What to cook for a child from pumpkin in 1. Baby casseroles

Pumpkin is an unusually tasty and healthy product. Low calorie content, rich in vitamins and minerals (nicotinic acid, magnesium, potassium, calcium, iron, phosphorus, vitamins A, C and E), a large amount of fiber make it an indispensable product in baby food. Ripe fruits are harvested in autumn. The vegetable itself, seeds are used for food, leaves and flowers are added to salads.

Pumpkin is a particularly valuable product for children because of the high content of beta-carotene. 100 g of pumpkin contains its daily intake for a child (in the human body it turns into), this is more than carrots. The brighter the color of the pumpkin, the higher the proportion of carotene in it. This vitamin is necessary for eye diseases (myopia, night blindness, with pathology of the retina and macula), it is useful for those who like to sit at the computer, it will ensure the full growth of bones. In addition, beta-carotene strengthens the immune system, activating the most important immune organ of the child - the thymus gland, which helps build the body's defense against viral diseases.

Pumpkin juice or decoction along with honey is very useful for hyperactive children, as it calms the nervous system and promotes good sleep, improves attention and memory, helps the body in stressful situations, during depression, nervous exhaustion, and helps to adapt to unusual situations.

Pumpkin is useful for diseases of the gallbladder and liver, because it has a choleretic effect.

Thanks to the combination of potassium and magnesium, pumpkin has a wonderful diuretic effect, which is necessary for kidney diseases.

Pumpkin is great for children with digestive problems. Boiled and baked pumpkin improves the functioning of the stomach and intestines, removes unnecessary substances from the body. Pumpkin helps to cope with the increased acidity of the stomach, pumpkin juice - (half a glass of pumpkin juice instantly removes bloating and abdominal pain).

Pumpkin is a low-calorie product, contains a lot of fiber, is easily digestible, and therefore is indicated for dietary nutrition, and the contained vitamin T.

Pumpkin contains vitamin C (a quarter of the daily children's norm), which strengthens the body during illness.

By applying crushed pumpkin pulp, you can get rid of acne and blackheads (this is especially true for adolescent children), this remedy is also effective for eczema, sores, fistulas, small splinters and with.

Interesting to know! Chinese bitter gourd can help with pancreatic cancer. Scientists at the University of Colorado (USA) conducted an experiment: mice suffering from pancreatic cancer were fed with pumpkin juice, as a result, the size of the tumor decreased by 60%. Also, the juice of this pumpkin helps to treat HIV infection.

Useful properties of pumpkin seeds

Pumpkin seeds help the child get rid of constipation, and are also detrimental to worms.

Regular consumption of 5-10 pumpkin seeds will help improve bowel function and get rid of constipation.

Unpeeled raw and dried seeds are useful, but fried ones lose a lot of useful properties.

Do not give pumpkin seeds to children under three years of age.

Contraindications

• Individual intolerance.
• Allergic reactions to pumpkin.
• Gastritis with low acidity during the period of exacerbation.
• Ulcer of the stomach and duodenum in the period of exacerbation.
• Hepatitis.

How to give pumpkin to children under one year old

Pumpkin juice can be given after getting used to pear, apple and apricot. Starting with ½ tsp. by the year the volume can be brought up to 100 ml per day.

Baked pumpkin is a tasty and healthy diet dish that is allowed for children to eat.

Pumpkin puree can be introduced into complementary foods after complete addiction to the vegetables of the first row - zucchini, cauliflower, potatoes, carrots (children on artificial feeding not earlier than 5 months, children on natural feeding not earlier than 6-7 months). Starting with ½ tsp. by the year increase the volume to 200 g per day. Give 2-3 times a week.

From 7 months, you can give cereals made on the basis of pumpkin puree. Also, a little pumpkin juice or puree for taste can be added to any porridge.

From 8 months, you can offer your child pumpkin soup.

For children under one year old, pumpkin should be steamed or boiled in a small amount of water (ready pumpkin becomes soft, easily pierced with a fork). Pumpkin goes well with meat, it can improve the taste of cabbage or carrots.

Pumpkin contains less than other vegetables, and is especially suitable for overweight babies.

Pumpkin dishes for children

Soup

You will need:

• Water - 180 ml,
• Bulb - 1 pc.,
• Pumpkin puree - 200-250 g,
• Broth (vegetable) - 240 ml,
• Milk (or diluted mixture) - 240 ml,
• Green onions (to taste).

