How to cook buckwheat porridge for the first feeding?
Many pediatricians consider buckwheat porridge the best option for acquaintance of babies with the first food.It is saturated with vitamins and nutrients, it does not contain gluten, which is a source of allergy in many children. It is important for newly-minded parents to know how to properly enter buckwheat into the baby’s daily diet, how to make porridge so that it is nutritious and as healthy as possible.
What is useful?
When the baby reaches a certain age, mom and dad think about choosing porridge for the first feeding. Teaching a favorite child to adult dishes is a rather sensitive question. It is important to be prepared for the fact that the time of learning unfamiliar food will be quite long. Ingredients in the kid's menu should be extremely useful. It is necessary to strictly follow the scheme of complementary foods to prevent the appearance of dermatitis and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
Buckwheat porridge for the first complementary foods - the perfect product. Groats are famous for their rich vitamin composition. Learn more about the beneficial properties of jarice.
- Includes a large dose of vitamins and elements for the normal development of the internal organs of babies.
- Enriches the body with calcium, which is important for the proper formation of the skeleton and bone growth.
- It helps strengthen the human immune system. Rutin in the composition of cereals enhances the effects of vitamin C and helps to cope with seasonal diseases.
- Complex carbohydrates help build muscle mass and muscle development. After using such a product, the feeling of saturation persists for a long time.
- Thanks to fiber, intestinal peristalsis is normalized and metabolism improves.
- The iron contained in buckwheat increases hemoglobin levels to normal levels, which is an important element for the bone marrow to work and provide it with oxygen. A lack of iron in the blood is fraught with chronic fatigue, developmental delay and weakening of the immune system.
- A large amount of potassium strengthens the child’s cardiovascular system.
- Nicotinic acid protects the circulatory system from external negative factors.
- Proteins of plant origin are rich in amino acids, easily absorbed by the child's body, without causing colic and gas. No wonder some parents consider buckwheat to be a good alternative to meat.
- In buckwheat there is no gluten. This means that such a product does not provoke allergies and food intolerance in infants, but will be an excellent first supplement.
Possible harm
The harm from eating buckwheat in practice is very rare. The body of the baby may protest for the presence of components added to the food, which are not suitable for the child due to age. In this case, there may be problems in the functioning of the digestive system.
Also, excessive use of porridge can cause vomiting, flatulence and stool disorder. For this reason, it is important to observe the measure when feeding the baby.
Children who have neurological problems may develop muscle hypertonia after eating dishes from jadrian.
How to cook?
Buckwheat porridge, cooked at home, it turns out very tasty. As a rule, it is recommended to offer a 6-month baby. When the crumb lags behind in development or has a significant shortfall in weight, doctors advise adding porridge on the water to its menu after they have reached 4 months. Babies on artificial or mixed feeding products from buckwheat are recommended to offer from 5 months.
Porridge from Zadritsy should be 5 percent. It means that for their preparation will require only 5 grams of product per 100 ml of purified water. Gradually the concentration of the dish will increase.
For babies from the age of 7 months, this product can be easily replaced by one breastfeeding or a bottle of the mixture. There are several ways of cooking dairy-free porridge: you can make it out of buckwheat grains, or use a blender to make a ground porridge from an already cooled cooked dish.
Babies from 8 months are allowed to use milk or fruit cereals.Before you enter the dishes on milk in the menu of his offspring, make sure that he is not allergic to cow or goat milk. For cooking milk porridges it is recommended to use only specialized milk intended for feeding young children. One-year-old baby can cook treats in cow's milk, diluted with water.
For the first meal, buy a bright shade of jade. Dark buckwheat says that the product has been subjected to strong roasting and is not suitable for feeding babies.
Let us examine in more detail the recipe for dairy-free cereal for babies.
Ingredients:
- buckwheat - 10 g;
- filtered water - ½ cup.
Cooking process:
- initially you need to sort, wash and dry the cereal thoroughly;
- blender grind buckwheat until smooth;
- The resulting texture is diluted in 100 ml of purified water, porridge should be as liquid as possible;
- cook the mixture slowly over a quarter of an hour, stirring continuously;
- cool to 37 degrees;
- For babies who are breastfed, mother's milk can be added to the finished dish, for babies who are breastfed they can add milk formula.
Many housewives chop the dish after cooking. This is determined by the desire and convenience of the parents.
Important: never use table salt and granulated sugar to make the first meal!
Another type of cooking dishes for babies - grated porridge. This method will take a little more time, but in this dish will retain all the beneficial trace elements. For this you will need:
- wash 1 tablespoon of buckwheat, removing it from litter;
- dry it slightly in the oven (to a beige brown);
- pour 150 ml of hot water over it and boil over low heat for 10-15 minutes;
- cooked grits through a sieve and dilute with liquid, in which the dish was prepared.
Buckwheat milk porridge for children from 1 year differs from the method of cooking meals on water.
Required Products:
- croup - ½ cup;
- boiled water - 200 ml;
- whole milk - 120 ml;
- butter - 5-10 g;
- salt, sugar - to taste.
Stages of cooking:
- mix cereal with warm liquid and wait for boiling;
- 10 minutes cook on low heat until water is completely absorbed;
- in a bowl with the ingredients add warm milk, let the porridge boil again;
- add bulk components and oil;
- mix thoroughly and, if necessary, grind using kitchen appliances.
How to enter into the diet?
Enter porridge in the baby menu is recommended according to certain requirements.
- The first porridge must be made from whole-grain buckwheat of a light color.
- Complementary food is introduced with 5 percent porridge, gradually increasing to 10 percent.
- Eating baby to one year should not contain whole milk, butter, salt and sugar.
- Fruit and vegetable puree is undesirable to add to the dishes of a child under six months of age.
- Boil the food from jadriza should be immediately before the upcoming meal. Buckwheat cooked in the evening is not recommended to give the baby.
- The first portion of complementary foods should not exceed half a teaspoon. On the first day, parents need to carefully monitor the child's well-being after entering a new food. It is necessary to make sure that the baby does not have a skin rash and indigestion. As a rule, there is practically no allergy to buckwheat porridge.
If during the day no negative changes are recorded, then on the second day you can increase the portion of porridge up to 1 tsp. Within two weeks, the volume of buckwheat in the child’s diet will be gradually increased to 120-150 grams.
- It is necessary to offer the kid a new treat only in the mornings in order to prevent possible reactions of the body at night. In addition, buckwheat will enrich the children's body with energy and vigor for the whole day.
- First of all, the mother should feed the infant with food, then offer the breast or an adapted mixture.
- Keeping a food diary will help young parents in matters of feeding.It is customary to record the amount of food consumed by the baby, its reaction to certain foods.
- It often happens that the baby refuses to porridge unfamiliar to him. In such situations, buckwheat can be diluted with breast milk or milk formula. If the crumb continues to push away a spoon with porridge, then do not rush to get upset and persistently persuade him to try a new dish. After 2-3 days, re-offer buckwheat porridge to your child and, most likely, the child will taste it with pleasure.
- Before you offer your child a lure, make sure that the dish is cold. The ideal temperature for eating baby - 37 degrees.
On how to cook buckwheat porridge for the first meal in a double boiler, see the following video.