Beef meatballs for a 1 year old child recipes

Prepared by: Dasha Petrova

12/30/2014 Cooking time: 40 min

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I’m sure even novice housewives can handle this simple recipe for beef meatballs for a child. The dish turns out very tasty and satisfying - both adults and little gourmets will love it!

Beef meatballs with milk sauce

Protein-rich meat is not only necessary for a growing child’s body, but also beneficial. Meat contains vitamins, iron, amino acids, and phosphorus.

What and when to introduce meat first, each mother must decide for herself, because each baby is individual. Rabbit and turkey meat are considered the most hypoallergenic. Then comes beef, veal (some experts believe the opposite) and chicken.

By the age of one year, the baby already happily eats not just pureed meat, but also other meat dishes. And even older ones make these meatballs with milk sauce.

How to make delicious and juicy turkey meatballs for children?

The benefits of turkey in children's diet
Steamed meatballs with rice
Tender meatballs in a slow cooker
Boiled meatballs
Meatball soup for little ones
Meatballs in creamy sauce
Baby meatballs with delicate gravy

Turkey is ideal as the first meat food for 1-year-old children. This bird requires high-quality food and similar housing conditions. Therefore, its meat is of high quality and healthy composition. In addition, it is dietary, does not contain cholesterol and is not allergenic. Such indicators allow us to consider it the most suitable for a children's menu.

Steaming

For a 1 year old baby, you can prepare this dish in a double boiler or in a steam bath. For this recipe we will use chicken. So you will need:

fillet – one hundred grams;
two tbsp. spoons of cottage cheese;
one egg (chicken);
teaspoon butter;
salt.

Grind the meat in a meat grinder.
Beat an egg into the minced meat and add the remaining ingredients. Mix everything thoroughly.
Forming meatballs.
The products are sent to the steamer. Readiness is checked by testing, no earlier than after twenty-five minutes.

Now you know how and how much to cook meatballs for toddlers. Don’t forget that the cooking time is directly affected by the type of meat used, the cooking method (boiled, steamed or in a slow cooker) and the size of the balls. Treat your little one with meatballs as an addition to porridge or puree, or add them to children's soup.

The benefits of turkey in children's diet

It is best for a child's stomach to digest and assimilate ground meat. Tender turkey meatballs always turn out soft and juicy. Poultry breast, which is free of fat and bones, is suitable for their preparation. They are easy to prepare and, most importantly, quick, which is important for busy young parents.

The greatest benefits are retained in the steamed product.

But both boiled and oven-baked meat balls will appeal to kids and adults. It’s worth taking note of the best children’s recipes for kids and preparing them only the healthiest dishes from minced meat.

Tender meatballs in a slow cooker

500 g ground turkey;
carrot;
zucchini;
150 g rice cereal;
parmesan cheese;
olive oil.

Step by step recipe

Grind thoroughly washed fresh turkey fillet into minced meat. Add grated carrots and chopped zucchini to lean ground meat.
Rinse and boil the rice, and then add it to the minced meat. Stir the products until smooth and form small round pieces from it.
Grease the inside of the multi-pan with olive oil, not forgetting the sides.

If you don’t want to add fat at all, you can place scalded cabbage leaves on the bottom.

Cook the meatballs on the “Stew” option for 30 minutes. Afterwards, leave them to warm up in the bowl of the device for another 10 minutes.

Boiled meatballs

300 g minced turkey fillet;
carrot;
half an onion;
quail eggs – 2 pcs.;
semolina.

Cooking process

Finely grate the carrots and chop half the onion with a knife or in a blender.
Add vegetables to minced meat. If it turns out liquid, then just add one egg.
Roll the resulting mass into small balls (about 2 cm in diameter).
Roll the pieces in semolina so that they keep their shape and do not stick to your hands.
Boil water in a saucepan. As soon as the liquid boils, add the meatballs and cook until tender (about 20 minutes at moderate boil). You can add greens to the water.

