Children's diet should be healthy, but not boring. From the same products you can cook a variety of dishes. A simple potato will easily turn into a wonderful casserole, and the meat will become a satisfying and tasty filling. Here are collected a variety of recipes for potato casseroles for children of different ages.
Children's potato casserole with minced meat in the oven - general principles of cooking
Baby casseroles are usually made from mashed potatoes, raw vegetables are rarely used. It is undesirable to use a previously made dish for lunch. Such a puree usually has a watery texture, you can only spoil everything. But it is convenient to immediately boil potatoes for lunch and dinner, set aside part and mash without liquid.
For the filling of children's potato casserole from the oven you need minced meat. Moreover, you can use twisted raw or already boiled meat. In baby food using low-fat varieties. Usually it is beef, but at home can add rabbit, chicken, turkey.
What else can be in a casserole:
· Fresh or frozen vegetables;
· Eggs;
· Milk;
· butter;
· Crackers.
These ingredients can be added to the filling or to the potato. It all depends on the recipe. Spices are rarely added, it is enough just to salt the products, but you can add a bit of greenery, sweet paprika, garlic. Since boiled products are usually used, in the oven the dish is baked for a very short time, on average half an hour.
In kindergartens, sauce is prepared for a casserole on the basis of tomato paste and sour cream, they are poured over a sliced dish. The recipe can be found below. But not all children like irrigation to their taste, this should be taken into account.
Baby potato casserole with minced meat in the oven for kids
This casserole can be given to young children from the age of one. The dish is quite satisfying, just cooked, beef is used for the filling. Additionally, you will need some crackers. It is better not to use the usual purchased breading, and chop and dry a few pieces of white bread. Ingredients
· 900 g of potatoes;
· 500 grams of meat (beef);
· 2 eggs;
· 50 g onions;
· 40 g butter;
· 2 tbsp. l crackers.
Method of preparation
1. Wash beef, put it in water and cook until soft. You can simply cook more meat in soup broth. We take out, cut into pieces, skip through a meat grinder to learn minced meat. You can scroll in the combine. If the child is not small, it is allowed to cut it with a knife, but finely.
2. Peel potatoes, cut and cook. Drain the water, potatoes carefully mnem, then cool a little and introduce two beaten eggs. Stir well. Salt introduce to taste.
3. Onions will be used for the filling. We spread one small cut head into melted butter and stew silently on low heat. As soon as it becomes transparent, we shift it to the beef. Stir the stuffing.
4. Lubricate the mold, sprinkle the bottom with breadcrumbs. Spread the potatoes, level and cover with a layer of minced beef. Cover up the potatoes, leveled.
5. Top the casserole slightly sprinkled with croutons. Cooking in the oven for half an hour.
Children's potato casserole with minced meat in the oven (with gravy)
This kind of casserole is prepared in kindergartens. It should immediately clarify that the sauce is quite liquid and not very saturated. It can be used for any other dishes. At the heart of beef broth, which will remain after the preparation of minced meat for the filling. Older children can add garlic, browned onions, carrots to the sauce.
Ingredients
· 100 g of milk;
· Egg
· 1 kg of potatoes;
· 500 grams of meat;
· 500 ml of broth;
· 2 tsp. tomato paste;
· 2 tbsp. l sour cream;
· 2 spoons of flour.
Method of preparation
1. Peel the potatoes, put them in a saucepan and cook. It is undesirable to cut them into small pieces. It is better to cook in whole or in halves. As soon as the vegetable is cooked, pour out all the water, chop. We warm milk, we mix. If it is cold, then the potatoes will darken. Mass of salt.
2. Cook meat, grind. Optionally, add the twisted onion in the filling, you can fry it a little to improve the taste. 3. As soon as the potatoes cool silent, add one egg to it. Stir well. It is undesirable to introduce it into hot mashed potatoes, otherwise the protein will curl up, flakes will appear.
4. Putting in the form of an ordinary casserole. We put in the oven and cook until light crust.
5. You can start cooking light sauce. To do this, pour the flour on the pan and fry, add no oil. Dilute with broth, salt and add tomato with sour cream. Give the sauce to simmer and thicken.
6. We take out the casserole from the oven, cool it a little, then divide it into portions with a spatula. Put on a plate, pour over cooked sauce.
Baby potato casserole with minced meat in the oven (with carrot)
The recipe is very useful and bright children's potato casserole with minced meat from the oven. Additionally, for the filling you will need a couple of carrots. Cooking ingredients preferably in butter.
