For 2 servings:
. 100 g canned tuna, drained
. 150 g canned corn, drained
. 30 g grated cheese
. 4 pieces salami, cut in half
. 8 triangles of sweet red pepper

Bake potatoes in the oven. When the potatoes have cooled, cut in half, scrape out the flesh and put the skins on a baking sheet.
Add tuna, corn, cheese and potato pulp, mash with a fork.
Fill potato skins with stuffing. Place the tray in the oven and bake for 15 minutes until crispy.
Put salami on wooden toothpicks like a sail, attach a piece of pepper on top like a flag, and stick both "masts" into the potatoes.

Ingredients
For 2 servings:
. 2 potatoes, baked and cut in half lengthwise
. 200 g cream cheese
. 1/2 can of canned pineapple
. 4 small triangles of sweet pepper
. 2 thick cucumber slices, cut in half and de-seeded
. watercress and chives

Bake potatoes in the oven. Spread the halves with cheese.
Put the pineapple pieces for the eyes, use the pepper pieces for the nose, the cucumber for the mouth, and the watercress for the hair. Add chives for the eyes.

Ingredients
For 2 servings:
. 2 potatoes, baked and cut in half lengthwise
. 4 tbsp. l thick tomato sauce
. 30 g pepperoni
. 6-8 small mushrooms, chopped
. 55 g grated mozzarella (or other cheese)

Bake potatoes in the oven. Cut in half. Heat up the grill.
Spread sauce on potatoes, top with pepperoni, mushrooms and cheese.
Grill potatoes for 5 minutes.

Peel potatoes, wash and cut into slices. Place in a saucepan, cover with boiling water and cook until tender. Salt before the end of cooking.
Drain water and mash potatoes well.
Add hot milk, softened butter and colorful additives(see below), beat well.

Sort the spinach, rinse thoroughly, first in a bowl of cold water, then in running water. Cut the leaves into pieces, put in a saucepan, add a little water and butter, simmer until soft.
Then grind with a mixer into a puree.
Mix with mashed potatoes, add salt to taste. Whisk well.

Wash the carrots, peel, cut into large pieces and boil in boiling salted water until tender.
Then drain the broth, and wipe the carrots through a sieve or mash in a blender.
Mix mashed potatoes with carrots, beat well.

Ingredients
- fresh red tomatoes - 200 g,
- butter - 2 tbsp. l.,
- salt,
- ground black pepper to taste (for children over 9-10 years old).

Wash the tomatoes. Cut into large slices, put in a small saucepan, add a little hot water and simmer over low heat for 5-10 minutes.
Then, hot, rub through a sieve (to remove the skin and seeds) and, if the tomato mass turned out to be very liquid, boil over low heat with constant stirring until the desired density.
Mix mashed potatoes with tomato puree, butter and pepper. Whisk and add salt if desired.

Wash the pumpkin, peel it, finely chop it, put it in a small bowl and add a little hot water so that it is just above the level of the pumpkin. Cook until soft over medium heat, do not forget to stir so that it does not burn.
Wipe the finished pumpkin through a sieve or beat with a mixer until smooth, mix with mashed potatoes, add butter, salt, beat thoroughly.

Wash the beets under running water. Place in boiling water and cook until soft at a low boil. Then remove from the broth and cool. Peel the beets, grate on a fine grater.
Now you can use two ways: mix finely grated beets with ready-made hot mashed potatoes, salt a little and pour over vegetable oil, beat well; or squeeze the juice from the beets and mix it with hot mashed potatoes.

Crack the eggs carefully and separate the yolks from the whites. Add the egg yolks to the hot mashed potatoes and beat until fluffy and smooth.

Simple recipes for children and adults

In a saucepan with a special insert or in an ordinary saucepan, in which a small sieve is placed upside down instead of an insert, pour water so that it does not reach the disk of the insert or the sieve cloth a little, and put on fire.
When the water boils, put the peeled potatoes, whole or diced, in a saucepan, sprinkle with salt, cover the pot with a lid and cook at a strong boil until the potatoes are soft (20-30 minutes, depending on the size of the tubers or chopped parts) .
Serve the finished potatoes on a plate, put butter on it or serve the butter separately.
You can garnish with a hard-boiled egg cut into halves, sour cream, chopped parsley and dill.

