Feeding children of 1 year old is such a process in which it is necessary not only to prepare tasty and healthy food, but also to try to feed a little fidget.

For this, all family members, household items, and sometimes fairy-tale heroes can be involved.

But still, the success of feeding depends on how appetizing our dish will look and what taste it will have.

Today we will get acquainted with the best meatball recipes for children under 1 year old.

Meatballs for children - the basic principles of cooking

First of all, I would like to note that this product is loved by both children and adults. Since it is very satisfying, tasty, fragrant and appetizing. But before you introduce this dish into your child's diet, you need to remember that:

The child's alimentary tract must be well developed;

Excess protein can stress the kidneys;

The daily diet of a one-year-old baby should be 80 grams;

Teach your baby to eat solid foods. Try to reduce the amount of grated vegetables in the diet of a child who is over 7 months old. He should develop chewing reflexes.

The technology for making meatballs for children is slightly different from their preparation for adults..

For example:

The broth is boiled twice:

- meatballs are poured into boiled water and boiled for five to ten minutes;

- then the water is poured out, a new distilled one is collected, which should boil;

- in new water that has boiled, the meatballs are lowered and boiled for another 10 minutes before putting the next products.

They try not to use frying, but in our article for its supporters we will offer an interesting recipe.

Potatoes for soup are cut into small cubes to make it easier for the baby to chew.

Carrots and, if necessary, onions must be grated on the smallest grater. Some kids don't really like the look of carrots and onions they see in soup. But you can show your imagination and cut the carrot with an asterisk, a circle or a flower. This will arouse the baby's interest in a new dish.

Hot spices are not added.

Meatballs for children is a versatile dish that can be cooked as a first or second meal. And you can even, after boiling a delicious soup, serve “extra” meatballs with any other side dish.

Meat variations for minced meat can be different: pork + beef, beef + turkey, beef + veal, veal + rabbit, chicken, or you can use each of them in their pure form.

In the basic meatball soup recipe, you can add:

Vermicelli, noodles, cobwebs. Now there are very interesting and diverse variations that may interest the baby. It is recommended to take instant food and fill it up 3 minutes before it is ready. And if you have ordinary stars or shells, then fill them up after the potatoes.

Rice. It is introduced into the child's diet at 7 months. But keep in mind that this cereal has fixing properties.

Zucchini, cauliflower. Try to treat your child to a soup with the addition of the above products. To do this, finely chop them into cubes and dip them into the soup immediately after the potatoes.

Cheese. It is best to grate it on a fine grater and pour it into the soup immediately before use. Cheese will give the dish a peculiar taste.

Greenery. Finely chopped parsley will give the soup not only color and aroma, but also various vitamins.

As a side dish for meatballs for children 1 year old, you can use mashed potatoes, thin porridge, mashed carrots, cauliflower or other vegetables, as well as various types of cereals.

Recipe 1. Basic Meatball Recipe

Ingredients:

Beef - 100 grams

Pork (lean) - 80 grams

White bread (crumb or roll) - 20 grams

Egg white - 1 pc.

Salt - to taste

Greens - optional

Cooking method:

Pass beef and pork through a meat grinder. Soak bread in water. Add the soaked bread and egg white to the minced meat. Mix everything thoroughly. Form small balls and boil them in salted water with herbs until tender.

Recipe 2. Baby Chicken Meatballs

Ingredients:

Chicken breast - 200 grams

Potato - 100 grams

Milk - 60 ml

Chicken broth - 400 ml

Salt, bay leaf, herbs - to taste

Unfortunately, chicken is considered allergenic, so introduce it into the diet after a year. Be sure to start with a small piece and watch the baby's reaction.

Cooking method:

Grind the chicken breast by passing it through a meat grinder or twisting it in a blender. Boil potatoes. Add milk and potatoes to the minced meat and mix everything thoroughly. Form small balls and boil them in chicken broth, which you first salt and put bay leaves and herbs in it.

