In the first years of a baby's life, his taste habits and preferences are formed. Therefore, a children's meat menu should not only be tasty and healthy, but also varied.
Meat and fish are a source of complete protein, iron and other nutrients; these are irreplaceable products in the child's daily menu. Small children are prepared dishes from minced meat and fish - due to their shape and consistency, they instill in the baby the first skills of chewing. Such dishes include cutlets for children, meatballs and meatballs. How are they different?
Baby meatballs- dishes made from minced meat or fish, rolled into small balls (usually the size of an apricot or plum). In different interpretations, they exist in the national cuisines of almost the entire world. In the minced meat, cereals are necessarily added, most often rice, bread, sometimes onions, spices and an egg are put. Meatballs for babies are stewed with sauce, steamed or baked. Fried meatballs should not be given to children.
Meatballs. This dish gets its name from the Italian word frittatella (fried). Meatballs for children- small balls the size of cherries or walnuts made from minced meat, chicken or fish. They are usually boiled in broth, soup, or, less commonly, in main courses. Finely chopped onions, spices and herbs are added to the minced meat. Very rarely, bread soaked in milk or water is put into minced meat.
Cutlets for children... In modern Russian cuisine, cutlets are called cakes made from minced meat, chicken, fish or vegetable. They are usually served to children with various side dishes - cereals, vegetables, as well as sauce or broth.
With the appearance of the child's first chewing teeth (i.e. from about 1-1.5 years old) children's menu replenished with meat dishes. These are cutlets, meatballs and meatballs prepared according to special recipes. At this age, the baby needs about 70-80 g of meat products per day, 1-2 times a week they can be replaced with fish products. Minced meat dishes are very suitable in shape and consistency for a baby who is learning to chew at this very age.
Minced meat recipes for kids
V children's cooking the following types of meat are used:
- beef;
- veal;
- lean pork;
- rabbit.
Lamb, horse meat and venison are not used in the diet of children under 3 years of age.
Of the bird, only:
- hen;
- turkey.
Goose and duck are very fatty, difficult to digest and are not suitable for children under 3 years old.
For minced fish, marine fish of low-fat and white varieties are used:
- halibut;
- sole;
- pollock.
From river fish only suitable:
- Pike;
Minced meat for children's meals cooked only from fresh or chilled meat, it is not recommended to use frozen meat, since it is impossible to control the quality and shelf life of such a product, this is fraught with the development of infections.
Chop, shoulder blade, or thigh work best. The meat must be thoroughly cleaned of films and fat, rinsed, dried with a napkin - to remove excess fat and moisture - and then cut into pieces and mince twice. For older children, from 2 years old, you can skip the meat through a meat grinder once.
Remove the crust from the white bread added to the minced meat, and then soak the pulp in water or milk. Bread mass in minced meat should be no more than 25%.
For poultry, the breast, thighs and drumsticks are suitable for preparing minced meat dishes. The meat is carefully separated from bones and skin and passed through a meat grinder.
For the preparation of fish dishes, fillets are used, cleaned of bones and scales.
Cooking minced meat is a laborious process. Therefore, it is permissible to prepare at once a sufficiently large volume of it, to make stocks for future use - to freeze portioned semi-finished products. However, they must be stored at a constant temperature in the back of the freezer; they cannot be defrosted and frozen again.
In minced meat for baby food before freezing, add only vegetables or cereals, but do not salt or add spices, milk and eggs, this is done immediately before preparing the dish after defrosting the minced meat.
Cooking methods
The most traditional way of preparing meat dishes is frying. However, fried foods are not recommended for children under 3 years of age. During the frying process, a crust forms, which contains substances harmful to the baby and irritating the digestive tract. Therefore, the following cooking methods are used in the children's kitchen:
- extinguishing;
- baking in the oven;
- steaming.
For children from 2 years old, it is permissible to lightly fry the cutlets, and then bring them to readiness, stewing in sauce. The meatballs are prepared in the same way. But the traditional type of cooking for meatballs is steaming, in salted water or soup with vegetables. Sometimes the meatballs are stewed with cabbage or other vegetables in a little gravy or sauce.
Cutlets for children
The first cutlets can be offered to a child at the age of 1–1.5 years, if he already has something to chew. Consider several options for cooking cutlets from meat, poultry and fish, so that there is something to diversify the baby's diet.
Beef steamed cutlets (from 1 year old)
Ingredients:
- 100 g of beef;
- 20 g of white bread;
- 20 ml of milk;
- 5 g butter;
- salt.
