Children's menu simply must be varied, interesting, tasty and healthy.
Dumplings are exactly the dish that meets all these requirements.
And if you add your favorite child to the process, it will turn out many times tastier.
How and with what are dumplings prepared for children?
Dumplings for children - general principles of preparation
The dough for children's and ordinary dumplings is no different. It is prepared on wheat flour with the addition of liquid (milk, water), eggs, salt. Sometimes they put butter. The filling gives a huge scope for imagination and dictates the taste of the dish.
How to cook baby dumplings:
• Vegetables. And this is not only potatoes and cabbage. You can cook minced pumpkin, green peas, broccoli or cauliflower, zucchini.
• Fruits and berries. You can use any, but only those that are already present in the diet of the child.
• Cottage cheese. Sweet and salted minced meat is prepared from it.
• Meat and poultry. You can use any lean meat and poultry, liver.
The form of baby dumplings can be any. But basically make the classic crescents. You can cut the layer into squares and mold the dumplings in the form of small rectangles or triangles.
Since for children’s dumplings, ready-to-eat fillings are mainly used, products are boiled very quickly. An average of two to five minutes. Then they are greased with oil, poured with sour cream and served on the table. If the child is small, then pre-cool to a warm state.
Recipe 1: Lazy dumplings for children from 1 year
The recipe for simple dumplings for children, which can be quickly prepared for breakfast, afternoon snack or served for dinner. You can give such a dish to children from one year old. Served with sour cream, butter, complemented with fresh berries or syrups, sauces based on them.
Ingredients
• 0.2 kg of cottage cheese;
• 1 egg;
• 4 tablespoons of flour;
• 1 tablespoon of sugar;
• salt.
Cooking
1. Pour cottage cheese into a bowl, add a pinch of salt and sugar.
2. Put one small egg. If it is large, only yolk can be added.
3. Now you need to mix the mixture well. You can use a submersible blender that easily breaks all the lumps.
4. Add the flour, stir. It will turn out the dough, not very cool. Perhaps it will stick a little to the hands, which is the norm.
5. You can simply roll small balls from the resulting mass. In principle, the size can be absolutely any. But children like small items more. As we form, we lay out on a board sprinkled with flour. Then boil.
6. You can cook curly dumplings. To do this, roll out the dough and cut out different figures.
7. Or we act in a simpler and faster way. We dust the table with flour and spread the dough. We roll the tourniquet, and cut it across into small washers.
8. Launch dumplings in boiling and necessarily salted water. Cook after boiling for four minutes.
9. Catch with a slotted spoon and immediately grease with a piece of butter so as not to stick together.
Recipe 2: Dumplings for children with cottage cheese
The recipe for classic baby dumplings for children from unleavened dough. If necessary, the amount of ingredients can be proportionally reduced.
Ingredients
For the test:
• 3 cups flour;
• 0.75 glasses of water;
• 10 eggs;
• 0.5 tsp salts;
• 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil.
For filling:
• 400 grams of cottage cheese;
• 4 tablespoons of sugar;
• 2 yolks or 1 whole egg;
• 2 tablespoons butter;
• vanilla optional.
Cooking
1. Sift the flour. We combine the egg with salt and sugar, slightly beat with a fork and add water. You can use milk, the dough will turn out tastier. We combine the flour with a liquid mixture and when mixing we introduce a spoonful of oil. Carefully think, form balls and let it lie down. It is advisable to cover with a napkin so that the dough does not dry out.
2. For the filling, you need to rub the cottage cheese so that there are no grains left. Add the yolks or the whole egg to it, add the melted butter and sugar, stir everything together. Add vanilla to taste. You can put everything for the filling together and kill with a blender.
3. We take out the dough, pluck off a piece and roll it with a layer of not more than three millimeters. We squeeze out a glass of a mug or cut squares. Put in each cake a teaspoon of cottage cheese and connect the edges.
4. Boiled dumplings in salted boiling water for three minutes. Then the products are oiled, watered with sour cream, yogurt, jam.
Recipe 3: Dumplings for Kids with Potatoes
Most kids love mashed potatoes, so why not make dumplings with it? We use fresh dough, it can be prepared according to the recipe above or in a custard way, as here.
Ingredients
• 0.75 glasses of water;
• 1.5 cups flour;
• 2 tablespoons of oil;
• 0.5 eggs.
Filling:
• 0.4 kg of potatoes;
• 0.05 kg butter;
• 50 ml of milk;
• salt.
Cooking
1. Boil water, into which we immediately add salt and oil. Pour into the sifted flour and begin to rotate in a circle with a spoon, kneading the dough. Add the egg and stir quickly. We think well of mass, make a cool dough.
2. Peel the potatoes, cut into slices and boil in salted water until soft. Drain all the liquid. Boil milk with butter and season with boiled potatoes, make mashed potatoes. Adjust the density. The filling should not turn out liquid. Cool the filling.
3. We make small dumplings.
4. Boil water and salt in a saucepan, run prepared products and cook for three minutes after surfacing.
5. We take out the dumplings in a bowl, grease with butter and cool to a warm state.
Recipe 4: Dumplings for children with buckwheat curd
The recipe is very tasty and healthy dumplings for children and their parents. In addition to cottage cheese, you can use another filling for buckwheat dough. If there is no ready-made buckwheat flour, then grind the cereal yourself, then sift it.
