How to use carrots as supplementary food

The baby should accept some dietary arrangements in about four months, but it is not allowed to eat indiscriminately just after feeding the child. As children grow older, they begin to have teeth in about seven or eight months. At this time, he can feed the children some vegetables properly. Carrot complementary food is a delicious food with higher nutritional value. It needs to be steamed first, mashed into a paste, mixed with honey or sugar, and slowly fed to the baby.

Carrots are a very common complementary food in infant feeding. From 4 months, you can add carrot paste to your baby. On the one hand, it can supplement the nutrition needed by the baby's growth, on the other hand, it can let the baby try and adapt to new foods, laying a good foundation for the smooth transition to adult diet in the future.

Carrots can be made into honey carrot sauce. The method is as follows: 200g of fresh carrots, 25g of honey, 5g of butter15g and 2g of Jiang Mo are washed. Cut carrots into small pieces, put them in a pot with honey, butter, Jiang Mo and a little boiled water, stir well, cover and stew for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally during cooking until carrots are soft and boil. After the pot is taken out, it can be fed after a little cooling. The leftover carrot paste should be put in the refrigerator and eaten as soon as possible.

This dish is red in color, sweet and soft in taste and rich in nutrition, which is very suitable for babies to eat. It is rich in vitamin A- carotene, which is 360 times that of potatoes, 45 times that of apples and 23 times that of oranges. But also rich in carbohydrates, protein, calcium and iron, vitamin B 1, B2 and vitamin C.

At present, vegetable pastes such as nutritious rice flour and carrot paste specially made for babies can be found in the market, which can be eaten according to the needs of babies.

Carrot food for big babies

For older babies, there are many dishes that can be cooked with carrots. Some babies don't like carrots because they have a special taste. Adults can think of some ways to make carrots more acceptable to babies by improving cooking methods.

For example, cooking shredded carrots with vinegar means shredding carrots, heating shredded ginger in a wok, frying shredded carrots, adding balsamic vinegar, mixing well, adding a little sugar and monosodium glutamate, and then cooking. This dish tastes slightly sour and sweet, which can better remove the taste of carrots themselves and is easy for babies to accept.