Properties of chicken breast for soup
Chicken breast is a dietary and low-calorie meat.
Beef and pork are digested longer and harder by a child due to the calorie content of the meat. Thanks to this, the breast is suitable for feeding children from one year of age and older.
Breast meat is easily digestible due to its high content of polyunsaturated acids.
The amino acids histidine and niacin (B3) promote the growth and strengthening of bone tissue and hematopoiesis in the child’s body.
Chicken meat is one of the richest foods in protein. In addition, it contains the most significant amounts of vitamins B3, A, PP, as well as zinc, choline, cobalt, potassium, and iron.
Attention!
But in addition to these substances necessary for proper development, there are harmful ones, such as albumin and purine, which cause allergic reactions in the child.
These harmful substances appear as a result of the addition of antibiotics and fertilizers to the water when feeding chicken in poultry farms so that the birds are less sick.
Important!
The darker the chicken meat (thighs and drumsticks are the champions of toxins in chicken), the more of these substances the meat contains. In the breast, the toxin content is several times reduced (1/100) from the rest of the chicken’s body. Therefore, for young children, only breast is chosen.
The most harmless for the child, the brisket will be in the soup. Depending on the choice of additional products, such as cereals, noodles, cheese, vegetables, etc., chicken breast soup will be a source of additional vitamins and elements.
Toxic and harmful substances are removed only during the cooking process! Do not fry, bake, or steamer, as these cooking methods retain toxins in the meat. When the chicken is boiled, everything unnecessary (fats, toxins, hormones) goes into the water.
Chicken breast soup with noodles
The recipe for this soup is simple and does not require any special ingredients or skills. You can include it in your diet as early as 1 year. Children 3-4 years old and older will be interested in curly pasta: letters or stars.
To prepare 1.5 liters you will need:
- vermicelli - 100-150 gr.;
- potatoes 4-5 tubers;
- onion 50 gr.;
- carrots 50 gr.;
- breast 150-200 gr.;
- salt to taste.
Preparation:
- Peeled potatoes are cut into slices, chicken into cubes.
- The onion is cut as finely as possible, the carrots into strips or circles.
- Boil pieces of meat without skin (water 1 cm from the level of meat), the first broth is drained.
- After the second broth boils, potatoes, onions and carrots are added.
- The soup is salted, and after another boil, vermicelli is added. After 5-7 minutes the stove turns off.
- The cooled soup can be served.
This soup can also be prepared with homemade noodles; it’s not difficult to make it yourself.
For this you will need:
- 100 grams of flour,
- salt,
- egg 1 C,
- oil 1 teaspoon.
- Break an egg into a bowl and add salt.
- Gradually add flour and knead the dough.
- Mix thoroughly for at least 10 minutes until a homogeneous mass is formed.
- Afterwards the piece is rolled out thinly (1-2 mm), greased with oil, and cut into thin strips.
- These noodles can be immediately cooked in soup or frozen.
Attention!
Chicken broth really helps you recover faster when you are sick. This is due to the high content of anti-inflammatory substances in chicken meat. In addition, it is easily digestible, contains nutrients, and does not cause heaviness in the stomach.
Chicken broth recipes
In general, children perceive chicken broth very positively. The dish is tasty, you can drink it, the well-cooked meat is easy to chew. We advise you to prepare several dishes for your baby that he will definitely like.
Chicken broth: breast recipe
Ingredients for two servings
- chicken breast – 100 grams;
- purified water – 500 ml;
- carrots – 1 piece;
- onions – 1 piece;
- greens, salt - to taste.
Preparation
Prepare the meat. To do this, you need to wash it well, get rid of the skin and fat. The meat can be cut into portions or simply boiled whole. Put the water on the fire, it should boil. Place the meat in the pan, add salt, reduce the heat and watch for the appearance of foam, it must be skimmed off, so the meat will not be bitter, but will be softer.
Cut the carrots into slices or cook them whole, just like the onions. Cook the broth over medium heat for an hour.
Chicken broth soup
Ingredients
- broth - 1.5 liters;
- carrots – 2 pieces;
- onions – 1 piece;
- potatoes - 3 tubers;
- vermicelli/noodles – 100 grams;
- chicken egg - 1 piece;
- salt, dill - to taste.
Preparation
First of all, prepare the base - chicken broth (see recipe above). Remove the meat from the broth, let it cool and chop into pieces.
Peel carrots, potatoes, onions. Grate the carrots, potatoes and onions on a fine grater, cut into pieces convenient for you. Beat the egg separately.
Place the broth over medium heat and add the potatoes, after 15 minutes, start adding carrots and onions one by one.
When the potatoes are soft, you can add vermicelli and meat.
10 minutes before readiness, pour the egg into the soup in a thin stream, add dill, stir the dish so that the egg spreads evenly.
Serve the soup with white bread or breadcrumbs.
Semolina porridge with chicken broth
Ingredients
- semolina - 2 full tbsp. l;
- chicken broth - 1.5 cups;
- chicken breast – 1 piece;
- butter – 30 grams;
- salt, herbs - to taste.
Preparation
Add finely chopped boiled meat (200 grams) to the pan with chicken broth and bring to a boil. Stirring constantly, slowly add the cereal and cook for a couple of minutes, without stopping stirring, do not forget to salt our dish, cook for another 7 minutes over low heat. Add the greens and you're done!
Meatball soup
This soup contains a minimum of ingredients and is easy to prepare. For decoration, you can cut out figures from carrots, such as a car or a leaf, or a fish. Suitable for children from 2 - 3 years old.
For preparation you will need:
- chicken breast 200 gr.;
- potatoes 3-4 pcs.;
- 1 carrot and 1 onion;
- millet 4 tbsp. with a slide;
- egg 1 pc;
- salt.