Ingredients
• 0.2 kg of buckwheat flour;
• 0.25 liters of water;
• 1 cup of wheat flour;
• 1 egg;
• salt, garlic, herbs;
• 0.3 kg of cottage cheese;
• 50 grams of oil.
Cooking
1. Boil water and brew buckwheat flour mixed with salt, cool. Add wheat flour gradually. She will leave about a glass. Knead the dough well and leave to lie down.
2. Wipe the cottage cheese through a sieve, add half of the oil to it, which can be melted or simply softened. We drive in the egg, put the chopped garlic and herbs. Stir flavorful filling.
3. We make dumplings in any way that is convenient. But we do not make products large. If suddenly the cakes dry out quickly, then wet the edges with water.
4. Boil in boiling water for five minutes after full ascent. Lubricate with the remaining butter.
Recipe 5: Dumplings for Children with Liver
A variant of liver dumplings for children with a very tender filling. An easy way to feed a fussy food. We take any dough, even buckwheat from the previous recipe will do.
Ingredients
• 1 carrot;
• 0.3 kg of liver:
• 0.5 onions;
• 30 ml of oil;
• 50 ml cream;
• salt;
• 0.5 kg of dough;
• 1 clove of garlic.
Cooking
1. Heat the oil in a pan, add carrots and onions. Finely chop the vegetables. Slightly passeruyu and spread them diced liver. Fry for five minutes, then pour in the cream and simmer under the lid until tender. This will take no more than ten minutes.
2. Cool vegetables with a liver, salt and puree with a blender. It will turn out a very tender paste with a creamy taste.
3. We take out the dough, the cooled liver and form standard medium-sized dumplings.
4. Boiled dumplings in boiling water for a couple of minutes, then greased with butter and served with sour cream.
Recipe 6: Dumplings for children with meat (turkey)
For the preparation of such dumplings, a turkey is used. But you can also take chicken, veal, rabbit. But it is better to refrain from pork, as it is difficult for the children's stomach.
Ingredients
• 0.4 kg of dough;
• 0.3 kg of turkey;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• 25 grams of oil;
• salt.
Cooking
1. Cut the turkey into small cubes, fill with water and set to cook. After 15 minutes, add chopped onions and carrots. Cook until tender. Salt ten minutes before graduation.
2. Cool the turkey with vegetables and twist through a meat grinder.
3. We take out the dough, roll it out in a thin layer, cut a glass of circles and sculpt the usual dumplings with filling.
4. Boil in boiling water for two minutes. Lubricate with the oil specified in the recipe. Served meat dumplings for children with sour cream, natural yogurt, tomato juice.
Recipe 7: Dumplings for Kids with Berries
For the preparation of sweet dumplings for children, you can use any berries: blueberries, currants, cherries, cherries. Care must be taken with strawberries and raspberries, as they are quite allergenic. But if they are successfully present in the baby’s diet, then we can safely cook dumplings with them.
Ingredients
• 0.4 kg of dough;
• 0.3 kg of berries;
• 3-4 tablespoons of sugar;
• a piece of oil.
Cooking
1. Wash and dry the berries. If cherries or cherries are used, then be sure to remove the seeds. Large strawberries can be cut into pieces. We use small berries whole.
2. Roll the dough thinly, cut out the circles and put the filling in each. Sprinkle sugar on top. You shouldn’t fall asleep immediately, otherwise there will be a lot of juice. We make dumplings.
3. Boil products in the usual way in boiling water, but in small portions. Dumplings with berries are prepared very quickly, it’s enough for them to boil well.
4. We take out, grease with a piece of oil, you can sprinkle with sugar or pour any sweet sauce.
Recipe 8: Dumplings for Kids with Apples and Pumpkins
Another variant of healthy children's dumplings, which are prepared with a sweet filling. Knead the dough in any way.
Ingredients
• 0.2 kg of pumpkin;
• 0.2 kg of apples;
• 2 tablespoons of sugar;
• 20 grams of oil;
• 0.5 kg of dough.
Cooking
1. The washed and peeled pumpkin is cut into pieces and transferred to a saucepan. Add three tablespoons of water and put on a stove to languish.
2. Once the pieces are soft, add chopped apples. Fruits must be peeled and cored with seeds. We soar together for another five minutes.
3. Remove the filling from the fire, decant all the liquid, and cool the pieces of pumpkin and apples.
4. Add sugar and mash in mashed potatoes. You don’t have to be zealous;
5. From the dough and cooked sweet stuffing, we make small dumplings and boil in boiling water for two minutes. Lubricate with oil.
Dumplings for children - useful tips and tricks
• With what to sell sweet dumplings to a child? In fact, sauce largely depends on age. Young children can be offered yogurt, fruit syrup, sweetened sour cream. Older children will like a dish with chocolate and vanilla sauces, with condensed milk.
• After making dumplings with berries, juice usually remains. It can be added to compote or mixed with starch and cook a sweet sauce for the dish.
• Any dumplings are boiled in salted water, even products with a sweet filling. A teaspoon of salt is added per liter of liquid.
