Legumes and dishes made from them are very popular among adults, because they contain many useful substances, are quite nutritious and tasty. Among all legumes, peas are in particular demand, and the most common dish of such legumes is soup. It is cooked and loved in many families, and when a small child appears, the mother naturally arises the question at what age the child is allowed to try this first dish. Let's see if a one-year-old child can use pea soup, as well as what pea soup recipes are best for a children's menu.
When can you include in the children's diet?
It is advised to start introducing a child to pea soup at the age of 1-2 years. At the same time, the dish should be prepared from green peas, which can be either frozen or fresh. Mothers who are guided by the principles of pedagogical complementary feeding can give a spoonful of such a first course a little earlier, for example, at 9 or 10 months, but most pediatricians, like the famous doctor Komarovsky, do not advise doing this.
Despite the fact that green peas are recommended to be added to the children's menu along with other vegetables at 7-8 months, their amount in relation to the entire volume of a vegetable dish should not exceed 1/3. In addition, young peas should be included in a vegetable dish for a child in the first years of life no more than 2 times a week. Only at the age of over a year can you treat a child with legumes, in which they are the main ingredient. Such dishes include young pea soup.
As for split dry peas, you should not rush to introduce it into the diet of children and make soup from it. The reason is that children digest ripe peas with difficulty, so most toddlers cannot cope with this type of legumes in the first and even in the second year of life. This leads to bloating, abdominal pain, and stool disturbances. It is best to postpone acquaintance with split peas until the age of 3 years, carefully observing the reaction of the baby's digestive tract to this product.
For the benefits and dangers of peas, see the program "Living Healthy".
How to introduce into complementary foods
Having prepared a pea soup for a baby, for the first time, you should give the child such a dish in a small amount - 1-2 tablespoons. Although legumes are considered healthy dietary foods, such crops cause excessive gas formation in many children, so after a few tablespoons of pea soup, the baby may complain of abdominal discomfort. In such a situation, acquaintance with a new soup should be postponed. If the little one liked the dish and his intestines reacted normally to the pea soup, next time the portion can be increased slightly.
How to cook properly for children
For many adults, the classic recipe for pea soup is a dish made with smoked ribs. Of course, this version of the first pea dish will not work for a child.
Cooking soup for children over one year old should take into account the following nuances:
- The best base for baby pea soup is vegetable broth.
- If mom wants to cook pea soup in meat broth, it is recommended to cook it from lean meat. In this case, up to 3 years of age, a second broth is used. To prepare it, the chopped meat is placed in cold water and brought to a boil, after which the water is drained, and the meat itself is washed with cool water. Pour boiling water over it, bring the liquid to a boil, reduce the heat and cook for 30 minutes.
- In order for peas to boil much faster when making baby soup, they should be soaked in cool water for several hours. It will be optimal to pour water over the grains in the evening, and start cooking the soup the next day in the morning.
- All the ingredients in children's pea soup should be put taking into account the time of their preparation. First, products that are cooked for a long time are dipped into the water, and at the end - those that take less time to boil.
- At first, it is recommended to grind ready-made pea soup for a child in mashed potatoes. It will be easier for a child aged 1-1.5 years to eat such a soup-puree, and his digestive tract will normally cope with the digestion of all the ingredients of the dish.
What not to add to baby pea soup
When making baby pea soup, do not use the following foods:
- Fatty meats.
- Smoked products.
- Bouillon cubes.
- Foods the child cannot tolerate.
If soup is prepared for a child of 1-3 years old, spices and excessive amounts of salt should not be added to it.
Recipes
Soup-mashed green peas with rice
Take for soup:
- 4 tbsp. spoons of green peas.
- 2 tbsp. spoons of rice.
- 2 glasses of water.
- Salt to taste.
- Butter.
The preparation of the puree soup will be like this:
- Go through and rinse the rice well, then put it in a saucepan and pour a glass of boiling water over it.
- When the water and rice boil, reduce heat and simmer until cooked over low heat.
- Boil the green peas separately in a glass of water until tender.
- Combine boiled rice and boiled peas with liquid, grind in a blender.
- Bring the soup to a boil, season with salt, and add butter to a plate when serving.
Baby pea soup with chicken
Prepare the following ingredients:
- Homemade chicken without skin.
- Green pea.
- Carrot.
- Zucchini.
- Potatoes.
- Onion.
- Fresh greens.
Prepare the soup like this:
- Boil the chicken in slightly salted water until cooked through (cook in a second broth if the child is under 3 years old).
- Remove the meat from the broth.
- Peel and dice potatoes and cabbage, dip in boiling broth.
- Rinse the peas under cold water and add to the potatoes 10 minutes after the start of cooking.
- Peel and finely chop the onions and carrots, simmer in a little broth for 5 minutes and add to the pot with the peas and potatoes.
- Chop the chicken into small pieces and dip in the soup.
- After 5 minutes, season with salt to taste and remove the pea soup from heat.
- Add fresh herbs to a plate before serving.
Pea soup in a slow cooker
For the dish you will need:
- 300 g green peas.
- 300 g of lean meat.
- Two potatoes.
- One carrot.
- One onion.
- One sweet pepper.
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil.
You need to cook the dish in the following sequence:
- Cut the meat into small cubes.
- Wash and peel the vegetables, then chop too.
- Select the "frying" or "baking" mode in a multicooker, add vegetable oil and cook chopped onions until transparent.
- Add chopped carrots and cook for another five minutes.
- Add meat to the multicooker bowl and fry it until a small crust appears.
- Select the "soup" mode, duration 1.5 hours.
- Add 1.5 liters of water to meat, onions and carrots, salt to taste.
- Add chopped peppers, potatoes and green peas to the bowl.
- Garnish the prepared soup with herbs before serving.
You can see the video recipe for pea soup for babies in the next video. But our opinion differs from the opinion of the author of this video - we recommend giving this soup to a child at least 1 year old.
Find out if your child's weight is normal using the following calculator.
