Turkey meat is one of the most healthy dietary meats in general. So, in turkey meat there is a large amount of protein, and at the same time, a low content of fat and cholesterol. And so, too, turkey meat with great benefit can be eaten already in early childhood, it is only advisable in the correct "processing". So, the most useful will be dishes of turkey for children, steamed, boiled or stewed, baked in the oven. We bring to your attention a few simple and tasty recipes for turkey dishes for children that kids should like.

Turkey with rice (for children from 9 months)

Ingredients:

Rice - 2 tbsp. spoons;

Turkey fillet - 50 g;

Carrots - 20 g;

Onion - 10 g.

Boil turkey fillet with vegetables or cook in a double boiler, boil rice in parallel. Then all together (rice, turkey and vegetables) are ground in a blender to a puree consistency.

Vegetable stew with turkey (for children 1-1.5 years old)

Ingredients:

Turkey thigh - 1 pc.;

Potato - 3 pcs.;

Carrots - 1 pc.;

Onion - 1 pc.;

Tomato - 1 pc.;

Olive oil - 50 g.

Boiled turkey meat in water, you need to cut into longitudinal pieces. While the meat is boiled, you can peel and cut the vegetables. Then, chopped vegetables and pieces of meat are poured into the olive oil heated in the pan, fried, and then sliced \u200b\u200btomato is added to them (it must first be peeled). After adding a little water, the stew should be covered and simmer until tender (about 20 minutes).

Turkey cutlets (for children 1.5 years)

Ingredients:

Turkey fillet - 800 g;

Potato - 400 g;

Chicken egg - 2 pcs.;

Flour - 2 tbsp. spoons;

Salt is a pinch to taste.

Turkey fillet is crushed in a blender or grinded in a meat grinder, the same manipulations are made with potatoes. Potatoes are added to minced meat, eggs are driven in and everything is thoroughly mixed. Then flour and salt are introduced, and the minced meat is mixed well again. Cutlets are formed from the minced meat, which are then laid out in a double boiler and cooked for 35-40 minutes.

Turkey and cauliflower salad (for children 1.5 years)

Ingredients:

Turkey fillet - 100 g;

Cauliflower - 100 g;

Carrots - 100 g;

Green peas - 50 g;

Sour cream - for dressing.

Turkey fillet, cauliflower and carrots are separately cooked in a double boiler or boiled in slightly salted water. Also, green peas should be boiled for 5 minutes. Cauliflower is divided into inflorescences, turkey fillet and carrots are diced. Then all the ingredients are laid out in a dish and mixed, seasoned with sour cream salad.

Turkey goulash (for children 2 years old)

Ingredients:

Turkey fillet - 700 g;

Carrots - 1 pc.;

Bulgarian pepper - 1-2 pcs.;

Onion - 1 pc.;

Garlic - 2 cloves;

Tomato paste - 2 tbsp. spoons.

The turkey fillet is cut into strips and laid out in a pan with olive oil. After frying the meat for a couple of minutes, add a little water to the pan, cover it with a lid and simmer the meat for 15-20 minutes. At this time, onion and pepper are cut into cubes, the garlic is chopped in a garlic squeezer. Vegetables are added to the meat, a glass of water is poured into it, in which tomato paste is previously bred. Goulash is mixed, brought to a boil and left on the fire until cooked (until the vegetables are soft).

Chicken cutlets (from 1.5 years to 3 years)

100 g of chicken or turkey pulp, 2-3 slices of white bread, 1 teaspoon of breadcrumbs, 1 teaspoon of butter, 2/3 tbsp. tablespoons of milk, salt.

Remove skin from chicken or turkey fillet, remove films and tendons. For the rest, cook in the same way as beef patties.

Vegetable puree (from 1 year to 1.5 years)

1 potato tuber, 1 carrot, 1/8 head of cabbage, 1 rutabaga, 1 tbsp. spoon of green peas, 1/2 tbsp. tablespoons of milk, 1/2 teaspoon of butter, salt.

Wash washed, peeled and chopped carrots, cabbage and rutabaga in a small amount of water under the lid until half ready. Then add chopped potatoes to them and simmer all the vegetables for another 30 minutes. Pour green peas 10 minutes before the end of the stew. Rub the stewed vegetables through a sieve in a hot form, add a little salt, pour hot milk, stir and boil. Remove the mashed potatoes from the stove and beat, so that it is magnificent. Season the finished mashed potatoes with butter.