Recipe 3. Meatballs with semolina

Ingredients:

Minced pork - 100 grams

Ground beef - 100 grams

Quail eggs - 2 pcs. or 1 chicken egg

Semolina - 3 tsp

Cooking method:

In our recipe, we use ready-made minced meat, but you can cook it yourself. As always, it all depends on the time mommy has.

1. We mix two types of minced meat.

2. Add eggs, salt to taste and the required amount of semolina, which will give special tenderness to the meatballs.

3. We form balls and cook in salted water until tender. The resulting meatballs, if desired, turn into soup by adding potatoes and carrots.

Recipe 4. Meatballs from dietary meats for children

Ingredients:

Tender beef pulp or turkey pulp - 200 grams

Milk (whole, medium fat) - 30 ml

Egg white - 1 piece

Salt - to taste

Cooking method:

1. Clean the pulp of lean beef or turkey from the film and veins.

2. Pass it through a meat grinder, preferably twice.

3. Whip the egg white.

4. Add milk, whipped protein, a pinch of salt to the resulting beef far and mix everything well.

5. Roll into small balls and boil them in boiling water over low heat for 10 minutes.

Recipe 5. Stewed meatballs

Ingredients:

Minced meat - 200 grams

Egg - 1 pc.

Salt - to taste

Cooking method:

1. Add an egg and salt to any minced meat.

2. Roll out small balls.

3. We place them in a pot or pan with a little water or broth, about half the height of the meatballs.

4. Simmer over low heat for 10-15 minutes or use a double boiler.

Recipe 6. Meatballs with cottage cheese "Gentle"

Ingredients:

Beef (raw or boiled) - 100 grams

Cottage cheese (4.5%) - 2 tbsp.

Egg is one

Butter - 1 tsp

Cooking method:

1. Pass the meat through a meat grinder: boiled - 1 time, raw - 2 times.

2. Add cottage cheese, egg, butter, salt. If the child suffers from allergies, then use only the yolk, as the protein is more allergenic.

3. Mix everything very well and form balls the size of a small walnut.

4. Cook for a couple: from boiled meat - 10 minutes, from raw meat - 20-30 minutes.

Recipe 7. Soup with meatballs and noodles for children

Ingredients (per 1 liter of water):

Potato - 1 medium piece.

Carrot - 1 piece

Minced chicken (fillet + onion) - 200 grams of minced meat and one small onion head

Straw noodles - two presses

Salt to taste

Cooking method:

1. Put a saucepan with the required amount of water on the fire and bring it to a boil.

2. We form meatballs from minced meat

3. We lower the prepared meatballs into boiling water and cook for about five minutes.

4. Then drain the water from the meatballs using a colander.

5. Pour new water into the saucepan, bring it to a boil and lower the already boiled meatballs for another 10 minutes.

6. Cut the potatoes into small cubes so that it is convenient for the baby to chew.

7. Rub the carrots on the smallest grater.

8. Pour potatoes and carrots into the broth in which the meatballs are cooked.

9. Salt to taste, a little under salted.

10. After the potatoes are ready, add the instant noodles and cook for about another five minutes.

Recipe 8. Roast soup

Ingredients (for 1 serving):

Olive oil 1 tbsp

Water - 1 tbsp. + 200 ml

Leek - 1 small head

Carrots - 1 small piece

Bulgarian pepper (it is desirable to give it to a child who turned) - half a peppercorn

Potato - 1 medium piece

Roast preparation: In a saucepan, dilute olive oil and water in a combination of 1: 1. Add finely chopped onion and grated carrots and peppers. Let it simmer on the stove for about 5 minutes.

Cooking method:

1. Cooking meatballs in any way you like.

2. Pour 200 ml of water into a saucepan with frying and bring to a boil.

3. Throw potatoes cut into small cubes and prepared meatballs into boiling water.

4. Cook the soup until cooked for about 20 minutes.

Recipe 9. Soup with meatballs, rice and cauliflower for children

Ingredients:

Beef (you can use any other type of meat) - 300 grams

Rice (pre-washed and soaked in water) - 100-120 ml

Potatoes (small in size) - 1-2 pcs.