Put the washed potatoes in a saucepan, pour hot water and cook until half cooked at a low boil, covering the dishes with a lid.
After that, pour in a salt solution (1 teaspoon of salt solution per 1 liter of water) and cook until tender, but do not overcook.
Drain potatoes, peel them and serve hot with butter.

Ingredients
potatoes 200 g, boiled or fried meat 50 g, butter 10 g, milk 50 g, salt solution 5 g, parsley or dill 3 g.

Steam the peeled potatoes, rub them hot through a sieve or knead well with a wooden pestle, dilute with hot milk, pour in a salt solution, add butter and boil.
Cut boiled or fried beef, veal or low-fat boiled ham into small pieces in the form of cubes (0.5 cm), lightly fry in oil, then mix with mashed potatoes.
Sprinkle puree with finely chopped parsley or dill.

Rinse raw peeled potatoes with cold water, cut into large cubes (1.5 - 2 cm), pour a small amount of boiling water, pour in salt solution and cook until tender.
Wash and peel the carrots, cut off the top layer from it (use the remaining core in the soup), cut into small cubes (5-7 mm), put in a small saucepan with melted butter, add 1-2 tablespoons of water, sugar syrup, close the lid and , stirring occasionally, simmer the carrots until soft.
Put the cooked hot carrots and potatoes in one bowl and mix.

Boil potatoes “in uniform” in salted water, peel them, cut into cubes, put in a saucepan with hot sour cream sauce (sour cream boiled with flour fried in butter), mix gently and boil.
When serving, sprinkle with finely chopped parsley or dill.

Wash the peeled potatoes, steam them. Mash hot potatoes with a wooden pestle or fork, pour in salt solution and dilute with hot milk or meat broth (2-3 tablespoons).
Cut the liver, fried in thin slices, into small pieces and mix with potatoes.

Ingredients
potatoes 200 g, beef 50 g, onion 10 g, butter 15 g, ground crackers 10 g, sour cream 30 g, egg 1/4 pc., salt solution 5 g.

Minced meat preparation. Cut the raw meat into small pieces, pour in a salt solution, fry in oil along with finely chopped onions, add a little water and simmer until soft in a sealed container.
Pass the finished meat through a meat grinder, add the broth in which the meat was stewed; the broth must be taken in such an amount that the minced meat turns out to be quite juicy, but not too wet.
Prepare mashed potato mass and cut into round thin cakes.
Put minced meat in the middle of the cake, connect the edges, roll in breadcrumbs and give the cutlets an oval flattened shape.
Fry the cutlets in a pan with oil, then put them in the oven for 5 minutes.
Serve with sour cream.

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Hello dear blog readers!

You can name a huge number of potato dishes - it has long been present on our tables on weekdays and holidays. This is the most popular, frequently consumed and loved by all product. Mashed potatoes , stewed potatoes, fried, in the form of zrazy and potato pancakes - this is prepared for themselves by parents. And what can be offered to the smallest? Should I start feeding my baby potatoes? What is the use of it for the child's body? Let's figure it out.

What are the benefits of potatoes?

If we compare potatoes with other vegetables, then it has the highest amount of starch and carbohydrates. Based on this fact, most parents doubt whether it is necessary to feed their baby with mashed potatoes. But this root crop is ideal for feeding purees, which are very tender, without a sharp taste. A potato dish for lunch can be a tenth of the required energy supply for the whole day.

As for vitamin C, in the composition of potatoes it is enough to fill the body with the daily norm. There is also fiber, which contributes to the proper functioning of the digestive tract. Potato has the property of enveloping the walls of the digestive organs. Potassium, which is contained in the product, strengthens the heart muscle. Selenium - protects the thyroid gland and strengthens the immune system. It is important to note that potatoes are a hypoallergenic vegetable.

Potato harm

The main disadvantage of potatoes is that during long-term storage, solanine begins to form in the fruit. Do not take sprouted potatoes, they contain the highest percentage of this substance. For cooking for children, peel off a thicker layer of peel - this will protect the body from even the smallest dose of a harmful substance.