Preparation:
- The breast is ground into minced meat using a blender or by hand.
- You can grind it with a meat grinder.
- Grate the onion and mix with minced meat and yolk, add a little salt.
- Using wet hands, form the minced meat into 2-3 cm meatballs.
- The washed millet is poured with water, salted and the pan is placed on the fire.
- When the millet boils, add potatoes and carrots cut into small slices.
- After the water boils, add the meatballs. The soup is cooked until it boils and then for another 5-10 minutes.
Chicken soup with potatoes and dumplings
Not only the mother, but also the child can take part in the preparation of this soup. Don’t be afraid to involve your little one in cooking; working with dough develops fine motor skills and imagination.
The dough is kneaded as for homemade noodles, rolled out thinly (2-3 mm), the child is given several small molds or a clean knife for modeling plasticine.
While your child is cutting out something, make some soup or prepare all the ingredients ahead of time to help your little one. This dish can be given to children from 2 to 3 years old.
What you will need for the dumplings:
- flour 100-150 gr.;
- egg 1-2 pcs.;
- butter for greasing dough;
- salt.
For the soup:
- potatoes 2-3 pcs.;
- chicken breast 150-200 gr.;
- carrots 1 pc.;
- dill and salt.
Preparation:
The chicken is boiled, the first broth is drained.
Finely cut potatoes into slices and carrots into strips are placed in new boiling water, and the water is salted.
The meat is separated into fibers and added to the soup being prepared.
When the broth comes to a boil, add the dumplings one at a time.
The soup is boiled for at least 10-15 minutes until they are completely boiled, fresh dill is added (dried dill is added 15 minutes before cooking).
This dish can also be served with an egg, cut into two parts.
Chicken noodle soup for a child - ideal with homemade
Chicken noodle soup for kids is ideally made with homemade, freshly prepared noodles. Of course, it will take more time to cook, but the benefits will also increase.
- chicken fillet – half a kilogram;
- potatoes - four;
- carrot - one;
- onion - one;
- two hard-boiled eggs;
- half a glass of flour;
- vegetable oil – one tablespoon;
- dill, bay leaf, salt to taste;
- clean water - liter.
Boil chicken meat washed in water in half the amount of water according to the recipe. Pour out the resulting broth and pour new water over the meat, bring it to a boil. It is better to add the bay leaf shortly before the meat is ready. When it is cooked, strain the broth and add vegetables. Potatoes and onions should be small cubes, and carrots should be grated.
The noodle dough is prepared while the vegetables are cooked. Grind the yolks with salt and mix with flour until an elastic dough forms. It should not stick to your hands. Next, cut the noodles randomly, preferably into strips no wider than two mm.
The noodles are added last and the dish is cooked for another ten minutes. After turning off, add dill.
Chicken breast soup with vegetables
This soup is ideal for children over 4 years old. A variety of vegetables will supplement your diet with useful microelements and vitamins.
What you will need for preparation:
- 200 gr. chicken breast:
- 150 gr. cauliflower;
- 2 pcs. potatoes;
- onion and carrot 1 pc.;
- 1 tomato;
- corn, canned or fresh 50 gr.;
- green peas, fresh or canned 50 gr.;
- zucchini, frozen or fresh - 50 g;
- salt, butter.
Preparation:
- The meat is boiled, the first water is poured out.
- The meat is cooling.
- Bring salted water to a boil and add finely chopped cabbage and separated meat.
- After boiling, add chopped potatoes and zucchini.
- The chopped tomato is fried in butter for 5-7 minutes, carrots and onions are added, and simmered for another 10 minutes.
- The stewed mixture is added to the soup, the temperature on the stove is reduced slightly, after 5-10 minutes corn and peas are added.
- The soup is simmered over the fire until it boils.
- Afterwards the stove turns off.
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Chicken cream soup - recipe
- To make this soup, boil 100 grams of chicken breast or thighs (washed skinless meat is immersed in cold water and put on fire). There is no need to salt the broth.
- Boil the chicken for half an hour, skimming off the foam if necessary. After this, drain the broth and cool the meat.
- Take about 300 ml of water and let it boil. Peel two potato tubers and cut into small pieces. Pour it into the water.
- Chop one medium onion and grate one carrot on a coarse grater. Place these vegetables into the pan.
- Separate the bones from the chicken, cut the meat into small pieces, and add to the soup.
- After 15-20 minutes, when the vegetables are soft, turn off the soup.
- Using a blender, puree the finished dish.
- Add a piece of butter (about 7-10 grams) or a couple of tablespoons of cream to the puree soup.
Did you know? You can additionally add zucchini or a little pumpkin to the soup (pumpkin is added along with potatoes, zucchini – after five minutes). For older children, carrots and onions can be fried and added to the soup at the end of cooking (in this case, no oil is needed).
Vegetable soup with melted cheese
The consistency of this soup is closer to a cream soup, as the cheese adds tenderness. This soup can diversify a child's menu.
Ingredients:
- chicken breast 300 gr.;
- processed cheese 2-3 pcs.;
- potatoes - 3 pcs.;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- peas, canned 150-200 gr.;
- salt.
Preparation:
- The meat is boiled, the first water is drained.
- A whole, peeled onion is placed in the second boiling water and salted.
- Finely crumble the cooked meat and add it to the soup.
- Potatoes and carrots are placed simultaneously in boiling water.
- After 5-7 minutes, remove the onion and add peas. Afterwards the cheese is grated on a fine grater.
- Stirring constantly, cheese is added to the soup. Stir until the cheese is completely dissolved.
- Turn off the stove.
This is interesting!
To make the processed cheese easier to grate, place it in the freezer for 10 minutes.
