At what age can you give borscht to a child?

Borsch is a favorite first dish for many residents of our country. It is tasty and healthy, so many mothers are interested in when to give such a dish to a child and how to cook it for a children's menu.

The basis of borscht are different vegetables, and there are quite a few options for recipes for such a traditional Slavic dish. Some cook it on meat broth, others - on the bone, and still others - without any added meat. Constant ingredients are beets, potatoes, carrots. Also add tomatoes, peppers, onions, cabbage and other products.

• It contains many vitamins, organic acids and mineral salts. This product can be a source of carotenoids, vitamins of group B, ascorbic acid, iodine, iron, as well as amino acids and antioxidants.
• Such a nutritional dish stimulates the bowels due to a sufficiently high content of fiber. Its use will help prevent constipation or eliminate them.
• Beetroot, which is the main ingredient, has a hepatoprotective effect, as well as the ability to reduce nervous excitability and strengthen blood vessels. In addition, this root crop stimulates blood formation and prevents the development of diabetes.
• Due to the use of borsch, various toxic substances are removed from the body, for example, pesticides, nitrates and heavy metals.

Doctors recommend acquainting a child with beets at 8-9 months. If the baby has a tendency to constipation, such a root vegetable can be included in the feeding menu a little earlier, for example, at 7 months. Allergy-prone children beets are added to the diet later, for example, at 10 months or a year.

However, the first dish of beets, which give the child, it is recommended to choose beet puree, adding it to other vegetables in an amount of not more than 1/3 of the total volume of the vegetable dish. For the first time try borsch is not earlier than the crumbs will be 1 year old.

In addition, there are still such restrictions:

• To prepare such a dish should take only those products that the baby has already tried.
• The use of beef broth when cooking is permissible, but it should be as free as possible from fat.
• If the child is prepared borscht without broth, then boiled meat can be added separately to the finished dish.
• Bone broth in the preparation of dishes for children under 3 years old, do not use.
• Add sour cream is advised not earlier than 1.5-2 years.

Traditionally, the dish is boiled in a saucepan, adding ingredients, taking into account the duration of their boiling. When cooking can also be used multicooker.

We offer you a recipe for borscht, which may be a one-year-old child.

Take:

• One small beet.
• One small onion.
• One medium carrot.
• One small tomato.
• Two medium potatoes.
• 100 grams of shredded white cabbage.
• A pinch of salt.
• Greenery.

Cook soup like this:

1. Rinse all vegetables thoroughly.
2. Peel the onion and cut into small cubes.
3. Pour about 1 liter of water into a saucepan and bring to a boil.
4. In the boiling water, lower the onions and cook, covered with a lid.
5. Peel the potatoes and cut into small cubes.
6. Add it to the water, where onions have been boiling for 10 minutes.
7. Peeled carrots and beets rub on a coarse grater.
8. Dip the grated vegetables in the water to the potatoes and onions about 10-15 minutes after adding the potatoes.
9. Scald the tomato and peel, then cut into cubes.
10. Add chopped tomato and shredded cabbage.
11. Boil another 10 minutes, then salt, add the greens and remove from the heat.

The recipe for the baby you can see in the following videos.