Pour water into a saucepan and add chopped onion, cook until the onion is ready for about 3-4 minutes. Then add pumpkin puree, broth and cook for 5 minutes. At the end, add milk, bring to a boil and turn off. Sprinkle with green onions before serving.

Porridge

You will need:

• Pumpkin - 300 g,
• Manka - 2 tbsp. l.,
• Milk - 340 ml,
• Butter, salt and sugar to taste.

Put the pumpkin cut into cubes in a saucepan and pour over milk, cook until the pumpkin becomes soft. Take half a glass of cold water, dilute semolina in it. While stirring the boiling milk with pumpkin, slowly pour in the diluted semolina, add salt, sugar. Cook until thickened. At the end, add butter.

Instead of semolina, you can add rice, millet or corn grits. For taste, you can put any dried fruit at the end (prunes, dried apricots, raisins, dried pineapple).

Fritters

You will need:

• Pumpkin - 100 g,
• Kefir - 120 ml,
• Salt and soda - 1/3 tsp each,
• Egg - 1 pc.,
• Sugar (to taste)
• Flour - 150 g.

Grate the pumpkin on a fine grater, salt and squeeze the juice after five minutes. Add kefir, egg, soda, sugar and flour. Bake in a hot skillet with vegetable oil. Serve with sour cream or condensed milk.

baked pumpkin

Put the pumpkin cut into small pieces in a large frying pan, pour a little water. Brush the pumpkin slices with honey. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees until golden brown. The thinner the pumpkin is cut, the more it will look like candied fruits. Also, children are happy to eat pumpkin dried in an electric dryer.

So many useful properties, so many delicious dishes. Cook pumpkin for the first and second, indulge the kids with pumpkin desserts, because how convenient it is for mom to cook food from a healthy and at the same time very tasty product!

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Another recipe for a delicious pumpkin puree soup:

Pumpkin is delicious and easy to prepare. Due to its many beneficial properties, it is an ideal complementary food for babies. Pediatricians recommend introducing mashed potatoes from this vegetable into the diet for up to a year.

It is not in vain that pumpkin is one of the first to be introduced into complementary foods. Due to the high content of water, as well as a complex of vitamins and minerals, it has a positive effect on the growing organism:

beta-carotene - responsible for vision and cleanliness of the skin;

vitamin E - contributes to the normalization of protein and fat metabolism, improves the absorption of vitamin A, and is also an antioxidant;

vitamin C - strengthens the immune system, helps fight viruses and various infections;

vitamins B6, B1 and B2 - strengthen the nervous system;

vitamin K - responsible for cell growth and blood clotting;

vitamin T - promotes muscle building;

vitamin D - prevents the development of rickets;

iron - participates in the process of hematopoiesis, fights weakness, fatigue, anemia;

potassium - removes excess fluid from the body, relieves swelling;

fiber - normalizes intestinal motility, helps fight constipation;

pectins - remove toxins and improve the functioning of the digestive system.

When to Avoid Pumpkin

individual intolerance;

diabetes;

diseases of the digestive system;

intestinal colic.

Individual reaction to pumpkin: how allergenic is the vegetable

Despite the undoubted benefits of pumpkin for the body, it should be remembered that excessive consumption of this product can cause intestinal upset and lead to "carotene jaundice." It manifests itself in the yellowing of the palms, the sclera of the eyes of the feet.

Industrial production or home cooking

Pumpkin puree doesn't have to be homemade. It is sold in the children's section of any supermarket. But how can you be completely sure of the quality of the finished product? In addition, food made with love by mom always tastes better.

When preparing pumpkin at home, it is important to choose the right fruit. This will help the knowledge of simple rules:

the peel should be smooth, without rot and visible damage, the tail should be dried up;

to start complementary foods, it is better to take a fruit with a peel that is not too bright in color (the brighter the color, the greater the likelihood of allergies);

weight should not exceed 3.5–5 kg.

Having chosen and prepared a pumpkin on her own, the mother can be sure that she will feed the baby with a healthy diet.

