Stuffed pasta for children (from 3 years)

Every mother wants her baby’s nutrition to be not only satisfying, but also beneficial. A good lunch or dinner should not only satisfy the child’s energy needs, but also saturate his body with vitamins and minerals necessary for healthy growth and development.

Cooking pasta stuffed with minced meat.

This dish will be enjoyed not only by the child, but also by the adults around him.

The benefits of stuffed pasta for a child

• For children older than 3 years, choose pasta made from durum wheat.
• In such pasta there is a protein that is well digested, supplying energy to the body.
• Fiber stimulates the digestive tract, helps to eliminate toxins from the body, cleanses blood vessels, improving the cardiovascular system.
• The composition of durum wheat pasta includes calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron and B vitamins. All these substances have a good effect on the general condition of the body.
• They fight anemia, regulate metabolic processes, prevent swelling, relieve fatigue, and effectively increase resistance to stress.
• Stuffing pasta with minced meat will make the dish very tasty.
• The meat is very rich in easily digestible protein, necessary for the child to be healthy and strong.
• The high iron content in meat makes it indispensable with a low level of hemoglobin in the blood.
• There are also many B vitamins in meat.

Recommendations and tips for the preparation and introduction to the diet

Mothers of children prone to allergic reactions need to know that pasta contains gluten. This is a substance that is not absorbed by all people.

• For minced meat, choose the meat that meets the needs of your child.
• So, chicken, rabbit, veal and turkey are dietary varieties with a small amount of fat. All of them are perfectly absorbed by the children’s body. However, chicken and veal can cause allergies.
• Pork is highly digestible, almost never causes allergic reactions, but may be too oily for the children’s menu.
• A good option may be minced meat from several varieties of meat. For example, lean pork and beef or pork and chicken.
• Ideal for children with allergies will be minced rabbit meat.
• To make the dish juicy, you can add onions, carrots, white cabbage or broccoli to the minced meat.
• Stuffed pasta can take the form of large shells or it can be special pasta for stuffing, they are called cannelloni or manicotti.
• You can stuff pasta or raw pasta. The forcemeat will be softer and more uniform if you chop it using a meat grinder 2 or 3 times. The more uniform the mass, the easier it is to start pasta with it.
• Minced meat can also be cooked from boiled or raw meat.
• Stuffed pasta is cooked in the oven, grated hard cheese will help improve their taste.

Stuffed Pasta Recipe

Essential Ingredients

• pasta for stuffing;
• minced meat – 300 grams;
• 1 small onion;
• 1 chicken egg;

• water;
• salt;
• baking foil.

Cooking sequence

1. In minced meat, twice passed through a meat grinder, add onions and again pass the mixture through a meat grinder.
2. Beat the egg, salt and mix.
   
3. Preheat the oven to 180 °.
4. Raw stuffed pasta stuffed with minced meat.
5. Put them in a deep container.
   
6. Pour enough water to cover stuffed pasta.
7. Cover the container with foil.
8. Place the dish in the oven and bake for 40 minutes.
   
   

Boiled pasta with boiled minced meat recipe

1. To do this, boil the pasta for stuffing in slightly salted water. According to the cooking time, refer to the instructions on the packaging. Typically, the manufacturer indicates the time needed for pasta al dente. So much time and cook.
2. Boil the meat.
3. Take white cabbage or broccoli (it should be half the meat). Also boil.
4. Grind meat and cabbage in a blender, salt.
5. Start the pasta.
6. Put them in a baking dish.
7. Sprinkle grated cheese on top.
8. Bake in the oven until the cheese is melted.
   
   

How to Make Stuffed Pasta for a Child

Stuffed pasta can also be cooked in a slow cooker. How to do this, see the video. For a children’s menu, do not add pepper and ketchup to the minced meat. Limit yourself to salt and herbs. To make the mince more savory, you can add 2 tablespoons of tomato juice. The simplest sauce for stuffed pasta contains only sour cream, water and a little grated cheese.

Stuffed pasta can be a great option for a second course for lunch or a hearty dinner. A variety of cooking methods allows you to choose the one that you like: you can stuff raw pasta with raw minced meat, you can stuff ready-made pasta with prepared minced meat or put ready-made minced meat in raw pasta.

Prepare a vermicelli casserole, milk noodles with vermicelli, or casserole with vermicelli for your child. Pasta should be present in the baby’s diet, as the baby’s nutrition should be varied and as useful as possible.