Rice recipes for babies

Here we have two rice recipes for babies that are very easy to make and contain a lot of nutrition:

1. Fried rice

This recipe combines everything in one dish: rice, vegetables and shrimps. It provides your baby with carbon hydrate, vitamins and protein which is everything you child needs to grow up healthily. Another advantage of this dish is that it's very easy to make and won't take you a long time to prepare.

age: above 10 months

Ingredients:

- 2 ounces or 50 g of cooked rice

- 0.5 ounces / 15 g of shrimp meat cut into small pieces

- 0.5 ounces / 15 g of carrots cut into small pieces

- 0.5 ounces / 15 g of cucumber cut into small pieces

- 0.2 ounces / 5 g of Chinese black fungus (already soaked in water and ready to use) cut into small pieces. I like to use Havista Dried Mushrooms for this dish. They add a great and unique flavor.

- one beaten egg 

- some cooking oi

How to cook:

1. Put cooking oil into wok, use medium heat to heat it up

2. Add shrimps, stir fry until the color is changed, then add carrot and black fungus pieces, continue to stir fry until carrot pieces are soft

3. Add cooked rice, continue to stir fry for 2 minutes, then add cucumber pieces and beaten egg, stir fry until cucumbers are soft

4. Enjoy!

2. Colorful rice balls

Another tasty rice dish that blends different flavors! This time it's rice combined with shrimp, egg and spinach. Spinach contains a lot of iron and vitamins while the egg and the shrimps provide a good amount of proteins. Shaping everything into small rice balls makes this dish perfect as a finger food for your baby. The different taste and color of each rice ball allow your child to experience this food in a very exciting way.


age: above 10 months

Ingredients:

- a small bowl of cooked rice (soft)

- 1 ounce or 25 g of cooked shrimp meat, cut into small piece

- 0.5 ounces / 15 g of spinach leaves cooked in water and cut into small pieces

- one cooked egg yolk, use spoon to press it into mashed consistency

- a few drops of sesame oil

- a little bit of roasted seaweed (optional, only for decoration)

How to cook:

1. Mix sesame oil together with cooked rice

2. Divide rice equally into 3 portions

3. Mix the 1st portion of rice with shrimps meat

4. Then use your hand to make the mixture into a ball

5. Mix the 2nd portion with spinach, repeat step 4

6. Mix the 3rd portion with egg yolk, repeat step 4

7. The size of the rice ball depends on which is easy for your baby to eat

8. Enjoy!

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Chicken recipes for baby

Chicken and cucumber porridge 

Once your baby reaches an age of 8 months you can add new kinds of food to its diet. Most babies love to eat meat  and with chicken recipes for baby like this one your baby will be able to explore some new tastes.

age: above 8 months (when your baby can eat finger food)

Ingredients:

- 3-4 teaspoons / 50g of Rice. My all time favorite is Rice Select's Jasmati Rice. It offers a very nice flavor and wonderful light texture.

- water about 1.5 cups / 400ml (depending on the type of rice you are using, some rice needs more water and some needs less)

- chicken breast chopped into cubes 1.5-2 ounces / 50g

- cucumber chopped into cubes 1.5-2 ounces / 50g

- Some drops of Sesame Oil. I love to use La Tourangelle Toasted Sesame Oil. This Sesame Oil has an exquisite flavor, high quality and a very good price.

How to cook:

1. Cook rice using a rice cooker or pot. When using a Rice Cooker use the slow cooking option. As with my other recipes I recommend you to give Aroma's 8-Cup Rice Cooker a try. It is very easy to use: Put rice in, add water, turn on, wait, enjoy your rice! Some rice cookers have a “porridge” option. The rice will take around 1-2 hours until it is cooked.

2. Add the chicken breast cubes (see first picture) after the rice has been cooked 20-30 minutes, stir to make them mixed evenly with the rice

Cucumber cubes

3. when the porridge is ready, add cucumber cubes, cook on low heat and then stir constantly for about 5 minutes until the cucumber is soft enough for baby to gum

4. Add 2-3 drops of toasted sesame oil (optional)

The final result!

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