Carrot (medium) - 1 pc.

Bulb small - 1 pc.

Cauliflower - 300 grams

Quail egg - 3 pcs.

Cooking method:

1. We twist the beef meat and onions in any convenient way.

2. Add eggs and mix thoroughly.

3. We form meatballs.

4. Peel the potatoes and cut them into small cubes.

5. We lower it into boiling salted water and cook for 20 minutes:

- potato

- carrots (grated on a fine grater or cut into flowers)

6. In the meantime, boil the meatballs for 10 minutes in another water and drain in a colander.

7. Wash and disassemble the cauliflower into inflorescences.

8. 10 minutes before the soup is ready, put boiled meatballs and cauliflower inflorescences into it.

You can buy minced meatballs ready-made, or you can cook it yourself. It all depends on your abilities, desires and availability of free time. In favor of self-cooked minced meat will be the fact that you at least know what you put in it.

If the stuffing for meatballs turned out to be liquid, then add a little semolina to it. It will thicken the consistency, and give the dish itself a delicate taste.

Meatballs for children of one year old can be prepared in advance and placed in the freezer. This will greatly facilitate the process of preparing dinner for your restless baby. Defrost them in hot broth before eating.

Try to be sure to collect the foam from the soup - this will make it transparent and improve the appearance.

Do not offer your baby yesterday's soup.

We hope that the soup with meatballs will be enjoyed not only by children of 1 year old, but also by your whole family! Bon Appetit!

Good day, dear parents. Today you will learn how to cook meatballs for kids. You will know the recipes for cooking, both from beef and chicken meat. Consider the features of preparing this dish for little peanuts.

Cooking features

1. Minced meat can be used, both purchased and prepared independently. If you are preparing a dish for a child under one year old, then you should not rely on the store version. It is important to know what is mixed in it and use only fresh meat.
2. If the minced meat is of a liquid consistency, then semolina can be added, some housewives add flour. When using semolina, do not forget to set aside the minced meat for fifteen minutes so that it has time to swell, and only then proceed to the formation of meatballs.
3. If you are cooking for a baby who is 2 years old, then it is allowed to stick meatballs with a margin, send it quietly to the freezer, and before boiling it, first defrost it in a fairly hot broth.
4. Do not boil the products for too long, as they will lose their valuable qualities.
5. When boiling, collect the foam that floats to the surface of the water.
6. Try to feed your baby with a freshly prepared product, and not yesterday.

Chicken Meatballs

Chicken meatballs for a child can be prepared using the following ingredients:

• minced chicken - three hundred grams;
• half an onion;
• egg;
• flour - one and a half tablespoons;
• salt.

plus rabbit

Meatballs prepared according to this recipe will turn out to be very appetizing, and the meat will be very tender.

You will need:

• rabbit fillet - two hundred and fifty grams;
• chicken fillet - two hundred and fifty grams;
• boiled carrots - seventy grams;
• onions - twenty grams;
• boiled potatoes - one hundred grams;
• egg - one piece;
• butter - about fifty grams;
• a couple of sprigs of greenery;
• salt.

beef meatballs

To cook beef meatballs, you need to prepare the following ingredients:

• beef - four hundred grams;
• broccoli - one hundred grams;
• a slice of white bread - one hundred grams;
• salt;
• butter - thirty grams.

For toddlers over three years old, meatballs can be fried and served with a delicious sauce.

Mixed with semolina

For this recipe you need to have:

• minced chicken - one hundred grams;
• minced beef - one hundred grams;
• quail egg - two pieces;
• semolina - three teaspoons;
• salt.

I cooked meatballs for my child exactly according to this recipe, sometimes I replaced quail eggs with one chicken. They turn out quite tasty, both for individual consumption and when added to soup.

Cooking for a couple

A baby at 1 year old can cook this dish in a double boiler or in a steam bath. We will be using chicken for this recipe. So you will need:

• fillet - one hundred grams;
• two st. spoons of cottage cheese;
• one egg (chicken);
• teaspoon of butter;
• salt.

