3 Nourishing Porridge Recipes for Healthy Weight Gain in Babies

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This nutritious porridge is packed with protein, especially the eel meat which is excellent for helping children gain weight. Its sweet eel flavor combined with the rich taste of taro makes it a favorite among almost all kids.

-Ingredients: 100g rice, 200g eel meat, 1 taro, shallots, spices.

-Instructions: Soak the rice in water and rinse thoroughly. Cut the taro into small cubes. Clean the eel meat, remove bones, and marinate with spices. Heat oil in a pan, sauté shallots until fragrant, then add the eel meat and cook until done.

Once the rice is rinsed, cook it into porridge. Next, add the taro and cook until soft before adding the eel meat. Season with spices to taste for your little one.

2. Shrimp and pumpkin porridge:

This porridge has been tried and tested by many moms for their children, and almost every child finishes their bowl happily. Shrimp and pumpkin porridge is rich in calcium, vitamins, and other nutrients that help children grow quickly and stimulate intellectual development.

-Ingredients: 20g rice (2 heaping tablespoons), 30g peeled fresh shrimp (3 heaping tablespoons), 30g pumpkin (3 heaping tablespoons), 10g cooking oil (2 teaspoons), 250ml water (1 full cup), fish sauce or iodized salt.

-Instructions:

Rinse and soak rice for 30 minutes, then grind it into a paste; cook until the porridge is soft (20 - 30'). Next, add pumpkin and cook together.

Crush shrimp into a paste, mix with a little water, add to the porridge and cook together, stirring well. Season with iodized salt or fish sauce (mothers should add seasoning lightly). Serve in a bowl, add 1 teaspoon of cooking oil, and warm it up before letting your baby enjoy.

3. Sea crab porridge:

For children over 1 year old, mothers can confidently add sea crab meat to their daily menus. Sea crab meat has higher protein content than other meats, and it tops the list of foods with high calcium and nutritional value.

-Choosing delicious crabs: Mothers should pay attention to selecting crabs with large flaps, firm when pressed, with flaps still firmly attached to the body, legs and claws moving vigorously, flexible, spines on the claws and crab's shell still sharp - indicating that they are fresh and meaty.

For crabs, it's best to feed your child less compared to common meats like pork or beef because crab meat is quite rich in protein. It's best to feed your baby in the morning or afternoon; feeding crab in the evening can lead to bloating and digestion difficulties.

-Ingredients: Crab meat, carrots, corn kernels.

-Instructions:

Boil the crabs first with lemongrass and ginger to remove any fishy taste.

Once the crabs are cooked, carefully remove the crab meat to avoid leaving any sharp pieces of shell in the meat. If your child is still small, only feed them the meat and avoid giving them crab shell.

Peel the corn kernels, then grind them finely with 90ml of water, strain to remove the residue, and use the corn water to cook the porridge. By doing so, the porridge will have a sweet corn flavor and a beautiful golden color, making it extremely appetizing.

Put the ground corn water in a pot and bring it to a boil. While cooking, remember to add ½ carrot for sweetness. The remaining ½ carrot can be finely chopped according to the child's chewing ability.

After 45 minutes, when the porridge is cooked and ready for the baby to eat, remove the simmered carrot and add the finely chopped carrot to cook until soft.

For the crab meat, finely chop it. Heat olive oil in a pan, sauté ½ finely chopped dried onion until fragrant, then quickly add the crab meat and stir.

Then, pour the carrot porridge into a bowl, sprinkle the fragrant sautéed crab meat on top, and add a few drops of gac oil. Your baby will have a bowl of delicious porridge ready to enjoy!

With these 3 nutrient-rich and incredibly delicious porridge recipes, your little ones will surely love them, eat heartily, and gain weight steadily. Wishing all mothers success!

Source: webtretho