After a year, the baby’s digestive ability increases significantly, and the stomach microflora stabilizes by this time. Therefore, the diet is significantly expanded, soup and broth are added to the menu. Soups and broths are real sources of energy, vitamins and nutrients.
They stimulate the secretion of digestive juices, which ensure normal digestion of main courses. But the expansion of the diet should proceed smoothly and carefully. In this article we will find out what foods children at this age can eat. Let's look at recipes for making soups for children under 1 year of age and older.
Nutrition rules for a child 1-2 years old
- The baby's diet includes five meals a day, the most satisfying is lunch; breakfast and dinner should be a little lighter and approximately equal in calorie content;
- Fish and meat dishes should be given in the first half of the day, and dairy, vegetable and cereal dishes - in the second;
- Feed your baby freshly prepared food rather than preparing it the day before. During storage, food loses its beneficial properties;
- The volume of one serving of food for a child 1-2 years old is 300 grams. At the same time, the norm of soup for a child under two years old is 120 ml, at the age of two or three years – 150 ml, for children over three years old, the portion increases to 180-200 ml;
- Do not force your child to eat if he... The baby must get hungry himself;
- Do not teach children to eat while watching TV or playing;
- Give your child warm food, especially soups. Too hot food can burn the stomach, and cold food loses vitamins and beneficial elements;
- When cooking, do not use hot herbs and spices, do not add sauces. You can add salt, black pepper, sugar in small quantities;
- Cook over low heat to retain as much vitamins as possible;
- Do not use processed foods, smoked meats or other similar products. Read more about what children under three years old should not eat.
What soups are suitable for a child?
Soups are prepared on the basis of vegetable, meat and fish broths. In addition, there are dairy and cereal dishes, soups with liquid and puree (creamy) consistency. Pediatricians do not recommend giving soups to babies under 12 months. But if the baby adapts well to adult food, or he was bottle-fed, this dish can be introduced into complementary foods at 10-11 months.
A soup recipe for a one-year-old child should be simple. This should be a low-fat dish that is easy to digest. It’s better to start with vegetable soup in cream or puree form. The first recipe for children under one year old contains no more than two ingredients, and you need to choose vegetables that have already been introduced into the baby’s diet. Potatoes, cauliflower, zucchini, broccoli and pumpkin are perfect; a little later you can add carrots, onions, peas, tomatoes and herbs.
Vegetable soups are rich in vitamins and plant fibers, beneficial minerals and organic acids. This composition ensures the full growth and proper development of the baby. At first, to prepare such a dish, vegetables are ground to a puree consistency and diluted with water. After a year, you can start cooking liquid soups with already chopped, rather than pureed vegetables. In addition, they are starting to give vegetable broths.
After a year, milk soups are included in the diet. The recipe for this soup includes cereals or pasta. This food is rich in vegetable proteins, vitamins and mineral salts, starch. At the beginning of introducing milk soup into the baby’s diet, the ingredients are first boiled until tender in water and then poured with boiling milk. At first, it is better to dilute milk by half with water, and after two years they completely switch to milk. Cook it the same way.
It is better not to give broths containing meat or fish to children under three years of age. When cooking meat or fish, extractive substances are formed that irritate the intestines and cause stomach upsets. In this case, meat or fish can be cooked separately and then added to the vegetable broth. Below we offer soup recipes for children aged 1 to 2 years.
How to cook soup correctly
The composition of vegetable soup starts with two ingredients and gradually expands to seven. Place vegetables so that they cook for approximately the same amount of time. Boil the vegetables until soft and add salt to the finished dish. At first, prepare puree soups, gradually switch to a more liquid composition and whole pieces of vegetables.
Preparing meat soup begins with boiling the meat. The meat is poured with water and brought to a boil. Afterwards the water is drained, the meat is washed and fresh water is added. The product is cooked until cooked. For children, it is better to take beef without streaks and fat, chicken or turkey fillet, and rabbit. The finished meat is cut into small pieces and added to the vegetable broth.
If you cook soup with meat broth, then add a whole onion and chopped carrots to the water while cooking the meat. Half an hour after the start of cooking, add potatoes or cereals, an hour after the start of cooking - other vegetables (tomatoes, zucchini, cabbage, etc.). Ten minutes before the soup is ready, remove the onion from the soup and add chopped greens.
Soup Recipes
The first puree soup with vegetables for children under one year old
- Broccoli – 200 grams;
- Carrot - 1 small fruit.
Cut the washed, peeled vegetables into cubes. Cook for 25 minutes over low heat, then pass through a blender. The finished puree soup can be lightly salted, add a teaspoon of low-fat sour cream or olive oil.
Vegetable soup for infants in complementary feeding
- Zucchini – 30 grams;
- Pumpkin – 10 grams;
- Cauliflower – 10 grams;
- Boiled quail egg yolk – 1 pc.
Boil cabbage, zucchini and pumpkin for 20 minutes. Quail eggs are cooked until cooked for 12-15 minutes. Separate the yolk, add to the vegetables and beat the mixture in a blender. The result will be a puree soup or cream soup for one serving, which can be given to infants as complementary foods as early as 7 months. For children over 9 months old, you can add 50 grams of chopped boiled beef or chicken to the dish.
Vegetable soup for a 1 year old child
- Potatoes – 1 medium tuber;
- Zucchini – 50 grams;
- Onion – 1⁄2 heads;
- Carrots – 1 pc.;
- Butter – 50 grams;
- Greens – 3 sprigs.
Peel the vegetables, chop the carrots and onions, cut the potatoes and zucchini into small cubes. Add potatoes to boiling, lightly salted water, add the rest of the vegetables after 5-5 minutes, cook the ingredients until tender. Add finely chopped greens 2-3 minutes before the end.