Recipes of milk soups for children from 1 year to 1.5 years

Milk cereal mashed soup (from 1 year to 1.5 years)

1 tbsp. teaspoon of rice cereal (oat or pearl barley possible), 1 cup of water, sugar, salt, 1/2 teaspoon of butter.

Pour the washed cereal into boiling water and cook over low heat until soft.

Milk soup with oatmeal (from 1 year to 1.5 years)

1 tbsp. tablespoons of oatmeal, 2/3 cup of water, 1 cup of milk, sugar, salt, 1/2 teaspoon of butter.

Pour oatmeal into boiling water, cook for 4-5 minutes, then add hot milk and cook for another 20-25 minutes.

Milk soup with vermicelli (from 1 year to 1.5 years)

1 tbsp. teaspoon of vermicelli, 1 cup of water, 1 cup of milk, sugar, salt, 1/2 hour ... tablespoons of butter.

Put the vermicelli in boiling water and cook for 5-7 minutes on low heat, then add milk, salt, sugar and boil for another 3-4 minutes.

Fish steam cakes (from 1 year to 1.5 years)

80 g of fish fillet, 2/3 tbsp. tablespoons of milk, 1 slice of white bread, 1/2 tsp of butter, 1/2 eggs, salt.

Pass the fish fillet (remove the skin) through a meat grinder, add pre-soaked in milk and squeezed white bread and knead the minced meat. Once again, pass the whole mass through a meat grinder, salt, introduce a beaten egg and stir until a homogeneous fluffy mass is obtained. Form cutlets and steam them. Serve to the table, pouring with melted butter.

Fish steam souffle (from 1 year to 1.5 years)

100 g of fish fillet, 1/2 eggs, 1/2 tsp butter, 1/2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil, 2 tbsp. spoons of sour cream.

Pass the fish fillet twice through a meat grinder with a frequent grill, combine with sour cream, add raw egg yolk and vegetable oil. Beat everything well, inject whipped protein. Put the resulting mass into a greased mold and steam. Before serving, pour melted butter.

Mashed potato soup with rabbit (from 1 year to 1.5 years)

150 g of rabbit meat, 1 potato tuber, a pinch of dill, 3 cups of water.

Rabbit meat with bones, thoroughly washed and previously soaked (for 2-3 hours) in cold water, put in cold water, bring to a boil and cook for about 1 hour. Then remove the meat from the broth, separate from the bones and pass through a meat grinder twice. Add finely chopped potatoes to the strained broth and cook until tender. Rub the potatoes through a sieve, combine with minced meat, dilute with broth to the desired consistency and boil. Serve the soup with finely chopped herbs.

Rice soup with meat broth (from 1 year to 1.5 years)

1 tbsp. spoon of rice, 1/2 egg yolk, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of milk, 1 cup of meat broth, 1/2 tsp of butter.

Sort the rice, rinse, boil until puree in half a portion of the meat broth, and then rub through a sieve. Add the remaining broth to the resulting mass and bring to a boil. Cool slightly and pour in the lezon (?????). Ready soup season with butter.

Chicken broth (from 1 year to 1.5 years)

100 g chicken, can with bones, 1 glass of water, 1/4 carrot, 1/4 onion, salt.

Chicken broth should be prepared in the same way as meat broth, but meat for it can be used with bones (if their integrity is not broken). Cook chicken broth for 1.5-2.5 hours with a slight boil. 30 minutes before cooking, add carrots, onions and salt. Ready to filter the broth.

Hello dear readers. Today we will talk about dietary meat, which is valuable for a growing body. You will learn about what constitutes a turkey for children, the recipe for this dish. Find out how to cook a variety of options.

Turkey for babies

When we cook turkey fillet for a child under three years old, all possible cooking methods are acceptable, except for frying. You must understand that such food is difficult to absorb by the child’s body, it can disrupt the digestive processes and add excess weight. Also, for children it is unacceptable to use seasonings, hot spices. Black pepper can be added in small portions after a year of age.

For the little one you need to choose only fresh meat. In the cooking process, you can grind it, making minced meat. For a little kid, meatballs will be an excellent dish made from such meat.

Turkey meat is perfect as a food. The first acquaintance with this meat in a child on breastfeeding falls for eight months, on artificial - for six. To do this, the baby is boiled meat, crushed it with a blender, they can slightly add salt and add a little oil.

