After 6 months, pediatricians are advised to administer meat to their babies. Given the characteristics of the child's body, this must be done very carefully. You can start complementary foods, for example, with chicken soufflé. Delicate and very soft, it almost melts in your mouth. There are many ways to prepare such a dish.

Oven chicken soufflé for children

Parents must ensure that the food for their baby is healthy and wholesome. This applies not only to the products themselves, but also how they are processed.

So, in home cooking it is best to do, for example, chicken soufflé in the oven. For children from one year old, this is an ideal option.

The hostess will need the most ordinary products for work:

  • 60 grams of chicken;
  • 30 milliliters of whole milk;
  • 1 quail egg;
  • 3 grams of premium flour;
  • a piece of oil;
  • 2 grams of any vegetable oil (for processing molds).

To prepare a souffle you need:

  1. Wash and boil the fillet thoroughly.
  2. Grind it in a meat grinder.
  3. Pour warmed milk into the minced meat, add flour, put the melted butter and a quarter of the quail egg yolk.
  4. All this must be thoroughly mixed.
  5. Oil the form and distribute the prepared composition in it.
  6. Bake it in the oven for at least half an hour. Set the temperature inside the chamber to approximately 170 degrees.

This gentle and very light souffle will appeal to any child.

The recipe is like in kindergarten

To prepare soufflé from chicken in preschool institutions, an oven is also used. Given the number of kindergarten students, this option is most preferred.

In most cases, chefs prepare such a dish using the following ratio of the main ingredients:

  • 0.6 kilograms of chicken fillet;
  • 300 milliliters of kefir;
  • salt;
  • 60 g of flour;
  • 70 g raw carrots;
  • 4 large eggs;
  • half a pack of oil.

Prepare such a dish step by step:

  1. First, the washed meat is boiled in salted water. For flavor, you can add 1 sheet of laurel to it.
  2. Next, boiled fillet must be passed through a meat grinder. To make the mass softer, you can do this twice.
  3. Add the yolks of four eggs to the minced meat, salt and mix well.
  4. Rub the carrots on a fine grater.
  5. Melt the butter in a pan, put chopped carrots in it and cook for about 5 minutes. She will become much softer.
  6. Fry a little flour in a dry frying pan.
  7. Add all prepared ingredients to the minced meat and mix. The last proteins are introduced separately whipped into the foam.
  8. Put the resulting mass into a mold processed from the inside with butter.
  9. Put it in the oven, heated to 180 degrees, and bake for 30 minutes.

Serve such a dish only after it has cooled completely, cutting with a knife into portions.

Cooking with minced chicken

Making chicken soufflé will be much easier and faster if you use ready-made minced meat for this. For the aroma, you can add various spices or seasonings. True, this recipe is more suitable for older children.

In this case, we use the following set of components:

  • 500 grams of minced chicken;
  • 1 egg
  • a glass of milk;
  • 60 grams of flour;
  • 75 grams of sour cream;
  • salt;
  • 5 grams of paprika (ground);
  • pepper.

The technology for preparing such a souffle remains the same:

  1. Stuffing put in a deep bowl.
  2. Add to it an egg, pepper and salt a little. Stir it all and pour in the milk.
  3. Repeat mixing until the mixture is homogeneous.
  4. Pour it onto a baking sheet that has been internally treated with oil.
  5. Grease the surface with sour cream and sprinkle with paprika.
  6. Bake in the oven at 200 degrees.

As soon as the mass on top is browned, the souffle can be considered ready.

Tender steamed chicken souffle

Souffle from chicken will turn out more tender if steamed.

 

In addition, it is better to use a food processor to grind and mix products.

For this option, it is good to use the following set of components:

  • 0.4 kilograms of chicken fillet;
  • 60 grams of sour cream;
  • salt;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 35 - 40 grams of semolina;
  • 50 grams of any vegetable refined oil.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. The fillet washed and dried with a napkin is randomly cut into pieces, and then chopped in a combine.
  2. Drive eggs there, add salt and grind everything again.
  3. Add semolina and repeat mixing.
  4. Introduce sour cream and beat well.
  5. Transfer the resulting homogeneous mass into molds.
  6. Install them on the grate of a double boiler, after pouring a little water into the thicket.

After that, it remains only to turn on the device and wait. Literally after 20 minutes, the tender, almost airy, souffle will be ready.

How to cook with vegetables

To diversify the baby’s diet, you can make chicken soufflé with various vegetables. The dish turns out low-calorie, but very useful. By the way, for adults it is also suitable. This is especially true for those on a diet.

For such a light souffle, you will need to take:

  • 1 egg
  • 800 grams of chicken;
  • 1 onion;
  • 200 grams of cabbage and carrots;
  • salt;
  • a glass of milk;
  • some fresh herbs;
  • pepper.

Cooking Technique:

  1. Finely chop the peeled onion. Chop the cabbage finely. Grind carrots or just chop.
  2. Prepared products are loaded into the blender along with the rest of the components and mix well.
  3. Arrange the mass in molds.
  4. Bake in the oven for 20 - 25 minutes at a temperature not lower than 180 degrees.

A tender and very fragrant chicken souffle with vegetables will be a great option for a light dinner for the whole family.

With rice

Children are often naughty, not wanting to eat healthy (according to their parents) food. In order to feed a naughty baby, mom can try to make him soufflé from chicken with rice.

Products for this will need the simplest:

  • 1 raw egg;
  • 300 grams of boiled rice and chicken breast;
  • salt;
  • 10 grams of butter;
  • some curry and ground pepper.

To cook such a souffle is better for a couple. But first you need:

  1. Carefully cut the meat from the bone and grind it in a meat grinder.
  2. Do the same with boiled rice.
  3. Transfer both products into a deep bowl.
  4. Add salt and spices to them and mix. Some mothers try not to use any seasonings in dishes intended for children. In this case, these fears are completely in vain. After all, curry not only emphasizes the taste of meat, but also significantly improves digestion.
  5. In conclusion, you need to add oil and again gently mix the resulting composition.
  6. From the resulting mass, form small oval cutlets with your hands.
  7. It is desirable to steam them. If the house does not have special equipment, then you can put the blanks in a colander, set it over a pot of boiling water and keep it for 15 minutes on each side.

This souffle will be enjoyed with pleasure not only by kids, but also by those who try to eat right.

Boiled Chicken Souffle

There is another original recipe - from boiled chicken, fresh vegetables, nuts and herbs, you get simply amazing souffle. Moreover, such a dish will be not only tasty, but also very satisfying.

True, in this case, the list of ingredients is quite large:

  • 2 zucchini;
  • 2 boiled chicken breasts;
  • salt;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 150 grams of broccoli;
  • a bunch of fresh herbs;
  • a glass of milk;
  • 1 onion;
  • 1 tablespoon of peeled pistachios;
  • ground pepper;
  • 50 grams of vegetable oil.

However, making such a souffle is not at all difficult:

  1. First, the proteins must be separated from the yolks and refrigerated.
  2. Chopped and washed vegetables arbitrarily, and then grind together with the breast in a blender.
  3. Add milk, yolk, spices, butter, chopped nuts, salt and mix again.
  4. Beat the protein in foam, add it to the rest of the products and mix gently.
  5. Put the prepared “dough” into molds and bake for 20 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees.

The souffle is very soft and delicate. And the excellent aroma only complements the big picture. Such a yummy for dinner for a child will be a real holiday.

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