How to make spinach noodles for baby food?

Although breast milk is the best food for babies and can improve their immunity and resistance, babies need to add appropriate complementary foods after 4 months. For example, spinach noodles are the best choice. The operation method is very simple. After preparing the ingredients, put the spinach and noodles together and knead the dough. Then cut them into thin noodles and cook them for your baby. It is very nutritious.

1. How to make spinach noodles for baby food?

1. Wash a spinach, boil it in boiling water until the stems are easily crushed by chopsticks, then take it out. Don't drain the water deliberately. Let it cool and set aside.

2. After cooling, chop into small pieces. It doesn’t have to be very small. Just chop into small pieces. Add flour.

3. Mix the noodles and vegetables together with your hands. After mixing well, add a little water if there is still flour. This noodles needs to be kneaded, so it should be a little harder. Then knead it into dough. Save 10-15 minutes and knead it again! Knead it until it is smooth! The green color will become darker and darker, very beautiful!

4. Use a rolling pin to roll it into thin slices. I didn’t take a picture of the rolling steps! Then sprinkle with cornmeal or flour and cut into pieces of appropriate size.

5. Cut into small pieces or thin short noodles according to your needs, and that's it! Make a small amount at a time, and make it three to five times after the baby has finished eating. The unfinished ones can be put in a fresh-keeping bag and put in the refrigerator or freezer!

2. Common complementary foods for babies

1. Juice

Commonly used juices include orange tomato juice, orange, fresh pear, and watermelon juice. Fresh juice can be squeezed out using a commercially available juicer. The juice can be consumed directly. Weak babies can drink it after appropriate dilution. The various canned fruit juice drinks available in the market do not contain fruit juice and are not suitable for babies to drink because they contain pigments, sugar, etc.

2. Vegetable water

You can use lettuce, rapeseed, or Chinese cabbage. Wash and chop the vegetables, add an equal amount of boiling water, cover the pot, and cook on high heat for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and let sit covered for 20 minutes. Use a spoon to squeeze out the juice, add a little salt and drink it. When cooking vegetables, do not put them in cold water. Make sure to cook them in boiling water. This can reduce the loss of vitamins. Cover and cook. Because the vitamin loss when cooking without a lid is twice as much as when cooking with a lid.

3. Hawthorn water

Take 100 grams of fresh hawthorn (or dried product), soak it in cold water to wash, then brew it with boiling water, cover and simmer. When it becomes slightly warm, it becomes hawthorn water. Add sugar and drink.

4. Tomato juice

After washing, use a juicer to extract the original juice, add a little sugar and drink it, or add appropriate amount of warm boiled water and drink it. You can also squeeze orange juice.

5. Carrot soup

Take 500 grams of carrots, wash and chop them, put them in a pot, add water and appropriate amount of vegetable oil, boil for 1 hour and remove from the heat. After it cools down, filter the juice with gauze, add sugar and drink.

6. Stewed Meat Soup

Take 500 grams of chicken, beef, etc., wash and chop, add onion, ginger and water, boil over high heat, remove the foam, add a little salt, and simmer for another 3 hours until the meat is tender and drink the soup.

7. Egg noodle soup

Take 100 grams of flour, beat in 1 egg, mix together with the flour into dough, then press into thin slices, cut into small pieces, boil the water and then add the slices, cook until done, add 1 spoon of soy sauce and a little sesame oil and then it is ready to eat.

8. Thick rice soup

Wash the rice or millet, put it in a pot, add water and cook until the rice is soft, then feed the baby with the rice soup.

9. Shrimp paste

Shell the shrimps, wash them and boil them, take them out and grind them, pour them into the broth and cook them together, add starch and salt, and it is ready to eat when it becomes a paste.

10. Cream Egg

Add half an egg yolk, half a spoon of starch, and water to a pot and cook while stirring. When it becomes thick, add 3 spoons of milk and turn off the heat. After cooling, add a little honey and eat.

11. Egg yolk powder

Take 1 egg, wash it, put it in a pot and cook it, then remove the shell and egg white. Take egg yolk and add a little warm water, mash it into a paste with a spoon and feed it. You can also crush the cooked egg yolk and mix it into milk, rice soup, or vegetable water to make a paste and feed it.