Vegetable soup for a 2 year old child
- Potatoes – 2 small fruits;
- Zucchini – 150 grams;
- Tomatoes – 1⁄2 fruit;
- Onion - 1⁄4 heads;
- Carrots – 1⁄2 pcs.;
- Greens – 3 sprigs.
Cut the zucchini and potatoes into cubes, grate the carrots, and chop the onion. Peel the tomato and also cut into cubes. Fry carrots, onions and tomatoes for three minutes in vegetable oil. Pour the potatoes into boiling water, after five minutes add the zucchini, after another five minutes the stewed vegetables. At the end of cooking, add chopped herbs and lightly salt.
Fish soup for a 2 year old child
- Hake (fresh) – 200 grams;
- Potatoes – 4 tubers;
- Millet – 50 gr.;
- Onion – 1⁄2 heads;
- Carrots – 1 pc.;
- Butter - 30 grams.
Cut the cleaned fish into pieces and leave in cold water for 20 minutes. After this, place the fish pieces into boiling water and cook until soft. Wash and peel the vegetables. Add chopped onions, grated carrots and potato cubes to the soup. Wash and sort the millet, add to the soup and cook until tender. Five minutes before the end, add butter and add a little salt. Instead of hake, you can take pollock or pike perch.
To prepare a complete fish soup for children over two years old, add chopped potatoes and shredded carrots to boiling, lightly salted water, and you can add an onion. Clean the fish, rinse, remove bones and cut into pieces. Add fish pieces to the soup 15 minutes after the potatoes start cooking. Cook for 10 minutes, adding chopped herbs during the process. Remove the onion about five minutes before it is ready.
Milk soup with noodles
- Milk – 150 ml;
- Vermicelli – 100 grams.
Cook the vermicelli in lightly salted water until half cooked, four minutes after boiling. Let the water drain. Heat the milk, when the first bubbles appear, add the vermicelli and bring to readiness for three minutes. You can add raisins, chopped dried apricots and a little sugar to this soup. It will make a suitable breakfast dish.
Pumpkin puree soup
- Pumpkin – 2.5 kg;
- Milk – 1 liter;
- Vegetable oil – 1 tablespoon.
Cut the peeled pumpkin into cubes or small pieces. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil, place the prepared vegetable on top and bake until golden brown. Then beat the baked pumpkin in a blender, pour in the milk, lightly salt and bring to a boil. Add a piece of butter to the finished dish. Pumpkin puree soup is suitable for children over one year old.
Pea soup
- Split peas – 80 grams;
- Carrots – 1 pc.;
- Potatoes – 1 tuber;
- Onion – 1 head;
- Greens – 3 sprigs.
Pour cold or cool water over the split peas and cook. Peel the vegetables, cut the potatoes into small cubes, grate the carrots. When the peas boil, add the prepared vegetables after five minutes. Place a whole onion and remove it five minutes before the dish is ready, add chopped herbs. For children under one year old, the finished soup is whipped in a blender; for children aged one year and older, the soup is served in this form.
Soup with meatballs and vermicelli
- Minced beef, chicken or turkey – 300 grams;
- Short vermicelli – 50 grams;
- Onion – 1 head;
- Potatoes – 3 tubers;
- Carrots – 1 pc.;
- Greens – 3 sprigs.
Make small meatballs from minced meat without salt and pepper. Peel the vegetables, cut the potatoes into small cubes, chop the carrots. Place potatoes and whole onion into boiling and lightly salted water. After five minutes, add the meatballs. Simmer the carrots for two to three minutes and add them to the pan when the potatoes are cooked. Then add vermicelli and cook for another five minutes. Remove the onion and add chopped herbs, lightly salt. The finished soup is enough for three to four servings.
Soup with meatballs and buckwheat
- Minced meat – 300 grams;
- Buckwheat – 2 tablespoons;
- Potatoes – 3 tubers;
- Carrots – 1 pc.;
- Greens – 3 sprigs.
Buckwheat is a very healthy and valuable product. At the same time, it is hypoallergenic and absolutely safe, so this cereal is introduced first among others into the diet of a nursing mother. To prepare, potatoes are cut into cubes, onions and carrots are chopped, and small balls without spices are molded from the minced meat. Buckwheat and potatoes are poured into boiling and slightly salted water. After 20 minutes, add meatballs and carrots and cook until tender. Two to three minutes before the end, add chopped herbs.
There are many different recipes for 1-year-old children. You can make soup from chicken, veal, turkey or rabbit. Vegetable soups that are easy to prepare are also beneficial for kids.
Soup should be in the daily diet of every baby over 1 year old. A child does not need a large portion of soup for lunch. You can cook him fresh soups every day in small saucepans using water or broth. There are many simple, healthy and tasty soups for one-year-old babies.
Milk soup with noodles for a one-year-old child
Milk soup will be an excellent alternative for those children who do not like milk. To prepare a simple milk soup recipe you will need:
- 200 ml milk
- 1 tbsp. small vermicelli
- 5g butter
- A little sugar
Add milk to the pan and bring to a boil. After this, add the vermicelli and cook for 5-7 minutes over medium heat, stirring occasionally. When the soup is ready, add sugar and butter.
Milk rice soup for a 1 year old child
To prepare this soup you will need:
- 200 ml milk
- 1 tbsp. rice
- 5g butter
Pour milk into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Slowly add the rice and cook for 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the rice is cooked through. When finished, add butter.