Rules for introducing a new product at an early age

Doctors say that early acquaintance with adult food can adversely affect the health of the crumbs, namely, cause allergic dermatitis. Parents should remember that any change in nutrition is stressful for the baby, so complementary foods start with small portions. Pumpkin puree is introduced into the diet from half a teaspoon, and juice - from a few drops, then supplemented with breast milk or formula. If there are no negative reactions to the product, the next day the portion is doubled and gradually adjusted to the age norm.

At what age can you start giving pumpkin to a baby

Introducing the baby to the pumpkin should be after the baby tries the zucchini, cauliflower, broccoli. These are vegetables with a low allergenicity index. In addition, the baby is unlikely to want to eat them after a sweet pumpkin.

How often to give a vegetable

After the baby gets used to the new product, it can be given as a one-component puree (without adding other vegetables or fruits). Do not get carried away and feed your child a pumpkin every day - enough 2 times a week. No more than 1 teaspoon in the form of an additive to porridge or other dishes can be given every day.

Basic recommendations for the introduction of products in the child's diet

These rules apply not only to pumpkin, but also to other dishes that the child tries as complementary foods:

a new product is given only if the baby is absolutely healthy;

do it better in the morning;

you need to feed the child not from a bottle, but from a spoon;

you should not introduce the baby to a new product a week before and a week after vaccination;

complementary foods should be started with a liquid consistency puree or vegetable juice;

food temperature should be 37-39 0.

Between the introduction of new foods into the diet should take at least two weeks.

Video: Dr. Komarovsky about the start of complementary foods

Is it possible to introduce raw pumpkin into complementary foods

Raw pumpkin contains a large amount of nutrients, some of which are lost during heat treatment. But still, giving the baby a product in this form is not worth it. The fact is that eating a raw vegetable and juice from it can cause intestinal upset, bloating and nausea. In addition, the pumpkin pulp is quite tough, and the baby will not be able to chew it.

Raw pumpkin is given to a child only after three years.

Pumpkin puree for babies: how to cook it right

Pumpkin goes well with many foods. You can cook it in any way: boil, stew, bake. It is better to start giving pumpkin in the form of mashed potatoes.

How long does a vegetable cook

The heat treatment time depends on the size of the pieces and the method of preparation. Readiness is checked with a knife or fork - they should easily enter the pulp.

Table: how long to cook, stew and bake pumpkin

Puree for the first feeding (basic recipe)

Now almost every kitchen has modern household appliances (blenders, food processors), and parents often use them to grind baby food. However, to prepare the first complementary foods, it is better to remember the "grandmother's method" and grind the pumpkin through a sieve. After grinding with a blender, coarse fibers remain in the grated mass, which can cause a gag reflex in an infant.

Cooking:

Wash the pumpkin, cut off a small piece weighing 150–200 g.

Remove the skin and seeds from it.

Cut into cubes, cover with water and boil.

Grind the finished product to a state of homogeneous mass, bring to a boil and cool.

After introducing vegetable oil into the diet, you can add it to the puree (2-3 drops each). In combination with this product, beta-carotene from pumpkin is absorbed better.

At the beginning of complementary foods, puree is diluted with breast milk or formula. This is done so that the mass does not turn out too thick.

Recipes for children's meals

As new foods appear in the diet, pumpkin dishes become more diverse.

With yolk

Cooking:

Prepare pumpkin puree in the usual way.

Boil the chicken egg separately, separate the yolk and add it to the pumpkin mass.

Beat with a blender.

To make the puree not very thick, you can dilute it with formula milk or breast milk.

with dill

Pumpkin puree with dill helps to normalize digestion, removes bloating and colic.

Cooking:

Wash and finely chop the dill sprig (do not use the stem).

Mix the ingredients into a homogeneous mass.

If the puree is thick, add breast milk or formula.

With apple or pear

Cooking:

Put the prepared fruits and pumpkin in equal proportions into a saucepan and pour water over it.

Cook for at least 20 minutes (until soft). If you cook food in a slow cooker in the “stew” mode, the cooking time increases to 30 minutes, if you use a double boiler - up to 25 minutes.

Drain excess water carefully.

Grind the mass through a sieve or blender.

With dried apricots

The use of dried apricots helps to increase hemoglobin, normalizes the immune system, improves the functioning of the heart and digestive tract. The baby is introduced to this product no earlier than 10-11 months. Allergy to it, as a rule, does not occur if you do not exceed the recommended amount of the product (up to 50 grams per day).

