Knowing beautiful and tasty pasta recipes for children, a mother can always whet her child’s appetite. He will not be able to resist such a dish. Pasta is a filling and healthy food. They come in different varieties, shapes, colors, so the dish ideas are not limited. Some serve them on their own, others as a side dish. By learning a few new pasta recipes for children, you will surprise your child. It's not often you see such beauty for lunch or dinner. Every time you can cook something new and please your child.
Pasta with creamy spinach sauce
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Ingredients:
- Penne – 250 g
- Spinach – 250 g
- Cream 20% – 200 ml
- Parmesan – 50-70 g
- Cherry tomatoes – 3 pcs.
How to cook?
Boil the pasta until tender, after salting the water, rinse the spinach thoroughly and dry, grate the cheese on a fine grater. Place the spinach in a preheated frying pan, pour in the cream and simmer over medium heat for 5 minutes. Salt the sauce to taste and add to the prepared penne. Stir and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and cherry tomatoes before serving.
What delicious pasta dishes can you prepare for your child? After all, not every child eats willingly. Many begin to be capricious and refuse to eat. There are many recipes for pasta dishes and you can choose the one that you like best.
I want to offer you some simple but very tasty recipes for pasta dishes. Try making pasta with baked vegetables. To prepare, we will need these ingredients: fusilli or penne - 0.6 kg, freshly ground black pepper, sweet pepper, yellow and red - three pieces, salt, large eggplants - two pieces, extra virgin olive oil, one zucchini large size, Juice and zest of half a lemon, five cloves of garlic, one large bunch of parsley.
1. Cut the eggplant lengthwise into very thin slices, sprinkle with salt and leave for twenty minutes, then wash off the salt. We also cut the zucchini thinly. Remove the stems and core of the pepper and cut lengthwise into thick strips.
2. Grease strips of eggplant, zucchini and peppers with olive oil, place on a rack lined with foil and place in the center of an oven preheated to one hundred and eighty degrees, turning on the grill. Turn over a couple of times. Bake until soft, about twenty minutes.
3. Place a pot of water over high heat, bring to a boil, add salt to taste, add pasta and cook until done. Chop the garlic and parsley leaves. Pour about 6 tablespoons of oil into the pan, add the garlic and cook over medium heat for two minutes. Next, add a little black pepper and parsley, stir and remove from heat.
4. Place the finished peppers in a bag for seven minutes and then remove the skin. Place the baked vegetables on a board and then roughly chop them using a heavy knife.
5. Place the chopped vegetables in a frying pan with garlic and parsley, add salt, mix and heat.
6. Place the finished pasta in a colander, shake and add to the pan with the sauce. After this, mix and carefully place on heated plates. Serve immediately.
Here's another recipe - spaghetti with black olive dressing. For cooking you need these products: spaghetti - 0.3 kg, freshly ground black pepper, a mixture of olives and pitted olives - one jar, salt, garlic - two cloves, olive oil, green onions - one large bunch, pine nuts - one handful.
1. Place the olives and olives in a colander. Remove pits from olives and olives.
2. Thinly slice the green onions. Peel and finely chop the garlic. Pour five tablespoons of oil into the pan, add garlic and onion. Fry everything over medium heat, stirring, for one minute.
3. Place the onion with garlic and oil in a blender, add olives and olives, pour in brine or olive oil. Beat into a coarse paste.
4. Cook spaghetti in a saucepan of boiling water, salted to taste. At the same time, fry the pine nuts in a dry frying pan, shaking, for about one minute.
5. Place the pasta in a colander, reserving two tablespoons of the broth. Pour the broth into the olive paste and mix. Place the finished spaghetti on plates, top with sauce and sprinkle with nuts. Bon appetit!
Pasta with green peas
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Ingredients:
- Spaghetti – 200 g
- Frozen green peas – 200 g
- Onion – 1 pc.
- Garlic – 1 clove
- Walnut – 8 pcs
- Soft goat cheese – 6 tbsp. l.
- Olive oil – 1 tbsp. l.