Vegetable soup for a 1 year old child
Vegetable soup can be made from a variety of vegetables. Broccoli and zucchini soup is considered healthy and tasty for a 1 year old child. You will need:
- 50g broccoli
- 50g zucchini
- 1 potato
- 1 tbsp. millet
- 5g butter
Finely chop the vegetables and add them to boiling water. Cook for about 10-15 minutes, after which remove the vegetables. Place the washed millet there and cook for 30-40 minutes. When the cereal is cooked, add vegetables and butter to the pan.
Vegetable puree soup for a one-year-old child
This puree soup can be given to your baby when he is already familiar with many vegetables. You need to prepare in advance:
- 1 tomato without skin
- 50g zucchini
- ½ carrot
- ¼ onion
- 50g cauliflower
Chop all the vegetables and add water. Cook the soup for about 15-20 minutes. When the vegetables are cooked, they need to be taken out, chopped in a blender and added back to the pan with the broth. Before serving, you can add a little sour cream or cream.
Buckwheat soup for a one-year-old child
Buckwheat soup is often given in kindergarten. You can cook this soup quickly and easily at home. Choose for yourself what you will cook with: water or broth. If using broth, you will need:
- 100g meat: veal, pork, beef or chicken
- 1 tbsp. buckwheat
- 1 potato
- ½ carrot
- ¼ onion
Cook the meat broth. Its cooking time depends on the meat: chicken needs to be cooked a little less than other types. While the broth is cooking, finely chop the vegetables and rinse the buckwheat. Dip vegetables and buckwheat into the cooked broth. And cook for 15 minutes.
Pea soup for a 1 year old child
To prepare pea soup you will need:
- 100g meat
- 1 tbsp. peas
- 1 potato
- 1 small carrot or half of it
- 1/4 onion
Before you start preparing this soup, rinse the peas thoroughly and soak them in water for at least 2 hours. You can soak it overnight. Boil the meat broth and add peas. It should cook for 1.5 hours over medium heat. If the broth boils away, you can add water. Add the chopped vegetables and cook for another 15 minutes. Add a little salt and the soup is ready. If your baby doesn't really know how to chew, use a blender to puree the soup.
Borscht recipe for a one-year-old baby
Borscht for 1 year old babies can be cooked without adding cabbage. It all depends on the child’s preferences and digestion. For borscht you will need:
- 100g beef or pork
- 1 potato
- ½ carrot
- ¼ onion
- ½ medium beetroot
- Greenery
- Salt to taste
Place meat, uncut and peeled onions, carrots and beets into the pan. Cook over low heat for 45 minutes, after which you should remove the meat and vegetables and strain the broth. Place finely chopped potatoes into the purified broth and add salt. After 10 minutes, add grated beets, carrots and chopped onions to the pan. Don't forget to cut the meat and add it back to the broth. After 15 minutes the borscht is ready. You can add greens and pour into a plate. For a one-year-old baby, you can already season the borscht with a small amount of sour cream.
Chicken soup for a 1 year old child
To prepare a hearty and tasty soup you will need:
- 100g chicken fillet
- 400 ml water
- 50 ml milk
- ¼ onion
- 1/2 tsp. flour
- 5g butter
Pour water over chicken fillet and finely chopped onion. Cook for 15 minutes. At this time, mix butter and flour. When the fillet is cooked, grind the meat and onion in a blender until smooth. Add chopped meat and flour with butter to the broth, as well as milk. Bring to a boil and add salt.
We are almost a year old now, we have divided the menu into first and second. We eat cutlets and vegetable purees with a bang, but the soups go back to the bib.
I searched on the Internet, here are the recipes I found, maybe someone else will need them too. We will try.
Milk soup with noodles
My mother made this soup for me as a child, and I simply adored it! To tell the truth, I still won’t give up on it. My daughter really liked the soup. This is very important for me, because milk has so many benefits, and Alyonka does not drink milk in its pure form, only in cereals. Perhaps because she is still breastfed, I don’t know. But this soup really helped us out.Compound:
1 table spoon with a heap of small vermicelli
200 ml milk
a little sugar (to taste)
5 g butter
Preparation
1. Pour vermicelli into boiling water and cook until half cooked (I cooked for 5 minutes)
2. Drain the water, pour hot milk over the noodles, add sugar and cook until tender (another 4-5 minutes, but it all depends on the noodles)
3. Add butter before removing from heat.
Bon appetit!
“Spring” soup with cauliflower
The benefits of cauliflower are obvious - it contains vitamins such as C, B, PP, A, as well as acids, microelements, proteins, fats and carbohydrates. You can make a variety of dishes from cauliflower, but today we are making soup.Compound:
for broth - 100 g chicken fillet
for soup - 1 potato
several cauliflower florets
half a sweet pepper
1 table spoon of small vermicelli
greenery
Preparation
1. Cook the chicken fillet in enough water until cooked, 20-25 minutes. We take out the fillet, pour in 50 ml of broth and set it aside (we will need it to prepare the chicken soufflé - see the following recipe).
2. Add peeled and cut into pieces potatoes and cauliflower inflorescences into the remaining broth. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.
3. Then add the noodles and sweet pepper cut into pieces. Cook for about 7 more minutes.
4. A couple of minutes before readiness, add the greens.
Bon appetit.
Tip: if there is not enough broth, you can add boiled water.
Soup puree “Tenderness”
Puree soups, like regular soups, are very beneficial for baby’s digestion. The only difference is that pureed soups can be given to the little ones, because they have no pieces, which means they don’t need to chew anything. Ingredients:1 cup cauliflower
½ cup zucchini
1 boiled egg yolk
1 tablespoon butter
3 glasses of water
Preparation
1. Separate the cauliflower into florets. Peel the zucchini and cut into cubes. If the zucchini is old, remove the seeds.