In order for dried fruits to soften well, they are soaked in cold water for at least 12 hours before cooking. It is better to do this at night.

Cooking:

Boil 3-4 pieces of dried apricots for 1-2 minutes.

Rub through a sieve.

Cook the pumpkin in the usual way and combine with dried apricot puree.

Giving pumpkin puree with dried apricots more than 2 times a week is not recommended, as this can lead to a strong relaxation of the stool.

With meat

Cooking:

Boil 50 g of turkey or chicken.

Separately, boil chopped pumpkin (150 g).

Combine the components, beat with a blender or grind through a fine sieve.

Add a few drops of vegetable oil.

with rice

Nutritionists advise starting complementary foods with rice porridge. It does not injure the delicate gastric mucosa, quickly restores energy. In addition, this cereal does not contain gluten (gluten), so it is considered hypoallergenic.

Cooking:

Rinse 1.5 tablespoons of rice under running water until it becomes clear.

Boil rice until tender in a glass of water.

Cool and rub through a sieve.

Combine with prepared pumpkin puree.

Beat the mass with a blender.

With zucchini

Cooking:

Prepared pieces of pumpkin and zucchini (without peel and seeds) in equal proportions (100 g each), pour water, boil until soft.

Drain excess liquid.

Grind the mass through a sieve.

Add milk or mixture.

Milk pumpkin soup

Cooking:

Prepare pumpkin puree according to the basic recipe.

Pour boiling milk into the mass. Depending on what consistency of the finished puree you need to get, the amount of ingredients may vary up or down.

Boil the soup for 5-7 minutes and beat with a blender.

Add 3-5 drops of vegetable oil.

baked pumpkin

Cooking:

Put the peeled and chopped pieces of pumpkin on a baking sheet and sprinkle with vegetable oil.

Bake until soft.

Take out, transfer to a deep plate and mash with a fork.

Pour in milk if necessary.

Semolina porridge with pumpkin

Cooking:

100-150 g pumpkin cut into pieces.

Boil in 100 ml of water.

Add 100 ml of milk to the pumpkin mass.

As soon as the liquid boils, pour in a thin stream of 1 tablespoon of semolina.

Cook for 5-7 minutes with constant stirring.

Beat the mass with a blender.

With potato

In a small amount, pumpkin puree can be added to potato puree.

Photo Gallery: Foods to Pair with Pumpkin

Egg yolk is suitable for complementary foods from 8 months From 11 months, the baby's diet can be enriched with greens Pears and apples are usually introduced into complementary foods after 7 months

Dried fruits, including dried apricots, are introduced into the diet after 1.5 years. From the age of 9 months, the child can begin to be introduced to poultry meat. Rice is a hypoallergenic cereal, therefore it is one of the first to be introduced into the diet.
According to nutritionists, it is better to introduce semolina after 1 year.
Baby can taste potatoes from 6 months

Video: pumpkin in a slow cooker

How to make blanks: ways to store pumpkins

The whole fruit keeps well in a dry place for several months. A cut pumpkin wilts quickly. In this form, it can only be left in the refrigerator and no longer than 7 days.

How to freeze a vegetable

Portions for babies are small, so making pumpkin puree just once is quite difficult. Leftovers can be divided into portions, put into ice cube trays and frozen. Useful and taste qualities of the product will not change from this. In the future, it will only be necessary to get the puree from the freezer and add it to other ingredients or simply warm it up for 2-3 minutes.

You can also freeze raw fruit. To do this, peel the pulp, cut it into small pieces, put them on a cutting board and place in the freezer for 45-60 minutes. When the pumpkin is frozen, divide it into portioned bags and take it out as needed. The process of preparing dishes from pumpkin frozen raw is no different from the usual process.

canning

Pumpkin puree can be preserved in jars. For this you need:

Wash the fruit, cut off the peel, remove the seeds and cut into pieces.

Put in a saucepan, pour 1 liter of water and add 250 g of brown sugar.

Put to cook on a small fire.

Wash 200 g of cranberries and squeeze the juice from the berries.

Pour the juice into the pumpkin mass and cook for 20-25 minutes.

Remove from heat, cool and grind with a blender.

Boil, put in sterilized jars and roll up.

