3 menus of fragrant clam porridge to help your babys appetite

Clam is a food with high nutritional value and deliciousness. Learning how to cook 3 dishes of clam porridge for babies in the weaning age or even babies over one year old is difficult to refuse because of the delicious taste and greasy taste.

How good is clam for baby food?

Studies show that, in 100g of clam meat contains 10.8g of protein; 1.6g of fat; many other trace elements such as zinc, iron, potassium, manganese, copper, iodine ... and vitamins B1, B6, B12 and vitamin C.

Feeding the baby clam is considered a very good nutritional supplement to help the child's body have more immune boosters. Nutrition in clam also participates in many metabolic processes of the body.

It is also a factor that helps in developing good height in children. Children who are teething should also eat clams because clams help their teeth become strong.

How old baby can I eat clams?

According to the Institute of Nutrition, protein in seafood in general as well as fish often cause allergies for children, so feeding your baby from the 7th month onwards is best. It is important to slowly adapt your baby to a little bit of food. For children with atopic risk, mothers need to be more cautious.

However, with shellfish such as: oysters, clams, mussels, clams ... they should be fed when they are 1 year old, using water to cook porridge, and minced meat. These seafood are high in zinc, a trace element that is important for children.

In case of cooking for babies under 1 year old, they should only eat a small amount. If the baby's body can absorb and no allergic reaction, can continue to feed the baby.

How to cook clam porridge for children 

1. Clam porridge with green beans

Material:

1kg of clams

100g of non-glutinous rice

100g of green beans

Bone broth (if not, replace it with 100g minced pork tenderloin)

Dried onion, scallion, seasoning (can add pepper and coriander if your baby can eat it)

Making: 

Wash clams, put in a pot of boiled water until clam mouth open. Take out the clams, decant the clear water to separate, wash the clam meat thoroughly, drain and then marinate with a little seasoning.

Pour clam water into the pot, add bone broth if available, about 4 times the amount of rice, the porridge will match.

Rice and green beans washed, soaked for 1 hour and then drained. Put the rice in the porridge pot, add 1 tablespoon of flour to season the porridge. All put in the rice cooker. Wait until the rice is boiling, then switch to the incubation button.

Non-aromatic dried onion in a pan with a little oil. Then add marinated clams to stir fry. Chopped clams or to pieces depending on the level of chewing and swallowing of the baby.

When the porridge is ripe, draw the porridge into a bowl, sprinkle with chopped vegetables, scallions, and clams on top and feed them.

2. Clam porridge with pumpkin

Material:

Clam: 1 kg

Rice: half a bowl

Ginger, pumpkin

Purple onion: 1-2 bulbs

Scallion + coriander + coriander

Spices to use: Fish sauce + salt + pepper

Making: 

Clean clams to drain, boil them to get water and then put them in a bowl to marinate with spices.

Scallion + coriander + coriander washed and chopped. Separately leave the white end of the green onion, crush it with a knife and then chop it into a separate bowl.

Add the dried onions to fry, then add the clams to fry until cooked and firm. Chopped, pureed or sliced, depending on how much your baby chew and swallow.

Porridge simmered with pumpkin.

Take the porridge into a bowl and feed the clams with some onions, laksa leaves, and pepper (if the baby can eat them) and feed them.

3. Clam porridge with fresh vegetables

Material:

300g raw clam

3 - 5 leaves

1 bowl of white porridge is enough for a baby's meal

Making: 

- Clam washed thoroughly, boiled to open, pick up the guts to remove the shell. Filter 1 bowl of water to boil clams. Clam guts clean the stool and chop it.

- Marinate clams with spices and then stir again.

- Washed spinach, finely chopped. Put fresh spinach in clam broth to boil for about 3 minutes, then add clam and porridge in the island to boil again.

- Scoop out a bowl to feed your baby.

In addition to the clam porridge for babies as above, mothers can flexibly combine ingredients for porridge and clam with other vegetables and fruits to enrich the menu for your baby to develop the best physical condition.

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