The children's menu is simply obliged to be diverse, interesting, tasty and useful.
Dumplings - exactly the dish that meets all these requirements.
And if you add a beloved child to the process, it will turn out to be much tastier.
How and with what do dumplings prepare for children?
Dumplings for children - the general principles of cooking
The dough for children's and ordinary dumplings is no different. It is prepared on wheat flour with the addition of liquid (milk, water), eggs, and salt. Sometimes put oil. The filling also gives a huge scope for imagination and dictates the taste of the dish.
With what you can make baby dumplings:
• Vegetables. And this is not only potatoes and cabbage. You can make minced pumpkin, green peas, broccoli or cauliflower, zucchini.
• Fruits and berries. You can use any, but only those that are already present in the child's diet.
• Cottage cheese. Sweet and salty minced meat is made from it.
• Meat and poultry. You can use any lean meat and poultry, liver.
The form of children's dumplings can be any. But mostly they make classic crescents. You can cut the layer into squares and make dumplings in the form of small rectangles or triangles.
Since ready-to-eat fillings are mainly used for children's dumplings, the products cook very quickly. On average, from two to five minutes. Then they are oiled, sour cream and served on the table. If the child is small, then pre-cool to a warm state.
Recipe 1: Lazy dumplings for children from 1 year old
Recipe for the simplest dumplings for children, which can be quickly prepared for breakfast, afternoon tea or serve for dinner. Giving such a dish can be children from one year. Served with sour cream, butter, supplemented with fresh berries or syrups, sauces based on them. Ingredients
• 0.2 kg of cottage cheese;
• 1 egg;
• 4 tablespoons flour;
• 1 spoon of sugar;
• salt.
Cooking
1. Pour cottage cheese in a bowl, add a pinch of salt and sugar into it.
2. Put one small egg. If it is large, then you can add only the yolk.
3. Now you need to mix the mixture well. You can use an immersion blender that easily breaks all the lumps.
4. Add flour, stir. It will turn out the dough, not very cool. Perhaps it will stick a little to the hands, which is the norm.
5. You can simply roll out small balls from the resulting mass. In principle, the size can be absolutely anything. But children prefer small items. As the formation laid on a floured board. Then boil.
6. You can cook curly vareniki. To do this, roll out the dough layer and cut out different figures.
7. Or we act in a simpler and faster way. Powder the table with flour and lay out the dough. Roll out the harness, and cut it across into small washers.
8. Run the dumplings into boiling and always salted water. Cook four minutes after boiling.
9. We catch with a skimmer and immediately lubricate a piece of butter so as not to stick together.
Recipe 2: Dumplings for children with cottage cheese
Recipe classic children's dumplings for children from unleavened dough. If necessary, the number of ingredients can be proportionally reduced.
Ingredients
For test:
• 3 cups flour;
• 0.75 glass of water;
• 10 egg;
• 0.5 tsp. salts;
• 1 spoon of vegetable oil.
For the filling:
• 400 grams of cottage cheese;
• 4 spoons of sugar;
• 2 yolks or 1 whole egg;
• 2 tablespoons butter;
• vanilla if desired.
Cooking
1. Sift flour. Combine the egg with salt and sugar, lightly beat with a fork and add water. You can use milk, the dough will get tastier. Combine the flour with the liquid mixture and, when kneaded, add a spoonful of butter. Carefully mneem, form the balls and let it lie down. It is advisable to cover with a napkin so that the dough does not dry out. 2. For the filling you need to wipe the curd so that there are no grains left. Add to it yolks or a whole egg, add melted butter and sugar, stir it all together. Add vanilla to taste. You can put everything for the filling together and kill with a blender.
3. We take out the dough, pinch a piece and roll out a layer of not more than three millimeters. Squeeze out mugs with a glass or cut squares. Put in each cake on a teaspoon of curd mass and connect the edges.
4. Dumplings are boiled in salted boiling water for three minutes. Then the products are lubricated with oil, poured with sour cream, yogurt, jam.
Recipe 3: Dumplings for children with potatoes
Most kids love mashed potatoes, so why not cook dumplings with it? We use fresh dough, it can be prepared according to the recipe above or in a brewed way, like here.
Ingredients
• 0.75 glass of water;
• 1.5 cups of flour;
• 2 spoons of butter;
• 0.5 eggs.
Filling:
• 0.4 kg of potatoes;
• 0.05 kg butter;
• 50 ml of milk;
• salt.
Cooking
1. Boil water, which immediately add salt and oil. Pour into sifted flour and begin to rotate in a circle with a spoon, kneading the dough. Add the egg and quickly stir. We well mash the mass, make a cool dough.
2. We clean the potatoes, cut into pieces and boil in salted water until soft. Drain all liquid. Milk boil with butter and season boiled potatoes, make mashed potatoes. Adjust the density. The filling should not be liquid. Cooling filling.