The most popular orange vegetable dish is porridge. The product is easily digestible and attracts the baby with its unusual color and delicate taste. Pediatricians recommend introducing pumpkin porridge for a child into the diet in the first year of life. This age is accompanied by both positive and negative aspects of growing up. The most difficult thing for the mother of a child at 1 year old is to feed him. His small body requires varied and tasty meals. This is where sweet and nutritious baby porridge with pumpkin comes to the rescue.

Pumpkin is a beautiful and healthy vegetable. Possessing a bright mild taste, it saturates the body with essential trace elements and vitamins, keeps the body in good shape and brings an excellent mood to the whole family.

Pumpkin is an absolutely safe vegetable, it cannot be contaminated with harmful chemicals.

Millet

Golden delicious millet porridge with the addition of pumpkin will definitely please the child. It can even be given to babies up to a year old (after consulting a pediatrician).

Ingredients :

• Millet - 1 tbsp.;
• Pumpkin - 200 g;
• Milk - 350 g;
• Water - 350 g;
• Salt - 0.5 tsp;
• Sugar - 1.5 tsp;
• Butter - 100 g.

Cooking :

1. We clean and cut the pumpkin into pieces, put it on the fire, filling it with water.
2. While the vegetable is stewing, wash the millet under running water 3 times.
3. After 20 minutes, lightly mash the finished pumpkin with a spoon in mashed potatoes. You should not turn the contents of the pan into a homogeneous mass, the taste with pieces will be much more interesting.
4. Now you can pour the resulting mixture with milk and water, adding millet to the liquid.
5. As soon as the porridge boils, reduce the heat, cook until cooked for 20-30 minutes.
6. Add salt and sugar.
7. Hot porridge for children is served with butter.

Millet porridge with pumpkin is high in calories, it will come in handy for a growing active organism.

Baby millet: video recipe

Rice porrige

Your baby has grown up, and for a one-year-old child, a varied diet is required. Prepare rice porridge with the addition of pieces of gourds.

Ingredients :

• Rice - ½ tbsp.;
• Pumpkin - 500-600 g;
• Milk - 1-2 tbsp.;
• Butter - 100 g;
• Salt, sugar - to taste.

Cooking :

1. We peel the pumpkin, cut it into large pieces, it would be best if the cubes are the same shape - it's more aesthetically pleasing.
2. Pour the chopped vegetable with water (you need a little less than half a glass). Cook for 10 - 15 minutes.
3. Now add milk to the mixture, bring to a boil over low heat. It is very important here not to leave a fragrant dish unattended, as the liquid can escape at the most inopportune moment, so stir the porridge.
4. As soon as the milk boils, add the peeled and washed rice. Bring everything to a boil and leave to languish under the lid.
5. Please note that at the end of cooking, the color of the porridge will change from light orange to bright red.
6. That's all. Serve with a piece of butter.

Solar porridge for children: video recipe

Rice and millet

You can diversify the menu by preparing the Friendship porridge, for this it is enough to mix rice and millet, adding stewed pumpkin to them. For this you need:

• Rice - ½ tbsp.;
• Pumpkin - 1 kg.;
• Millet - ½ tbsp.;
• Water - 1 tbsp.;
• Milk - 2 tbsp.

Cooking :

1. Cook chopped pumpkin until done.
2. As soon as it is cooked, add water, milk and cereals.
3. Cook a fragrant dish for 30 minutes, then leave to reach under the lid.

Buckwheat

Undoubtedly, you should pay special attention to buckwheat porridge with pumpkin. This is a great recipe for kids. Caring mothers are well aware that this is the richest cereal in nutrients. Pediatricians recommend giving it to children from a year and older.

Ingredients :

• Buckwheat - 1 tbsp.;
• Pumpkin - 500 g;
• Water - 1.5 tbsp.;
• Milk - 1 tbsp.;
• Butter - 1 tbsp. l.;
• Sugar, salt - to taste.

Cooking :

1. We cut the pumpkin into medium-sized pieces, fill it with water, leave to simmer for 15 minutes at low heat.
2. Pour buckwheat peeled and washed under running water into a separate container, pour in a glass of water, cook until half cooked.
3. Add buckwheat to the boiled pumpkin and pour everything with milk.
4. Add sugar, salt and butter. It will give a special tenderness to the dish.
5. Leave the porridge to simmer over low heat, about 10 minutes.

