Cauliflower is an extremely useful product for baby food. It is suitable even for feeding children under one year of age, it is often administered as the very first feeding. Cauliflower has a lot of easily digestible protein, amino acids, mineral salts, carbohydrates and vitamins. It is well digested, while improving intestinal patency and preparing it for the use of other, coarser foods.

To cook for a child, first of all, choose the best head of cabbage. It should be fresh, even ivory, without blackening.

As a first dish for crumbs, it is best suited. Divide the head into inflorescences, boil for several minutes, and then beat with a blender, gradually pouring the broth into which the cabbage was cooked. Not
  be careful not to pour in too much broth - the thinner it is, the easier it will be for the baby to eat it.

You can cook a little older child. We grind boiled cabbage, as in the previous recipe, add butter, milk and egg yolks. Whip everything, then add the whipped whites separately, mix and bake in the oven. Very tasty, the baby will definitely like it, and you probably will too. Another option for cooking this dish is boiling in a water bath, so the souffle will turn out to be more airy.

Very like the child and. Turn the boiled cabbage into a puree with a blender, add salt and cream. Sprinkle the finished cream with crushed egg yolk.

Children from six months old are suitable. To cook it, first stew the onions with carrots, then add the cabbage divided into inflorescences. When the vegetables are cooked, grind them with a blender, combine with the broth and boil.

A child of one year can be cooked. Boil the cabbage and diced zucchini, salt, hold for a couple more minutes on low heat, then remove the vegetables from the broth and rub through a sieve.
Combine the resulting mashed potatoes with the broth and boil. Season the soup with raw yolk diluted with hot milk and a slice of butter.

Very easy to cook. Boil the inflorescences, then bake in the oven for 5 minutes. The sauce is prepared on the basis of the water in which the cabbage was boiled: mix half a glass of broth with milk, bring to a boil, add the butter triturated with flour and cook, stirring constantly, until smooth. When serving, pour cabbage with sauce.

You can simply boil cauliflower, sprinkle it with breadcrumbs and pour melted butter - very fast and tasty!

Relatively complicated, but worth the recipe spent on it -. Boil the cabbage. Cut the crusts from the bread crumb, then cut it into pieces, put in a bowl and soak in milk. Add cabbage, flour, yolk to the same bowl, mash everything with a fork and pour the whipped protein into the foam. Put the pudding in a greased form and cook in a water bath.

Children from two years old can be offered cauliflower with cheese sauce. Boil cauliflower, put it in
  pan, make a sauce of milk, flour and cabbage broth. Pour the cabbage with sauce and sprinkle with grated cheese, and then bake in the oven until crusted.

Another delicious recipe is cauliflower in breadcrumbs. Disassemble the head of cabbage into individual inflorescences and lay them in a deep pan. Make a sour cream sauce, mixing sour cream, dill, salt, grated cheese and a small amount of water. Pour the cabbage with sour cream sauce, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and bake in the oven until golden brown at 200-220 degrees.

As you can see, you have many options for making cauliflower for children. Be sure to introduce this wonderful product into your baby’s diet. And, of course, stay with the “Home Guru” - we will tell you what else to cook tasty and healthy for children and adults.

Vegetables and fruits, including cauliflower, are gradually introduced into the feeding of infants. This culture is good for health, it is not an allergen, therefore it is so popular in baby food. It is recommended primarily for children with overweight at an early age, as well as for those babies who often have colic and constipation. Pleasant taste, easy digestibility, a small amount of fiber, a maximum of vitamins and minerals - all this necessitates its introduction into the diet of children of different ages. For readers of the "Popular about Health" website, there are several useful recipes that will help a child prepare cabbage so that he likes it the first time.

The first cauliflower complementary foods for infants

You can introduce the baby to this product no earlier than six months of age. If a child is still breastfed by this age, then such a vegetable may be the first variety introduced in the menu. The first time the baby is given mashed cauliflower in the morning, the maximum amount is 1 teaspoon (or half). With a normal baby reaction, in the absence of an intestinal upset, the dose can be increased in two days.

In order to prepare a child a puree mass, it is necessary to choose the most high-quality and fresh product. Soak the cabbage in cold water for 4 hours, then rinse in running water. Inflorescences put in boiling water and boil for up to 10 minutes. Salt is not recommended. For boiling, you can use both a double boiler and a slow cooker.

