It's February, and winter is still in the air. Winter cold breeze and hot steaming soup, yummy combination ๐. Everyone loves to have soup, especially in winter because hot soup always boosts up energy and gives warmth.
Soups are nutritious, healthy, and easily digestible for babies, toddlers, and big children. Soup is one form of meal where you can feed many vegetables to your kids as well as adults.
HEALTH BENEFITS OF SOUP:
In traditional Indian baby-led weaning, the first food is always soup because it has many benefits.
1. INTRODUCTION OF VEGETABLES:
We moms find it very easy to introduce vegetables in pureed form or in a soup form. We can introduce one vegetables at a time to our babies. Once they taste in puree form slowly, we can add small, soft chunks of vegetables in soup. It minimizes picky eating habits too.
2. EASILY DIGESTED :
As a mom the main concern is whatever we are feeding them it should be easily digestible. And SOUPS are the meal which is highly nutritious and digested in tiny tummies.
3. FULL OF NUTRITIOUS:
Soups are generally made with rice, lentils, pulses, vegetables, and meat. We boil it in water so it has more nutrition. Soup has lots of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
4. HYDRATION:
The liquid soup helps baby or toddler with hydration. Babies who don't like to drink plain water soup are extremely helpful and keep them hydrated throughout the day.
5. CURE COUGH AND COLD :
Soup provides relief from cold, cough, congestion in the chest, and fever. Soups made from garlic, ginger, and turmeric can cure cough and cold. When our baby is sick and they don't want to eat any solid food we mom stick to the soup only. This highly nutritious soup keep them tummy full and give relief from the sickness.
Today I am sharing 5 easy and simple SOUP recipe which I have fed my twins in these last 3 years.
5 WINTER FRIENDLY SOUP RECIPES FOR BABIES ๐ฅ
1) CARROT -BEETROOT SOUP: (6 months+)
This one was our first baby-led weaning recipe.
Ingredients :
Beetroot - 1/2
Carrot - 1๐ฅ
Direction:
- Boil both of them in a pressure cooker for 3 whistles.
- Grind it after it becomes cool.
- Ready to serve.
For 6 months, baby, you do not need to add any spices and salt.
Ingredients:
Moong dal: 3 tsp
Carrots: 1 no
Tomatoes: 1 small
Black pepper: 1/8 tsp (8 months onwards)
Salt (12 months onwards)
Ghee 1 tsp
Water 1 cup
Direction:
- Wash and soak moong dal for 30 minutes in tap water.
- Wash the carrot and tomato very well.
- Grate the carrot or you can cut it into small chunks.
- Remove seeds from tomato and cut into small cubes.
- Mix everything together with a little bit of turmeric powder and 1/4 tsp of ghee.
- Pressure cook for 4 whistles.
- Blend it once it gets cold.
- Heat ghee and give tadka of jeera and black pepper.
- Ready to serve.
3) CHICKEN SOUP (10 months onwards):
Ingredients:
Chicken: 2, 3 big pieces
Onion: 1/2 cup
Ginger- garlic paste: 1/2 tsp
Black pepper: 1 no
Dalchini: small piece 1
Ghee: 1 tsp
Water 1 cup
Salt: a pinch (12 months onwards)
Direction
- Wash and clean chicken and rub turmeric on it. Keep it for 5 minutes.
- In the pressure cooker, add ghee. Once it is hot add black pepper, dalchini and fry it little bit till raw smell goes.
- Add chopped onion and fry till it changes color to pinkish.
- Then go to ginger garlic paste and fry for a minute.
- Add chicken pieces and fry till they are coated to the pieces.
- Now add 1 cup of water and stir it. Close the lid of the pressure cooker and cook for 3 whistles.
Your delicious chicken soup is ready.
4) BROCCOLI SOUP:
This is not my recipe. I learned it from Instagram. It is a very simple and delicious recipe. Even we adults can also have this soup.
Ingredients:
Broccoli: 4 to 5 florets
Onion: 1/2 small cuts
Black pepper powder: 1/8 tsp
Salt (12 months onwards)
Water 1 cup
Ghee: 1 tsp
Direction:
- Wash onion and broccoli very well under tap water.
- Put it in a plate and steam it. Do not boil.
- After 10 to 15 minutes, remove it from the gas stove.
- Once it cools down, grind it into a paste.
- Put another pan on gas stove. Heat ghee and pour this mixture on it. Add water and black pepper powder.
- Adjust the consistency of water as per your choice.
- Serve hot with a little bit of fresh malai.
5) MUTTON SOUP (12 months onwards):
It is also called alani in Maharashtra. It tastes delicious with spices. But I am sharing baby recipes that have no or minimum spices.
Ingredients
Mutton pieces: 4 to 5
Ginger garlic and coriander leaves paste: 1 tsp.
Onion: 1/2 cup chopped
Black pepper: 1 no
Tejpatta: small piece
Cinnamon: 1/2 inch
Lemon juice: 1/2 tsp
Turmeric : 1/4 tsp
Direction:
- Wash and clean the mutton pieces.
- Marinate with ginger, garlic, coriander leaves paste, turmeric powder, and squeeze lemon juice.
- Keeps cover for 10 minutes.
- Put the pressure cooker on the stove and heat ghee.
- Add black pepper, cinnamon and tejpatta. Fry it till raw smell goes.
- Add onion and fry till it changed colour to pinkish.
- Then add marinate mutton and fry for 5 minutes. Add water, stir well and close the lid. Pressure cook for 5 whistles.
- Once pressure cooker cool, serve it in a bowl.
- Mutton Soup or Alani is ready to serve.
These are common soup but every religion has their own way of cooking. I am Maharashtrian and these is the way I fed my babies. Share it with new moms.
Question of the day
Which one is your favourite soup ?
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This blog post is part of ‘Blogaberry Dazzle’ hosted by Cindy D’Silva and Noor Anand Chawla.
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