Cooking method:
Pass the prepared meat together with bread without crust soaked in milk through a meat grinder, add butter and salt to taste, mix well until smooth, form cutlets and steam for 20-25 minutes.
Meat cutlets (from 1.5 years old)
Ingredients:
- 40 g pork without fat;
- 50 g of beef;
- 10 g white bread;
- 5 g onions;
- salt.
Cooking method:
Soak the bread in water, mince the meat twice. Mix meat, bread, finely chopped onion, salt. Form small patties with wet hands, then steam or in a deep frying pan in the oven for 25-30 minutes.
Meat cutlets stuffed with vegetables (from 2 years old)
Ingredients:
- 90 g minced meat;
- 10 g carrots;
- 10 g cabbage;
- 10 g onions;
- 1/4 boiled egg;
- 7 g butter.
Cooking method:
Pass the meat through a meat grinder. Divide the minced meat into small flat cakes with wet hands, put finely chopped carrots, onions, cabbage and a chopped boiled egg in the center of each. Wrap the edges of the cakes and pinch, flatten the resulting cutlets. Melt the butter in a skillet and fry the patties lightly. Then place them in the oven or steam until cooked for 10-15 minutes.
Meat zrazy with rice (from 2-3 years old)
Ingredients:
- 90 g of meat (pork or beef);
- 20 g of white bread;
- 30 g of cereals (buckwheat or rice);
- 10 g onions;
- 1/3 boiled egg.
- For the sauce:
- 50 g broth;
- 10 g sour cream;
- 5 g flour.
Cooking method:
Boil rice (or buckwheat). Pass the meat through a meat grinder together with white bread soaked in water and squeezed out. Form cakes from the resulting minced meat and put the filling in the center of each: boiled rice (or buckwheat porridge), mixed with finely chopped onions and eggs. Bend and pinch the edges, form cutlets. For the sauce, mix the broth, sour cream and flour. Fry the cutlets for 2-3 minutes on each side, then pour over the sauce and put in the oven for 15-20 minutes.
Chicken steamed cutlets (from 1-1.5 years old)
Ingredients:
- 90 g chicken meat from a thigh or breast;
- 10 g onions;
- 10 g white bread;
- 10 ml of milk;
- 5 g butter;
- salt.
Cooking method:
Pass the meat and onions through a meat grinder, add bread soaked in milk and once again pass the resulting mass through a meat grinder. Add slightly melted butter to the minced meat, salt. Form cutlets with wet hands, steam for 15 minutes. You can stew them in milk in the oven for 20-25 minutes.
Turkey meat cutlets (from 1.5-2 years old)
Ingredients:
- 100 g of turkey meat (breast or legs);
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of boiled rice;
- 1/2 egg;
- 10 ml of milk;
- salt;
- greens.
Cooking method:
Pass the turkey meat through a meat grinder, mix the cooked rice with the minced meat, salt, add the egg, milk and mix thoroughly until smooth. Form the patties and steam them for 20-25 minutes.
Fish cakes (from 1-1.5 years old)
Ingredients:
- 100 g fillet of pike perch (or cod, or sole);
- 10 g white bread;
- 20 ml of milk;
- 5 g butter;
- salt.
Cooking method:
Pass the fillet through a meat grinder along with bread soaked in milk, salt, add butter, mix, form cutlets. Put the cutlets in the oven, fill it 1/3 with water, or steam for 10-15 minutes.
Fish cakes with cheese (2-3 years)
Ingredients:
- 10 g white bread;
- 20 ml of milk;
- 1 small onion;
- 30 g of hard cheese;
- 1/2 egg;
- salt;
- 5 g flour.
Cooking method:
Pass the fish fillet through a meat grinder along with bread and onion soaked in milk, add finely grated cheese, egg, salt. Mix the mixture thoroughly. Then form the patties, roll them in flour, lightly fry on each side and simmer until tender in a white sauce (see the recipe for the sauce below).
Fish cutlets "bilip" (2-3 years)
Ingredients:
- 300 g of pike perch (or cod, or sole);
- 10 g white bread;
- 20 ml of milk;
- 1 small onion;
- 30-40 g of cottage cheese;
- 1/2 egg;
- salt;
- 5 g flour.
Cooking method:
Pass the fish fillet through a meat grinder with bread and onion soaked in milk, add cottage cheese, egg, salt. Mix the mixture thoroughly. Form cutlets, roll them in flour, lightly fry on each side and simmer in white sauce until tender.