Beat the ready cabbage with a blender or rub through a sieve. The consistency should be very liquid, like kefir. If the mashed potato turned out too thick, then dilute it with vegetable broth or add a little breast milk.

Puree for babies over 9 months old

At this age, the menu can already be safely varied with several vegetables and fruits. Namely, broccoli can be added to the cauliflower already tested. For the recipe you will need:

50 grams of broccoli;
- 50 g of cauliflower inflorescences;
- 15 grams of butter;
- 150 ml of milk;
- 50 grams of hard cheese.

Disassemble the cabbage, rinse and throw in boiling water for 8-10 minutes. After that, the vegetables can be chopped in a blender. Now prepare the sauce. Pour milk into a small bowl, add butter, add flour. Constantly stirring, bring to a boil, wait until the mass thickens. At the very end, grate the cheese and add to the total mass.
Mix the resulting sauce with the cabbage mass, cool to room temperature. Now you can offer your child a new treat! You can store it for no more than 1 day in the refrigerator.

According to a similar recipe, you can cook mashed potatoes with the addition of boiled carrots.

Cauliflower puree soup

This gentle and healthy dish can be offered to children after 1.5 years of age. For the recipe you will need:

500 grams of inflorescences;
- 0.5 cups cream;
- onion;
- 1 carrot;
- 3 tablespoons of butter;
- 2 egg yolks;
- 50 grams of flour;
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil.

Peel and chop carrots and onions, fry in vegetable oil or boil in a double boiler. Boil cauliflower inflorescences in salted water, send vegetables there. cook everything until the cabbage is fully cooked. Then it is necessary to remove it and grind it separately in a blender, then send the broth with carrots and onions into it, leave it over low heat.

Grind the yolks with cream into a homogeneous mass, add soft butter and sharply pour the mixture into the soup for several minutes before turning off the stove (immediately turn off at the moment of boiling).

Cauliflower and vegetable stew

From the age of two, it is time for the child to be accustomed to ensure that the dishes are not crushed to puree. In this case, it's time to offer him a stew. Boil carrots, onions, and cauliflower in chicken broth. All vegetables should be finely chopped (in extreme cases, they can be crushed with a fork). Pieces of meat are also recommended to leave. Add slices of zucchini at the end. Drain the broth, discard the vegetables in a colander.

Add cream, butter or vegetable oil, sour cream to the resulting mass. With this dish, the child will gradually become accustomed to the table of adults. You can add small slices of rye bread crackers to the stew, because at this age the baby already has something to chew.

Cauliflower Pizza

Pizza is a favorite treat of all the kids, but it is not always useful and acceptable on the menu. For parents, there is an ideal option - to use vegetables and offer the child from the age of 6 the most healthy dish.

We take the following products:

400 grams of cauliflower;
- 100 grams of cheese;
- 1 egg;
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil;
- 150 grams of green peas;
- 150 grams of tomato;
- salts and spices as desired.

Boil cabbage inflorescences until half cooked, grind in a blender. Mix mashed potatoes with egg, grated cheese, butter, add salt to taste. It turns out a vegetable dough from which the child will definitely not be harmed. If the consistency is too thin, a little flour can be added. Lay the base on the bottom of the pan and lay the filling: tomatoes, peas, chopped into small cubes, mixed with tomato paste, grated cheese. You can also add chopped chicken breast. Sent to the oven as soon as the top is lightly browned, the pizza is ready! Little foodies will surely be delighted!

Cauliflower is a useful and very affordable vegetable, which is one of the first to be introduced into the diet of infants. However, not all children love her taste. Significantly improve the taste without loss of useful properties helps roasting cauliflower. Such a dish can be used as an independent or offer it as a side dish.

The benefits of baked cauliflower for a child

Cauliflower is one of the champions among vegetables in terms of protein and vitamin C. In addition, it is rich in vitamin A and group B vitamins, contains minerals such as potassium, magnesium, sodium, iron, phosphorus and calcium. As with all vegetables, it has fiber and pectins.

• Cauliflower is often the first vegetable to be introduced into lactating infants. And not in vain! After all, it has a lot of useful qualities, in addition, it is very affordable, retains useful properties even when frozen.
• Cauliflower is rarely allergic. This is a hypoallergenic product that is very well absorbed by the children's body.
• Caring mothers grow cauliflower in personal plots, use fresh vegetables in cooking and freeze cauliflower inflorescences for the winter. So you can provide your baby with vegetables, of which you are sure.

