How to make baby cod food

Cod is a kind of fish that is high in protein and rich in nutritional value. Compared with other fish, the fish meat is more delicious, has fewer bones, is rich in vitamins, and is easy for children to digest. Therefore, many mothers like to use cod as a complementary food for their babies to supplement nutrition. This article briefly introduces several methods and precautions for making cod complementary food, so that mothers can better match nutrition for their babies.

There are many ways to make complementary foods for babies, but some parents do not know how to make complementary foods for their babies, which may not provide a good nutritional combination for the baby. If the ingredients are made too large, it may cause damage to the baby's digestive tract. So, how do we make the nutritious cod as complementary food for babies? So now let’s learn how to make cod as complementary food for babies.

How to make cod fish as baby food

Cod has high nutritional value and very few bones, making it particularly suitable as a complementary food for babies. In addition to cod, longfish also has very few bones and is also a good choice for baby food. Today I will share several ways to make cod as a complementary food.

Preparation method:

1. Tomato and cod porridge: suitable for babies around 8 months old who are just starting to add fish to their diet. With the help of a little tomato flavor, the fishy smell of fish is covered up. It tastes sour and sweet and goes well with rice. I guarantee that your baby will eat it all in one go. Ingredients needed: tomatoes, cod, rice. First, cook a pot of rice porridge in an electric rice cooker. Blanch the tomatoes in boiling water. Pour some oil into the pan and sauté the tomatoes until they become puree. Boil water in a pot and cook the cod until cooked through, which should take about 1-2 minutes. It is easy to remove the skin of cooked cod. After removing the skin, bones and bones, use chopsticks to cut it into small pieces. Put the fried tomato puree, cod pieces and cooked rice porridge into the casserole, boil for about 10 minutes, stir evenly and it is ready to serve.

2. Codfish ball and winter melon soup: suitable for babies over 8 months old. Ingredients required: codfish, egg liquid or egg yolk, flour, and winter melon. Put cod meat, eggs and a little flour into a blender and mix. Don't add too much egg liquid, just enough to help the blender mix the fish into a paste. The mixed fish paste will be a little thin, and you need to add some flour to make it thicker. Take a spoonful of fish paste and place it on the palm of your hand. Squeeze the paste out from the base of your thumb and use the spoon to scoop it out to make a fish ball. The cod paste will be a little sticky, so you can wet your hands with water before working. At the same time, boil a pot of water, cook the winter melon slices, add the prepared fish balls and cook until done.

3. Vegetable and cod rice. Ingredients required: cod, fungus, carrots, Chinese cabbage, and rice. First, simmer a pot of soft rice. Here’s a little trick: add a small bowl of rice and four times the amount of water into the rice cooker, press the “cook porridge” button, and simmer for 40-60 minutes until the water in the porridge is dried up and you will have a bowl of soft rice. Chop the fungus and onion, and grate the carrot. After the choy sum is cooked, chop it into small pieces. After the cod is cooked, peel and debone it, then chop it with chopsticks. Pour some oil into the pan, add onion and stir-fry until it becomes soft, then add carrot and fungus. You need to add a little water to stew the vegetables. When the soup is almost dry, add the cabbage heart and stewed soft rice. Finally, stir-fry evenly and serve.

4. Codfish and screw noodles. Codfish is also very delicious when eaten with noodles. If you don’t have screw noodles, you can use other noodles instead. Suitable for babies over 10 months old. Ingredients needed: cod, screw noodles, potatoes, eggplant, and bok choy. Cut potatoes and eggplants into small pieces; chop the bok choy after cooking; use chopsticks to cut the cooked cod into small pieces. Pour some oil into the pan, add chopped green onions until fragrant, then add potatoes and eggplant. Add water to cover the vegetables (you can use the water you used to cook the cod) and simmer for about 10 minutes. Both the potatoes and fusilli take a little time to cook. When the soup is almost dry, pour in the cod and chopped bok choy. Just simmer for a while and you can start eating.

What should you pay attention to when making baby food?

1. The complementary food added must be adapted to the baby's age. For 4 to 6 months, you can add porridge, egg yolk, fruit puree, or add chopped vegetables and a little cooking oil to the thin noodle soup. From 7 to 12 months, soft noodles, egg custard, tofu, wontons, various chopped vegetables, fish, lean minced meat, etc. can be added. Start with cereals, then transition to vegetables, fruits, fish, meat, poultry, eggs, and bean products. You can also choose some infant nutritional supplement products as supplements.

2. Adding complementary foods should start from one type and then increase the types of food gradually according to the baby's nutritional needs and digestive ability. At the beginning, you can only give your baby one kind of complementary food that is appropriate for his age. After trying it for 3 to 4 days or a week, if the baby's digestion is good and bowel movements are normal, you can let the baby try another one. Never add several kinds of food at once in a short period of time.

3. Adding complementary foods should be from thin to thick. When babies start adding complementary foods, they have not yet grown teeth, so parents can only feed their babies liquid foods, gradually add semi-liquid foods, and finally develop to solid foods. If you add semi-solid or solid food at the beginning, the baby will definitely find it difficult to digest and cause diarrhea. The transition should be gradual according to the development of the baby's digestive tract and the growth of teeth, that is, from vegetable soup, fruit juice, and rice soup to rice paste, vegetable puree, fruit puree, and meat puree, and then to soft rice, small pieces of vegetables, fruit, and meat. In this way, the baby can absorb the food well and avoid indigestion.