Cottage cheese is a very important ingredient in the nutrition of the baby. Acquaintance with it usually occurs even before the year, at 8-10 months, depending on the health, tastes and diet of the child.
The delicate taste and pleasant consistency of cottage cheese are liked by most young children, and they are happy to eat this type of complementary foods. But the main value of cottage cheese is its composition, which includes animal protein, calcium and phosphorus, potassium and sodium, folic acid, vitamins of groups B and PP. All these components are extremely important for a growing organism and must be included in the diet of a child older than 10 months. Useful and tasty cottage cheese can not only be bought in the department of baby food, but also prepared independently.
How to make cottage cheese for babies? First lure
For the preparation of the first portion of cottage cheese in the baby’s life, a special baby kefir is ideal , as it has optimal fat content and acidity. A hundred grams of kefir will be enough, since the finished product will require no more than one teaspoon.
To prepare the cottage cheese, you can put a glass bottle with kefir in boiling water so that the milk protein curls. Next, you need to prepare a small sieve and cover it with a piece of gauze or thin cotton cloth. Curled kefir must be filtered through this gauze and allowed to stand, so that all the liquid in the glass. The cottage cheese will turn out to be almost uniform, very soft in texture. It is not recommended to add artificial additives to children's cottage cheese (as to all other products that we prepare for children). We are talking about purchased jams and condensed milk, vanilla.
How to make cottage cheese for a baby in a double boiler
Pour 1-1.5 cups of medium fat kefir into the rice bowl. Pour water into a container with a steam generator to the maximum mark. Turn on the highest temperature for 4-5 minutes. During this time, kefir will curl into small flakes. Fold on a sieve, let the serum drain completely. It turns out friable, fine-grained curd.
Curd for babies from yogurt in a water bath
Pour 500 ml yogurt in a bowl and place in a water bath. Once flakes form, remove from heat and refrigerate quickly. Strain through a shallow sterile gauze. The cottage cheese will turn out to be coarse-grained, dense.
How to make cottage cheese for a baby in a yogurt maker
In some models of yogurt makers, a bowl with a capacity of 1 or one and a half liters is intended for making sour cream or cottage cheese. In order to make cottage cheese, you will need a liter of milk and a special live sourdough (marked "Sour milk curd"). Warm the milk to 36-39 degrees. Dilute the starter with a small amount of water, introduce into milk. Turn on the yogurt maker for 6-9 hours. You can read more about this in the instructions from the device and in the package leaf of the starter culture. After this, coagulate milk to cool and strain through a fine cloth. Such cottage cheese is most useful, since in its composition, in addition to the main components, live bacteria are present. It is not recommended to use it for the secondary preparation of other dishes (casseroles, cheesecakes), since bacteria die during heat treatment.
Cottage cheese for babies from milk and kefir (yogurt, fermented baked milk)
Boil a glass of milk and pour 250 grams of kefir into it. Fold the curled mixture onto a fine sieve. Instead of kefir, you can use fermented baked milk or yogurt.
How to make cottage cheese for high calcium babies
To chilled boiled milk (300 ml) add 5 ml of a solution of calcium chloride (10 percent). Stir, heat in a water bath, cool and squeeze through a fine cotton cloth.