Chicken Porridge For Baby Celery And Carrot Style
Chicken porridge for baby is rich in nutrition and delicious in taste that is very suitable for babies over 12 months old. If you are not live in China, maybe you have not heard about the congee. We think the porridge doesn’t have a big difference with congee. Those are the same cooking methods but use different words to distinguish where they are from. Anyway, we should take more attention to the recipe but not the name.
Rice Congee
There are many chicken porridge or chicken congee in the world. But most of them can’t be eaten by the babies. That’s why we provide this recipe for you to help you to cook this delicious baby porridge.
This porridge can allow babies to take in a variety of nutrients for their growth and development. This Chinese baby food is fragrant, sticky, and delicious. You can eat it too if you like it.
If we want to cook a pot of good rice porridge with a unique taste, we must cook a great foundational porridge firstly. The most important thing to cook the foundational porridge is that we should make sure the porridge to be crystal clear and full, thick and thin moderate. With this as the basis, we can set off the nutrition and delicious ingredients of other porridge. As the saying goes, cooking porridge is not hard but it needs more stirring. This means that when we cook the foundational porridge, we must remember to keep stirring when we use the big fire to cook. When turning to the small fire, don’t stir it anymore. We should cook it until the rice is soft glutinous sticky.
If you like to watch the detailed porridge recipe for baby, you can watch our youtube video below.
How To Make Chicken Porridge For Baby
Step 1: Prepare Chicken Breast
Firstly, we should prepare 80g chicken breast for this porridge. Finely chop the chicken breast. We should try our best to do that. If you have the meat grinder, grinder it into a chicken paste will be better. Then put them into the bowl. Add 1 teaspoon corn starch, 1 teaspoon olive oil into the bowl. Stir them evenly. Then save them for later.
Prepare Chicken Breast
Step 2: Prepare Ingredients
Next, we should prepare other ingredients. Finely mince 40g celery. Then save them for later. Peel a carrot. Then grind 30g carrot. Then save them for later.
Prepare Ingredients
Step 3: Cook Chicken Porridge
Now we can start to cook this chicken porridge. Wash 30g of rice and then put them into the pot. Then add about 600ml water into the pot. Use big fire to heat them. After the water has boiled, use a small fire to cook it for 20 minutes.
Cook Chicken Porridge
Then add chicken breast into the pot. Stir them evenly. We should stir them from time to time while it’s cooking. After 20 minutes, if the porridge is thick, add celery, carrot into the pot. Stir them evenly. Then use a small fire to cook it for 10 minutes. After that, you can add 1/4 teaspoon salt into the pot. The chicken porridge is only suitable for babies over 12 months old. Less salt for the baby will be better.
Chicken Porridge For Baby
This chicken porridge for baby can only be used as supplementary food, not the staple food. Baby’s staple food is still mainly milk food. The baby should not eat the rice congee without any meat ingredients that lack animal protein which is essential for baby growth.
FAQ About Chicken Porridge Recipe
Which Porridge Is Best For A Baby?
Simple rice porridge is not a nutritious food for babies and is not recommended for infants and young children to eat for a long time. So we should choose the coarse cereal porridge, meat porridge(the meat should be cut up enough). Meat is an essential ingredient for babies and is rich in iron and high quality protein. We can use chicken, pork, fish, beef, etc.
Can I Keep Porridge Overnight For Baby?
It is not recommended to give overnight food to the baby. Overnight food is not nutritious and can breed bacteria if it is not kept well. Even you put it in the refrigerator, it is still not a good idea to do that. It’s best to give young children freshly cooked food. Many nutrients are destroyed when food is repeatedly heated and it is not conducive to the absorption of nutrients if the baby ate it.
Can I Eat This Porridge?
Of course, just enjoy it.
We also have many Chinese porridge recipes for you. You can try coarse grain chicken porridge, warm stomach shrimp porridge, rice and lily rice porridge. If you want more congee recipes, you can search them on our website. If you have any problems with this recipe, please let me know below.
Chicken Porridge For Baby
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Ingredients(affiliate link)
- 80 g chicken breast
- 1 teaspoon corn starch
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 40 g celery
- 30 g carrot
- 30 g rice
- ¼ teaspoon salt You can start without salt
Instructions
- Firstly, we should prepare 80g chicken breast for this porridge. Finely chop the chicken breast. We should try our best to do that. If you have the meat grinder, grinder it into a chicken paste will be better. Then put them into the bowl. Add 1 teaspoon corn starch, 1 teaspoon olive oil into the bowl. Stir them evenly. Then save them for later.
- Next, we should prepare other ingredients. Finely mince 40g celery. Then save them for later. Peel a carrot. Then grind 30g carrot. Then save them for later.
- Now we can start to cook this chicken porridge. Wash 30g of rice and then put them into the pot. Then add about 600ml water into the pot. Use big fire to heat them. After the water has boiled, use a small fire to cook it for 20 minutes. Then add chicken breast into the pot. Stir them evenly. We should stir them from time to time while it's cooking. After 20 minutes, if the porridge is thick, add celery, carrot into the pot. Stir them evenly. Then use a small fire to cook it for 10 minutes. After that, you can add 1/4 teaspoon salt into the pot. The chicken porridge is only suitable for babies over 12 months old. Less salt for the baby will be better. This chicken porridge is rich in nutrition and delicious in taste. It can allow babies to take in a variety of nutrients for their growth and development. You can eat it too if you like it. Hope you can try it at home.
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