How to cook?
Boil the spaghetti in salted water, dice the onion, chop the garlic cloves and walnuts. Fry the onion and garlic in olive oil, then add the cream and green peas, mix thoroughly and reduce the heat to low immediately after the sauce has boiled. Simmer for 5 minutes until the sauce thickens, add salt. Puree the finished sauce, but not until smooth, then add cheese and spaghetti. Sprinkle with walnuts and serve.
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Pasta with zucchini and tomatoes
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Ingredients:
- Tomatoes – 3 pcs.
- Zucchini or zucchini – 75 g
- Pasta – 25 g
- Butter – 25 g
- Cheese of your choice – 25 g
How to cook?
Boil the pasta, scald the tomatoes and peel them, remove the seeds, then cut into small cubes. Wash and cut the zucchini into cubes and simmer in butter for 5 minutes, then reduce the heat to low and add the tomatoes with grated cheese, as well as a little salt. Stir until the cheese is completely melted, then beat the sauce with a blender until smooth and add to the pasta.
Pasta with fish cutlets
Ingredients
- 2 pieces of stale bread without crust
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 500 g white fish fillet
- grated zest of 1 lemon
- 3 tablespoons finely chopped dill and parsley
- 2 tablespoons chopped green onions
- 3 slices white bread without crust
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 eggs
- 500 g pasta (shells or curls)
- salt to taste
Cooking steps
- Wash the fish and cut into pieces. Grind the fish and fresh bread in a blender into a homogeneous mass. Add one egg, salt and beat well.
Prepare the breading.
- Grind the stale bread in a blender into coarse crumbs. Continuing to whisk, add lemon zest, dill, green onions, parsley and a pinch of salt.
Cooking cutlets
- Divide the resulting minced meat into 6 equal parts and shape them into fish-shaped cutlets. Preheat the oven to 200'C.
- Beat the remaining egg in a shallow bowl. Carefully dredge each cutlet in flour, shake off excess and dip first in egg and then in prepared breading.
- Grease a baking tray with oil and place the cutlets on it. Drizzle with remaining oil and bake for 7 minutes, flip with a spatula to the other side and return to the oven for another 7 minutes.
- Boil shells according to package instructions. Melt the butter. Place a pile of shells on a dish and pour over melted butter. Arrange the “fish”. Sprinkle with herbs.
Pasta with broccoli
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Ingredients:
- Broccoli – 1 kg
- Olive oil – 4 tbsp. l.
- Bows paste – 400 g
- Cream
How to cook?
Wash the broccoli and separate into florets. Boil the pasta and 5 minutes before it is ready, add the broccoli to the pan. Heat olive oil in a large frying pan, add broccoli pasta and cream. When the cream boils, reduce the heat and stir until the sauce thickens. Sprinkle with cheese.
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Pasta for children: at what age can it be given?
Due to the popularity of pasta, manufacturers have come up with children's pasta. They are more tender and therefore better absorbed. It is easier for a child to chew them. Carefully read the packaging to see what age they are intended for. For example, there is vermicelli for children, which can be given from ten months, and “pasta” from 1.5 years. Some children may be allergic to the product, so give your child one teaspoon first. It is better to carry out the first test in the morning to track the child’s reaction to new food.
At what age are adult pasta given to children?
It is better to postpone getting to know them until 2 years. Then the baby’s gastrointestinal function will normalize, and teeth will grow for chewing solid food. Pasta made from durum wheat is considered the healthiest. In addition to vitamins and beneficial minerals, they contain fiber. These fibers cleanse the intestines and stimulate the gastrointestinal tract.
Tagliatelle with chicken fillet and cherry tomatoes
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Ingredients:
- Tagliatelle – 2 nests
- Parmesan – 40 g
- Chicken fillet – 1 piece
- Cherry tomatoes – 200 g
- Olive oil – 2 tbsp. l.
How to cook?
Cut the pre-washed chicken fillet into small cubes and fry in olive oil. Cut the tomatoes into halves and fry with the chicken for 2-3 minutes, add salt. Add boiled pasta to the cherry chicken, stir and sprinkle with Parmesan.