When can potatoes be included in the children's diet

For breastfed children, one-component mashed potatoes are allowed from the age of six months, for artificial children - from 5 months. You can combine potatoes with other products from 9 months.

To make mashed potatoes for a baby, boiled potatoes need to be chopped in a blender, diluted with a little milk and a drop of vegetable oil. Salt is not needed, salt is added to food when the child is 10 months old. From 8 months they give boiled potatoes, mashed with a fork.

Choosing a product for the children's menu

The ideal option would be potatoes that you grew yourself. But if the garden is not for you, choose domestic products, so you reduce the risk of buying potatoes that are processed with chemicals or GMOs.

The size of the potatoes should be medium, too large or small tubers do not carry much benefit, and they taste worse. The root crop should be firm, without white or black specks on the peel. Be careful when choosing.

How can you tell if a potato contains nitrates?

When cut from the root crop, juice should not come out.

Complementary food preparation

Before cooking complementary foods, potatoes need to be rid of starch. For this:

1. Peel as many potatoes as you need.
2. Pour cold water over the potatoes and leave for a day.
3. Rinse the tubers immediately before cooking.

Mashed potatoes: recipe for babies from six months

Boil 2 small potatoes in a saucepan or slow cooker. The process will take 20-25 minutes. Smash the finished potatoes with a blender. For a softer and lighter consistency, dilute the puree with breast milk or water in which the tubers were boiled. You need to feed the baby with warm puree.

Like all complementary foods, potato start from one teaspoon per day, following the reaction of the body.

Mashed potato cutlets

A dish according to this recipe can be prepared for a 1.5 year old baby.

Ingredients

• 1 chicken egg;
• 1 small carrot;
• 50 grams of any hard cheese;
• 3 medium sized potatoes;
• 3 tbsp flour;
• salt to taste.

Cooking

Boil potatoes in salted water. Then it needs to be pureed and allowed to cool slightly. As soon as you can touch the puree with your hands and not burn them, you can start cooking the patties.

To do this, beat 1 egg in mashed potatoes and mix. Grate carrots and cheese on a fine grater. Mix all the ingredients in one mass, adding flour.

With wet hands, shape into a small patty. Put them in a frying pan heated with vegetable oil and fry on both sides until golden brown. You can replace carrots with any other vegetables, and also completely eliminate flour by rolling the cutlet in breadcrumbs.

Mashed potato recipe with milk

Ingredients

• 3 potatoes;
• 80 ml of milk;
• 1 tsp butter;
• 1 yolk;
• salt.

Cooking

Puree boiled potatoes, add hot milk to it, while stirring the potatoes. Boil the resulting mass. Then add salt, butter and egg yolk, mix until smooth.

Puree goes well with tomato juice (if the baby is not allergic to it), vegetable salads or stewed vegetables.

Potato soup-mashed potatoes (for children from 1.5 years old)

Ingredients

• 3 medium potatoes;
• 100 grams of cauliflower;
• 1 large carrot;
• 1 small onion;
• 200 grams of hard cheese;
• 2.5 tbsp sour cream;
• 5 liters of water;
• salt to taste.

Cooking

Cut potatoes into even-sized pieces. Cauliflower should be divided into small inflorescences. Grate the carrots on a fine grater, cut the onion into cubes. When the water in the pan boils, you can add potatoes and cabbage inflorescences to it, cook for 25 minutes over medium heat.

From carrots and onions you need to make frying in butter. But do not "gild" the onion, it should just become transparent. Add the roast to the potatoes and cabbage and simmer for 7 minutes over low heat.

The next step is to puree the soup, this can be done with a blender. Add sour cream, salt and part of grated cheese to the puree, use the other part when serving, sprinkling the soup on top. It can also be served with fresh herbs and white bread.

Mashed potato casserole (For children from 2 years old)

This recipe will add variety to your little one's diet. You can cook such a dish both in the oven and in the slow cooker.