Now you know how and how much to cook meatballs for a toddler. Do not forget that the type of meat used, the method of preparation (boiling, steaming or in a slow cooker) and the size of the balls have a direct effect on the duration of cooking. Treat your little one with meatballs as an addition to porridge or mashed potatoes, or add them to children's soup.

Children's nutrition should be varied and healthy so that the child grows up healthy. Each time, preparing the next portion for their child, mothers try to make it not only tasty, but also so that even the most capricious kids do not refuse food. Today we will reveal to you a few secrets for cooking meatballs for the children's menu.

How to cook meatballs for a child?

Meatballs for children under one year old are best prepared from lean and dietary meat. For this, the pulp of a turkey or a rabbit is suitable. Starting from a year old, meatballs for a child can already be formed from lean beef or pork, as well as from veal or chicken meat.

From the age of two, dishes with fish meatballs are prepared for children. If the child does not like the too pronounced taste of fish, such meatballs can be sent to the soup, then part of the flavor is lost.

For young children, it is best to form meatballs from boiled meat, since today it is impossible to be completely sure that traces of hormonal preparations or antibiotics are not present in it. When cooking, all unnecessary substances, if any, go into the broth. The broth itself should not be given to children.

Soup with turkey meatballs

Making turkey meatball soup for kids takes a little time. In addition, due to vegetables and lean meat, the soup is very useful for a small child.

Ingredients:

• turkey meat - 100 g;
• potatoes - 2 pcs.;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• carrots - 2 pcs.;
• quail egg - 2 pcs., can be replaced with half a chicken egg;
• salt, bay leaf;
• garlic (optional)

Cooking

We wash the turkey meat, put it in a pan with water. After boiling, boil for half an hour. Meanwhile, put a second pot of water on the fire. Water needs about 700 ml. Peel and cut into cubes potatoes, carrots, onions and garlic. When the pot of water boils, send the onions and carrots into it. After boiling again, cook the vegetables for another 10 minutes and add the potatoes with garlic. Cook all vegetables for another 20 minutes.

We take out the cooked turkey meat from the broth and pass it through a meat grinder 2 times or grind it with a blender. Add eggs to the meat and form meatballs. Here you can show your imagination and fashion interesting shapes from meatballs to make it more interesting for your baby to eat.

We send the meatballs to the pan with vegetables when the potatoes are cooked. After the meatballs float to the surface, cook the soup for another two minutes, salt it and, if desired, put bay leaves in the soup.

Steamed meatballs

Steamed meatballs for children can be made from chicken or any other meat, as well as from fish.

Ingredients:

Cooking

Chicken meat is passed through a meat grinder twice. In the resulting mass, we drive in the egg and introduce all the other ingredients, mixing them well. From the resulting minced meat we form meatballs and steam them until tender.

These meatballs can be added to vegetable broth or served as an independent dish. Also, meatballs prepared in this way can be additionally sent to the oven for 20 minutes, after pouring them with milk sauce and sprinkled with grated cheese.

Unlike whole bird meat, many babies adore chicken dishes after a year.

That is why it is worth cooking chicken meatballs for children more often, because they are not only tasty, but also quite healthy. In addition, the dish is made quite simply - you do not need to spend a lot of time cooking.

Any caring and loving mother is well aware of how important a complete, healthy diet is for the crumbs. Without this, it is impossible to grow up healthy and happy - little children draw all their energy from food. And meat even more so occupies the most dominant role in the menu of a growing child.

Chicken is a dietary product, if, of course, it is cooked correctly. At the same time, poultry meat is often much cheaper than beef or pork, which is a definite plus for the family budget. But most importantly, chicken meat dishes are rich in proteins of animal origin, the need for which in children of the first year of life is especially high. That is why already in 1 year of a baby's life it is necessary to accustom him to such useful and nutritious foods.

