Buckwheat cereal - unusually useful dish. It perfectly is suitable both for a diet of adults, and for baby food. The technology of preparation of porridge for children has certain features.
Buckwheat is a source of valuable proteins, vitamins, minerals. It is especially vitamin-rich groups B, folic acid, calcium, magnesium, zinc. It contains almost all valuable components which are necessary for normal activity of an organism. In order that consumption of buckwheat cereal brought the maximum benefit, it is necessary to learn to choose grain correctly. It shouldn't be excessively dark and also at it there shouldn't be a large number of extraneous impurities. It is better to give preference to unground buckwheat, but not crushed grain and not an instant product. In the course of processing and industrial crushing buckwheat loses a part of the useful properties.
Before culinary processing, grain should be touched surely, having removed at the same time all extraneous impurities, and then to pour out it in a colander and to wash a baking plate with flowing water.
For kids it is necessary to cook buckwheat I passed which is the shattered unground buckwheat, or even buckwheat flour. It is better to conduct process of crushing independently. It isn't really difficult, but in this case it is possible to keep almost all valuable components of grain. It is possible to crush buckwheat in the coffee grinder. It is also possible to pour out a small amount of grain on a wooden board and to shatter buckwheat by means of a rolling pin. Buckwheat cereal perfectly approaches as the first feeding up. Kids can give it after 6-7 months. At the same time it is necessary to consider some features of its preparation. To cook porridge for the baby, it is necessary to pour in a small bowl or a small pan of 100 milliliters of water and to add to it 1 teaspoon of buckwheat I passed or torments then to put ware on a plate. When water begins to boil, it is possible to reduce fire and to cook buckwheat within 7-10 minutes. Ready porridge turns out rather liquid. It can be given to the kid from a spoon or to pour in a small bottle with a pacifier.
Later after achievement of 10 months by the child it is possible to offer it more thick porridge. On 100 milliliters of water it is possible to take 2 - 3 teaspoons of the crushed buckwheat flour.
Children after a year can offer the buckwheat cereal cooked on milk. For its preparation it is necessary to pour buckwheat I passed a half of a glass throughout a pan, a half of a glass of water and to cook until water is evaporated almost completely. After that it is necessary to add a half of a glass of milk to a pan and to boil thoroughly 5 more minutes. Cow's milk in this case can be replaced with also divorced milk mix.
Milk is quite allergenic product. For this reason it is necessary to enter into a diet of the kid milk porridges carefully. At emergence of symptoms of an allergy it is worth excluding it from the menu and to cook buckwheat only on water.
To children is more senior it is possible to cook porridge from whole buckwheat. For its preparation it is necessary to pour into a pan 2 glasses water, to pour out in it a glass of buckwheat, to bring water to the boil, to reduce fire and further to cook a baking plate the closed cover within 20 minutes. After the end of preparation it is recommended to wrap up a pan with a warm towel for 5-10 minutes for steaming of grain.