2. Place the zucchini and cauliflower in boiling water and cook until tender for 10-15 minutes. Then drain the vegetable broth into a separate bowl.
3. Rub hot vegetables through a sieve or grind in a blender. Season with butter. For children older than one year, you can add a little salt.
4. Add a little broth to the vegetables. I don’t indicate the amount of broth, see for yourself what consistency of soup you want to get.
5. Bring to a boil. Garnish the finished soup with finely grated egg yolk.
Bon appetit!
Fish soup with meatballs
I've never made fish meatball soup before. To be honest, I thought it would be nonsense. But the soup was a success! True, it turned out a little thick (not for everyone), next time I’ll add more water.Compound:
fish fillet 100 gr
water 2 cups (next time I’ll take 2.5)
egg white 1 pc
milk 1 table spoon
flour 1 table spoon
potatoes 1 piece
semolina 1 teaspoon
greenery
salt (optional)
Preparation
1. Boil the fish fillet until tender (12-15 minutes) in two glasses of water.
2. Grind the finished fillet in a blender. Add egg white, flour and milk to the fish. Mix well. Gently form the meatballs with damp hands (note that they will expand slightly during cooking).
3. Bring the fish broth to a boil, add diced potatoes and salt. cook for 5-7 minutes. Add semolina, stirring constantly. Bring to a boil again, add meatballs to the soup. Cook over low heat for 10-15 minutes. A few minutes before readiness, add the greens.
Bon appetit!
Milk soup with chicken and noodles
If you are tired of making vegetable soups, and your child wants something new, prepare him milk soup with chicken and noodles. This tasty and satisfying soup will add variety to your baby's menu.Compound:
100 g chicken fillet
1.5 glasses of water
2 tablespoons vermicelli
0.5 cups milk
1 teaspoon flour
5 g butter
Preparation
1. Place the fillet in boiling water and cook over medium heat for 10-15 minutes. Remove the finished meat from the broth, cool slightly and grind in a blender (or pass through a meat grinder).
2. Add vermicelli to the boiling broth and cook for 5-7 minutes. Then add shredded chicken fillet. Bring the soup to a boil. Dissolve flour in milk and pour into soup.
3. Bring to a boil again, cook for a few seconds and turn off. Serve with butter.
Bon appetit!
Soup “Yellow”
This is another recipe from Lyudmila. True, my soup turned out more like “White”, next time I’ll try to cook it with a country egg, I think then it will really turn out “Yellow”. Although, in essence, what difference does it make - the soup was a success! Lyudmila, thanks for the recipe))).Compound:
1 liter of water
50-100 g chicken fillet
1/5 onion
1 raw egg yolk
1 table spoon of millet
1 potato
Preparation
1. Boil water, add meat, cook until done for 15-20 minutes. Remove meat from broth. Place millet in boiling broth and cook over low heat for 10 minutes.
2. Chop the meat finely, you can grind it in a blender. Peel the potatoes and cut into cubes. Finely chop the onion.
3. Then add potatoes and onions to the cereal. Boil for 10 minutes, add chicken. Boil.
4. Lightly beat the egg yolk with 1 teaspoon of cold water. Pour into the soup in a thin stream and cook over low heat, stirring constantly for 3 minutes.
Bon appetit!
Tip: for children older than one year, the soup can be lightly salted.
Soup “Star”
E That soup is familiar to many - soup from childhood. And now I cook it for my daughter. Excellent soup!!!
Compound:
50-100 g chicken fillet
1 potato
2 tablespoons of Zvezdochka pasta
¼ onion
1/3 carrots
greenery
Preparation
1. Place chicken fillet in boiling water and cook until done, 20-25 minutes. Remove the finished meat, let cool, chop finely.
2. Place diced potatoes into the boiling broth, reduce heat and cook for 10 minutes.
3. Add finely chopped onions, pasta and grated carrots to the potatoes.
4. Cook for another 15-20 minutes. A couple of minutes before readiness, add chopped chicken fillet and herbs.
Bon appetit!
Tip: for older children, you can lightly fry the onions and carrots beforehand, it will be even tastier!
Children's borscht (without cabbage)
Today I cooked this delicious, bright and aromatic borscht. Delight!!! It is prepared without cabbage (I’ll post a version with cabbage later). The portion turns out to be very large, so for one child, reduce the amount of food by 2-3 times, but you can cook it this way and feed the whole family))).Compound:
a piece of meat (I have pork) in the volume of 4-5 matchboxes
1 onion
1 small beet
½ carrot
1-2 potatoes
1 table spoon of vegetable oil
greenery
salt
sour cream (optional)
Preparation
1. Place meat, peeled onions, carrots and beets in a saucepan with water. Bring to a boil, skim off the foam and simmer over low heat for 45 minutes. Remove meat and vegetables from the broth. Strain the broth and put it back on the fire. Place diced potatoes into the broth and add salt. Cook for 10 minutes.
2. While the potatoes are cooking... Finely chop the meat. Grate carrots and beets on a fine grater. Finely chop the onion and fry in vegetable oil for 1 minute, add carrots and beets. Pour in 1 ladle of broth, cover with a lid, reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the roast to the broth and meat. Boil for 5 minutes.
3. At the end of cooking, add greens. Serve with sour cream.
Bon appetit!
Vegetable soup with chicken
This is the soup we are having for lunch today. Alyonka really liked it, so I’ll cook it again.Compound:
50 g chicken fillet
½ cup frozen vegetables (I used “Rustic Vegetables” - potatoes, carrots, bell peppers, corn, celery, onions)
1 piece of pumpkin
greenery
Preparation
1. Boil the chicken in salted water until cooked (I cooked for 30 minutes). Remove the finished chicken. Cool, cut into small cubes.