Ingredients
· 700 g of potatoes;
· 30 g sour cream;
· 350 g of boiled meat;
· 2 eggs;
· 50 g of oil;
· 2 carrots;
· 1 onion;
· crackers.
Method of preparation
1. Potatoes with meat to cook. You can even do this together, add peeled tubers to boiling meat, bring to readiness, remove and chop. Since meat is usually scrolled through a meat grinder, potatoes can also be skipped, and at the end add eggs to it. Everything needs to be salted.
2. Oil rub the mold. All that remains is sent to the pan. Add onion first and then grated carrot. Cover, simmer until cooked on low heat.
3. We spread the potato layer, and beef it, smear it. Then comes a layer of carrots with onions. But you can mix these vegetables together with minced meat, whatever you like. Hide everything under a layer of potatoes. Leveling.
4. Lubricate the top of the casserole with a thin layer of sour cream, you can sprinkle with croutons. Cooking in the oven for half an hour, temperature 180.
Children's potato casserole with minced (raw) in the oven
Cooking beef takes a lot of time, it is not always there. In this case, rescue this recipe. The meat here is raw, but it requires a different treatment. Ingredients
· 8 potatoes;
· 350 g ground beef;
· Egg
· bow;
· butter.
Method of preparation
1. Mince is better to cook on their own, just twist the beef. Put it in the pan with oil, throw at once the chopped onion and simmer under the lid for ten minutes. In the end, open, evaporate the accumulated moisture.
2. Potatoes simply cook, as was done in the recipes above. Grind, mix with egg and salt. Spread about half of the form, pour the prepared minced meat with onions onto it, finish with a layer of mashed potatoes.
3. Cook the casserole for 20-25 minutes. At will it can be poured on top with melted butter.
Baby potato casserole with minced meat in the oven (with broccoli)
Broccoli cabbage is very useful for children, it is not for nothing that it is introduced first in the supplements. But for some reason, they gradually forget about this vegetable. Here is a recipe for a very tasty and tender casserole with her in the composition. You can also use cauliflower, suitable fresh or frozen inflorescences. In the second variant we take more than indicated in the recipe.
Ingredients
· 800 g of potatoes;
· 300 g broccoli;
· 500 grams of meat;
· 2 eggs;
· 2 tablespoons sour cream;
· 2 spoons of flour;
· 30 g of oil.
Method of preparation
1. Meat or twist and stew minced meat in a frying pan, or first cook and then grind. Potatoes put stew, pre-clean the tubers.
2. Broccoli can be frozen or fresh. In any case, the inflorescences need to boil. Frozen vegetable enough to boil for a moment. Boil raw cabbage for 2-3 minutes.
3. Chop the potatoes and mix them with salt and eggs. Broccoli just pour into a colander. The meat is seasoned with spices.
4. Lubricate the form, sprinkle with flour. We spread a thin layer of mashed potatoes. Apply minced meat on it, we necessarily lubricate it with sour cream. Spread broccoli florets.
5. Lay the rest of the potatoes on top, filling the voids and leveling the top.
6. Cooking casserole for 20 minutes. Then give a little stand. We throw a flat dish and turn it over. Children that dish can be served with sour cream or pour cream.
Children's potato casserole with minced meat in the oven (with peas)
This dish is not for kids, it can be introduced into the diet of children from three years. It is very important to use frozen peas. Canned analog will not work. For the filling used boiled meat or poultry, you can mix a few products.
Ingredients
· 300 g of meat;
· 150 grams of peas
· 8 potatoes;
· 2 spoons of butter;
· 1 onion;
· 2 eggs.
Method of preparation
1. Put the peas in boiling water, boil for a minute, drain the water. Mix the product with minced boiled meat, add spices.
2. Potatoes simply boil. Onions, lightly passe in oil, mix with mashed potatoes, add an egg to them. All spices add to taste. You can add a little dill to the potato mass, just stir it thoroughly.
3. We collect layers of casseroles in a mold, lay the stuffing in the middle. Immediately put in the oven, cook for 15-20 minutes.
Children's potato casserole with minced meat in the oven - tips and tricks
· In any casserole, you can increase or decrease the amount of filling or the potato itself. Just do not forget to add or remove eggs, flour and other auxiliary ingredients that affect the strength of the layers.
· Any casserole will taste better if you cover it with cheese. But for a children's dish it is important not to fry it. Therefore, sprinkle the dish at the very end, letting it melt and remove. You can add cheese to the filling or to the potato. In the second version, it will completely replace the eggs.
