Top 10 Delicious and Nutritious Carp Congee Recipes for 7-Month-Olds

Ingredients:

• 1 carp fish (about 500 - 700g).
• 25g dried mushrooms
• 2/3 cup lotus seeds
• 1/2 cup good-quality rice
• A bit of spring onions, cilantro

Instructions:

• Step 1: Clean the fish, rinse, and put ginger slices inside the fish, then steam to remove the fishy odor. Separate the fish meat and discard the bones.
• Step 2: Rinse the rice and add it to the fish broth to cook the congee.
• Step 3: If using dried lotus seeds, soak for 30 minutes and add to the congee. If using fresh lotus seeds, peel the outer skin, remove the core to avoid bitterness.
• Step 4: Rinse the remaining ingredients. Heat oil in a pan, when the oil is hot, add spring onions, and finely chopped mushrooms for sautéing.
• Step 5: Add the separated fish meat from step 1 to the congee, then add the sautéed mushrooms.
• Step 6: Simmer for another 5 minutes until the congee is smooth and fragrant, then season to make it suitable for your baby.

Ingredients:

• Fresh carp, 1 piece
• Tomatoes, cilantro, onion
• High-quality rice

Instructions:

• Step 1: Clean the carp, steam with ginger until fully cooked. Remove the meat, carefully filter out the bones, and finely chop the fish.
• Step 2: Rinse and peel the tomatoes, then finely chop them.
• Step 3: Peel and finely chop the onion. Sauté it until fragrant, then add the chopped tomatoes.
• Step 4: Rinse the rice and cook it into porridge. Add the fish and tomatoes, stirring well until the porridge is boiling and creamy. Add a little fish sauce for the baby and some olive oil, then turn off the heat.
• Step 5: Scoop into a bowl, let it cool, and let the baby enjoy.

Ingredients:

• Carp
• Straw mushrooms: 20g
• Carrot: 1 piece
• Turmeric: 1 small branch
• Peeled mung beans
• Brown rice: 1/2 cup
• Purple onion: 1 piece, Green onion
• Cooking oil, fish sauce... for children aged 1 and above.

Instructions:

• Step 1: Prepare the ingredients: Rinse straw mushrooms with salted water, then rinse with clean water and finely chop. Peel and finely chop turmeric, purple onion, and carrot. Scale and gut the fish, clean with salt, and rinse with water. Rinse the rice and mung beans thoroughly.
• Step 2: Cook the fish in boiling water. Once cooked, gently remove and strain the cooking water for porridge. Carefully debone the fish, removing the head and scale, then crush to extract broth for the porridge.
• Step 3: Sauté the purple onion until fragrant, then add carrot, straw mushrooms, tilapia meat, and a few slices of turmeric. Stir briefly. Depending on the child's preference, the mom can either finely chop or grind these ingredients.
• Step 4: Add rice and peeled mung beans to the fish cooking water, simmer until tender. When the porridge is soft, add mushrooms, carrot, and fish meat mixture, stir well. Cook for an additional 5 minutes until fully cooked, then turn off the heat.
• Step 5: Scoop the porridge into a bowl, add 1 spoon of children's cooking oil, and mix well before serving to the baby.

Ingredients:

• Carp: 30g
• Water spinach: 30g
• Mabu broken rice porridge: 35g
• Water: 450ml

Instructions:

• Bring 450ml water to a boil in a pot, add 1.5 tablespoons of Mabu broken rice porridge, and simmer for about 15 - 20 minutes.
• Clean the carp, boil it in water until fully cooked, remove it, debone and remove the skin, then finely chop the meat.
• For the water spinach, take the leaves, rinse them thoroughly, and finely chop.
• Once the porridge is soft, add the fish and simmer for an additional 2 - 3 minutes. Then add the water spinach, mix well, bring to a boil, turn off the heat, and pour the carp porridge with water spinach into a bowl for the baby to enjoy while still warm.