Nuances of preparing milk soup
Before moving on to the recipes for various milk soups, you need to understand some cooking tricks. Properly prepared soup is a guarantee that your child will eat it with pleasure.
You can take three milk options as a basis:
- whole;
- dry;
- condensed.
As for the first option, it is added during the cooking process. Powdered milk must first be diluted in a small volume of water until the consistency of sour cream is obtained, then add the rest of the water. The amount of milk powder and water is taken in a ratio of 50 g. product per 1 liter of water. In the latter version, this ratio is 2 tbsp. for 1 glass of water. The resulting solution is brought to a boil.
Typically, milk soups are prepared with the addition of vegetables, flour products or cereals. In the case when the soup is prepared exclusively with milk without water, then all its components must be cooked separately, until half cooked. Only after this can you add them to the soup.
To prepare this dish, thick-bottomed pans are ideal, which should be rinsed with cold water before starting cooking. This will prevent the soup from burning. It should always be cooked over low heat.
Milk is the basis for children's soup. If it is too greasy, the product can be diluted with water
A separate important nuance in the preparation of not only milk soups, but also all other dishes intended for children of the first year of life is the minimal use of sugar and salt. To avoid making mistakes when adding these substances in their pure form, baby nutrition experts recommend using their aqueous solutions.
Saline solution
To prepare the saline solution you will need 25 g. salt and half a glass of water. Salt is poured into hot water and brought to a boil. The salt should completely dissolve. This usually takes about 10 minutes.
After the solution is ready, it should be filtered using gauze folded in several layers and lined with sterile cotton wool. The next step is to obtain the original volume by adding boiling water to the solution. Next, boil the solution again. Pour the prepared saline solution into a sterile container with a closing sterile lid. It is added to food in the proportion of 1 teaspoon, which corresponds to 3 grams, per 200 grams of food.
Aqueous sugar solution
Sugar is not the best product for feeding a child, so it should be used as little as possible. A convenient option is to prepare an aqueous solution
Pasta with eggplant
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Ingredients:
- Tagliatelle – 200 g
- Eggplants - 1 piece
- Tomatoes - 1 pc.
- Cheese of your choice
How to cook?
Boil the tagliatelle, chop the eggplant and fry in olive oil until translucent. Add diced tomato to them and simmer until tender, add salt. Add vegetable filling to pasta. Sprinkle with grated cheese and serve.
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The benefits of pasta with vegetables for children
- Pasta is made from premium wheat flour and water. As you know, the beneficial properties of grain are found in its shell. But when grain is converted into flour, it loses its shell, and along with it, its beneficial properties are lost. Thus, pasta has very little protein and fat, but a lot of easily digestible carbohydrates, which make the product very high in calories.
Pasta is not recommended for children with excess body weight and diabetes.
- Pasta contains gluten , which is not tolerated by all people. If your baby is gluten intolerant, he should not eat pasta.
- It turns out that from the point of view of a healthy diet, pasta has very little benefit.
- But if you add meat or vegetables to them, the dish becomes not only more beautiful, more aromatic and attractive, but also much healthier. The specific amount of vegetables and meat in the finished dish is approximately equal, which means that the benefits of the dish become noticeable.
- It will be determined by the vegetables you add to the pasta. But whatever your choice, all vegetables without exception contain vitamins that strengthen the immune system and have a good effect on the condition of the skin. Minerals, which are found in almost all vegetables, have a beneficial effect on hematopoiesis, the skeletal system, strengthen teeth, and prevent the appearance of edema.
- The meat in the dish is a source of protein and a supplier of iron and vitamin D necessary for the body.
- In addition, pasta is beautiful in appearance and comes in a wide variety of shapes. They are soft and easy to chew. Well, their undeniable advantage is that they prepare very quickly.
Spaghetti with cheese sauce
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Ingredients:
- Cream - 200 ml
- Hard cheese, several types available - 150 g
- Peeled walnuts - 15 g
How to cook?