Meatballs for children
Meatballs can be made with many types of meat, poultry, and fish. They are distinguished by their small size, delicate taste and are convenient in that the baby can hold them in the pen himself and eat, training the skill of independence. They appear in the diet of a child from one year of age in the first and second courses.
Children's meatballs (from 1-1.5 years old)
Ingredients:
- 40 g lean pork;
- 50 g of beef;
- 10 g white bread;
- 1 egg white;
- salt;
- greens.
Cooking method:
Pass the meat through a meat grinder twice and mix with bread soaked in water. Beat the egg white thoroughly and mix with the minced meat. Form into small balls and cook in lightly salted water with herbs.
Steam meatballs in Polish (from 1.5 years old)
Ingredients:
- 100 g lean pork;
- 50 g chicken fillet;
- 1/2 egg white;
- Dill;
- salt;
- some butter.
Cooking method:
Pass the pork and chicken fillet through a meat grinder, add beaten egg white, salt, butter and finely chopped dill to the minced meat. Stir the minced meat, form into small balls. Place the meatballs with a teaspoon in boiling broth or soup and cook until tender, 15 minutes. They can be steamed and then put on a plate with a side dish.
Chicken meatballs (1-1.5 years old)
Ingredients:
- 90 g chicken fillet;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of boiled rice or rice flakes;
- 1/2 egg;
- salt;
- greens to taste.
Cooking method:
Peel the fillet from skin and films, mince. Salt and chop the boiled rice in a blender along with herbs, and then mix with meat. Add the beaten egg to the minced meat and mix again. Roll the minced meat into balls and cook in vegetable broth (or steam) for 15–20 minutes.
Children's chicken meatballs (from 1.5 years old)
Ingredients:
- 100 g chicken breast;
- 50 g potatoes;
- 30 ml of milk;
- 200 ml chicken broth;
- salt;
- Bay leaf;
- greens.
Cooking method:
Pass the chicken breast through a meat grinder or grind in a blender with milk. Boil potatoes. Mix the minced meat with potatoes, form small balls and boil them in chicken broth, salt it, and put bay leaves and herbs in it.
Broth with fish balls (from 1.5 years old)
Ingredients:
- 60 g fillet of pollock (or hake, or pike perch);
- 10 g white bread;
- 10 ml of milk;
- 5 g butter;
- 1/4 eggs;
- Dill;
- salt.
Cooking method:
Pass the fillet with bread soaked in milk through a meat grinder, beat the egg with herbs in a blender. Combine everything, add butter, stir the minced meat. Form small balls. Cook the meatballs in the vegetable broth for 10-15 minutes.
Cod meatballs with herbs (from 1.5 years old)
Ingredients:
- 100 g of cod;
- 15 g of white bread;
- 5 g onions;
- 8 g spinach;
- parsley;
- 10 g lettuce;
- 1 teaspoon of butter;
- 1 egg;
- salt.
Cooking method:
Pass the cod fillet along with onions, spinach, salad and parsley through a meat grinder, and then mix with bread soaked in water. Add butter and egg to the mass, salt, mix the minced meat thoroughly. Form the meatballs and boil them in vegetable broth or steam.
Meatballs for children
Meatballs are similar in composition to cutlets, but also contain a lot of rice and vegetables. The combination of meat, grains and vegetables promotes better absorption of meat proteins. Meatballs are often served with sauces.
Meatballs in a special way (1.5-2 years)
Ingredients:
- 100 g pork or ground beef;
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of finely chopped vegetables: bell peppers, carrots, onions, zucchini, tomatoes;
- 1/4 eggs;
- 1 tsp flour;
- salt;
- greens.
Cooking method:
Minced meat together with vegetables through a meat grinder or grind in a blender, mix with egg and flour, salt, add herbs, stir. Form balls, put them in a deep frying pan and, filling 1/3 with water, simmer for 10 minutes. Then add red or white sauce and simmer until cooked for another 15 minutes, covered.
Classic meatballs (2-3 years)
Ingredients:
- 50 g pork or beef;
- 10 g of bread;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of milk;
- 10 g carrots;
- 10 g onions;
- 1 tbsp. a spoon with a slide of rice;
- 1/4 eggs;
- salt.
Cooking method:
Pass the meat with onions and carrots through a meat grinder, add bread pre-soaked in milk and pre-cooked rice to the minced meat, add an egg and salt. Stir the minced meat and form meatballs, fry lightly in oil, add red sauce and simmer in the oven or on the stove under the lid for 30 minutes.