Recipes

Vegetable soup with turkey meatballs

water - 500 ml;
broccoli or cauliflower - 100 g;
potatoes - 1 small;
onions - 1 pc. (half for meatballs);
carrots - 0.5 pcs.;
turkey - 100 g;
quail egg - 1 pc.;
salt - at mother's discretion;
dill - 10 g.

Wash thoroughly and cut the turkey meat into pieces.
We pass through a meat grinder several times.
Mix the resulting minced meat with an egg and half a finely chopped onion. Mix the minced meat and form small meatballs.
Potatoes, carrots, broccoli or cauliflower, peel half the onion, wash and cut into cubes. We separate the cabbage into small inflorescences.
Place in boiling water and cook for about 15 minutes.
Place the meatballs, pre-boiled until half cooked, into the vegetable broth. Cook for another 10 minutes.
Wash the dill, chop finely and add to the soup a minute before the end of cooking.

Children's soup with noodles and beef meatballs

water - 500 ml;
potatoes - 1 medium piece;
carrots – 0.5 pcs.;
lean beef or veal – 200 g;
onion - 1 (half for minced meat);
quail egg - 1 pc.;
pasta or homemade noodles - 80 g;
salt - depending on age;
dill.

Soak the beef, rinse thoroughly, remove tendons, and cut across the grain into small pieces. Grind several times in a meat grinder or food processor.
Add half a finely chopped onion and an egg.
Mix the minced meat thoroughly and form small meatballs no larger than a walnut.
Place the semi-finished product in boiling water, cook for 5 minutes, remove the meat products.
Pour in a new portion of water, bring to a boil, and add the beef meatballs again. Cook for 5 minutes.
Wash and chop the potatoes, carrots, and onions thoroughly. Put it in the soup. Cook for another 10 minutes.
Add pasta and cook until done. You can see the recipe for homemade noodles and cooking time.
Add some salt to the soup depending on the baby’s age, add dill, cook for another 1 minute.

Light soup with rabbit meatballs and semolina

rabbit meat – 100 g;
quail egg yolk - 2 pcs.;
onion - 0.5 small heads;
semolina – 3 tsp;
salt;
dill.

Wash the rabbit meat thoroughly, cut into cubes and chop. Add chopped onion and yolks. Mix and form small meatballs.
Boil in water for about 5 minutes, remove and place in a new portion of boiling water, in which the soup will be cooked. Cook for another 15 minutes.
Add semolina in a thin stream, stirring so that no lumps form.
A minute before the end of cooking, add finely chopped dill.
Cool and serve to the child for testing.

Colorful soup with chicken meatballs and rice for children

chicken pulp - 200 g;
quail egg – 1;
rice (thoroughly washed, also subjected to a soaking procedure) - 100 g;
small onion – 2 pcs.;
small carrots - 0.5 pcs.;
broccoli - 100 g;
dill - 10 g;
salt.

We thoroughly wash the chicken meat, cut it into cubes, and grind it in a meat grinder or food processor.
Add an egg (or yolk if you have allergies) and finely diced onion (you can grate it or chop it in a blender). Mix everything.
Make meatballs and place on a cutting board.
Wash the vegetables, peel them, cut them into cubes or grate them.
Divide the broccoli into florets, remove coarse fibers, and cut into small pieces.
Place potatoes, onions and carrots in boiling water in one saucepan. In another, boil the meatballs for about 5 minutes, remove from the water.
Add rice, broccoli and meatballs to the vegetable broth and cook for another 15 minutes.
Add finely chopped dill and cool.

Meatballs with gravy and mashed potatoes just like in kindergarten

pork and beef 50/50–300 g;
onion – 0.5 pcs.;
sour cream – 20 ml;
flour – 1 tbsp. l.;
water – 100 ml;
salt.

