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Fruity Cream Cheese recipe for Babies and Toddler, Tarla Dalal

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by Tarla Dalal

फ्रूटी क्रीम चीज़ - हिन्दी में पढ़ें (Fruity Cream Cheese ( Baby and Toddler Recipe) in Hindi)

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Cream cheese (or paneer as we know it), is an excellent source of concentrated energy, protein and calcium. Some babies tire of milk by the time they are 7 months old, but their calcium requirement still needs to be met. This recipe almost fulfils your baby's daily requirements along with that of vitamin a and vitamin c.

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Homemade Cream Cheese recipe for Babies, Toddlers and Kids

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last updated: Jan 21, 2020 by Kalyani

Homemade cream cheese - easy homemade cream cheese recipe with 3 ingredients: milk, lemon and curd! After trying ricotta cheese at home, I wanted to try homemade cream cheese too, so tried this and it turned out great. It tastes almost similar to the store bought ones but preservatives free. Isn't that sounds good! The method is very simple, so do try make at home and serve your little ones guilt free cheese every time. I shall post more recipes to use this homemade cream cheese for babies soon.

You can introduce this homemade cream cheese to your baby after 8 months. Here are the few ways you could consume this homemade cream cheese:

Mix with pureed or mashed fruits.
You could apply cream cheese as a spread to plain bread.
Add it to pastas in place of processed cheese. Tastes great.
Can prepare homemade cheese cakes.

Now let's get on to check how to make homemade cream cheese recipe for babies, toddlers and Kids.

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Homemade Cream Cheese recipe for Babies, Toddlers and Kids

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Homemade Cream Cheese - easy homemade cream cheese recipe preparation

Course Essentials

Cuisine Indian

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 40 minutes

Calories

Author Kalyani

▢ Whole Milk - 1 litre
▢ Lemon Juice - 1 tbsp
▢ Curd/Yogurt - 1/2 cup

Start by keeping the milk and lemon juice ready. Boil the milk in medium low flame for 5 minutes. Stir it occasionally.
When it's about to boil (Don't let it boil), add lemon juice. Stir it gently. The mixture will start to curdle. Continue stirring gently until it completely curdles.
Set the colander/strainer in a large bowl. Place a cheese cloth or muslin cloth over it. Pour the curdled mixture to it gently. After transferring the entire curdled mixture, leave it for 15 to 30 minutes or until the water is drained out,
Then transfer the mixture to a blender and add curd. Grind it to smooth paste.
Now transfer the ground paste to a cheese cloth again and gather the corners of the cloth and tie it up. Let it stand for another 4 hours.
After 4 hours, let the cloth hang inside a container without touching the bottom of the container. Refrigerate this setup overnight and the next day open it. Cream cheese will be ready to use.

Serving: 1g

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Method :

1. Start by keeping the milk and lemon juice ready. Boil the milk in medium low flame for 5 minutes. Stir it occasionally.

2. When it's about to boil (Don't let it boil), add lemon juice. Stir it gently. The mixture will start to curdle. Continue stirring gently until it completely curdles.

3. Set the colander/strainer in a large bowl. Place a cheese cloth or muslin cloth over it. Pour the curdled mixture to it gently. After transferring the entire curdled mixture, leave it for 15 to 30 minutes or until the water is drained out,

4. Then transfer the mixture to a blender and add curd. Grind it to smooth paste.

5. Now transfer the ground paste to a cheese cloth again and gather the corners of the cloth and tie it up. Let it stand for another 4 hours.

6. After 4 hours, let the cloth hang inside a container without touching the bottom of the container. Refrigerate this setup overnight and the next day open it. Cream cheese will be ready to use.

Enjoy the fresh homemade cream cheese !

Hope you liked this recipe!

Notes :

You can also directly make cream cheese from paneer/cottage cheese, for 1 cup of paneer add 1/2 cup of curd and blend it. Continue with remaining steps from step 5.
You can wash the collected cheese before draining if any raw smell of lemon is there.
Make sure to refrigerate the cloth setup after 4 hours. Otherwise the cheese may turn out sour.
The color and volume of cream cheese purely depends on the type of milk used.
Your could use vinegar instead of lemon juice.
Let the water drain out completely before you store.
Keep it refrigerated and stays fresh for a week.
Always check with your pediatrician before introducing any new food.

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Baby puree from vegetables and fruits at home: cooking secrets

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Vegetables or fruits?