3. We sculpt small dumplings.
4. Boil water with salt in a saucepan, launch the prepared products and cook for three minutes after surfacing.
5. Take out the dumplings in a bowl, grease with butter and cool to a warm state.
Recipe 4: Dumplings for children with buckwheat flour curd
Recipe very tasty and healthy dumplings for children and their parents. In addition to cottage cheese, you can use another filling for buckwheat dough. If there is no ready-made buckwheat flour, then grind the grits on our own, then sift. Ingredients
• 0.2 kg buckwheat flour;
• 0.25 liters of water;
• 1 cup of wheat flour;
• 1 egg;
• salt, garlic, greens;
• 0.3 kg of cottage cheese;
• 50 grams of oil.
Cooking
1. Boil water and brew buckwheat flour mixed with salt, cool. Gradually add wheat flour. She will leave about a glass. Well knead the dough and leave to lie down.
2. We wipe the cottage cheese through a sieve, add half the butter into it, which can be melted or just melted. We drive in egg, we put minced garlic and greens. Stir fragrant filling.
3. Sculpt the dumplings in any way that is convenient. But do not make products large. If the cakes suddenly dry out quickly, we wet the edges with water.
4. Boil in boiling water for five minutes after a full ascent. Lubricate the remaining butter.
Recipe 5: Dumplings for children with liver
Option hepatic dumplings for children with a very delicate filling. A simple way to feed a picky healthy product. We take any dough, even buckwheat from the previous recipe will do.
Ingredients
• 1 carrot;
• 0.3 kg of liver:
• 0.5 onions;
• 30 ml of oil;
• 50 ml of cream;
• salt;
• 0.5 kg of dough;
• 1 clove garlic.
Cooking
1. Heat the oil in a skillet, add carrots and onions. Finely chop vegetables is not necessary. Slightly passe and spread the diced liver to them. Fry for about five minutes, then pour in the cream and simmer under the lid until done. It will take no more than ten minutes.
2. Vegetables with liver cool, salt and mash with a blender. The result is a very delicate pate with a creamy taste.
3. We take out the dough, the cooled liver and form the standard medium-sized dumplings.
4. Dumplings are boiled in boiling water for a couple of minutes, then oiled and served with sour cream.
Recipe 6: Dumplings for children with meat (turkey)
For the preparation of such dumplings used turkey. But you can also take chicken, veal, rabbit. But it is better to abstain from pork, since it is heavy for a child's stomach. Ingredients
• 0.4 kg of dough;
• 0.3 kg turkey;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• 25 grams of oil;
• salt.
Cooking
1. Cut the turkey into small cubes, fill it with water and set to cook. After 15 minutes add chopped onions and carrots. Cook until done. Salt ten minutes before the end.
2. Cool the turkey with vegetables and twist through a meat grinder.
3. We take out the dough, roll it out in a thin layer, cut out circles and make ordinary dumplings with a filling.
4. Boil in boiling water for two minutes. Lubricate the oil specified in the recipe. Meat dumplings are served for children with sour cream, natural yogurt, and tomato juice.
Recipe 7: Dumplings for children with berries
For the preparation of sweet dumplings for children, you can use any berries: blueberries, currants, cherries, cherries. Be careful you have to be with strawberries and raspberries, as they are quite allergenic. But if they are successfully present in the diet of the baby, then we boldly cook dumplings with them.
Ingredients
• 0.4 kg of dough;
• 0.3 kg of berries;
• 3-4 tablespoons of sugar;
• a piece of butter.
Cooking
1. Wash berries and dry. If you use cherry or cherry, then be sure to remove the bones. Large strawberries can be cut into slices. We use small berries entirely.
2. Roll out the dough thinly, cut out the mugs and put the stuffing in each. Sprinkle with sugar. Immediately fall asleep berries is not necessary, otherwise there will be a lot of juice. Sculpt dumplings.
3. Boil the products in the usual way in boiling water, but in small portions. Dumplings with berries are prepared very quickly, it is enough for them to boil well.
4. Take out, grease with a piece of butter, you can sprinkle with sugar or sprinkle with any sweet sauce.
Recipe 8: Dumplings for kids yad apples and pumpkin
Another option is useful children's dumplings, which are prepared with a sweet filling. Dough knead any way.
Ingredients
• 0.2 kg of pumpkin;
• 0.2 kg apples; • 2 spoons of sugar;
• 20 grams of oil;
• 0.5 kg of dough.
Cooking
1. Cut the washed and peeled pumpkin into pieces and transfer them to the saucepan. Add three spoons of water and set on the stove to languish.
2. As soon as the pieces are soft, add the sliced apples. Fruits must be cleaned and removed with a seed core. Float together for another five minutes.
3. Remove the filling from the heat, decant all the liquid, and cool the pieces of pumpkin and apples.
4. Add sugar and mnem in mashed potatoes. It is optional to zealous, it is possible to leave small lumps.
5. From the dough and cooked sweet mince sculpt small dumplings and boil in boiling water for two minutes. Lubricate with oil.
Dumplings for children - useful tips and tricks
• How to sell sweet dumplings to a child? In fact, in many ways, the sauce depends on age. Young children can be offered yogurt, fruit syrup, sweetened sour cream. Older children will enjoy the dish with chocolate and vanilla sauces, with condensed milk.
• After cooking dumplings with berries, usually juice remains. It can be added to compote or mixed with starch and cook a sweet sauce to the dish.
• Any vareniki boiled in salted water, even products with a sweet filling. Add a teaspoon of salt to a liter of liquid.