Ingredients

• 0.5 kg of potatoes;
• 300 grams of chicken or ground beef;
• 1 egg;
• 30 grams of butter;
• 100 ml of milk;
• 2 tbsp tomato paste;
• salt to taste;
• 2 tbsp breadcrumbs.

Cooking

Boil potatoes in salted water. Fry the finely chopped onion in a pan. Add minced meat and tomato paste to the onion, stew these products until fully cooked.

Add hot milk and butter to the finished mashed potatoes, mix and beat in the chicken egg.

Take a medium sized baking dish and grease it with oil or line it with parchment paper. Lay out the ingredients in the form in layers: mashed potatoes, minced meat, the last layer will be mashed potatoes.

Sprinkle the casserole with breadcrumbs and bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for half an hour.

Conclusion

Mashed potatoes and potato dishes can be a hit with kids if they're deliciously prepared and presented in a fun way. Potato diversifies the children's menu, and the lack of vitamins in this product can be easily compensated by combining potatoes with other vegetables, and then your baby's lunch will be even more healthy and satisfying.

This is a very simple, lean dish that takes little time and effort to prepare. In appearance, the potatoes turn out to be golden, as if fried in a pan. My eldest son loves baked potatoes with sour cream in this version very much, and says that he eats the same in kindergarten. I don’t know how different my recipe is from kindergarten, but the main thing is that the child likes it.

Baked potatoes are suitable for children from 1.5-2 years old.

Cooking baked potatoes with sour cream in the oven:

1. Peel the potatoes and rinse well with running water.

2. Cut the potatoes into thin circles. You can also cut it into strips.

3. Add sour cream, tomato paste and salt to the potatoes. Stir.

4. Put the sliced ​​potatoes on the opponent covered with baking paper.

5. Pour 1-1.5 cups of water into the enemy. The water should cover the bottom of the opponent, but not completely cover the potatoes. With water, the potatoes will not burn and will not be dry. If you want it fatter, you can add a few pieces of butter.

6. Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes, at 180 gr.

7. Serve your child a baked potato for dinner with any vegetables or kiwi. You can also add a spoonful of sour cream and herbs.

Bon appetit!

On a note:

1. Look in the oven periodically and add water if necessary. And if you see that the potatoes are still raw from the bottom, and burning from above, cover it with foil or baking paper.

Most children like potato dishes, so mothers who have begun to introduce complementary foods are always interested in knowing when to cook mashed potatoes for a baby and how to properly give it to a baby.

Potatoes have a positive effect

on the digestive and cardiovascular systems. This vegetable has a lot of potassium, iron, iodine, phosphorus and other elements, as well as organic acids, antioxidants and vitamins.

Most of the nutrients are stored not in boiled, but in baked potatoes, so it is recommended to bake the vegetable for baby purees.
Another plus of potato dishes is a pleasant taste that children like.

Minuses

Potato tubers are rich in starch, which can cause allergies and digestive problems.
Boiled potatoes have a very high glycemic index.
If the mother did not pay attention to the green spots on the roots, then there is a risk of solanine poisoning of the baby.

What is the best age to give?

Babies who receive only mother's milk for food begin to give potatoes from 6 months. The introduction of this vegetable into the diet of artificial babies is possible from 5 months, but it is better to postpone the first complementary foods until 6 months. Often, acquaintance with potatoes occurs after the introduction of zucchini, cauliflower and broccoli into the children's menu. Chopped greens in mashed potatoes can be added from 10 months of age.

E. Komarovsky's opinion

According to Komarovsky, it is necessary to give potatoes to a baby from 8 months old, if the baby has already had at least one tooth. The doctor advises to start acquaintance with vegetables with decoctions, and then move on to mashed potatoes and a variety of soups.

Introduction to the diet

For the first time, a child should try mashed potatoes in an amount not exceeding a teaspoon. A baby who has responded normally to such a vegetable dish will increase the portion next time. If the mother noted any negative or warning signs, acquaintance with potatoes should be postponed.

How to choose?

For baby mashed potatoes, you should use small tubers that do not have spots or defects. It is best if mom can cook dishes from potatoes grown in her garden. If the mother is not sure about the quality of market or store potatoes, she can purchase canned food. In this case, a one-component product is preferable, in which salt and cream are not added. As part of the puree, with which the mother decided to introduce the baby, there should be only potatoes and water.

