Usually, babies cannot add complementary foods at 5 months old because their digestive system is delicate and they need to wait until 6 months before adding complementary foods. At the beginning, complementary foods are simple and easy for babies to digest and absorb. If babies have abnormal reactions during the process of adding complementary foods, mothers should pause the addition of complementary foods. So what are some complementary food recipes suitable for babies?
Main course recipe
1. Honey juice pumpkin puree
Ingredients: 100g pumpkin, 1 teaspoon honey.
Method: Wash the pumpkin, peel it, remove the flesh and seeds, and cut it into slices. Use a spoon to press the steamed pumpkin slices into a paste. Gently gather the pumpkin puree into a large ball with your hands, then gather a few smaller balls and place them around. Drizzle honey before consumption.
Nutrition tip: Pumpkin is rich in carotenoids, which can protect people's eyes, give them bright eyes, and comprehensively improve the body's immunity.
2. Egg yolk Congee
Ingredients: appropriate amount of rice, appropriate amount of meat soup (or fish soup, vegetable soup), 1 egg yolk.
Method: Separate an appropriate amount of soup from the residue, such as fish soup, and be particularly careful to prevent the presence of fish bones. Remove the oil from Noodles in soup. Stir fried eggs. When cooking adult rice, put rice and water in the pot, use a spoon to dig a hole in the center to add more water to the rice. After cooking, the rice in the center becomes soft rice. Rub an appropriate amount of soft rice into a paste. Put the soup and rice paste into a pot and bring to a boil, then simmer over low heat until they become a thin paste. Then put down the scrambled eggs and stir well, bring to a boil, and transfer to a bowl. When the temperature is suitable, the baby can be fed.
Nutritional tip: Eggs have a sweet and smooth taste, and can nourish the spleen and stomach meridians. They can nourish the lungs, nourish blood, nourish yin, and moisten dryness. They are used for conditions such as Qi and blood deficiency, fever, and thirst.
Vegetable Recipe
1. Tomato and vegetable Congee
Ingredients: 50g tomatoes, 20g onions, 30g Korean cabbage, and 20g white rice.
Method: Wash the tomatoes, onions, and cabbage thoroughly and cut them into small pieces. Put these vegetables in the pot and cook them. Cook vegetables and white rice together with water into Congee. Beat the cooked Congee into a paste with a mixer. Filter out the residue and feed the baby.
Nutrition Tip: Tomatoes can nourish the stomach, relieve thirst, moisturize the intestines, and promote bowel movements. Additionally, their organic acids such as malic acid and citric acid can stimulate gastric juice secretion and aid in the digestion of fats and proteins.
2. Congee with Lotus Root
Ingredients: 250g lotus root, 100g glutinous rice, and an appropriate amount of water.
Method: First, scrape the lotus root clean and cut it into thin slices. Wash the glutinous rice again. Put lotus roots in the pot. Pour in rice, add proper amount of water, and cook them together into lotus root Congee.
Nutritional tip: Lotus root has good astringent and hemostatic effects, and can clear heat and produce fluids. It can also treat spleen deficiency, prolonged diarrhea, and bloody stools.