If you are interested in the question of how much to cook a turkey for a child, then this takes at least forty minutes, preferably an hour. It must be remembered that for the smallest peanuts we do not give dishes on the broth, the meat is cooked separately, then chopped and added to the soup.

Turkey puree

This recipe is ideal for babies up to a year. You will need:

• one hundred grams of fillet;
• potato;
• milk mixture or milk (breast) - one hundred ml.

1. Boil the potatoes.
2. The meat is thoroughly washed, boiled. You can also cook using a slow cooker:

• meat is put on the grill;
• water (one liter) is poured into the bowl;
• turn on the “steam” mode;
• cooking takes about forty minutes.

Braised fillet

For cooking you will need:

• one onion;
• two medium apples (green);
• 300 g turkey fillet.

Turkey soup

According to this recipe you need to have:

• 250 g filet;
• 150 g of homemade noodles;
• three potatoes;
• onion.

Turkey casserole

You will need:

• half a kilo of mashed potato (potato);
• five hundred grams of turkey minced meat;
• two tbsp. spoons of sour cream (non-greasy);
• one hundred grams of cheese (grated);
• next lubricating oil.

Meatballs

By prescription you need to have:

• 700 g filet;
• greenery;
• four quail eggs;
• bread (soaked) - 100 g;
• bulb.

Steam cutlets

You will need:

• 800 g turkey fillet;
• two eggs;
• a pound of potatoes;
• two tbsp. tablespoons of flour.

Turkey salad

The following ingredients will be needed:

• one hundred and fifty grams of fillet;
• one hundred and fifty grams of carrots;
• one hundred and fifty grams of broccoli;
• fifty grams of fresh peas.

Chops

This recipe is suitable for children over the age of three, because this dish requires frying.

You will need:

• a pound of fillet;
• three eggs;
• four tbsp. tablespoons of flour;
• 50 g of hard cheese;
• a little black pepper and salt.

Now you know what to cook for a child from turkey. Remember that this meat is dietary and has a delicate taste. Please your baby with a variety of dishes prepared from turkey fillet.

The growing body of the baby needs additional nutrition in the form of complementary foods, even if it is breastfed. First of all, vegetables and fruits are introduced into the diet, and then meat. A healthy child of the first year of life begins to give meat complementary foods at the age of 6 - 7 months. For a child at this time, it is very important for development to receive essential amino acids that are found only in animal products. Turkey meat is one of the safest options for meat feeding.

Rules for introducing meat into the diet

A breastfeeding woman older than 6 months can safely be given meat, since in its digestive system there are all enzymes that digest animal products. Often with a turkey, the kid begins to get acquainted with meat dishes, because there is no allergy to it.

In practice, it is better to introduce meat complementary foods for a child 2 months after the introduction of vegetables and cereals into the diet. If the first lure was six months, then the meat should be introduced at 8 months.  With severe anemia, mashed meat is given at 6 months.

There are certain rules for complementary foods:

• It is undesirable to give any new product for the first time during hot weather, this will be an additional burden on the child.
• It is necessary to start complementary foods when the baby is in a good mood, everything is in order with her health.
• If the baby is vaccinated in the near future or has already been vaccinated, then the usual menu should also not be changed.
• No need to introduce new products often. To get used to the changes, the next product should be included in the menu no earlier than after 2 weeks.
• For the first time, a baby is given 1 teaspoon of mashed meat. It is better to add it to vegetable puree, or dilute with breast milk, and with artificial feeding with a milk mixture.
• It is better to do meat feeding at lunchtime, and then observe the reaction of the child. Allergies can occur after a few hours.

Mashed potatoes are given in a warm form until the main milk feeding. It is necessary to choose a convenient spoon for the baby - shallow and not wide. It should be convenient for the kid to use such a cutlery. He should enjoy the new product, then complementary foods will pass without problems.

The best dish for children

The rabbit and the turkey are considered optimal for feeding; allergies to them are very rare. But it is better to use them in a natural rather than canned form. Turkey has many advantages over the meat of other birds and animals:

1. it refers to diet food;
2. turkey fibers are tender because they contain little coarse connective tissue;
3. a large number of extractives give the dish a pleasant smell and taste;
4. turkey meat is low in cholesterol;
5. it can be safely given to a baby who is allergic to chicken egg protein.