2. Place previously defrosted vegetables and diced pumpkin into the broth. Cook for 10-15 minutes over medium heat, add chopped herbs a couple of minutes before readiness. At the end of cooking, add chicken to the soup.
Bon appetit!
Rice soup with fish
Another recipe from my childhood for a delicious and quick-to-prepare soup with fish, but if desired, the fish can be replaced with chicken, turkey or rabbit))).Compound:
100 g fish fillet
1 table spoon (heaped) of rice
1 potato
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon carrots, grated on a coarse grater
greenery
Preparation
1. Boil fish fillet until tender (15 minutes). Drain the water, cool the fish and mash with a fork (make sure there are no bones).
2. Pour rice washed in cold water into boiling water, cook for 10-15 minutes over low heat, stirring occasionally. Add diced potatoes and carrots to the rice. Cook for another 10 minutes, then add chopped fish, herbs and vegetable oil. Boil for another two minutes and turn off.
Bon appetit!
Pumpkin soup with chicken
I have always wanted to make pumpkin puree soup, and although there are a lot of recipes for preparing this dish (I have at least two), today I prepared this recipe and was very pleased!Compound:
1 slice peeled pumpkin
50 g chicken fillet
½ small carrot
¼ onion
1 teaspoon butter
Preparation
1. Boil chicken fillet until cooked for 15-20 minutes. Remove, let cool, chop finely. We will also need the broth.
2. Cut the pumpkin into pieces and cook for 7-10 minutes (the finished pumpkin can be easily pierced with a knife or fork).
3. Grate the carrots and onions on a coarse grater and simmer in butter with the addition of 5-6 tablespoons of broth over medium heat until all the broth has evaporated.
4. Place pumpkin, carrots and onions in a blender, add 4-5 tablespoons of broth and puree. And then add broth at your discretion (depending on how thick you want the soup to be).
5. Before serving, add chopped fillet and herbs.
Bon appetit!
Milk rice soup
I already wrote that Alyonka does not drink milk in its pure form, so I cook milk soups for her. The recipe for milk soup with noodles is already on the blog, and today we have another delicious milk soup with rice.Compound:
200 ml water
200 ml milk
1 table spoon of rice
5 g butter
sugar (optional)
Preparation
1. Rinse the rice and add to boiling water, reduce heat and cook for 10 minutes. Add hot milk and cook, stirring, for another 10 minutes.
2. Add sugar and butter to the finished soup.
Bon appetit!
Green soup with spinach
And one more recipe). I made this soup for my daughter today. We liked it very, very much. Reminds me of sorrel soup. I will cook more.Compound:
50-100 grams of meat (I have veal)
1 medium potato
frozen spinach (about 2 heaped tablespoons in volume)
1 boiled egg
sour cream
salt
Preparation
1. Boil the meat until cooked, remove. Cut into pieces.
2. Add frozen spinach (do not defrost) and diced potatoes to the broth. Add salt. Cook until the potatoes are ready. approximately 10-15 minutes.
3. Turn off the soup, add meat and chopped egg. Before serving, add sour cream.
Bon appetit!
Simple fish soup
This is the fish soup we had for lunch today. No hassles, it’s quick and easy to prepare))).Compound:
50-100 g fish fillet
1 potato
½ carrot
1 small onion
1 bay leaf
greenery
salt
Preparation
1. Cut the potatoes into cubes, peel the onion (do not chop), grate the carrots on a coarse grater, cut the fillet into pieces. Add whole onion, potatoes and carrots to boiling water. Cook for 5 - 7 minutes.
2. Then add fish and bay leaf. Add salt. Cook for another 15 minutes. At the end of cooking, add greens.
3. When the soup is ready, remove the onion and bay leaf, they will no longer be needed.
Bon appetit!
Potato-oat soup
The soup turned out to be aromatic and very tasty. Prepares quickly and with a minimum of ingredients. Highly recommend!!!Compound:
meat broth
2 medium potatoes
2 tablespoons coarsely grated carrots
½ onion
2 tablespoons oatmeal
greenery
salt
vegetable oil
Preparation
1. Add diced potatoes to the boiling broth. Add salt. Cook over medium heat for 5 minutes.
2. At this time, finely chop the onion and lightly fry along with the carrots in vegetable oil.
3. Add fried vegetables and oatmeal to the potatoes. Cook until done for 5-7 minutes. At the end of cooking, add greens.
Bon appetit!
Soup “Chicken Ryaba”
Simply wonderful soup!!! Taste of summer). I advise everyone to try it.Compound:
50-100 g chicken fillet
¼ carrot
¼ sweet pepper
¼ tomato
¼ onion
1 table spoon of rice
salt
greenery
vegetable oil
Preparation
1. Boil the fillet until tender, remove from the broth, cut into strips. Strain the broth and bring to a boil (add hot boiled water if necessary). Add rice to the broth and cook over medium heat for 10-15 minutes.
2. While the rice is cooking... Cut the pepper into cubes, grate the carrots on a coarse grater, finely chop the onion. Fry vegetables with a small amount of vegetable oil over medium heat for 3-5 minutes.
3. Remove the skin from the tomato and cut into cubes.
4. Add fried vegetables, tomatoes and chopped meat to the rice. Add salt. Cook until done for about 10 minutes. Add chopped herbs to the finished soup.
Bon appetit!
Soup "Hercules"
This is the soup I made today. Delicious and absolutely not complicated recipe.Compound:
50-100 g chicken fillet
1 table spoon of oatmeal
½ potato
½ carrot
½ onion
finely chopped greens
salt
Preparation
1. Boil the meat until cooked. Finely chop the onion. Cut potatoes and carrots into cubes.
2. Strain the broth, add salt, add vegetables and cook over medium heat for 10 minutes. Add oatmeal and cook for another 10 minutes. At the end of cooking, add herbs and chopped boiled meat.