Recipe for cooking at home

Potatoes can be baked, boiled in a double boiler or in boiling water under a lid. Grind baked or boiled potatoes to a puree state, then add a little milk to the dish.

If this is the first sample of potatoes, then breast milk, a decoction in which the vegetable or infant formula was boiled, should be added to the puree.

A little later, chopped potatoes can be combined with cow's milk. Oil (vegetable is better) should also be added to the potato dish.

Soak potatoes in cold water before boiling. This will cause the loss of part of the vitamins, however, it will save the vegetable from both nitrates and part of the starch.

It is best to boil the potato "in uniform", so its beneficial substances will be preserved in greater quantities. Unpeeled potatoes can also be steamed. After removing the skin from it, the vegetable is crushed into gruel and given to the baby.
It is preferable to grind the mashed potatoes by hand, because after processing with a blender there will be a lot of gluten in the dish.

The child should be given only fresh puree, which the mother has prepared before feeding.

It is not recommended to salt the first mashed potatoes that the baby tries.

Due to the large amount of starch, potato dishes are recommended for young children only 2-3 times a week.

Potato Recipes for Toddlers)))

Potato soup

• Potatoes - 3 pcs. medium,
• Cauliflower - 200 g,
• Carrots and onions - 1 pc.,
• Garlic - 1 clove,
• Hard cheese - 100 g,
• Sour cream - 3 tbsp. l.,
• Water - 5 glasses,
• Salt, ground black pepper to taste.

Cut the washed and peeled potatoes into cubes, wash and divide the cabbage into inflorescences, grate the carrots on a large vegetable grater, finely chop the onion and garlic. Pour water into a saucepan, when it boils, add potatoes and cabbage to it, cook until fully cooked. Fry carrots, garlic and onions in a frying pan (for young children, onions and carrots can be left to boil in a saucepan along with potatoes, cabbage). Add the fried vegetables to the pan and simmer for a few more minutes over low heat. Then beat everything with a blender, add salt, pepper, sour cream, mix everything well. Before serving, sprinkle the puree soup with grated cheese and chopped fresh herbs. Serve with black bread or croutons.

Milk soup with potatoes

• Potatoes - 5 pcs.,
• Water - 300 ml,
• Milk - 500 ml,
• Salt, butter to taste.

Cut potatoes into cubes and throw into boiling water. After 15 minutes, add milk and cook everything for another 5 minutes. At the end, add salt and butter. Together with potatoes, carrots can be added to the soup (only it should be boiled longer), a boiled egg. Mashed potatoes Potatoes - 250 g, Milk - 50 ml, Butter - 10 g, Chicken egg - 1/2 pc. or just the yolk, Salt to taste. Boil the potatoes for a couple until cooked, pound, add hot milk, stirring, boil for less than a minute, so as not to burn. While the puree is hot, add butter, egg and salt, mix everything thoroughly. Can be served with tomato juice, stewed vegetables, salad.

potato pancakes

• Potatoes - 1 kg,
• Wheat flour - 3-3.5 tbsp. l.,
• Egg - 2 pcs.,
• Salt to taste
• Vegetable oil for the pan.

Wash potatoes, peel and chop on a fine grater. While stirring gradually, add the eggs, flour and salt. Fry in a pan with vegetable oil on both sides until browned. Serve draniki with sour cream, salted sour cream and curd paste.

Potato babka with minced meat

• Potatoes - 1 kg,
• Minced meat - 300-400 g,
• Carrots - 2 pcs. medium,
• Onions - 2 pcs.,
• Eggs - 2 pcs.,
• Salt, ground black pepper to taste,
• Vegetable and butter.

Peel potatoes and grate on a large vegetable grater. Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots on the same vegetable grater. Put the onion in a preheated pan with vegetable oil, when it is browned, add carrots to the pan and fry all together for 1-2 minutes. At the end, add a piece of butter. Then add the fried onions and carrots, eggs, salt to the grated potatoes. Mix everything well. Add a little raw finely chopped onion, salt, pepper to the minced meat. Lubricate the baking dish with vegetable oil, spread half of the vegetable mixture in an even layer, then distribute the minced meat layer and cover everything with the remaining vegetable mixture on top. Bake at 180 C for 50 minutes until golden brown. You can serve this dish with sour cream, a glass of kefir.