Turkey meat has a beneficial effect on the immune system, contributes to its strengthening. This product is useful for the heart, which needs high-quality protein for development and work.  Feeding from such a product will be useful, it will not cause unpleasant reactions from the digestive system. Especially if the dish is cooked in a slow cooker or steamed.

How to serve meat

Mashed potatoes

The best serving option is mashed turkey meat.

Bouillon

For a baby it will be a heavy meal. Turkey soup is recommended for children no earlier than 1.5 years. In infants, the digestive system is not ready to receive such food. Harmful substances from meat are boiled into the broth. A liquid saturated with active substances increases the secretion of gastric juice and irritates the mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines.

Offal

Tongue and liver are useful for babies, but these products should be introduced into the diet no earlier than 10 months. The liver is a good source of iron, is well absorbed in the body of a small child. But it is the liver that accumulates toxic substances and medicines used by animals. That is why the decision about how much this offal is necessary for the child must be decided with the pediatrician.

Canned meat

A lot of canned foods are produced for baby food, including meat dishes. Canned foods are convenient to use, their production is controlled, and raw materials are selected to high standards. But for complementary feeding it is better not to use them, because even simple mashed potatoes from meat contain additives, for example, starch. Such extra components should not be present in the baby's diet, especially of a younger age.

Home cooking

It’s not difficult to cook soup, meatballs or mashed turkey meat at home. With a turkey, you can diversify your child’s menu by preparing hearty and wholesome meals. They can be made steamed, on a stove or in a slow cooker. Over time, the baby will have a favorite recipe for a turkey dish.

To prepare such a dish at home, you need to buy fresh meat, thoroughly rinse it. It is better to take the turkey in a whole piece, rather than sliced. The color of the surface of the piece should be uniform pink. Red indicates improper storage of the product. You can find a recipe that advises soaking meat of any origin in cold water. This is done so that all harmful substances enter the water.

From a whole piece, cut a piece the size of a palm. For the first time this will be enough. How much the child will eat will be seen in the future. The remaining meat must be cut into the same pieces or a little more, then put into the freezer. For a small child, all products can be thawed no more than once.  How much meat to cut, it will be clear later on from practice, you need one amount for soup to cook meatballs, you need a different amount.

Cooking broth

From turkey, you first need to cut off the films, remove cartilage and fat deposits. Place a slice in a pan with cold water, bring the broth to a boil, cook for about 5 minutes. Then drain the water and pour a new one. It is necessary to cook the soup on the secondary broth, this will get rid of fat and other substances that impede digestion. For the first feeding, this is very important, since meat food is heavy for the stomach.

Water should completely cover the turkey. It is necessary to cook the baby without adding salt and other seasonings, over low heat. Cook for about 1.5 hours. When the water boils, it is added. Ready broth must be filtered. It can be added to vegetable dishes, cook the liver in it, and cook soup for older children. For children of the first year of life, meat broth is not used.

Multicooking

A turkey cooks well in a slow cooker. It does not take much time and effort. The fillet must be put on the grill, set the mode to "pair", it is in every slow cooker. Cooking takes about 40 minutes. Cut the finished turkey into pieces, then chop in a blender until smooth.

The turkey must be diluted with something, because it has dry meat. For this, vegetable oil, a decoction of vegetables or just pure boiled water are well suited. The finished dish is not stored for more than a day in the refrigerator.

How to make a delicious mashed turkey

Any mother has a good recipe for preparing such a dish, for feeding it is the best option. The boiled turkey is cooled, scrolled through a meat grinder twice. But for complementary foods, you still have to grind the turkey in a blender. Even if the recipe does not provide such a consistency, it is better to give the baby well-chopped meat.

Then dilute the puree with a decoction of vegetables, small children should not add broth. Bring to a boil again, stir well. You can add a piece of butter for taste, if it can already be entered into the diet. With breastfeeding, you can dilute with breast milk.Add as much as needed for the desired consistency, but then do not boil.

Tasty liver for kids

Offering this offal to children up to a year is necessary 1 time per week. For such a small liver, you only need to boil or cook in a slow cooker. To prepare a gentle paste, you will need not only the liver, but also the turkey (a small piece, the same size as the liver). It is necessary to give such a dish as complementary foods if meat dishes are well digested.

The classic recipe provides an equal amount of offal and meat, but sometimes the kids do not really like the liver to taste. Then its quantity can be reduced, we must decide for ourselves how much to put.