Bon appetit!
Potato soup with celery
After winter, the child’s body especially needs vitamins. Celery is rich in vitamins and minerals, but it is especially rich in vitamin C, which will help strengthen the immune system and increase resistance to colds. Celery is also a source of fiber, which has a beneficial effect on intestinal microflora and eliminates the tendency to constipation. But this vegetable also has contraindications: it is not recommended for children under 1.5 years old, nursing mothers and women after 6 months of pregnancy, as it can cause excessive gas formation.Compound:
2 stalks of celery
3 medium potatoes
½ onion
700 ml chicken broth (you can use water, but broth is more nutritious and tastier)
50 ml cream 10% (optional)
salt
olive oil
Preparation
1. Cut the celery into cubes, finely chop the onion. Fry the onion and celery in olive oil for 2-3 minutes (kids can omit frying).
2. Cut the potatoes into cubes. Add potatoes, onions and celery to the broth. Add salt. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook until the potatoes are tender for 15-20 minutes.
3. Grind the vegetables with the addition of broth (pour in the broth gradually) in a blender until it becomes a puree soup. Pour in the cream.
4. Place on the fire, bring to a boil and simmer over medium heat for 1 minute.
Bon appetit!
Soup with chicken hearts
Katerina's recipe from the site "".Cooked for the first time chicken heart soup. I really wanted to come up with something unusual. The result was a very tasty, satisfying and attractive soup with chicken hearts. In my family, offal dishes are welcome. And it seems to me that these are underpriced products. In terms of nutritional value, they are not inferior to meat. Chicken hearts contain a lot of iron, protein, essential amino acids, B and PP vitamins, and enzymes. Chicken hearts contain a lot of potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium, which are necessary for the normal functioning of the cardiovascular system and for the development of a growing organism. Therefore, it is very useful for children to include chicken hearts in their diet. Also in the composition of the hearts are copper compounds, which are important for the synthesis of hemoglobin and the healthy functioning of the nervous system. But chicken hearts contain cholesterol, so older people should be careful in consuming them.
Ingredients
- 200gr. chicken hearts;
- 1 potato;
- 3 tbsp. spoons of rice;
- 3 tbsp. spoons of fresh frozen peas;
- onions, carrots, garlic, herbs.
Preparation
- Rinse the hearts and cut them in half;
- Bring 1.5 liters of water to a boil and cook the hearts in it for 30 minutes;
- While the hearts are boiling, grate the carrots and potatoes on a coarse grater, finely chop the onion and chop the garlic;
- Add carrots and onions to the hearts and continue to simmer for 5 minutes;
- Then add rice and potatoes, cook for 10 minutes;
- And the last ingredients of the soup will be green peas, garlic, herbs and salt.
- Cook the soup for another 10 minutes.
The soup with hearts turns out to be very rich and beautiful; a child will definitely try this soup.
Cauliflower soup with cheese
Katerina's recipe from the site "".I'm sure many children don't really like cauliflower, and it is very useful for the human body. It contains a lot of nutrients. It contains calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, and mineral salts. It contains 2 times more iron than green peas. It also contains a lot of fiber and rare sugars, which help improve intestinal function. The proteins contained in cauliflower are 1.5 times greater than in white cabbage. It also contains folic, malic, pantothenic and citric acids. I'm cooking for my daughter cream soup and it’s tasty, and simple, and healthy, and most importantly, the child gets all the benefits of cauliflower without even knowing that it is present in the soup.
What do you need:
2 potatoes;
300gr. cauliflower;
½ onion;
½ medium carrot;
100 ml goat milk;
goat cheese;
herbs and salt to taste.
What to do:
Pour finely chopped onion, grated carrots, and finely chopped potatoes into boiling water. Cook until the potatoes are half cooked. Then add cauliflower, disassembled into inflorescences, salt, add herbs and cook for 10 minutes. Then pour part of the broth into a mug and add milk to the pan, let it simmer for 5-7 minutes. Add some of the broth from the pan to the broth in the mug. Now you can beat the resulting soup with a blender. If the puree soup turns out to be thick, add ready-made broth from a mug until the desired thickness of your puree soup is obtained.
Serve the soup sprinkled with grated goat cheese, you can add cornbread cut into cubes. Serve the remaining broth as a separate dish with corn or rice bread.
I'm sure your baby will appreciate these simple soups! Bon appetit!
Until six months, the baby does not need any additional food except human milk, but when the baby turns 6 months old, doctors recommend starting to feed the baby with vegetable purees or cereals. Further, the dishes on the little one’s table become more and more varied. Soups also appear among them. But in order for them to be absorbed without problems and bring only benefits to the baby’s body, it is important to know which of them are allowed in the diet of children under one year old and when they can be boiled in broth.
At what age can you cook?
On average, infants are ready to try soups at the age of 9 months or 10 months, but you should focus on the individual development of the baby. Some infants can be given such dishes at 8 months, while others refuse them until they are a year old.
If a child is mixed or bottle-fed, soup may appear on his menu a little earlier - from 6-7 months. It is offered to children under one year old at lunchtime feeding in a volume of up to 150 ml. After a year, the portion increases to 200-250 ml.
Complementary feeding with soups begins at 8 months of age.
Calculate your complementary feeding table
Benefit
- Replenishes water reserves and also acts as a source of various nutrients, including easily digestible proteins, minerals, fiber and vitamins.