Dumplings

• Raw potatoes - 10 pcs. medium size,
• Boiled potatoes - 2 pcs.,
• Flour - 3-4 tbsp. l.,
• Salt to taste.

Potatoes must be rubbed on a fine grater or with a food processor, squeeze out all the juice with gauze to the consistency of plasticine. Let the resulting potato juice stand for 10 minutes, then drain the juice, and add the starch back to the potatoes. Mash boiled potatoes and add to the dough, salt. Mix the dough well and make dumplings the size of a table tennis ball. Cook for 20-30 minutes. Dumplings can be made stuffed with minced meat, mushrooms. Traditionally, dumplings are served with milk, sour cream, honey or fried onions. Potatoes are combined with: Low-fat sour cream, cream, cheese, cheese, vegetable and butter; Any vegetables, legumes; It is not recommended to combine with meat, poultry, sweets, confectionery, tomatoes, dried fruits and fruits, with any fatty foods (including high-fat dairy products).

The benefits of potatoes are obvious. Potatoes can replace expensive products, while maintaining a balanced healthy diet. When used correctly, showing moderation and foresight at the table, you will not cause any harm in eating potatoes to yourself or your child.

It is difficult to imagine a more popular vegetable than potatoes. It is delicious in any form, fried, boiled and even in uniforms. Most children perceive it perfectly, especially mashed potatoes. Today we will talk about the benefits of this vegetable, the optimal period for its introduction into the baby's diet and precautions.

Compound

You are mistaken if you think that potatoes consist only of starch. In fact, it also has useful elements:

• carbohydrates are a source of energy;
• vitamin C - however, almost all of it is concentrated in the peel;
• iron - although it is not as much as in apples, it is still present;
• B vitamins - they are not only useful for the nervous system, but also play an important role in metabolic processes, and are also needed to prevent anemia;
• magnesium - good for the heart;
• phosphorus - "nutrition" for the brain, is important for the development of the skeletal system;
• potassium - has a positive effect on muscle cells, promotes their growth, reduces irritability.

Potatoes also contain chromium, molybdenum, copper, cobalt, and other useful elements. This modest vegetable will help replenish your reserves of vitamins and minerals and should not be taken lightly.

Are there any benefits to potatoes?

Many diets limit the use of potatoes, but children, fortunately, do not adhere to them, so we will discuss how this wonderful vegetable is useful for them. Main advantages:

• Prevention of anemia. Thanks to the vitamin B6 present in the potato, iron is better absorbed, in addition, lipid metabolism is accelerated, it is also important for the processing of amino acids and the production of homocysteine.
• Strengthens capillary vessels, improves immunity - this effect is provided by vitamin C.
• Normalizes electrolyte and acid balance, as well as blood pressure.
• Increases the digestibility of folic acid, proteins and carbohydrates, contributes to the saturation of the cells of the body with oxygen.
• Serves to strengthen connective tissues, is important for the proper formation of the skeletal system.
• Thanks to molybdenum, the body produces enzymes that are necessary for the processing of purines and pyrimidines, as well as for the absorption of amino acids containing sulfur.

Potato proteins contain all amino acids of plant origin, including essential ones. 300 g of a vegetable is enough to get the daily requirement of potassium and phosphorus.

Important! Vitamin C is destroyed during storage, by the spring its amount is minimal, its content also depends on the method of preparation, it is best to steam it, so more vitamins are stored in potatoes.

Unlike many other vegetables, potatoes can be consumed even with exacerbation of certain gastrointestinal diseases, such as ulcers or gastritis. Its juice is recommended for hyperacidity of the stomach. The potassium present in the potato helps to remove excess fluid, so it is recommended to include it in the diet of patients suffering from certain kidney diseases.