We wash the meat, remove the tendons and films, and grind it in a meat grinder several times along with the onion.
Form small meatballs the size of a walnut.
Simmer in water or vegetable broth in a frying pan with a lid for about 20 minutes or cook in a slow cooker.
Mix flour with sour cream, paying attention to any lumps that form. Pour into the frying pan with meatballs, continue simmering for about 10 minutes under a tightly closed lid over low heat.
As a side dish, prepare mashed potatoes or steamed vegetables.

Meatballs and steamed cutlets are considered a kind of transitional food for children between pureed complementary foods and adult food. On the one hand, gentle cooking does not subject the baby’s stomach to excessive stress. On the other hand, the consistency of the product allows the baby to quickly master the skill of chewing. Moreover, such a meat product attracts the child’s attention and arouses interest. And the taste of the dish leaves few kids indifferent.

Children's nutrition should be varied and healthy so that the child grows up healthy. Every time, preparing another portion for their child, mothers try to make it not only tasty, but also in such a way that even the most capricious kids do not refuse food. Today we will tell you a few secrets for preparing meatballs for the children's menu.

How to cook meatballs for a child?

Meatballs for children under one year of age are best prepared from lean and dietary meat. Turkey or rabbit pulp is suitable for this. Starting from the age of one year, meatballs for a child can already be made from lean beef or pork, as well as from veal or chicken.

Starting from the age of two, dishes with fish balls are prepared for children. If a child does not like the overly pronounced taste of fish, such meatballs can be added to soup, then some of the flavor is lost.

For young children, it is best to form meatballs from boiled meat, since today it is impossible to be completely sure that it does not contain traces of hormonal drugs or antibiotics. During cooking, all unnecessary substances, if any, go into the broth. The broth itself should not be given to children.

Turkey Meatball Soup

Turkey Meatball Soup for Kids takes a little time to make. In addition, due to the vegetables and lean meat, the soup is very healthy for a small child.

Ingredients:

turkey meat – 100 g;
potatoes – 2 pcs.;
onion – 1 pc.;
carrots – 2 pcs.;
quail egg - 2 pcs., can be replaced with half a chicken egg;
salt, bay leaf;
garlic (optional).

Preparation

Wash the turkey meat and place it in a pan with water. After boiling, boil for half an hour. Meanwhile, put a second pan of water on the fire. You need about 700 ml of water. Peel and cut into cubes potatoes, carrots, onions and garlic. When the pot of water boils, add the onions and carrots. After boiling again, cook the vegetables for another 10 minutes and add the potatoes and garlic. Cook all the vegetables for another 20 minutes.

We take the cooked turkey meat out of the broth and pass it through a meat grinder 2 times or grind it with a blender. Add eggs to the meat and form meatballs. Here you can show your imagination and mold interesting shapes out of meatballs to make it more interesting for your baby to eat.

Place the meatballs in a pan with vegetables when the potatoes are cooked. After the meatballs float to the surface, cook the soup for another two minutes, salt it and, if desired, add a bay leaf to the soup.

Steamed meatballs

Steamed meatballs for children can be made from chicken or any other meat, as well as fish.

Ingredients:

Preparation

We pass the chicken meat through a meat grinder twice. Beat the egg into the resulting mass and add all the other ingredients, mixing them well. From the resulting minced meat we form meatballs and steam them until cooked.

These meatballs can be added to vegetable broth or served as a separate dish. Also, meatballs prepared in this way can be additionally placed in the oven for 20 minutes, after pouring them with milk sauce and sprinkling with grated cheese.

Many kids don't like meat! Of course, you have to chew it! If your baby doesn’t eat meat precisely for this reason, then meatball soup will help you out great. It cooks much faster than regular meat soups, and your baby will surely like it. I indicated the amount of ingredients for the soup for the whole family, because not only children, but also adults love this soup. We put water in a saucepan on the fire and deal with the potatoes - peel, wash, cut into medium cubes or small cubes (depending on how small your children are). When the water boils, throw the potatoes into the pan.