Let's try to make baby puree for our beloved baby. Despite the fact that pediatricians of the last century recommended starting complementary foods with fruits, it is better to first introduce the child to vegetables - modern doctors and nutritionists have come to this conclusion. Boiled vegetables do not irritate the gastrointestinal tract, are better absorbed, satisfy hunger, do not cause allergies and increased gas formation. In addition, vegetables do not contain fructose, which irritates the pancreas. And one more weighty argument in favor of the fact that it is better to start with vegetables - fruits are tastier, and if the baby tries them first, he will refuse vegetables, because they will seem to him more insipid. nine0005

How to prepare baby vegetable puree

What can baby puree be made of? The ideal puree for the first feeding is from cauliflower or zucchini. A little later, you can introduce pumpkin, broccoli, carrots, potatoes and green peas. Before cooking, vegetables are washed well, peeled, cut into pieces and cooked - steamed, in the oven or in the usual way, in water. The first two methods are preferable because oven roasting and steaming preserve the vitamins, minerals, nutrients, and natural color in the vegetables. And most importantly - such vegetables are much tastier. Some nutritionists recommend boiling vegetables with their skins on before peeling them, so choose your own cooking method. nine0005

If you do have to cook vegetables in a saucepan, use an enamel pot, add less water and put the vegetables in boiling water. Boil until soft, but do not overcook vegetables and fruits, otherwise they will become tasteless and lose a lot of vitamins. Ready vegetables are chopped with a blender until smooth and slightly diluted with water, vegetable broth, breast milk or mixture to a gruel state, since the child does not yet know how to digest thick food. Small pieces of vegetables in puree sometimes cause the baby to refuse to eat, so the knives in the blender should be well sharpened, and if there is no technique, you can grind the vegetables through a sieve. Salt and spices are usually not added to baby vegetable puree, and if the baby is more than 6 months old, you can put a little butter in the puree. nine0005

A few rules for making baby puree at home

Use only fresh vegetables and fruits.
Water for cooking vegetables must be filtered or bottled.
If you are using frozen foods, choose only whole fruits and vegetables as they retain the most nutrients.
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Avoid vegetables and fruits high in nitrates, such as spinach, lettuce, beets, melons, and watermelons, in infants' diets.
Store-bought vegetables are recommended to be soaked in water to remove nitrates: 1-2 hours for this, up to 24 hours for potatoes.
Mix sour-tasting fruits and berries with sweet fruits - for example, blackcurrant goes well with a banana or pear. Sour puree is unlikely to please the baby. nine0026
Give your child only fresh food, but yesterday's puree from the refrigerator is better to eat yourself.

DIY fruit puree for children

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Fruits must be of good quality, without damage, ripe and juicy, and the rules for preparing fruits do not differ from the rules for cooking vegetables. Naturally, fruit puree is not sweetened with honey and sugar - the later the child learns the taste of sugar, the stronger his health will be.

Aromatic pumpkin puree

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Cut the pumpkin in half, and then into small slices, one or two of which (depending on the appetite of the crumbs) cut into cubes. Boil the pumpkin in a double boiler or in water for 20 minutes, while warm, beat with a blender to a smooth puree and dilute if necessary with water or a mixture. Add oil and salt depending on the age of the child.

Gentle Broccoli Puree

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Separate the broccoli into florets, wash thoroughly and steam for 20 minutes. Cabbage cooks faster in water - fresh broccoli will take 7 minutes, and frozen - about 15 minutes. Broccoli puree does not need much water, it should lightly coat the vegetables. After the cabbage becomes soft, chop it in a blender or pass through a sieve. If you're mashing for kids older than a year old, be sure to add butter - the little ones will gobble up broccoli on both cheeks! nine0005

How to make baby pear puree at home

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Zucchini and apple puree

Little gourmets will love this delicious puree, besides, zucchini is considered the most hypoallergenic vegetables, which, due to their high potassium content, have a beneficial effect on the heart. Apples contain iodine, iron and phosphorus, and due to the high concentration of vitamin C, apples help in the prevention of colds and viral infections.

Wash the zucchini and apples well, de-seed them, cut into pieces and cook in a saucepan for about 20 minutes, considering that the zucchini will cook 5 minutes faster. By the way, apples are steamed for 15 minutes, zucchini - 10 minutes. Next, vegetables and fruits are chopped in a blender, mixed and brought to a boil. For allergic children, this is the best side dish! nine0005

Exotic mango

Sometimes you can pamper your baby with exotic fruits - for example, make mango puree. This is a very delicate fruit with an original taste, containing 12 amino acids and improving sleep.

Choose only ripe fruits that are soft and reddish-yellow in color. Peel the mango from a thick skin and a large bone, put the pulp in a blender, add 2 tbsp. l. water and mash it, and then heat it in a saucepan for several minutes. For a baby up to a year old, it is better to give mashed potatoes with heat treatment to facilitate digestion, and older children can be fed raw mangoes. nine0005

Carrot and Potato Puree

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Pumpkin and apple puree

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Cut pumpkin and apple flesh without peel or seeds into pieces, place in a steamer and cook for 20 minutes. Grind pumpkin, apples and raisins in a blender or by hand with a pusher if the child has already learned to chew. They say that this puree is very good for skin and hair, and you can check the truth of this statement yourself if you start feeding this dish to your baby.