Undoubtedly the best and healthiest breakfast for children is porridge. In this article, we will share with you recipes for children's cereals and tell you how to cook tasty and healthy porridge for your child.

Baby cereals

It is very important that baby porridge is appropriate for the age of the child.

For children under one year old, porridge should be sufficiently liquid and homogeneous so that the child does not need to chew it. Porridges for children from one year old can be thicker and more heterogeneous in their consistency, including with the addition of fruits and nuts. You can adjust the degree of liquid by adding water or milk to the porridge, and uniformity can be achieved using, for example, a blender.

The most useful cereals for children are buckwheat, rice and oatmeal.

Porridges for children are useful because they contain complex carbohydrates that saturate the body with energy for a long period of time and do not cause a feeling of heaviness in the stomach. Porridge is great for breakfast and for children's dinner.

How to cook porridge for a child?

Rice porridge recipe.

It is cooked in a ratio of 1 part rice to 1.5 parts water. Those. For example, for 1 cup of rice, 1.5 cups of water.

Rinse the rice, put it in a saucepan, cover with water. Cover tightly. Bring to a boil and cook over high heat for about 2 minutes, then a little over medium heat and then on low heat. The total cooking time is 12 minutes.

During cooking, do not open the lid, do not mix the rice.

Let it brew for another 10-12 minutes.

Buckwheat porridge - recipe.

Boil in a ratio of 1 to 2m. Those. for 1 cup of buckwheat - 2 cups of water.

We wash the buckwheat, put it in a saucepan, fill it with water and close the lid tightly. Bring to a boil and cook over medium heat until the water is completely boiled away. We do not lift the lid in the process, we do not mix the buckwheat.

In spite of well-established habits, it is not recommended to add sugar and milk to buckwheat porridge, because they neutralize the many beneficial properties of buckwheat porridge.

Millet porridge - a recipe for cooking.

For 1 cup of millet - half a teaspoon of salt and 1 tbsp. l. oils. Cooked in a ratio of 1 to 2m. For 1 cup of millet you need 2 cups of water.

Pour 2 cups of water into a saucepan, add salt and oil. When the water boils, add pre-washed millet to it and cook until it thickens.

After that, the porridge must be left to infuse for an hour.

Semolina porridge without lumps - a recipe for cooking.

More for variety than benefit. For 1 glass of water, 2 tablespoons of cereals.

Pour water into a saucepan, add cereal and cook, stirring constantly. This is what will allow you to cook porridge without lumps, an even consistency.

Oatmeal recipe.

Oatmeal is prepared in a ratio of 1 to 1.5. For 1 cup of cereal, 1.5 cups of water.

Rinse oatmeal under running water, pour 1.5 cups of cold water. While stirring, bring to a boil, remove the foam and cook for another 5-7 minutes over medium or low heat.

After readiness for another 5-7 minutes, let it brew.

In the process, porridge can be salted, add a little sugar and butter.

Millet-rice porridge "Friendship" - a recipe.

For 1 glass of cereals (half a glass of rice and half a glass of millet) - 1 liter of water. Rinse the cereals.

Pour water into the pan, put the cereal, add sugar and salt. Bring the porridge to a boil, and then simmer for another 30 minutes over low heat under a tightly closed lid. The main thing is that the porridge does not burn! When the porridge is ready, add a little butter.

If you want to serve porridge with milk, remember: Milk is added to ready or almost ready porridge!

Cooking porridge with milk does not make sense, because when boiling, the structure of milk protein is disturbed and milk turns into an indigestible product!

What is the best way to cook porridge for breakfast.

Traditionally, porridge is boiled in a saucepan, but we actively use a slow cooker. Actually, for the sake of morning cereals, they originally bought it.

Our morning looks like this. We woke up, lay down, decided that we were getting up. We go to the kitchen together in a slow cooker, pour cereal, fill it with water, salt, turn on the porridge mode (this is about 20 minutes of heating, pressure set + cooking).

While the slow cooker is running, we go to wash, dress, comb our hair and return to the kitchen to the finished porridge. Arrange on plates, add butter, sugar, pour milk and have breakfast.

As a rule, we cook more rice and buckwheat than for morning porridge, and then it becomes an excellent side dish for dinner, and sometimes dinner itself, if you are too lazy to cook or the child asks for porridge for dinner again. And yes, our child asks for porridge and eats it with pleasure!

More interesting ideas for children's breakfasts can be found in our article: What to cook a child for breakfast quickly and tasty.

You can offer your recipes for baby cereals in the comments to this article or in discussions in our groups on Facebook, VKontakte and MoemMir. Your experience will be valuable to us and many other mothers!