Three carrots on a fine grater. And cut the onion as finely as possible. I do not fry onions and carrots if children will eat the soup. When the potatoes boil, add carrots and onions.

Now it's time for the meatballs. They can be made from any minced meat (beef, chicken, turkey, etc.). But it’s better not to include pork in the diet of young children; they overinject it with antibiotics, and you don’t want health problems for your own children, do you? I make the minced meat myself. I don’t use store-bought minced meat. I immediately make and freeze cutlets and meatballs from minced meat. I freeze the meatballs on a board covered with a bag so they don’t stick together, and then put them in a bag. Throw the meatballs into the soup one at a time to prevent them from sticking together. Now throw the noodles into the water. I break it smaller. After the meatballs float to the surface, cook for another 7-10 minutes.

Turn off the stove. Add salt to taste to the soup (I don’t add salt to children’s soups) and any greens in any quantity.

Meatball soup for little ones

This recipe calls for frying, but it won't be cooked traditionally. The vegetables just need to be simmered in a frying pan in a drop of olive oil with added water.

Required ingredients:

ground turkey;
leek;
carrot;
bell pepper;
potato;
olive oil.

Cooking instructions

Prepare leeks, carrots and bell peppers by simmering over low heat. All vegetables should be chopped finely.
Boil water in a small saucepan and cook meat balls rolled from ground turkey in it.
Immediately add the finely diced potatoes. Cook for 15 minutes. Afterwards, add the stewed vegetables to the broth and cook for another 5 minutes.

Spices in children's soup will be unnecessary. But vermicelli is not suitable for satiety.

You can sprinkle a small amount of small pasta along with the vegetables (towards the end of cooking the soup). This is done in order not to cook the vermicelli for a long time, otherwise it will boil and deprive the broth of its appetizing transparency.

Preparation

Even if you have ready-made minced meat, twist it at least one more time so that the meat is homogeneous and the meatballs are soft and tender. Add onion to the minced meat and grind (with a meat grinder or blender). Even if you are cooking for a baby, onions won’t hurt.

Cut off the crust from the pieces of bread, cut the crumb into small cubes, place in a bowl, into which beat the egg and pour in the milk. Stir until the bread cubes absorb liquid.

After this, add to the minced meat, which you grind again - this way the minced meat will be more homogeneous than if you just add and mash the crumb. Salt the finished minced meat and mix.

Grease a frying pan, wide saucepan or saucepan with butter. Make small (no larger than a walnut) meatballs from the minced meat and place in a bowl (place at a short distance from each other).

Pour water halfway up the meatballs.

Place over medium heat until the water boils. After this, cover with a lid, reduce the heat to low and cook for 7-10 minutes.

Make the sauce. Lightly toast the flour. Pour in the milk (preferably while it is hot), rubbing the flour thoroughly. You can remove the pan from the heat while pouring in the milk.

Add oil. Stir and let it boil while stirring constantly. Pour over meatballs. Simmer until the sauce thickens (7 minutes).

To serve, transfer the meatballs and strain the sauce. And although they are tasty and at room temperature, still feed your baby warm.

For children's meatballs, lean beef or veal is suitable. They will be tasty and more tender if you add a little (about a third) of minced chicken.

Instead of onions, you can use the white part of the leek, which has a milder taste.

Any soup is an important dish in children's nutrition. In fact, preparing a delicious soup for a 2-year-old child is not difficult, but still, in this article I would like to focus on a specific type of soup - with meatballs.

What and how to properly prepare meatballs for soup? Should I use fish or meat? What vegetables or other foods should I add? We will try to answer all these questions today.

Starting from about six months, puree soups and cream soups can be introduced into children’s diets. Then, when the baby begins to be accustomed to solid food, soups are boiled with pieces of vegetables so that the baby learns to chew. Meatball soup is allowed to be given to children from one and a half years old.