The liver with turkey must be boiled separately, you can add carrots. Then pass 2 times through a meat grinder or grind with a blender. Sometimes you can find a recipe where there is advice to add butter, but this is for children over a year old. If the paste is thick or dry, it is better to add a vegetable broth. Meat broth does not need to be added to the paste for small children.

Meatballs for Kids

This dish is not introduced into the first lure, but much later, when it will be possible to eat soup. This happens around the tenth month of the first year. Turkey is great for making meatballs. The easiest recipe is turkey soup.

Fillet rolled through a meat grinder is formed into balls, dipped in soup for 15 minutes. If the baby already has teeth, then you can give it a try to bite a piece of meatball. When there is nothing else to chew, the meatballs will have to be kneaded with a fork. You can cook this dish on a slow cooker. How many minutes to put on the timer must be decided independently, it all depends on what size the meatballs will be.

They can also be mixed with. This cereal is quite popular in the nutrition of babies. And with a turkey, she will like it even more. Ready ground buckwheat and meatballs are mixed, a little butter is added, and a delicious dish is ready.

Turkey Allergy

Intolerance of such meat in infants is very rare. Allergy is manifested by a small rash on the chin or on the tummy. Usually this does not inconvenience the kids, they do not comb these areas. Rashes may not appear immediately, but six to seven hours after eating, which is why it is difficult to understand the reason for this reaction. Sometimes an allergy is manifested by a constant nasal congestion. If the treatment for the common cold does not produce results, you should consult with allergists.

In most cases, an allergy to turkey meat goes away with age. To alleviate the condition of the baby, you must exclude this product from the diet.

More often, an allergy occurs on canned turkey dishes, but properly cooked meat is well digested at home.

Small results

It is possible and necessary to cook turkey meat for infants. We need to find such a recipe so that the little man likes the taste of this bird. An allergy to new products may occur from the first feeding, but the turkey rarely causes such a reaction, so it is often used in the nutrition of infants. How to serve this valuable product and how to cook is decided by the parents, because without the useful amino acids of the animal protein, it will be difficult for the baby to fully develop.

As a baby grows older, his diet is replenished with new dishes. Pediatricians recommend one of the first after vegetables and fruits to cook mashed turkey meat for babies, the recipe of which is very simple. This is the best and safe option for the first feeding: the dish is easy to prepare, and almost all kids like it.

When the baby is 6 months old, natural meat is introduced into his diet in small portions. By this time, the digestive system of the child has the necessary enzymes for the digestion and absorption of food of animal origin. If the baby has anemia, turkey puree is introduced at the age of six months, in other cases - about 7-8 months, after cereals and vegetables appeared on the menu.

What is the product useful for?

Turkey meat is considered dietary, in addition, an allergy to it is a rare exception to the rule. As for the advantages of the product, the main ones are the following:

• It is easily absorbed and contains the necessary proteins for the growing body.
• The meat is fibrous, but the fibers are tender, without interspersed coarse tendons or connective tissues.
• The product contains extractive components that stand out during cooking and give it a pleasant aroma and taste.
• Turkey contains a minimum of cholesterol.
• It can be given to children who are allergic to chicken egg protein.
• The product is easily absorbed by the baby’s stomach while breastfeeding, does not cause flatulence and disorders.
• Turkey strengthens the heart muscle and has a beneficial effect on immunity.
• It contains a high concentration of vitamins A, PP and group B, as well as calcium, iron and potassium, which are necessary for the formation of the brain and nervous system.

The dish will be most useful if you cook it for a couple or in a slow cooker.

Basic rules of complementary foods

• A new product is not introduced in the menu if vaccination is planned the other day, or it has already been done.
• Innovation is best introduced on cool days. When summer and heat, it will be more difficult for the baby to absorb a new product.
• It is advisable that during feeding the new dish the baby was healthy, and he had a good mood.
• Often changing the diet and introducing more and more new dishes is not worth it. Let the young organism get used to one product, then, after a couple of weeks, you can introduce a new one.

Lure begins with warm mashed potatoes, which is given before milk feeding. First, they offer the baby ½ tsp. puree, which is diluted with breast milk, vegetable broth or milk mixture.

The first time a turkey is given to a baby at lunch, and not at breakfast, since in the morning the digestive system is not ready to absorb heavy food. After that, observe the reaction for 2-3 hours. If everything is in order, then you can enter turkey dishes in the daily menu.