Oven Baked Cauliflower Recipe

So, you can bake cauliflower for the baby in the oven with the addition of eggs, milk and hard cheese.

You will need

• cauliflower - 150 grams;
• 1 chicken egg;
• milk - 3 tablespoons;
• 1 small onion;

• vegetable oil for frying onions;
• butter for greasing a baking dish;
• hard cheese - 30 grams;
• salt and greens to taste.

Cooking sequence

1. Wash cauliflower, disassemble for inflorescences.
   
   
2. Dip the cabbage in boiling water and cook for 10 minutes.
   
   
3. Fry finely chopped onions in vegetable oil until golden brown.
   
   
4. Beat the egg and add milk, salt.
   
   
5. Cool the cabbage and mix it with the fried onions, put on a baking sheet.
6. Pour in a mixture of milk and eggs.
7. Send the dish to the oven, preheated to 180 °.
8. As soon as the egg coagulates, take out a baking sheet and sprinkle the cabbage with grated hard cheese.
9. Return the dish to the oven.
10. Bake until golden brown.
11. Decorate the finished dish with greens.
    
    

Variations of the dish may differ by pouring cabbage mixed with fried onions.

In order for the cauliflower baked in sour cream to turn out delicious, add a few tablespoons of low-fat sour cream and half the cheese grated on a coarse grater to the cabbage and onion, mix thoroughly and smooth. Grate the other half of the cheese on a fine grater and sprinkle the dish evenly. Bake at 180 ° until golden brown.

When we say “dietary and healthy product”, not the most appetizing pictures of tasteless mashed potatoes and steamed inflorescences come to mind. Of course, we are talking about cauliflower, but upon closer inspection, dishes from it for children and adults can be not only light, but also extremely tasty. From our article you will learn how to cook it unbanally and you can diversify your family’s menu with the most delicious soups and crunchy gratin.

And besides, from this vegetable you can cook pizza, airy “rice” and much more. Well, the fact that it will turn out not only something new and tasty, but really useful, only adds value to all recipes.

In the diet of children, dishes from this vegetable begin to be introduced as early as six months, since in addition to containing a huge amount of vitamins and minerals (one vitamin C in it is 2 times more than in lemon), it consists of very light and tender, completely absorbed by the child’s body fiber .

Not loading the intestines that are not yet fully formed, cauliflower, at the same time, supplies the child with essential amino acids and proteins no worse than a full-fledged steak. By the way, it is thanks to the protein component that really tasty and rich broth is learned from it.

Mashed potatoes are very simple.

• As always, we boil several young inflorescences (literally 70-100 g) until they are ready to steam or in a small amount of water and wipe through a sieve.
• For complementary feeding in 5-6 months, we do not need any dressing, and from 7-8 you can not only add a drop of vegetable oil in mashed potatoes, but also combine cauliflower with other vegetables.

Best combination of zucchini, pumpkin, broccoli with it is suitable for the baby - the light textures of these products, their hypoallergenicity and excellent mineral composition will make your baby’s diet truly complete.

For children of a year and a half, you can already cook a real stew: use almost everything the same, but do not grind it through a sieve or a blender, but knead it with a fork, and even then, purely symbolically, so that the pieces remain, and the baby had something to “chew”.

You can fill it with 10% cream, butter or a teaspoon of low-fat sour cream. In addition, it can be cooked in a chicken, turkey or rabbit broth, and added to vegetables, then finely chopped boiled meat and a little salt. So you will gradually accustom the child to a common table.

However, it must be remembered that even in two years, various "harmful" adults like salinity, smoked meats and fried greasy crusts are certainly not suitable for the baby. But there will be an occasion for the rest of the family members to switch to “diet” food at least for a while, just do not tell them about it so as not to frighten ahead of time! After all, “dietary” does not mean “tasteless”.

Let's cook the first dish. It will be satisfying and will not overload the body with excess fats or proteins.

Ingredients

• Chicken, Turkey or Rabbit Fillet - 300 g
• Cauliflower - 300 g
• Broccoli or green beans - 100 g
• Cream - 1 tbsp each on a plate
• Salt, spices - to taste

Cooking

1. Boil meat for broth in a one and a half liter saucepan.
2. Then we take it out, cool it, and lower the inflorescences and other vegetables of your choice into the broth. Instead of green beans, you can take frozen green peas to give a different taste. Cook everything for about 15 minutes until soft.
3. We grind the vegetables with a submersible blender, salt, without removing from the heat, put finely chopped meat into the soup and bring to a boil. Turn off.