However, often young children are quite picky about food. That is why feeding a one-year-old baby with a healthy dish is not so easy. However, meatballs are exactly that find in the culinary world for the mother of a capricious child who always works. Few kids will refuse tender, juicy chicken meatballs. Usually they are eaten with pleasure even by those little ones who are not at all delighted with meat treats.

In addition, it is in this form that chicken meat is ideal for feeding the smallest children - those who have not yet turned a year old. Such a dish is easily chewed even with a few milk teeth, is well swallowed and, importantly, has a pleasant taste.

Chicken meatballs should also be fed to grown-up babies, since a child’s high need for proteins remains for a long time, until puberty. That is why such a recipe can be called universal - poultry meatballs will ideally fit into both the baby’s menu and the schoolchild’s diet.

Since meatballs for children are prepared by boiling in boiling water or steamed, such a treat can rightfully be considered dietary. In addition, for babies, low-fat chicken fillet is most often used, which is interrupted into minced meat. Therefore, such a dish can rightfully be considered one of the most useful. Moreover, it is easily and quickly digested in the tummy of the crumbs, even if usually meat delicacies cause discomfort in the intestines of the child.

Chicken fillet meatballs can be both a main dish and an addition to any side dish - vegetables, cereals and pasta. At the same time, it is by no means forbidden to vary children's recipes in order to please your beloved little one. For example, the so-called "hedgehogs" of meatballs are adored by many preschoolers. And they are made very simply - you just need to add a little rice to the minced chicken.

It is important to note that cooking technology is important for a small child. If for a grown-up child you can use a frying pan or a stewpan to pre-fry the minced meat or even stew it like meatballs, then for the crumbs this technique is already undesirable.

Therefore, it is customary to feed children of the first year of life exclusively with boiled chicken meatballs. Or the same dish that was cooked in a double boiler.

How much to cook chicken meatballs for a child

The advantage of minced chicken is that it does not need to be cooked for too long - poultry dishes are cooked instantly, which significantly saves the time of a young mother. And if the chicken fillet was purchased at a retail outlet where broilers specially grown for sale are sold, then meatballs will have to be cooked even less.

We want to indicate that poultry and old cockerels are not very suitable for baby food, because such meat is very tough, usually noticeably dry and lacks juiciness. Yes, and it will take longer to heat-treat a home-made product than usual. First of all, because the meat of domestic chickens is tightly knocked down and chews poorly - it needs to be boiled well.

But remember that ready-made minced meat is a completely inappropriate ingredient for children's dishes. Because most often it is not possible to determine its freshness and composition. So, ideally, chicken meatballs are prepared entirely by the hands of a caring mother. Moreover, in the presence of modern household appliances, chopping fillets into minced meat is not a laborious process.

• Meatballs are usually boiled until they all float to the surface. After that, they detect a few more minutes (from 3 to 10, depending on the size of the meatballs), and bring the dish to full readiness.
• There is no need to boil poultry dishes for too long, unless you are cooking them from old chicken or homemade dry fillets. Then the cooking time can increase up to two times.
• But it is also undesirable for a child to digest meatballs, because with excessive heat treatment, high-protein poultry meat becomes rubbery and loses its delicate structure, it is badly chewed. If you notice that the meatballs have become dense, then you have overcooked them.
• A frozen product from the freezer is no different from fresh minced meat. It is dipped in boiling water and boiled for the same amount of time as chicken meatballs made from fresh ingredients.
• It is easy to check the readiness of treats for a child: take one meatball out of boiling water and cut it into two parts with a fork. If the inside of the meat is the same color as the outside, then the dish is ready. If the minced meat looks reddish or pink, the meatballs need to be boiled for a few more minutes.

Baby chicken meatballs in the oven, a simple and delicious recipe

This version of the dish is great for feeding children who are already one year old. Baked chicken meatballs come out much tastier and more aromatic than boiled ones, so they will fit perfectly as a change.