What to cook

Cooking turkey to infants will not cause difficulties, if you follow simple recommendations. For, since canned food is absorbed worse by the stomach. The best option would be a brisket, in which there is a lot of tender pulp and no tendons and connective tissues. You can cook anything from a turkey, we offer you selected recipes.

Baby puree

The first thing you can cook for your baby is mashed turkey. A simple recipe is suitable even for an inexperienced mother:

1. Initially, the turkey is washed under running water, removing the veins, skin, clots of fat and film. If there are bones, they are also carefully removed.
2. To prepare one serving, a 10 × 10 cm piece is enough. The rest is put in the freezer, remembering that for a child you can freeze food only 1 time.
3. Fillet is placed in a bowl of water and put on fire, waiting for a boil. When the water begins to boil (after about 5-7 minutes), it is drained, and with it the extractive components and fat will leave.
4. The meat is poured with fresh water, and again set on fire. When the water boils, the burner is screwed to a minimum and the dish is simmered for about 2 hours. If the liquid boils, it is added as it evaporates.
5. When the fillet is ready, it is taken out and cooled, after which it is cut into small pieces, and finally crushed in a blender.
6. In order for the dish to acquire a pasty consistency, a couple of teaspoons of vegetable broth or milk mixture is added to it.
7. If the baby does not like the taste, you can add a little vegetable puree, which he already knows.

We do not add salt, seasonings or spices, especially when it comes to the first feeding.

Steamed turkey

How to cook a dish for a couple? It is very simple if you have a crock-pot or a double boiler on hand. The cooking process takes no more than 40-50 minutes, for cooking you will need about 100 g of turkey pulp:

1. First, the turkey is washed, and then steamed until cooked.
2. When the meat is ready, it is cooled, and then cut into pieces and placed in a blender. If there is no blender, a meat grinder is suitable, but it will have to grind the product 2-3 times. Otherwise, it will turn out rude and the baby will not like it.

If desired, the meat piece is boiled together with vegetables: carrots or cauliflower. After cooking, the ingredients are crushed, and a portion of delicious mashed potatoes with the addition of vegetables is obtained.

Delicious meatballs

When the baby is a little older and begins to eat soups, you can offer him meatballs from turkey. How to cook? Very simple:

1. The loin is chopped in a meat grinder without adding spices.
2. Small balls are formed from the prepared meat, which are boiled in vegetable broth or water for about 15-17 minutes.
3. If there is a slow cooker, the dish can be prepared in it, and the time on the timer is set depending on the size of meatballs.

Stuffing can be mixed with buckwheat, and then from the resulting mass to cook meatballs.

Turkey broth

1. If the baby already has soups on the menu, offer him a delicious turkey broth:
2. First, the veins, cartilage, fat and film are removed from the meat, after which it is washed and placed in a bowl of water.
3. After boiling, pour the first water and pour fresh, on which the broth will be cooked. How much water to pour? It needs so much to completely cover a piece of fillet.
4. The pan is placed on the stove, the fire is minimized and the broth is boiled for about 1.5 hours. If the water boils, it is periodically added.
5. The finished broth is filtered, after which soup is prepared on its basis or added to vegetable dishes.

Seasonings, salt and spices do not add: they are contraindicated in infants.

First turkey soup: video

Important little things

• Buying meat is recommended not in natural markets, but exclusively from trusted suppliers. The product must have quality certificates, pass veterinary control and documents that confirm verification.
• When purchasing a product, carefully examine it, giving preference to whole pieces, rather than trimming in cubes. The meat should be juicy, pleasant pink. If its shade is whitish or dark red, this indicates that the product is stale or was stored incorrectly.
• After cooking, turkey puree is suitable for use during the day, while it should not be frozen, and then thawed. Otherwise, it will lose not only taste and color, but also most of the useful ingredients.
• If the mashed potatoes are dry, add a little butter to it, literally on the tip of the knife.

Intolerance of turkey meat is found in exceptional cases, but it is worth mentioning. If the baby is allergic, it is expressed in a rash that occurs 5-7 hours after eating. Rashes concentrate on the stomach or chin, and they practically do not itch and do not cause discomfort. Often, allergic reactions occur in canned turkey meat. If you buy it fresh and cooked correctly, the child will not have problems.