Curd and fish meatballs (2-3 years)
Ingredients:
- 60 g cod fillet;
- 30 g white bread;
- 150 ml of milk;
- 30 g of cottage cheese;
- 10 g onions;
- 1/2 egg;
- 2 tbsp. spoons of sour cream;
- greens;
- salt.
Cooking method:
Soak the bread in milk and mince together with fish fillets, mix the resulting minced meat with cottage cheese and finely chopped onion. Beat the egg and mix it with the minced meat, salt and add herbs. Place in a baking dish or skillet and bake in the oven for 15 minutes. Mix milk with sour cream until the consistency of a sauce, pour the meatballs with the mixture and simmer for another 10 minutes.
Fish meatballs (1.5-2 years)
Ingredients:
- 80 g fish fillet (cod, pollock or hake);
- 10 g white bread;
- 1/4 egg yolk;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of vegetable oil;
- salt.
Cooking method:
Pass the fillet together with the bread soaked in water through a meat grinder, add the yolk, oil and salt, mix the minced meat. Form the meatballs and place them in a deep bowl, pouring 2/3 of the white sauce over. Put simmer on very low heat for 25-30 minutes.
Baby sauces
Sauces that complement children's meat dishes¸ not only enrich their taste, but also contribute to better assimilation of the product and expand the baby's taste preferences. Sauces are especially often used in the preparation of meatballs.
Milk sauce (from 1.5 years old)
Ingredients:
- 5 g (1 tbsp. Spoon) flour;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sour cream 10% fat;
- 20 ml of milk;
- 20-25 ml of water.
Cooking method:
Fry the flour in a frying pan until it is lightly browned, add milk and water and bring to a boil, wait until the mixture thickens, add sour cream, wait for it to boil again and turn off the heat.
White sauce (from 2 years old)
Ingredients:
- 1/2 tsp flour;
- 80 g low-fat broth;
- 1/2 tsp butter or heavy cream;
- lemon juice;
- salt.
Cooking method:
Fry the flour in a frying pan until it is lightly browned, pour in the broth, bring to a boil, wait for the mixture to thicken, add butter or cream, lemon juice, wait for the sauce to boil, and turn off the heat.
Red sauce (from 2-3 years old)
Ingredients:
- 1 onion;
- 1 carrot;
- 2 tomatoes;
- Bay leaf;
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots, put them in a pan and lightly fry in vegetable oil, then pour water there and put the tomato, chopped in a blender until smooth. Add bay leaves and salt and cook for 10 minutes.
Children's side dishes
What to cook for a kid as a side dish for meat dishes? For meatballs and meatballs, boiled or stewed vegetables will be the best addition; fish cakes are good with rice or vegetable stew; buckwheat, rice, pasta or potatoes are suitable for meatballs, and green peas, cauliflower and rice with vegetables go well with poultry.
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There are many minced meat dishes in the child's diet. It is difficult for a child under one year old to chew large pieces, so cutlets and meatballs are your option.
Our expert, Pediatric Nutritionist Nancy Bute:
Meat is a source of complete protein, iron, vitamins and other microelements. Meat-based complementary foods should be introduced into the diet of a breastfed baby from the 8th month of life, and an artificial person from the 7th. Puree beef, chicken, piglet, pork, lamb, turkey and veal are acceptable choices for these age groups. If, for some reason, meat is temporarily absent in the child's diet, then when preparing vegetarian dishes, attention should be paid to alternative sources of protein - beans and lentils.
Meatballs and cutlets for a child
Choose a fresh tenderloin to keep the cutlets and meatballs tender and juicy. Then remove the fat and tendons, remove the films and divide into small pieces.
- Pass the meat through a meat grinder, salt and stir.
- To prepare cutlets, chop the onion additionally, add a roll (without a crust) soaked in milk or water. Bread and onions in this mass should not exceed 20-30%.
- The addition of rice, buckwheat or corn grits (pre-boiled) or carrots will diversify the taste.
- If you are making steamed meatballs, you can add beaten egg whites, butter, and milk to the minced meat.
Do not store this mixture in the refrigerator, but use it immediately for cooking.
Garnish for meat dishes in baby food
When successfully combined with other products, meat is completely absorbed, gives the child a boost of vigor, and promotes normal growth.
