Broccoli is one of the first vegetables which pediatricians recommend to give to kids. It is gippoalergenny vegetable with pleasant, sweetish, but quite expressive and specific taste which often is pleasant to children.
How to prepare broccoli cabbage
Broccoli, as well as a cauliflower is sold by big green inflorescences. Actually, these vegetables - close relatives. Choose that inflorescence where there are no turned yellow and damaged sites. Houses vegetable need to be washed, divided carefully into small inflorescences, to cut off legs, having left only flowers and to kill them in cold water for thirty minutes. Then to drain water, to fill in with a fresh portion of water and to cook broccoli to a condition of softness about 5-7 minutes, no more.
To pour the turned-out broth in some capacity. Do not pour out it at all, it is very useful drink, on its basis you can cook to the kid porridge. And still you can boil chicken breast in this broth and shake up all this the blender. Great chicken cream soup on vegetable broth will turn out.
Crush inflorescences of cabbage also by means of the blender. Do not add salt, it is not recommended to be given to children about one year. It is possible to add to the turned-out puree of a little breast milk or children's mix. Vegetable broth can be added to puree in order that it gained the consistence suitable for you.
Useful tips
It is even better if you steam broccoli cabbage. In this case broth will not be, but vitamins B to cabbage will remain more. It is very convenient to do it by means of the multicooker. In a bowl you pour water, from above you put a special nozzle with holes, on it you spread broccoli inflorescences, you close a cover and you choose the mode "on couple", as a rule, preparation time makes only fifteen minutes. Naturally, the baby food made in house conditions is much better and more tasty can especially as it is preparing absolutely quickly and simply. It is recommended to enter broccoli cabbage gradually. Begin with one teaspoon, and every day increase a portion. After your kid got acquainted with this vegetable, it can be combined with other products with which the kid is also already well familiar. Steam broccoli and pumpkin, crush both the blender and mix in equal quantities. Two-component puree will turn out. Experiment in this way, considering tastes and preferences of your child and also councils of pediatricians. It is not necessary to mix more than three components. Try to mix broccoli cabbage puree, for example, with porridge or children's cottage cheese. A lot of things children quite so begin to eat porridge which was not recognized purely earlier.