For children's chicken meatballs, we need

• Fresh bird fillet - about 250-300 g;
• Round rice, pre-cooked - about 100 g;
• Wheat flour - 1.5-2 tablespoons;
• Carrot - 1 medium-sized root crop;
• Chicken egg - 1 pc.;
• Onion - 1 small head;
• Dill greens - for taste;
• Fresh sour cream with a low percentage of fat content - 1/3 cup;
• Salt - to taste;
• Natural tomato juice - 1-2 tbsp.

How to cook delicious and juicy meatballs for a child with your own hands:

• First, prepare the chicken fillet by washing it properly under cold running water. Then we lay the meat on the work surface and clean it from films and hard veins.
• We chop the fillet into medium-sized bars - this way it will be easier to grind them into minced meat. And then we make the minced meat itself, using a meat grinder, blender or food processor for this. For little peanuts, it will not be superfluous to skip the resulting minced meat through the blades again.
• We wash the carrots under the tap and cut off the skin. We get rid of the onion head and cut the vegetables into medium slices. We grind them in a meat grinder, too.
• Mix minced chicken with chopped vegetables in a deep bowl, then add boiled rice to it and beat out a chicken egg. Add wheat flour, salt the dish to taste. At this stage, the minced meat can be seasoned with herbs, which the little one loves.
• Mix the stuffing properly. If the meat was sufficiently dry and beaten down, then after kneading the minced meat, it can be beaten a little on the clean surface of the desktop. This will make the meatballs softer and juicier.
• We put the oven on heating, simultaneously boiling about a glass of purified water. It is best not to set the oven temperature too high - 180 degrees will be enough to make chicken meatballs for a baby.
• Our bird meatballs we will serve and bake with sauce. Making it is as easy as shelling pears: pour boiled water into a convenient dish, where we add tomato juice and sour cream. If the baby has already grown up, then you can make the sauce tastier with the help of spices or fragrant herbs.
• We form small meatballs from minced meat, laying them out in a suitable baking dish. When all the meat is used, pour the sauce over the dish and send the chicken meatballs to the oven.
• We wait about 20-30 minutes, depending on the size of the meatballs, after which we turn off the oven and extract a tasty and appetizing treat for the child from it. We cool the chicken meatballs and offer the baby along with the dressing.

Thus, you can cook chicken meatballs for children in various ways. The easiest option is to dip the chicken balls into boiling water, but if you have time, then you should dream up a little to pleasantly surprise your beloved little one.

Children have a unique diet, not the same as adults. Their diet should not contain hot spices, food should not be fried and fatty. All this negatively affects the still fragile children's stomach.

Dishes intended for baby food must certainly be stewed, boiled, baked in the oven, or steamed or. This is especially true for those children for whom dietary nutrition is recommended.

However, this does not mean that such food is monotonous and tasteless. On the contrary, it is appetizing and very useful. In dishes prepared by one of the above methods, all the vitamins and nutrients necessary for the child are preserved.

In addition, if you properly prepare children's soup or bake meat in the oven, believe me, they are somewhat inferior to fried foods. And children's soup with meatballs is just delicious. It is prepared quite simply and quickly.

Soup with meatballs is suitable for children over 1.5 years old

To prepare it, you will need the following products:

• minced young beef or lean pork - 250 g
• carrot - 1 pc.
• egg - 1 pc.
• bulb - 1 pc.
• potatoes - 2 pcs.
• dill greens

Children's soup with meatballs - recipe with photo:

To obtain minced meat, we pass the pulp of young beef or pork 2 times through a meat grinder with a fine grate. For mothers like me, who have meat or minced meat prepared, as they say, for the future, and are in the freezer - before cooking, you need to defrost it.
Finely chop the onion.


We leave half for minced meat, pour the other half into a pot of boiling water.


Add onion, salt to minced meat and break one egg. We mix everything well.


From minced meat we form round meatballs for soup.


We lower the meatballs into the pan and cook over low heat for 10 minutes.


Meanwhile, while the meatballs are cooking, cut the potatoes into small square pieces.


Carrot cut into strips.


Add vegetables one by one to the pot with meatballs and cook the soup until tender.


At the very end of cooking, add a spoonful of olive oil and dill.