Boil the spaghetti. Grate the cheese and nuts into a separate container. Place the cream on the fire, add the grated cheese and nuts and stir until thickened. Add the sauce to the pasta and mix thoroughly.
Spaghetti with veal and vegetables
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Ingredients:
- Veal – 400 g
- Spaghetti – 200 g
- Tomatoes – 200 g
- Bell pepper – 2 pcs.
- Soy sauce – 50 g
How to cook?
Cut the veal into small cubes and fry in olive oil. Cut the tomatoes and peppers into thin strips and add to the veal. Add soy sauce and simmer until done. Add the meat filling to the prepared spaghetti and sprinkle with grated cheese if desired.
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Pasta with nut sauce
Ingredients
- 200 g pasta of any shape
- 100 g shelled walnuts
- 150 ml cream (10%)
- 1 clove chasnok
- fresh parsley
- salt and pepper to taste
Cooking steps
- Boil the pasta as directed on the package. Chop nuts, chives and parsley.
- Beat together with the cream in a blender for 1-2 minutes, then heat the mixture over low heat. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Pour sauce over cooked pasta and garnish with parsley leaves.
Seal
Quick pasta with chicken
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Ingredients:
- Spaghetti or penne – 250 g
- Tomatoes – 2 pcs.
- Basil – 1 small bunch
- Chicken fillet – 1 piece
- Olive oil
How to cook?
Boil the pasta, cut the tomatoes and fry in olive oil. Add finely chopped basil and chicken fillet, cut into small cubes, salt, then simmer under the lid until the meat is cooked. Add the finished pasta to the meat filling and mix, then leave on low heat under the lid for another 1 minute.
Shrimp pasta
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Ingredients:
- Spaghetti – 200 g
- Butter – 25 g
- Peeled shrimp – 200 g
- Lemon juice – 1 tbsp. l.
- Cream
How to cook?
Boil the pasta, meanwhile melt the butter over medium heat and fry the shrimp. Add lemon juice to the shrimp, then cream and salt, let the sauce thicken, then add the finished pasta to the pan and mix thoroughly.
A real baron, he eats a lot of pasta
Or maybe he doesn’t, but most children love pasta dishes.
- The “curly” ball will become the body of a fluffy sheep, and the face and legs will be made from ham. A bright bird in the sky will be made from carrots. The sun can be made from a rolled up slice of cheese or pancakes. For night sky lovers, top with star pasta.
- Twitty the chicken from the cartoon has come to visit you. Lay out the bird shape from thin noodles or boiled and then fried vermicelli. Make a border of greenery. Complete the dish with a couple of fried dumplings. A hearty recipe made from pasta and additional ingredients for children.
- We have already written about @bentomonsters, who creates such masterpieces for her sons. If your child likes boiled eggs, you can use them. Cut the egg in half and place the slices like eyes.
- SpongeBob, who lives at the bottom of an ocean of “shells.” Place the friendly face on a plate of goulash or pasta. 2 types of cheese will come in handy: white - for the eyes, yellow - for the cheeks and nose. Pupils, eyelashes and a smile made from thinly sliced seaweed.
- You can decorate round cutlets with “bows”. You will get elegant girls. We make the eyes and smile from black caviar; it can be replaced with “caviar” from kelp. We cut out dresses from slices of sausage or fish. Squid or cucumber hands.
- A nest for cutlet owls, they can also be made from eggs. We make the tree from slices of carrots, pea pods or beans. Improvise, cut the moon out of cheese or lemon. You can squeeze a little juice out of it, which will give the spaghetti a special taste.
- An easy and quick pasta recipe for kids. Golden-haired princess. Let's make a face out of rice. For satiety, you can put an omelette under the lettuce leaves. To create such a composition you will need 2 types of pasta: spirals and bows.
- Unusual hairstyles made from pasta from food artist @leesamantha. The heroine from the cartoon "Brave" is easy to make. Algae mantle. Prepare the spiral pasta in the sauce.
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