Potatoes, which are usually served with meat, are not the best decision. It can hinder digestion. It is better to serve other vegetables with cutlets - carrots, beets, Brussels sprouts and cauliflower, zucchini. Bake them in the oven, boil them, steam them, and give them some fresh (separately or in a salad).
Porridge on the water or noodles also do an excellent job as a side dish. Only they should be given to the child in small portions, because such dishes are very satisfying.
Is the child asking for supplements? Don't deny him. Put very little food on the plate only the second time.
If the child does not eat meat
If your child doesn't eat meat, try a little cooking trick to make a difference.
A great solution for a children's menu - meat puddings, pies, rolls, dumplings, soufflés and stuffed vegetables. Most likely, the child will be happy! Make homemade dumplings and cabbage rolls as well. The child will like such food: they are delicious, and it is interesting to eat them. Just remember that children are not allowed to eat fried foods. Nutritionists advise only lightly fry the meat, and then simmer it over low heat with sour cream.
Remembering the cutlets in every person, associations immediately arise: mashed potatoes, spring salad, which, in my opinion, are inseparable in this wonderful union.
And this wonderful aroma, while the cutlets are fried in a pan, makes you hungry - you just want to eat it.
Children are also not indifferent to this dish. However, it is not at every age that you can offer your child food prepared in this way. After all, it is undeniably harmful to the children's stomach.
However, mothers will find a way out of any situation. And they will cook their beloved cutlets in a completely different way.
How? - you ask. Everything is very simple - baked cutlets in the oven. They are not less tasty, appetizing and aromatic. Baked foods are a great alternative to fried foods.
Let's cook this delicious together with mashed potatoes.
The recipe is suitable for children from 1.5 years old. For younger children, these cutlets are best steamed.
For this we need:
- ground beef or (pork + beef) - 300 g
- onion - 1 pc.
- oatmeal - a handful
- egg - 1 pc.
- potatoes - 4 pcs.
- butter - slice
- milk - 0.5 cups
Baby beef cutlets in the oven - recipe with photo:
In a meat grinder with a fine grid, twist the onion and add to the minced meat. Pour 4-5 tbsp there. oatmeal. 
Mix everything well, do not forget to add a little salt and drive in one egg. 
Grease a baking sheet covered with parchment with olive oil so that the patties do not burn.
Form the patties and place them on a baking sheet. 
We send children's beef cutlets to a preheated oven and bake for 30-40 minutes. At the end of cooking, put a small piece of butter on each cutlet and bake for another 5 minutes, so that the cutlets turn out to be rosy.
In the meantime, while the baby cutlets are baking, prepare the mashed potatoes.
Cut the peeled potatoes lengthwise into 4 pieces. 
After placing the potatoes in a saucepan with cold water, put on fire. Salt to taste after boiling water in a saucepan and cook until cooked.
Using a potato grinder or blender, grind until smooth. 
Mashed potatoes are especially tender and tasty when beaten with a lump of butter and hot boiled milk. 
The baby beef patties are already cooked in the oven. And tender mashed potatoes are also ready.
From 8 months, babies already need to introduce meat into the diet, and by the first birthday, the children's menu becomes almost complete. But in the preparation of food and in the choice of products, it is still worth focusing on proper nutrition; steamed or baked chicken cutlets for a 1 year old baby are perfect.
In general, children really like a variety of minced meat products, and breast meatballs are a valuable source of protein needed for normal growth and development.
In addition, chicken cutlets for a child have a variety of cooking recipes. And here it is not only the cooking method that plays a role: in the oven, steamed or stewed in gravy.
Many vegetables can be added to dryish minced chicken, which will add juiciness to the meat, enrich the taste of the dish, balance the diet and fill it with vitamins.
This is very, very important for a child at 1 year old, because during this period there is a great load on the body. There is intensive growth, and the improvement of the immune system, and the load on the musculoskeletal system when the baby begins to walk.
It is impossible not to remember the teeth, the main growth of which just falls on 12-18 months. There is a lot of phosphorus in the breast, from which tooth enamel is built, as well as potassium, cobalt, magnesium and chromium.
Ingredients
- - ½ pcs. + -
- - 0.3 kg + -
- - 1 PC. + -
- - 1/2 tsp + -
- Zucchini - 0.2 kg + -
How to cook chicken cutlets in a double boiler for a 1 year old baby
Such cutlets can be given freely to children from 10 months, because only permitted ingredients are included. And we will cook them for a couple. And let the presence of a tiny dose of garlic do not bother you, because you can add this healthy aromatic vegetable as a seasoning to the dish as soon as the child reaches 10 months.