Potato is high in calories, it is the best of vegetables if you need to replenish energy reserves, and its protein in its structure and composition is as close as possible to proteins of plant origin. The amino acids contained in the potato are absorbed almost completely. There is another plus: due to the significant concentration of minerals, potatoes help to normalize the acid-base balance of the body.

Potatoes should definitely be included in the menu for diseases caused by acidity - gout and some others. The vegetable neutralizes acids. In addition to the healing effect, a rejuvenating effect is provided - the complex of substances contained in the potato accelerates the restoration of cells and slows down their destruction.

Introduction of potatoes to the diet of babies

Previously, potatoes were introduced to the menu as one of the first among vegetables. Today, the nutrition strategy for children up to a year has changed. Doctors recommend first accustoming the child to zucchini, cauliflower, pumpkin, and only then supplement his menu with potatoes. The optimal period for adding it to the diet is 7-8 months, and if the baby is bottle-fed, it can be a few weeks earlier - at 6-6.5 months.

Which puree is better: homemade or industrial? Of course, fresh, homemade, because it has more vitamins. Never cook a dish for two days, it is best to do it right before feeding. Other Tips:

• after cleaning, purchased potatoes should be soaked in water for 30-40 minutes to remove nitrates;
• wash the fruits before cleaning - this way you will avoid getting soil particles into the dish that eats into the pulp;
• when accustoming to potatoes, offer the child semi-liquid mashed potatoes, later, when he gets used to it, a thicker consistency will do;
• mashed potatoes should be diluted with warm milk, if the baby does not tolerate it - with vegetable broth, add the liquid gradually to avoid the formation of lumps.

A common mistake of young mothers is to give potatoes and dishes from it daily. This is not worth doing, because the baby's diet should be varied. Later, when your daughter or son gets used to potatoes, offer a combined vegetable puree, for example, add zucchini, cauliflower or broccoli, carrots to it, try to supplement the dish with onions - if the child does not like it, do not insist, because of the specific smell, it is far from All children are loyal to him.

For the first time, half a teaspoon of mashed potatoes is enough for a baby. Increase the portion gradually and bring it up to 80-100 g. Do not offer the baby potatoes more than 2-3 times a week. To save nutrients, follow our recommendations:

• after boiling, reduce the heat to a minimum, it is best to pour boiling water over the potatoes - this will reduce the time of thermal exposure, more vitamins will be preserved;
• it is unacceptable to leave cooked vegetables in water, it must be drained immediately after cooking;
• already on the second day, almost 2 times less useful substances remain in boiled potatoes, cook it immediately before serving;
• Potatoes should be put into the soup no earlier than 15 minutes before the end of cooking.
  Fried potatoes are not allowed for children, even as an exception. Only baked (after one and a half years) or boiled.

Recipes

Yolk mashed potatoes

Products: 200 g potatoes, 3-5 g butter, 30-40 ml milk, 1 yolk, salt to taste.

Boil the potatoes until tender, drain, rub through a sieve, gradually add milk, achieving the desired consistency. Add protein whipped with 10 ml of boiled milk to the finished dish.

Potato and cabbage casserole

Products: 250 g potatoes, 150 g white cabbage, a couple of tablespoons of flour, 1 small onion, 1 egg.

Boil potatoes and mash them with 1 egg, flour and salt. Chop the cabbage, cut the onion into cubes, stew all this until tender, salt at the very end - if this is done earlier, the cabbage will darken. Lubricate the bottom of the baking dish with vegetable oil and sprinkle with breadcrumbs, then lay out half the puree, then the cabbage. The top layer is mashed potatoes. Bake for 45-50 minutes.

Potato stew

Products: 4-5 medium-sized potatoes, 1 carrot, 50-100 g of beets or other vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini), 1-2 onions, herbs, salt.

Cut pre-peeled potatoes and carrots into small cubes, do the same with onions. Put the vegetables in a saucepan, cover with water, simmer until tender over low heat for 15-20 minutes. Add greens and salt at the very end.

Precautionary measures

It is categorically impossible to cook green tubers - this color is due to the formation of solanine in them. Potatoes are also harmful to children suffering from certain gastrointestinal diseases. In rare cases, a vegetable can cause allergies, so be careful in the first days after introducing it into the baby's diet.