Children's salads: recipes for every day and for the festive table

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Today we invite you to talk about making children's salads. All the little ones are crazy about these culinary delights, but the children's menu needs to be taken more seriously. It is worth eliminating foods that are contraindicated for your baby, and heavy ingredients, so as not to end the feast with a sick stomach.

Why do both mothers and babies love children's salads so much? Recipes that are offered for babies recommend using only he althy ingredients containing useful minerals and trace elements. The following useful elements can be found in children's dishes:

• vegetables;
• fruit;
• lean meat;
• fish;
• cheese;
• boiled eggs.

A few rules

In this section, we propose to talk a little about some of the rules for preparing children's meals.

These conditions are very important to remember and always observe when preparing food for your baby:

1. Use only the freshest produce.
2. Be sure to wash vegetables and fruits before cooking.
3. Bestoption - growing vegetables and fruits at home (without chemical fertilizers).
4. Soaking vegetables and fruits for preparing children's meals is not recommended (if you still decide, then you should limit yourself to fifteen minutes, since during this time you will not be able to lose vitamins and minerals that are very important for the child).
5. Salads are very he althy, especially when served before main courses.
6. For normal intestinal motility, children need fiber found in fruits and vegetables.
7. If the child is a year old, then the salad should be rubbed on a fine grater.
8. If the child is two years old, then you can grate vegetables and fruits on a medium grater, one serving of salad - two tablespoons.
9. Three-year-old children can already chop the salad with a knife, only finely.
10. If you decide to make a fruit salad, then it is better to choose fruits grown in the area where you live (ideally from your own garden). Why? It's simple, we can say that cultures "understand" what exactly their owners need. So they fully meet their physiological needs.
11. In the preparation of children's salads, in no case should you use purchased additives that contain preservatives.

If you are going to prepare salads for a children's party, then you can show your imagination and decorate them the way your baby likes. For example, lay out a salad in the form of a fairy-tale hero or even make an interesting composition.

Products

Products for children's salads should be exceptionally fresh, and if they are vegetables orfruits, then they must go through all the stages of processing. If you wash the products poorly, then you can find a lot of unattractive objects on them, such as:

• worm eggs;
• harmful substances and so on.

How is the preparation of vegetables and fruits that need to be added to the salad raw? Those who are not afraid of boiling water should be washed under running water, and then scalded, rinsed with boiled cold water. Remember that cucumbers and tomatoes do not like boiling water, after washing them under running water, they must be processed under cold boiled water.

Often, different varieties of cabbage are used for children's salads (kohlrabi or white cabbage, which is grown by all gardeners without exception). How to prepare it before using it in the children's menu? As you know, caterpillars love cabbage, and therefore they lay larvae in it, which must be disposed of. Pour some clean water into a saucepan or deep bowl, add s alt and slightly acidify. It is in this water that you need to soak the cabbage for thirty minutes.

Ingredients to include in your baby's diet:

• pumpkin;
• dried apricots;
• beets;
• tomatoes (necessarily homemade, not greenhouse);
• cucumbers (very useful for overweight kids);
• carrot (supplier of carotene, vitamin A, growth stimulant, improves vision, promotes the formation of blood cells);
• may include garlic and onion;
• you can give pungent orsour greens, etc.

Don't forget that carrots, about which so many good things have been said above, are digested only in fat or oil. It is better to use it in the form of a salad with the addition of sour cream or vegetable oil.

Norms for a one-year-old baby:

• two hundred grams of fresh fruit;
• three hundred and fifty grams of vegetables.

It is recommended to wash, cut or grate fruits and vegetables right before eating. This is necessary in order to preserve vitamins and other useful substances, since contact with air causes oxidation and loss of useful substances.

Fruit salad

Now we will give a simple recipe for children's fruit salad. We will need:

• a pair of large sweet apples;
• hard cheese (about one hundred grams);
• the same amount of raisins;
• natural yogurt (about five tablespoons);
• a couple of sprigs of dill;
• carrot.

This children's salad will appeal to everyone. First you need to soak the raisins for thirty minutes, then dry and cut in half. We rub the apples on a fine grater, mix with raisins, grated cheese and yogurt, form a mouse with a tail on a plate. Add to the figure two ears (cheese), eyes (raisins, currants or blueberries), antennae (dill), spout (carrot)

Vitamin salad "Autumn"

Here is another baby salad recipe that will be good for your child. Here we will use a young zucchini, which is able to improvedigestion process.

We will need:

• a small young marrow;
• cucumber;
• greens;
• dressing (yogurt, kefir, sour cream to your taste).

Peel the vegetables and cut into small cubes, finely chop the greens. We combine the ingredients and season. Bon appetit!

Beets and prunes

Now we will prepare a delicious children's salad. It is rich in vitamins and helps to normalize the baby's stool.

This recipe is a little different from kindergarten beetroot salad. We will need:

• beets (150 g is enough);
• prunes (30 g);
• peeled walnut (30g);
• vegetable oil.

Boil the beets, rinse and finely chop the prunes, grind the nuts with a blender. Mix everything and season with oil.

Processed cheese salad

Here is another good salad recipe. At a children's party, it will come in handy. Ingredients:

• 30 grams of boiled potatoes in jackets;
• one boiled egg;
• 30 grams of processed cheese;
• 30 grams of fresh cucumber;
• 10 grams of sour cream;
• fresh greens.

Dice potatoes, cucumber and egg. Grate the cheese. Finely chop the greens, which sprinkle the salad on top (as a decoration). Mix all the ingredients and season with sour cream, you can s alt a little. If you are preparing a saladfestive table, you can show your imagination by laying it out in an unusual way.