Serve hot with cream and crackers from white bread.

This recipe can be changed a little by adding grated cheese or, for older children, about 5-6 years old, you can dissolve 200 g of cream cheese in soup. This will give an unusually gentle creamy taste and neither children nor adults will resist.

Also, cauliflower will be delicious and main dishes for children and adults. They do not have to be made completely vegetarian; add any meat components as you wish.

As you know, children of all ages are big fans of this dish, and a hearty vegetable base instead of bread will delight supporters of a healthy diet.

• Cauliflower - 350 - 400 g
• Hard cheese - 100 g
• Chicken Egg - 1 pc.
• Olive or other vegetable oil 2 tbsp
• Tomato paste - 2 tbsp
• Frozen Green Peas - 150 g
• Cherry tomatoes or regular - 150 g
• Mozzarella - 100 g
• Spices, salt - to taste

Cooking

1. We sort the raw vegetable into inflorescences and grind it in a blender bowl, and then either in the microwave or in the oven, keep it half-ready. It is important that the cabbage is still juicy and not cooked completely. If the layer is thin, it will be enough 3 - 5 minutes in the oven or microwave, if put directly in the cup, stir every 30 - 40 seconds and keep no more than 3 minutes in the oven and 5 in the oven.
2. We take out, let cool and stir in the egg, grated cheese, butter, salt. It turns out the consistency of a regular test.
3. We form 3 cakes from it. They should be sufficiently voluminous - at least 5 - 7 mm. Bake at 180 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes. They should be cooked, but not too brown, as they will need to be put in the oven again.
4. Now we proceed to the filling: chop the tomatoes and mozzarella. We spread everything together with peas on cakes smeared with tomato paste. You can sprinkle with the rest of the cheese, or you can send it to the oven just like that. Keep at the same temperature until the cheese melts. Bon Appetit!

Of course, in such a pizza both chopped chicken meat, and stewed ground beef, and pieces of steamed salmon or chum salmon will look good. Cauliflower pizza for children can contain any dietary but nutritious ingredients.

How to cook a cauliflower of cauliflower for children is roughly represented by everyone: boil vegetables, chop them, pour in milk-egg mixture, sprinkle with cheese and put in the oven. But not everyone knows how to make a more interesting option that will surprise not only small, but also large gourmets.

For cauliflower gratin, we need very few ingredients. Actually cabbage - 200 g, potatoes - 100 - 150 g, breadcrumbs, cheese - 100 g, butter - 2 tbsp.

• Washed and peeled vegetables cook in salted water for 10 minutes, after they boil.
• Then cut the potatoes into circles and spread the bottom of the baking dish.
• Distribute cabbage inflorescences and small pieces of oil on top.
• Sprinkle with breadcrumbs and cheese.
• Bake at 180 degrees for about 20 minutes. We need a crust, so choose the grill mode.

Serve hot with sour cream and herbs.

Children and adults will surely enjoy the extremely unusual cauliflower dish - popped rice! Yes, you heard right! Cabbage can turn into a dietary grits! And, therefore, losing such a recipe will come in handy.

• Cauliflower - 300 g
• Chicken protein - 1 pc.
• Small onions - 1 pc.
• Garlic (optional) - 1 clove

Cooking

1. Grind purely washed cauliflower in a blender. We need rather large particles - “rice”, so we grind the vegetable in portions. If you are not sure what you need, just three cabbage on a coarse grater.
2. Next, proceed to the onion - clean it and cut it very finely. Pour a little oil into the hot pan and lightly let the onions drop on it. 2 to 3 minutes will be enough. If you decide to add garlic, then you need to do it now - finely chopped, pour it to the onion and passer.
3. Pour in the same protein, stirring continuously to break into pieces. After 2 minutes, pour in the ground cabbage. Salt, if necessary, add spices - basil, nutmeg, allspice. All the time we interfere and in no case do not cover the pan with a lid so that the cabbage does not give juice! In this case, we get not crumbly “rice”, but “rice porridge”. For the same reason, as much as we would not like, we do not add any sauces in the cooking process. After 5 minutes, our cauliflower is ready!