- Stimulates digestion, in particular, this dish activates the secretion of digestive juices, which is why it is called “first”.
- Such first courses are predominantly dietary dishes that can be consumed if you are overweight.
Soup is good for children as an additional source of liquid and useful elements.
What are they?
Depending on the base and components, the following types of soups are found on the children's menu:
- Vegetables. This is the first soup for a child under one year old, which is cooked exclusively from vegetables. For very small children, it is prepared in the form of a puree soup, grinding all the ingredients until a homogeneous semi-liquid mass is obtained. For children over 1 year old, vegetables are boiled in pieces so that the baby learns to chew. Vegetable first courses made from pumpkin, broccoli, and cauliflower are especially popular.
- Dairy. Their boiled ingredients, for example, vermicelli or cereal, are poured with boiling milk (until the age of two, milk is diluted by half with water). This soup is rich in proteins, starch and vitamins, it is quite filling and many children like it.
- Cereals or pasta. This dish is quite filling and gives the child a lot of carbohydrates, vegetable proteins and B vitamins. For children, rice or buckwheat soup is most often cooked, adding vegetables to such cereals.
- From legumes. For children under one year old, you can prepare puree soup from green peas or green beans. Also, young beans and peas can be added in small quantities to vegetable first courses. Dry pea soup appears in the diet of children aged 3 years and older.
- Cheese. This dish can be prepared with water, vegetable or chicken broth. Its ingredients are often vegetables and boiled chicken, but the main highlight is cheese. A small amount of grated hard cheese is added to it at the end of cooking and wait until the cheese melts. This gives the dish a special taste and delicate texture. Cheese first courses are recommended for children over one year of age, but processed cheese should not be added to them until the age of 3.
- With meat. Puree boiled meat is added to children's vegetable puree soups from the moment meat complementary foods are introduced. For children over 10 months old, you can add a little broth to vegetable soups, and it is recommended to cook them in meat broth from the age of one. For a 2-year-old child, the meat in them may already be small pieces. Such dishes are often cooked from rabbit or beef. Soups with meatballs are also popular for children over 1.5 years old.
- Chicken. For children under one year old, this dish is prepared with the addition of lean chicken meat, after which everything is crushed to obtain a puree. For babies over one year old, they begin to cook soup in chicken broth, for which lean chicken is used. From the age of 1.5 years, children begin to be offered first courses with chicken meatballs, and from the age of 3 they can cook them using a whole chicken. They are no less tasty from turkey.
- Fishy. This version of the first course is introduced into the children's diet from 1 year. First, they use river fish, thoroughly pitted. It is boiled separately and then added to soup with vegetables or grains at the end of cooking to make a puree soup. A little later, you can treat your child to soup with fish balls, cooked separately, and you can also start cooking the soup in a weak fish broth.
- Mushrooms. They are quite difficult to digest, so they are not recommended for preschool children. Also, soups that should not be tried at an early age include rassolnik, solyanka and kharcho. They should be included in children's diets no earlier than 3 years of age.
How to cook properly
In order for the soup to be healthy for the child, it is important to take into account the following principles when preparing it:
- Cook them for kids only from those products that the child has already tried. If you want to add a new ingredient that has not yet been introduced into complementary foods, it should be the only new component of the dish, presented in a very small amount, for example, 1 spoon of broth.
- Use special purified water intended for children (bottled) for cooking. For small children, you should not cook soup with tap water, even if it has been boiled.
- When choosing vegetables, make sure they are fresh. It is unacceptable to use damaged, overripe or rotten vegetables to feed children. Before cooking, all vegetables should be thoroughly washed, then peeled and cut into not too small pieces (with strong chopping, the beneficial substances are destroyed faster). Vegetables should not be roasted during cooking until they are 3 years old.
- If you are going to cook soup with meat for your child, this product should have a minimum of fat. When cooking broth, it is recommended to use a second or third water (drain the first water after boiling and fill the meat with clean water).
- Children should be fed only fresh soup, so do not cook too large a portion. Do not give a small child food that has been stored in the refrigerator for more than a day.
- To better preserve valuable compounds in foods, do not cook them for too long. High heat is only permissible to bring water or broth to a boil, after which heating should be minimal.
- Until the age of three, it is recommended to avoid strong meat, fish or chicken broth. Also, bouillon cubes should not be used for children's first courses.
- You can add a little vegetable or butter and yolk to the finished dish. From one year onwards, soup for a child can be sprinkled with chopped herbs.
- If the child does not refuse unsalted soup, it is not necessary to add salt. The less salt there is in dishes for children under 3 years old, the better. However, if the child categorically refuses to eat bland soup, a small amount of salt is acceptable.
Soups for children should always be freshly prepared, low-fat and low-salted.
Recipes
From zucchini
Take 100 g of vegetable, wash thoroughly, remove seeds and peel, and then cut into small pieces. Boil the zucchini until tender and while still hot, pass through a sieve or grind in a blender. Dilute the puree with the broth and bring to a boil, and then add a piece of butter or mashed quail egg yolk to the soup.
From rabbit
Wash and then cut 100 g of rabbit meat into pieces, then boil until tender. Next, peel and cut the potatoes and any vegetables to taste (cauliflower, zucchini, Brussels sprouts, green beans, carrots and others in a total volume of about a handful). Boil the vegetables in water until soft, add the boiled rabbit meat and puree in a blender until it becomes a semi-liquid puree.
From fruits
Take one apple, one peach and 3 apricots, peel the fruit and remove the seeds. Boil them in a small amount of water until soft, then drain using a sieve. Add a teaspoon of semolina to the fruit puree, boil for 3 minutes, then add the mashed yolk and 100 ml of milk into the soup, stirring the dish continuously. When it boils, immediately remove the dish from the heat. You can give it to your child either warm or chilled.