Pumpkin in a slow cooker

When it is summer outside and the sun bakes with all its might, it is very difficult for housewives to stand at the hot stove waiting for culinary masterpieces. Another thing is cooking with a multicooker. This young technical work of art is already firmly entrenched in the kitchens of modern mothers. Pumpkin can be cooked very quickly, and most importantly, it will appeal to the whole family.

Ingredients :

• Pumpkin - 1 kg.;
• Water - 150 g;
• Milk - 200 g;
• Sugar - 1 tbsp. l.;
• Salt - 0.5 tsp;
• Butter - 100-150 g.

Cooking :

1. We clean the pumpkin, cut into cubes 2 × 3 cm in size.
2. Lubricate the capacity of the multicooker with 50 g of butter
3. We spread the vegetable in a bowl, fill it with water, turn on the “quenching” mode for 10 minutes.
4. Now pour the milk into the resulting mixture and cook the porridge for another 15 minutes.
5. At the end, add sugar and salt, leave to reach in the "heating" mode.

Pumpkin porridge in a slow cooker is a salvation for parents, because it can be cooked without much effort.

Such a dish can be ground with a blender into a puree or eaten in pieces. Porridge with pumpkin for children can be cooled, you get an original dessert. Monocomponent puree can be given to a child in the very first year of life, he will appreciate it.

Our grandmothers and mothers also used it as the first complementary food, as the sweet taste was liked by the kids, and it does not cause allergies. That is why we have every reason to talk about a solar product as an indispensable dish.

Do you want to prepare a nutritious and tasty side dish for your child that can be served for the whole family for breakfast, consumed as a dessert for lunch and eaten for dinner? Then be sure to add pumpkin porridge for your child to the menu!

If pumpkin porridge is cooked correctly, it becomes not only tasty, but also an unusually healthy dish for children. necessary, as they contain a lot of vitamins and perfectly removes toxins, so it is recommended to eat it for children with weakened immune systems, and in order to quickly remove antibiotics from the body after an illness.

Pumpkin porridge for a child can be prepared with almost any cereal.

Millet porridge from pumpkin

Ingredients

• pumpkin slices - 300 gr;
• millet (or any other cereal) - 1 tbsp;
• milk - 2 tbsp;
• water - 2 tbsp;
• butter - 2 tbsp;
• sugar, salt - to taste;
• dried fruits, nuts - to taste, for decoration.

Cooking millet porridge from pumpkin for a child

To make this incredibly delicious millet porridge with pumpkin, wash and clean the vegetable, then cut it into small cubes. Rinse the cereal thoroughly until the water runs clear. After that, melt the butter in a saucepan, add pumpkin there - “a storehouse of orange vitamins”, and sauté for 3-5 minutes. Then sugar and salt, pour the washed millet and mix well.

Next, pour all the water into the pan and over medium heat, stirring, quickly bring the porridge to a boil. After that, reduce the heat to a minimum and cook pumpkin millet porridge for a child for about half an hour, until all the liquid is completely absorbed. Then we add milk (we do it only now, because millet, like any other cereal, is very poorly boiled in milk), bring to a boil and cook for another 3-5 minutes. We cover the pumpkin millet porridge with a lid, and let it brew for at least a quarter of an hour. At this time, it is quite possible to take care of the baby - for example, play a little outdoor games with him. And when you work up an appetite together, you can safely sit down at the table and enjoy the taste of extremely healthy, nutritious porridge with your child!

Before serving, pumpkin porridge for a child can be sprinkled with dried fruits and nuts.

Porridge based on corn grits with pumpkin

Ingredients

• 1 kg pumpkin,
• 1 st. cream,
• 1/4 st. Sahara,
• 2/3 st. corn grits,
• 100 gr. butter.

Cooking porridge

Melt 20 g of butter in a frying pan and simmer the peeled pumpkin slices on it until soft. Boil the corn grits, then season the almost ready porridge with cream, add the prepared pumpkin, salt, add sugar. Bring the porridge to full readiness, season with the remaining oil and let it brew.