Now you know how to make mashed potatoes, meatballs and turkey broth, how to give dishes and how much to store. Turkey fillet is healthy and nutritious; it is necessary for an actively growing organism. This will not only diversify the baby’s diet, but also provide young cells with nutrients.

Recently, pediatricians advise mothers to introduce a turkey as the first meat-feeding, as it very rarely causes allergies in children. But many do not know how to cook turkey fillet for a child.

Turkey meat dishes are traditional for Americans and residents of some European countries. Currently, this meat has appeared on the shelves of our stores.

Doctors consider turkey one of the most useful dietary products: vitamins A, E, iron, calcium and other trace elements necessary for a person. In terms of iron, turkey meat is superior to chicken and veal. The meat belongs to low-fat varieties, and the presence of sodium allows you to use less salt. As a diet dish, turkey has practically no contraindications, it is hypoallergenic, therefore it is used as complementary foods for young children and as a main dish.

As a feed, turkey meat can be introduced from 6 months. It is easily absorbed by the still fragile gastrointestinal tract crumbs, but it is necessary to give meat with vegetables that are already entered into the child’s diet.

So what to cook from a turkey fillet for a child of the first year of life?

It is necessary to take a small piece of turkey fillet, rinse thoroughly, add cold water, put on gas and bring to a boil. As soon as the water boils, it is drained, the turkey is washed again, a new liquid is poured and again brought to a boil. Repeat this procedure again. The third time the meat is cooked for 30 minutes. When it is ready, it can be mixed with vegetables. To do this, the meat is added to pre-cooked vegetables and everything is chopped with a blender. To make food you need consistency, you can pour in vegetable broth. For older children, you can boil vegetables in meat broth.

Older children can cook steam patties. For cooking, 600 grams of turkey are taken, washed thoroughly, cut into small pieces, chopped in a meat grinder or in a blender. Also pre-soaked in milk or water and a well-wrung bun, a small onion head are chopped. Mix everything thoroughly, adding a raw egg and salt to taste. From the minced meat to form cutlets and steam them in a double boiler or slow cooker for about 45 minutes. If there is no double boiler, then pour a small amount of water into the pan, put the cutlets and simmer over low heat, turning over.

For those housewives who do not know how to cook a juicy turkey fillet, the following recipe is useful. For cooking, you will need a piece of turkey fillet (500 grams), one carrot and one onion. Rinse the fillet well, cut along, but not completely, salt.

Grate carrots on a coarse grater, finely chop the onion, put all this inside the fillet, lay each cut with vegetables. Then wrap stuffed turkey in foil and bake in the oven for one hour. If desired, under the meat and on top you can put tomatoes, cut into circles, this will not allow the turkey to dry from the bottom. Fillet with vegetables will appeal to both babies of the second year of life with well-developed chewing skills and adults. An ideal side dish for such a juicy turkey would be mashed potatoes.

Small foodies will also appreciate the stewed turkey that goes with any garnish. To prepare this dish, you need 700 grams of turkey, a large carrot, a small onion (a couple of cloves of garlic can be), 2 tablespoons of sour cream, salt to taste. If desired, you can add zucchini and then you get an independent dish. Rinse the turkey fillet and cut into small pieces, peel the carrots, cut into rings, finely chop the onion. Put the meat in a stewing dish, salt, add spices, water and simmer for 20 minutes. Then add carrots, onions, a clove of garlic and stew for another 20 minutes, stirring. Add sour cream, herbs and simmer for another 5 minutes.

Another recipe that will help diversify the children's menu is turkey fillet rolls. It will take 500 grams of fillet and filling to taste: cheese, prunes, stewed carrots. Rinse the fillet, cut into thin slices and beat off. Salt, for older children add seasoning. Put a filling on each slice. If it is prune, then pre-soak it in hot water; if cheese, cut into columns or rub on a shredder. Roll the meat into a roll, if it falls apart, chop with a toothpick. A dish is being prepared for a couple of minutes 40 (for young children, but for older adults it is quite possible to bake in foil).

And finally, I want to note that in addition to all the above recipes, turkey fillets can be simply boiled, and on the resulting broth, cook noodles or some other first course. This option is perfect for children of the first year of life, since the soup will turn out not greasy and dietary, and, accordingly, will not cause problems with the chair in the crumbs.

Now all mothers know what can be cooked from a turkey fillet to a baby and can diversify a child’s daily diet with new healthy dishes. The main thing to remember is one rule - add as little seasonings to children as possible.