be washed under running water, and then scalded, washed with boiled cold water. Remember that cucumbers and tomatoes do not like boiling water; after washing under running water, they must be processed under cold boiled water.
Often, cabbage of different varieties (kohlrabi or white cabbage, which is grown by all gardeners without exception) is used for children's salads. How to prepare it before use in the children's menu? As you know, caterpillars love cabbage, and therefore larvae are laid in it, which must be disposed of. Pour a little clean water into a saucepan or deep bowl, add salt and slightly acidify. It is in this water that the cabbage must be soaked for thirty minutes.
Ingredients that must be included in the children's diet:
- pumpkin;
- dried apricots;
- beet;
- tomatoes (necessarily homemade, not greenhouse);
- cucumbers (very useful for overweight children);
- carrots (carotene supplier, vitamin A, growth-promoting agent, improves eyesight, promotes the formation of bloody bodies);
- may include garlic and onions;
- You can give acutely smelling or sour greens, etc.
Do not forget that carrots, about which so much good has been said above, are absorbed only in fat or oil. It is better to use it in the form of a salad with the addition of sour cream or vegetable oil.
Norms for one-year crumbs:
- two hundred grams of fresh fruit;
- three hundred and fifty grams of vegetables.
Washing, cutting or rubbing fruits and vegetables is recommended right before use. This is necessary in order to preserve vitamins and other useful substances, as in contact with air, the process of oxidation and the loss of beneficial substances.
Fruit salad
Now we will give a simple recipe for a children's fruit salad. We will need:
- a pair of large sweet apples;
- hard cheese (about one hundred grams);
- the same amount of raisins;
- natural yogurt (about five tablespoons);
- a couple of branches of dill;
- carrot.
This children's salad will be to everyone's taste. First you need to soak the raisins for thirty minutes, then dry and cut in half. Rub apples on a fine grater, mix with raisins, grated cheese and yogurt, form a mouse with a tail on a plate. Add two ears (cheese), eyes (raisins, currants or blueberries), antennae (dill), nose (carrot)
Vitamin salad "Autumn"
Here is another recipe for baby salad that will be useful to your child. Here we will use a young zucchini, which is able to improve the digestion process.
We will need:
- small young zucchini;
- cucumber;
- greens;
- dressing (yogurt, kefir, sour cream to your taste).
Peel the vegetables from the peel and cut into small cubes, finely chop the greens. We combine the ingredients and season. Enjoy your meal!
Beets and Prunes
Now we will prepare a delicious children's salad. It is rich in vitamins and helps to normalize the stool of the child.
This cooking option is slightly different from beetroot salad from kindergarten. It will be useful to us:
- beets (enough 150 g);
- prunes (30 g);
- peeled walnut (30 g);
- vegetable oil.
Boil the beets, rinse and finely chop the prunes, grind the nuts with a blender. Mix everything and fill with oil.
Cream Cheese Salad
Here is another good salad recipe. At a children's holiday, he will be very welcome. Ingredients:
- 30 grams of boiled potatoes in their uniforms;
- one boiled egg;
- 30 grams of processed cheese;
- 30 grams of fresh cucumber;
- 10 grams of sour cream;
- fresh greens.
Dice potatoes, cucumber and egg. Grate the cheese. Finely chop the greens, which sprinkle the salad on top (as a decoration). Mix all the ingredients and season with sour cream, you can add a little salt. If you are preparing a salad on a festive table, then you can show imagination by laying it out in an unusual way.