Oatmeal with pumpkin puree in the microwave

To quickly cook pumpkin porridge in the microwave, you can add it to the porridge "in bags" in advance.
Ingredients

• 1 st. instant oatmeal hercules
• 3/4 st. milk
• 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
• 1 tsp Sahara

Cooking porridge with pumpkin puree in the microwave

Mix cereal with milk and cook in the oven on high power for 2 minutes. Stir, add milk if necessary, turn on for another 1 minute. Add sugar, prepared puree, mix and bring to readiness in the oven for 1 minute.

Pumpkin puree for babies from 7 months Colored mashed potatoes

Pumpkin is a sweet but very healthy vegetable. This melon culture is a storehouse of useful substances. Strengthening the cardiovascular system, normalizing sleep and metabolic processes, improving vision and motility of the gastric tract - this is what pumpkin is useful for children.

In order for a child to fall in love with this orange fruit, you need to regale with a pumpkin from early childhood. You can cook a large number of dishes from it: both the first and the second, and the dessert loved by all the kids! Young mothers often ask themselves the question: how to cook a pumpkin for a child, so that it is tasty and the benefits are preserved.

Baby pumpkin puree

For babies, this fruit is prepared in the form of mashed potatoes. Most likely, the baby will not refuse to eat an unusual vegetable.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin - 50 g.

Cooking

The pumpkin is washed, peeled and cut into small pieces. Fill with water and put on the stove. How much to cook pumpkin for a child? The readiness of the vegetable is determined with a knife: when the pieces become soft, the fire can be extinguished. Cooking will take approximately 30 minutes. Then, using a blender, the pumpkin is crushed into a puree.

Porridge with pumpkin for children

The best breakfast is porridge, which gives your little one a boost of energy for new discoveries and tricks. So why not cook it with pumpkin?

Ingredients:

• pumpkin - 150 g;
• cereals (rice, millet or semolina) - 50 g;
• milk - 0.5 cups;
• water - 1 glass;
• butter - 15 g;
• sugar - 1 teaspoon;
• salt - on the tip of a knife.

Cooking

We clean the pumpkin, wash and cut into small pieces. Pour boiling water over it, add sugar and cook for about 15 minutes, covered with a lid. Then mix the pumpkin with milk and cereals, simmer for another 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Turning off the stove, put salt and butter in the finished porridge.

The most delicious porridge for the best baby is ready!

Pumpkin soup for kids

A bright and appetizing pumpkin first course will delight your baby with a wonderful taste. But inexperienced mothers do not know how to cook a pumpkin for a child for soup. The recipe below will be a great help.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin - 150 g;
• carrots - ½ root;
• potatoes - 1 pc.;
• sunflower or olive oil - 1 tsp;
• water - 500 ml;
• salt - a pinch.

Cooking

Put a pot of water on the fire. Peel the vegetables from the skin and wash them. Cut the pumpkin and potatoes into small cubes, and grate the carrots. Send all the vegetables to boiling water and cook over medium heat for 30 minutes. Grind the soup with a blender, salt and add oil. It's time to submit!

Pumpkin fritters for kids

Please the little one with small "suns" - pumpkin pancakes. The dish is especially suitable for little fussy people who do not like this sunny fruit: in pancakes, they simply will not notice the pumpkin.

Ingredients:

• pumpkin - 200 g;
• kefir - 2 cups;
• flour - 150 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• water - 0.5 l;
• sugar - 2 tablespoons;
• salt - on the tip of a knife.

Cooking

The pumpkin must be peeled, washed and grated. Kefir must be mixed with egg and flour in such a way that no lumps remain. Add pumpkin, sugar, salt and mix again. Fritters are fried in vegetable oil. Drizzle with sour cream when serving.

Pumpkin casserole for kids

A little gourmet is unlikely to refuse to enjoy a piece of appetizing pumpkin casserole! Give him this pleasure by preparing a dish for breakfast or for dessert.

Ingredients:

Cooking

Peel the pumpkin from the peel and seeds and cut into small pieces. Whisk eggs with cream, salt and sugar. Grease a baking dish with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Put the pumpkin in a mold and fill with beaten eggs. The casserole is baked for 30-35 minutes at a temperature of 200°C.

Cook pumpkin dishes 2-3 times a week, not more often, because carotene jaundice can develop due to the high content of carotene. To avoid a pumpkin allergy in a child, introduce this product from 6 months and in small doses, carefully monitoring the reaction.