Serve either on its own, or as an unusual side dish for meat or fish.

As you can see, from cauliflower you can cook completely dietary vegan dishes, as well as quite ordinary options for children and adults. Only your taste and imagination decide what will happen for dinner or lunch today!

Cauliflower is an indispensable product for a children's diet. Pediatricians recommend including dishes from this vegetable in the menu of a child from the age of 6 months in quality. The regular use of cauliflower normalizes the motility of the digestive tract and intestines, has a beneficial effect on the circulatory system, strengthens the immune system, etc.

Cauliflower is a low-calorie product rich in vitamins and microelements, from which you can cook many different dishes.

100 g of raw vegetable contains:

• 92.27 g of water;
• 4.97 g of carbohydrates;
• 2 g;
• 1.92 g of protein (almost twice as much as in white cabbage);
• 1.91 g of monosaccharides;
• 0.76 g of ash;
• 0.278 g of fat.

Cauliflower is a low-calorie product, a fresh vegetable contains only 25-30 kcal per 100 g.

In addition to the main nutrients, the composition includes:

• trace elements: potassium, phosphorus, sodium, copper, manganese, cobalt, iodine, chlorine, selenium, zinc, copper;
• vitamins: A, B5, B6, C, E, K, D, PP, U, thiamine, riboflavin, folic and pantothenic acids;
• tartronic, malic, citric acids;
• essential amino acids: choline, arginine, lysine, tryptophan, methionine;
• pectin.

Oddly enough, even the lemon lags far behind cauliflower in the content required by the ascorbic acid.

Benefit and harm for the child

Cauliflower is a low-allergenic product, ideal for the first feeding of babies and the diet of a nursing mother.

Useful properties of cauliflower:

1. Vitamin K is necessary for the normal coagulation of the blood of a child, it maintains a normal water-salt balance, blood pressure, and a healthy heart rate in the body. Vitamin K is also an indispensable tool in the absorption of calcium and vitamin D.
2. Calcium contributes to the normal development of the baby's skeletal system.
3. Fiber, which is part of cauliflower, has a light, delicate structure and is perfectly absorbed by the children's body. It improves the digestion process, normalizes the frequency of bowel movements. The regular use of cauliflower is the prevention of constipation and gas formation.
4. Manganese contributes to the normal functioning of the nervous system, the development of muscle and bone tissue.
5. Plant protein activates the gallbladder and liver.
6. Ascorbic acid is involved in many metabolic processes, strengthens the immune system of the child, etc.

Cauliflower can be harmful only in some cases:

• with individual intolerance to the product;
• with diseases of the thyroid gland;
• with an overly acidic reaction of gastric juice;
• at;
• with indigestion;
• in the period after surgical treatment.

Cauliflower on a child’s menu

As a first feeding, cauliflower is offered to infants from the age of 6 months. Boiled and chopped vegetables in the form of mashed potatoes are introduced gradually into the baby’s menu: you can start with half a teaspoon.

Doctors recommend feeding the child cauliflower in the morning and lunch hours of meals. This is necessary to monitor the condition of the baby after feeding. If after eating cabbage puree the child does not feel discomfort, by the end of the week the portion size is adjusted to 40 g.

• Half-year-old children are given 100 g of mashed potatoes.
• Upon reaching the age of 9-12 months, the portion is increased to 200 g.

Children aged 1 year in mashed potatoes can add vegetable oil in a small amount.

For older children, the menu is more diverse, it may include:

• soups;
• souffle;
• salads;
• cauliflower casseroles, etc.

If there are problems with the stomach, with bloating and abdominal bloating, this vegetable should be excluded from the menu.

Recipes for Cauliflower Dishes for Baby Food

You can use cauliflower in the form of ready-made mashed potatoes for feeding, but it is not difficult to prepare dishes for the baby yourself. It is better to take a fresh vegetable for this than a frozen one, because even with deep freezing, some vitamins are destroyed and, accordingly, the beneficial properties of cabbage are reduced.

1. Mashed potatoes. Head of cabbage washed, dismantled for inflorescences. The heads are dipped in boiling water and boiled for 10-15 minutes until tender. The inflorescences are removed from the water, cooled, crushed with a blender, adding a small amount of water. During the preparation of dishes for babies, food is not salted.
2. Souffle. Cabbage inflorescences are prepared, as in the previous recipe, boiled and chopped. In mashed potatoes add