Fruit puree for children how to cook

The growing body of the child is very important time to get all the necessary vitamins, minerals and trace elements, so it becomes a major issue of the preparation of quality and tasty fruit puree.

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Types of fruit purée

If you mash the fruit alone, you should choose the right thickness:

• uniform in composition - for babies from 4 months;
• finely chopped - 6 months;
• coarsely chop - more than 10 months.

Fruit purees are:

• one-piece, made of a single kind of fruit, with their start to the lure;
• mixed prepared from different fruits, with the addition of milk products and cereals.

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Basic rules mashing

When preparing mashed potatoes at home, first of all, remember the following points:

1. Fruits choose unwrinkled and untainted.
2. Clean and chop the vegetables just before cooking sauce.
3. The finished mashed store in refrigerator for 2 hours.
4. Before cooking, wash fruits and treat them with boiling water.
5. Cook for a couple of puree.
6. Do not overcook vegetables, so as not to lose valuable vitamins and minerals.

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Mononuclear apple / pear puree

With this type of mashed potatoes begin to lure the kid. It can be given from 4 months.

Ingredients:

• 2 medium apples / pears;
• A quarter cup of boiling water.

Cooking method:

1. Peel apples / pears, cored and cut into small pieces.
2. Put preform sieve placed over a bowl of water for steaming or use steamer.
3. Cover and keep for a couple of fruit for about 6 minutes, until soft.
4. Wipe softened slices through the screen or scroll in a blender.
5. For a more liquid consistency Dilute a small amount of boiling water.
6. Put in a special children's plate. Mashed potatoes ready.

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Mixed mashed bananas and apricots

When the baby has grown up and become accustomed to the simple types of mashed potatoes, fruit can be combined with each other. Mashed bananas and apricots can be given from 8 months.

Ingredients:

1. Half a banana;
2. Couple apricots.

Cooking method:

1. With Banana, remove the peel, mash.
2. Remove pits from apricots and fruit rub through a sieve.
3. Mix both the workpiece and grind in a blender until smooth.

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Fruit smoothie with milk

The child's body stronger, and for the nutrition of fruit puree supplemented dairy products such as yogurt, cottage cheese or cream, or in its composition is added crops. Give your baby from 8 months.

Ingredients:

1. 1/2 pear;
2. 1/2 banana;
3. 1/2 apple;
4. 30 ml of water;
5. 15 mL of baby milk;
6. 4 pieces of dried apricots.

Cooking method:

1. Fruits clean, from apples and pears, remove the core.
2. Apricots also wash and soak in hot water.
3. Apple and apricots cut into pieces and cook not more than 5 minutes under the lid, then add sliced \u200b\u200bpear and cook for another 2 minutes.
4. Drain the water from the pan and place the pre-softened banana and warm milk.
5. The resulting composition scroll in a blender.

Thus, only fresh, sound fruit should be selected when cooking fruit puree for children, to prepare them for a couple, and preferably to mix the correct consistency according to the age of the child. But the most important thing to a home-cooked mashed retains all the valuable vitamins and minerals necessary for the full development of the child's body.