Children’s meatballs recipe Laughs balls
Children are almost always picky about what lies on a plate. Meatballs with Gravy Smeshariki not only tasty, but also cartoony cute. A dish such as meatballs is usually introduced into diet of a child from 8-9 months.
Meatballs with Gravy “Laugh Balls”
Baby meat is a valuable source of protein and essential mineral substances. It is necessary to introduce meat into the children’s diet with a special caution. If the baby does not tolerate cow’s milk, then veal should be excluded. In some cases, allergic chicken can also cause a reaction.
For cooking you will need:
- Mixed minced meat (beef, chicken, pork) 0.5 kg
(!) For rare cases (for children with allergic reaction) meat is taken on the basis of diet a child.
- Rice, preferably ½ cup round
- Onion turnip 1 pc
- Chicken egg 1 pc or quail 3 pc
- Salt
- Water 250 ml
Gravy:
- Sour cream 1 table spoon
- Tomato paste 1 teaspoon or 2 ripe tomatoes
- Flour 1 table spoon
- Water 1.5 cups
When and how to introduce meat foods?
Specialists recommended to introduce meat products in 8 months. It can be beef or veal, lean pork, meat of rabbit, quail, horse meat, venison. You can also enter beef tongue.
Begin with half a teaspoon per day. If not “unwanted” reaction, then the next day bring complementary foods from meat to a teaspoon. By the end of the week you can give 4-5 teaspoons mashed meat per day, which is mixed with vegetables and added to soup.
You can cook meatballs for children So:
Rinse the rice thoroughly, fill with water and boil until semi-preparedness. Peel the onion and scroll with pieces of meat for minced meat in a meat grinder. If you have taken portions of finished meat, then scroll same.
Choose meat based on the taste priorities of the baby. It should be without veins and fat.
Meatballs can be offered to a baby from 9 months, replacing tomato pasta in sauce for 2 ripe tomatoes, crushed in a blender. Meatballs with pasta can be offered to a child 2-2.5 years old.
Add half-cooked rice, egg, salt and knead well minced meat, periodically beating him on the table.
So that the stuffing does not stick to the hands during the formation of balls, put a plate of cold water next to it and from time to time wet your hands.
Form small meatballs and roll them in flour.
Heat the vegetable oil in a pan and lay the meatballs. Fry on both sides until golden crust 3-5 minutes. During this time, meatballs will seize and not fall apart.
Then pour boiling water over the Smeshariki so that the water is at a level Meatballs middle. Salt the water and add the tomato paste or tomatoes chopped in a blender. Cover the pan and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes.
While the meatballs are languishing, dilute in half a glass of warm water sour cream and flour, mix thoroughly, kneading all the lumps.
Pour the sour cream mixture into the pan, mix gently and simmer another 15 minutes.
If the sauce is thick, add boiling water and bring to the desired consistency.
Absolutely garnish for such meatballs all: mashed potatoes, buckwheat, rice or pasta products.
There is an easier way to cook such children’s meatballs for a child.
Put prepared balls on a baking sheet at a distance 2 cm apart. Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake for 10-15 minutes.
During baking, prepare the sauce for meatballs. On In a frying pan without (!) oil, fry the flour until shortbread colors. Dilute the tomato paste in half a glass of water and pour into flour. Stir until thickened., Introduce sour cream, bring to boiling. Pour the meatballs and oven them in the sauce for another 10 more minutes.
So you save time.
Tasty ideas:
While the meatballs are languishing in the oven, invite the baby to do real crocodile Gena from cucumber, garnish with small tomatoes. The kid will love to participate in the preparation of such an unusual lettuce.