Ingredients:

• White rice porridge
• Tilapia fillet
• Broccoli
• Ginger
• Fish sauce, cooking oil for baby

Instructions:

• Step 1: Prepare the ingredients: After cleaning the tilapia fillet, boil it with a few slices of ginger to eliminate the fishy smell. While waiting for the fish to cook, finely chop the washed broccoli.
• Step 2: Once the fish is cooked, remove it to cool, retain the cooking water, and remove the bones. Use a spoon to flake the fish meat.
• Step 3: Add the finely chopped broccoli to the fish cooking water and simmer until cooked. Strain the white rice porridge and mix it into the pot with the broccoli. Stir well and wait for the porridge to boil before adding the flaked fish meat. You can add 1 spoon of fish sauce for babies over 1 year old.
• Step 4: When the porridge is thoroughly cooked, turn off the heat. Scoop the porridge into a bowl, mix in 1 spoon of baby cooking oil, and wait for the porridge to cool slightly before serving to the baby.

Ingredients:

• 25g glutinous rice
• 25g brown rice
• 50g fillet of tilapia
• 10g peeled mung beans
• ½ carrot
• 10 – 20g straw mushrooms (to taste)
• Green onions, purple onions
• Olive oil

Instructions:

• Step 1: Prepare and cook the fish as instructed above to eliminate the fishy smell, then separate the bones and take the meat.
• Step 2: Rinse glutinous rice and mung beans, then cook in the fish cooking water until the rice becomes porridge and the mung beans are soft.
• Step 3: Peel and clean the carrot, cut it into small pieces, and then grind it into a paste.
• Step 4: Rinse the straw mushrooms thoroughly and cut them into small pieces.
• Step 5: Peel the purple onion, cut it into small slices.
• Step 6: Heat oil in a pan, add the purple onion to sauté until fragrant. Then add the carrot and straw mushrooms to stir-fry. When almost cooked, add the fish meat and stir-fry briefly until the meat is firm, then turn off the heat.
• Step 7: When the porridge is cooked, add the sautéed mixture to the pot, gently stir for 5 minutes, then turn off the heat.
• Step 8: Scoop the tilapia porridge for the baby into a bowl, add green onions, and let the baby enjoy while the porridge is still warm.

Ingredients:

• Carrot: 1 piece
• Tilapia: 30g
• Fresh/dried seaweed: 1/2 teaspoon
• Rice flour/cornstarch: 1/2 teaspoon

Instructions:

• Step 1: Prepare the ingredients: Clean the fish, steam until cooked. Remove bones and skin, then mash the fish meat. Rinse the seaweed with cold water and steam. Peel and cut the carrot into pieces, steam until soft, then mash.
• Step 2: Put carrot, seaweed, and fish meat in a pot with the fish cooking water. Add rice flour or cornstarch, stir well, wait for the porridge to boil again, then turn off the heat.
• Step 3: Scoop the porridge into a bowl, mix in 1 spoon of baby cooking oil, and let the baby eat.

Ingredients:

• Rice: 50g
• Tilapia: 20g
• Water spinach: 1 handful
• Ginger, green onions, dried onions, basil leaves

Instructions:

• Clean the tilapia by scraping off scales and removing the guts. Use salt and ginger to rub the surface of the fish to eliminate the fishy smell.
• Rinse the basil leaves, green onions, and finely chop them.
• Peel the dried onions and ginger, rinse, and finely chop.
• Trim the water spinach, rinse, and finely chop.
• Steam the tilapia with a few slices of ginger. When the fish is cooked, remove it, and filter to extract the meat.
• Sauté the dried onions until fragrant, then add the tilapia meat to stir-fry, gently turning to prevent the fish from breaking.
• Use the fish cooking water to cook the porridge. When the porridge is cooked, add water spinach and tilapia, stir well.
• Season with a bit of seasoning for the baby. Simmer for another 5 minutes, then turn off the heat.