Buckwheat is one of the first croups introduced into lure, due to the fact that it is a low-allergenic product with a low content of gluten. Especially loved buckwheat porridge by mothers of babies who are on artificial feeding: it does not promote constipations, to which artisans are inclined. Buckwheat is rich in calcium, iron, phosphorus, iodine, manganese, B and PP vitamins. Buckwheat groats are a source of protein containing 18 essential amino acids.
Firms-manufacturers of a children's feed offer a wide choice of special children's porridges, including buckwheat. But delicious and fragrant, and most importantly - useful, children's buckwheat porridge is not too difficult to prepare and from regular cereals.
How to cook buckwheat porridge for babies?
Here is the simplest recipe for buckwheat porridge for babies .
To prepare porridge for the youngest, only buckwheat groats (light, premium, high grade) and water, as well as a blender or coffee grinder will be required.
- Go through the groats, make sure that there are no uncleared grains and sorines left in it. Rinse it thoroughly and dry it.
- Blender or grinder grind the croup to a state slightly finer than semolina (see photo).
- 1 teaspoon of grinded cereals put in a saucepan (better thick-walled) and pour 100 ml of water.
- Bring to a boil and cook, stirring, on low heat for 15 minutes.
- Ready porridge cool to 37 ° C, you can add breast milk or milk formula.
Porridge according to the recipe described here turns out to be rather liquid, the child can eat it from a bottle with a special pacifier for cereals. When the baby learns to eat with a spoon, you can start adding densities: put 100 teaspoons of water into 2 teaspoons of cereals, etc.
From 7-8 months of not prone to allergy babies in porridge can be added low-fat cow milk, closer to the year - sugar and salt, as well as butter. For younger or allergic children, to improve the taste of buckwheat, you can add fruit mashed potatoes to the prepared cereal. Milk buckwheat porridge for children is prepared according to the same recipe as described above, but instead of water, low-fat cow milk, diluted in water in a 1: 1 ratio, is used.
Recipe for buckwheat porridge for one-year-olds
Buckwheat porridge for a one-year-old child can be prepared already from unmilled cereals (provided, of course, that your child has already grown enough teeth to chew on such porridge). Here is the prescription.
- 0.5 cups of buckwheat (again, we take only light, well-purified croup of the highest grade), go through, rinse, place in thick-walled dishes, pour 1-1.5 glasses of water.
- Bring to the boil and drain the first water (so you get rid of the unnecessary bitter taste).
- Pour again with water, bring to a boil and cook over moderate heat under the lid for 20-25 minutes, until the water completely evaporates, and the grains are not boiled and will not become completely soft.
- A very small amount of sugar (about 1 teaspoonful) is better added during cooking so that the sugar crystals are dissolved.
- In a bowl of porridge, add a small piece of butter.
- Cool the porridge to 40-45 ° C - the child should not get burned!
Such cereal can also be cooked with the addition of milk: in this case, the croup (after the first water is drained) is poured with a small amount of water (in a 1: 1.5 ratio), and after evaporation of the water, milk and sugar are added, and the porridge is cooked . Children over the age of one passing to a common table can start eating buckwheat porridge with meat and vegetable sauce or as a garnish to steam cutlets, closer to a year and a half you can serve a small gourmet buckwheat with browned onions and carrots, pumpkin, adding several salt crystals to the dish to improve taste.