- We clean the zucchini from the skin and seeds and grate it with small holes. Then lightly add the vegetable mass and leave for 15 minutes.
- Let's take care of the meat. Cut the chicken fillet into medium slices and send to the blender bowl. Squeeze a garlic clove through a crusher there, throw in half an onion and grind everything to a homogeneous consistency.
- After a quarter of an hour, the zucchini will release quite a lot of juice. It must be drained, and the pulp itself must be squeezed out and put into the minced meat.
- Mix the zucchini with minced meat, add salt to taste to the cutlet mass, about half a teaspoon, and knead it once more.
- Now, wetting our hands in water, form small round, slightly flattened cutlets from the cooked minced meat and put them in a double boiler.
- Cooking time for cutlets in a double boiler is 20-25 minutes.
At the exit we get little white tender balls. If your child is not picky about food, then the onions for these cutlets can not be ground in a blender, but finely and finely crumbled, then they will turn out to be more juicy, tasty and airy.
Chicken cutlets for a one-year-old child in the oven
This step-by-step recipe for chicken cutlets for a one-year-old child includes semolina, although you can replace it with ground oatmeal in the same amount. Such cutlets can be cooked not only at home in a stationary oven, but also in the country, if you have a multicooker.
Ingredients
- Selected fresh egg - 1 pc .;
- Chicken breast fillet - 0.3 kg;
- Onion bulb medium - 70 g;
- Semolina - 1.5 tablespoons;
- Salt to taste.
How to bake chicken cutlets in the oven for a one-year-old child
- Cooking minced meat is very quick and easy. Put all the ingredients in a blender and grind them until smooth.
- Now the minced meat should stand for half an hour so that the cereal has time to swell.
- After the specified period of time, we form cutlets from the minced meat and place them on a baking sheet lined with a silicone mat or greased with a small amount of oil.
- You need to bake the cutlets in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for 20-30 minutes, depending on the size of the cue ball.
If you do not want the cutlets to acquire a golden brown crust, then you can tightly close the baking sheet with foil. This will create a quenching effect.
Minced chicken meatballs with gravy for a 2-year-old baby
Most pediatricians advise against giving fried foods to children under the age of three.
In this recipe, we will brown the cutlets quite a bit in a frying pan with a minimum amount of oil, and the main method of preparing the meatballs is stewing in a classic gravy.
Traditionally mashed potatoes are prepared for such a dish as a side dish. But many children also like vermicelli and buckwheat.
Ingredients
- Minced chicken - 0.5 kg;
- Wheat bread crumb - 4 slices;
- Milk - 100 ml;
- Selected chicken egg white - 1 pc .;
- Salt - 2 tsp;
- Garlic cloves - 2 pcs.;
- Small carrots - 1 pc.;
- Small onion - 1 head;
- Vegetable oil - 40 g;
- Flour of the highest grade - 100 g.
- Soak the bakery crumb in warm milk. The crusts from the slices of bread must be cut off, only the soft part is required.
- Half an onion and half a carrot, very, very finely chopped with beads.
- Mix the bread crumb with minced meat, mashed garlic, salt to taste and vegetable crumbs.
- Now, using a mixer, blender or with your own hands using a whisk, beat the chicken protein with a pinch of salt to a stable foam.
- Gently mix the protein mass into the minced meat so that the foam does not settle too much.
- We put a frying pan on heating over medium heat and grease it with oil.
- We form medium-sized cutlets from the minced meat obtained, roll them in flour and immediately put them in a preheated frying pan.
- It is not necessary to fry the cutlets for a long time, two minutes for each side is enough. The main thing is that the flour breading is baked to a light blush. After that, take out the cutlets on a plate.
- Do not turn off the empty pan, but pour the rest of the oil into it, in which it is necessary to sprinkle the finely chopped onion and grated carrots.
- As soon as the vegetables become soft, pour 1-2 tablespoons into the container. flour, mix everything thoroughly and at the same time pour in a couple of glasses of water or broth.
- Stir the gravy vigorously before boiling so that there are no lumps. And only then add some salt to it to taste and send the cutlets to the frying pan.
- Reduce the fire, cover the container and simmer the cutlets in the sauce for 25 minutes.
Thanks to the whipped proteins, chicken cutlets for a 2-year-old child are very fluffy and airy. And diced vegetables will add juiciness, original taste and beautiful appearance to them.