For children over one year old
Borsch
This dish in its children's version can be cooked only from vegetables, with the addition of boiled meat or in meat broth. You can prepare borscht either on the stove or in a slow cooker. Take beets, carrots, onions, tomatoes, several potatoes and 100 g of shredded cabbage for the dish. After washing all the vegetables, peeling and chopping them, place them in boiling water, taking into account the duration of their heat treatment.
First boil the potatoes and onions, then the grated carrots and beets, and at the end add the cabbage and chopped peeled tomato. Add salt and herbs to the dish to your taste. If the child is already 2 years old, borscht can be seasoned with low-fat sour cream.
With vermicelli and chicken meatballs
For this nutritious soup, take an onion, a carrot and 2 potatoes. Chop the vegetables and boil in slightly salted water for 10-20 minutes. Next, add minced chicken meatballs mixed with egg and salt to the boiling dish. After 5 minutes, add vermicelli to the dish. Cook until all ingredients are ready, and sprinkle with chopped herbs before serving.
Pumpkin with semolina
Peel and grate the pumpkin, and then boil it until half cooked. Add half a glass of milk and a teaspoon of semolina to the soup. Boil the ingredients until tender, remove from heat and pass through a sieve. Dilute everything with boiled water, add a teaspoon of sugar and boil the dish for about 3 minutes. Season the finished dish with butter.
Soups are the main national feature of Russian cuisine. Introducing soup into a baby’s diet, as a rule, begins at 6 months, after the child has tried vegetable purees, compotes and porridges. However, it should be remembered that soup for a one-year-old child is significantly different from the soup that mom and dad are used to eating for lunch.
The first and most important rule for preparing the first soup for children under one year old: the use of meat and fish broths is excluded, the soup must be prepared in water. Secondly, the soup prepared for today’s lunch should not be used tomorrow, that is, each time mom will have to cook one serving of soup.
Soup for a six-month-old baby will be similar to the already familiar vegetable puree, only a little more liquid. Potatoes, zucchini, carrots or cauliflower should first be boiled in water until tender, and then chopped in a blender or mashed well with a fork. Dilute the resulting vegetable puree with vegetable broth until smooth (approximately to the consistency of kefir). The first soups for babies should consist of one component.
For older children (from 8 months), you can no longer grind vegetables to a puree consistency, but cut them into small pieces, so your child will learn to chew. Unlike the first soups, these dishes can consist of several components (vegetables), and also include meat, cooked separately and then chopped in a blender (veal, turkey, chicken).
Soups with meat broth can be included in the diet of a baby from 10 to 11 months in very small portions (about 30 ml), since meat broth is still too heavy food for babies. Also, closer to the year, you can add a little pasta to soups. 
How to cook soup for a child?
- It is best to simmer the broth for soup over low heat under a lid.
- Vegetables should be placed in boiling water, taking into account the cooking time of each component. This way, more vitamins will be retained in boiled vegetables.
- You need to add salt to the soup at the end of cooking.
- When preparing soup for a one-year-old child, you should not use bouillon cubes, hot herbs and spices, garlic and bay leaves.
- Freshly prepared soup is best eaten immediately. When reheated, the nutrients in the soup become less.
- Meat broth for “children’s” soup should not be too concentrated. During the process of cooking meat, the water must be drained several times. Also, you should not cook soup from bones; it is better to take lean meats (chicken, turkey, veal).
Puree soup recipes for children:
From zucchini and cauliflower
Zucchini – 50 g, cauliflower – 50 g, water – 200 ml, butter – 5 g
Cut the zucchini and cauliflower into small pieces, add boiling water and cook until tender. Then pour the vegetable broth into a separate container, and chop the vegetables in a blender or rub through a sieve. Dilute the resulting puree with broth. Add a little salt to taste and add butter.
Chicken
Chicken meat – 70 g, water – 400 ml, milk – 50 ml, onion – 5 g, flour – 5 g, butter – 5 g
From the chicken, cook chicken broth with the addition of onions. Mix butter with flour. Grind the meat in a blender or pass through a meat grinder twice. Add butter and flour to the meat, dilute with broth and milk. Bring to a boil again and add a little salt.
From potatoes
Potatoes – 100 g, water – 200 ml, milk – 100 ml, butter – 5 g
Peel the potatoes, chop finely, add water and cook until tender. Then pour the potato broth into a separate bowl. Mash the potatoes with a fork or grind in a blender. Add milk to the puree, a little salt and, if necessary, to make the soup more liquid, a little broth. Bring the soup to a boil and add butter.
Vegetable soup with meatballs
Minced lean veal – 100 g, potatoes – 1 pc., carrots – ½ pc., onion – ¼ pc., raw egg yolk – 1 pc.
Finely chop the vegetables and boil in water. Then drain the vegetable broth and mash the vegetables a little with a fork. Pour broth over mashed vegetables.
Add the yolk to the minced meat and make small meatballs. Place the meatballs in the soup and cook until done. Add a little salt to the finished soup.
Meat broth soup with pasta
Lean veal, potatoes - 1 pc., carrots - ½ pc., onions - ¼ pc., small pasta (stars, letters and numbers, spider web) - 1 tbsp. spoon.
Boil the meat broth, remove the meat, grind in a blender or pass through a meat grinder. Boil finely chopped vegetables in the same broth. When the vegetables are ready, transfer them to a separate bowl and lightly mash with a fork. Pour broth over vegetables and meat, bring to a boil, add pasta 3-5 minutes before ready. Salt the soup a little.
Bon appetit to your baby!
