A very important stage in the life of a child is the introduction of complementary foods. "Adult" food for the baby is unusual and unusual, so mothers should pay special attention to the recipe. The food should be healthy and tasty, it should be remembered and loved the first time by the baby.
The benefits of the liver
Some young and inexperienced mothers believe that the liver is a dangerous and very difficult product for the child. But pediatricians think quite differently. The liver is a product a child needs from a year. It contains the maximum range of nutrients, trace elements and vitamins.
Fish liver contains iodine, a large amount of vitamin D and calcium, which is necessary to strengthen the child’s bone system. Chicken liver contains substances that positively affect the baby's immunity and his blood system. A huge amount of vitamin A and E is found in calf and beef liver. The substances contained in the liver of animals help to strengthen the cardiovascular system, accelerate the recovery processes in the tissues.
Important!
Remember that hepatic soufflé and any other dishes from the liver should be given to the child only when he is one year old. Children under one year of age should not consume any form of liver.
Remember that buying a liver so that later you can prepare dishes for a child from it should only be in a trusted store. If these are meat rows on the market, then only a meat seller verified and recommended by other mothers.
Remember that a dish prepared by yourself, with loving mother’s hands, is much tastier and healthier than the variety of store-bought baby food.
Ingredients
To cook a liver souffle, you can take any liver (veal, chicken, pork, beef). Experts still recommend a more tender chicken.
So, the products that will be required to prepare a liver souffle in the oven for children from one year old: liver - half a kilogram, chicken eggs - two pieces, flour - one tablespoon, a loaf - one hundred grams, milk - two hundred grams, butter - one hundred grams.
Cooking process
Chicken liver, like any other, requires preliminary soaking. You can soak the liver both in plain water and in a small amount of milk. Do not forget to clean the liver of the films. After soaking, the liver is cut into small cubes and laid out in a bowl, where it will later be crushed. By the way, it is better to use a blender for chopping. But if there is no such kitchen assistant, you can use the usual meat grinder. Only have to repeat the process twice.
The liver is crushed with the addition of a loaf soaked in milk, butter and flour. Then beaten eggs are added to the mixture. In some recipes, when hepatic soufflé is cooked in the oven for children, the eggs are divided into protein and yolk. The yolk is crushed with the liver at the first stage, and then lushly whipped protein is added to the mixture. Choose a method convenient for you. Do not worry that the resulting mass is too liquid, and the liver souffle should look like this at the initial stage of preparation.
Baking in the oven
As with any baking, the liver souffle is placed in an already preheated oven. You need to put 180-200 degrees of temperature.
Cookware for baking is prepared in advance. It can be large forms or small silicone molds in the form of toys, stars, mugs and pies. Pre-baking dishes should be sprinkled with flour or breadcrumbs. You can just grease with a little oil. Liver soufflé is baked in the oven for forty to fifty minutes.
Hepatic souffle in a slow cooker
There are several ways to prepare this dish. Most mothers make liver souffle in the oven, but there are those who decide to save time and make this dish in a slow cooker. Both options are acceptable, only the time frame of the cooking process is different.
To prepare soufflé from the liver in a slow cooker, again, any liver is taken. Very good, as the hostesses say, here goes the liver of a chicken or rabbit. The liver souffle in the oven, the recipe of which is described above, takes a little longer to prepare, so you can take any liver, even beef. But the process of cooking in a slow cooker is faster in time and the products are needed more, so to say, tender.
So, we grind the liver and add a little flour to it, beaten eggs, a loaf soaked in milk, butter. Mix everything thoroughly. Many mothers argue about the benefits of salt for the baby. add it in this recipe or not - you decide. But the pinch does not seem to hurt at all, but makes the dish not so fresh and tasteless.
Pour a little water into the slow cooker and put a special wire rack, which allows you to cook steamed dishes. We pour the mass from the liver into pre-prepared forms and set on this grate. We turn on the special “steam” mode and wait thirty minutes until ready.
Hepatic souffle can be used as a snack or a full meal. If it goes with you with a full meal, we recommend that you “flavor” the souffle with a small amount of vegetables that your baby likes. You can add a side dish to the liver souffle - boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes, buckwheat, rice, etc.
What else to cook?
From the liver for a child from one year you can cook not only a delicious liver souffle. It can be a gentle liver paste, pudding, pancakes, gravy, casserole and others. The main thing is to choose a dish so that it is simple and quick to cook and at the same time your choosy would like it.
Enjoy your meal!