Today in the shops, recommended for baby food, you can find a lot of different products - for every taste and budget. But the young mums often have to face and not a very pleasant surprise, when, for example, quite normal in composition and shelf life of the product is well-known manufacturer from indigestion baby. Who is to blame - the manufacturer or supplier - parents are not interested. We are interested in another question: how to protect yourself against such surprises?
Healthy baby is in the mother's arms, and her desire to save the child from the troubles - namely, in an effort to prepare the most useful and healthy food to your baby. After all, nothing is impossible, even if you want to cook... cheese.
Cottage cheese for the kid: what to choose
The first acquaintance with cheese in a child usually occurs after habituation to soups and purees, ie, 7-8 months of age. For feeding, you can choose cottage cheese from the store, but it is worth remembering that in its composition to eat sugar and fruit, can cause allergies and provoke obesity. And you can do at home curd: it is very simple.
Cooking cottage cheese
Per 1 liter of milk to take one bottle leaven "Kefir" or "cottage cheese" (or children's ready kefir - 50-100 mL). Milk bring to a boil and cooled to 35-40 degrees. We enter into the milk ferment, stir well and leave for a while in a warm place until the milk will not get the consistency of yogurt. Soured milk is heated to separate the serum: you will see the top in a saucepan gather dense white mass, and the translucent serum appear along the edges.
For the first lures better to heat the milk in a water bath: it will provide the most delicate cheese. Over time, the milk can be heated in a very slow fire, in any case, not allowing boil. If a lot of heat quickly, curd knock into hard, tasteless lumps.
Thus, serum detachment have already begun: so prepare the colander on top was covered with a clean cheesecloth and pour the milk mass. After draining the serum can be hung curd to get denser its texture. Keep a cottage cheese can be refrigerated for 1-2 days.
