🔥 Zero failure·Baby nutritional supplement "Spring Shrimp Cake" family practical version
What I want to share with you today is a precious recipe that won the first prize in a baby meal preparation competition in Hangzhou not long ago. It is "Spring Shrimp Cake".
This complementary food is specially created for babies over 12 months old. Its appearance is very cute, its taste is extremely soft and glutinous, and the most important thing is that its nutritional density is particularly high.
As a "practicalist" with an in-depth study of this recipe, I completely dismantled this award-winning work, and then compiled it into a standardized tutorial, the kind of tutorial that you can easily reproduce at home.
By following this guide, even a newbie in the kitchen can make this shrimp cake for your baby that is rich in calcium, has iron-supplementing properties, and has zero additives.
🛒 Accurate food ratio and quantified ingredient list
For first-time success, the precise ratio of ingredients is key.
Please strictly follow the following checklist to prepare (for a standard glass food bowl or mold):
➡️Main ingredients : There are fresh shrimps, the weight of which is 100 grams , which corresponds to about 8-10 medium-sized fresh shrimps, the net weight of these fresh shrimps after shelling; and broccoli, which weighs 30 grams , corresponding to about 3 small florets.
Among them, the auxiliary ingredients are: 1 egg. This egg only uses egg white. If the baby is allergic to egg white, 20 ml of water and 10 grams of corn starch can be used instead.
In terms of "seasonings and starches", there are 10 grams of corn starch. This 10 grams of corn starch can play a role in shaping and is indispensable. There are also lemons. The number of lemons is 2 to 3 slices, or ginger slices can be used instead of lemons. They can be used to remove the smell.
➡️Garnish : a small section of carrot (cut into thin slices for decoration).
🔪 Step-by-step procedures and key cooking points
The first step: preprocessing of ingredients - removing fishy smell and blanching
Remove the heads and shells of the fresh shrimps and pick out the shrimp lines with a toothpick.
Place lemon slices on top of the shrimp and marinate for up to 10 minutes. This step can effectively remove the fishy smell from the shrimp, thereby giving the shrimp a fruity flavor.
The broccoli is cut into small florets, and then placed in boiling water to blanch for two minutes. It must be cooked until it is very soft and rotten, then taken out, rinsed with cold water, and finally drained and reserved for later use.
Blanch the carrot slices in boiling water for 1 minute until soft.
Step 2: Whip the shrimp paste - delicate and smooth
Put the marinated shrimp, blanched broccoli, 10 grams of cornstarch, and half an egg white (about 15 to 20 grams) into the food supplement machine.
The key point is, don't add all the egg whites at once, but add half of them first, stir until fine and smooth, and see how it turns out.
Beat into a fine shrimp paste , it should be thick and not easy to drip.
If it is too dry, you can add a small amount of egg white and continue beating.
Step Three: Shaping and Embellishment—Appearance and Fun
Prepare a container that can be used for steaming, such as a small glass bowl, and brush a thin layer of supplementary oil, such as avocado oil, on the bottom and sides of the bowl to facilitate demolding.
Pour the whipped broccoli and shrimp puree into the bowl and smooth the surface with a spatula.
Shake gently a few times to release air bubbles.
First take the blanched carrot slices and cut them into floret shapes or into small star shapes, and then place them evenly on the surface of the shrimp paste for decoration. This not only has a good-looking visual effect, but also can supplement carotene.
Step 4: Steaming and serving - heat and shaping
Cover the bowl with a layer of heat-resistant plastic wrap and poke a few small holes with a toothpick.
Add cold water to the pot, turn to medium heat and steam for 15-20 minutes after the water boils.
Beginners please be careful to avoid pitfalls: there is a relationship between time and the depth of the container. If you can insert a toothpick into the center and there is no sticky paste when it is pulled out, it means it is cooked.
After turning off the heat, do not open the lid immediately. Allow it to simmer for three minutes before taking it out. This will prevent the shrimp cake from shrinking when it suddenly encounters the cold.
After waiting for it to cool down slightly, use a knife to score a circle around the edge of the bowl, turn it upside down to unmold, and cut it into strips or blocks that your baby's little hands can easily grasp.
✨ Taste adjustment skills and finished product flavor characteristics
This finished product called "Spring Shrimp Cake" has a chewy and chewy texture, which is very helpful for babies to chew and swallow.
Due to the addition of broccoli, when you eat it, in addition to the delicious taste of the shrimp itself, there is also a hint of sweetness from the vegetables.
If your baby has adapted to more flavors, squeeze 2 to 3 drops of low-salt soy sauce without additives into the shrimp paste, or sprinkle a little shrimp skin powder for seasoning. This is a taste adjustment.
However, it should be noted that the complementary food for babies under 1 year old should remain original. Whole nuts and honey are absolutely not allowed to be added because there is a risk of suffocation and poisoning.
➡️Nutritional Adaptation Instructions : This complementary food perfectly explains what nutritional balance is.
Shrimp, which is extremely rich in protein and calcium, can help the development of the baby's bones and teeth; broccoli, known as the "crown of vegetables", is rich in vitamin C and dietary fiber; the carrots on top, which serve as decoration, can provide quite a lot of carotene, which is beneficial to the baby's vision development.
The combination of the three is a high-calcium iron supplement that is very suitable as baby finger food.
💡 Tips for newbies to avoid pitfalls and guide to home kitchen installation
❌Misunderstanding 1: The shrimp paste is not delicate enough. If you don't whip the shrimp paste for long enough, the final product will have a grainy texture, which will make it difficult for your baby to swallow.
I suggest you use a food supplement machine with a slightly more powerful power and increase the whipping time until it takes on a particularly delicate shrimp paste shape.
❌Misunderstanding 2: Shrimp cakes are too hard or too soft when cooked. Too hard may be due to too much starch or too little egg white; too soft and unable to form a fixed shape may be due to excess water (for example, the broccoli is not fully drained of water) or insufficient steaming time.
Ensure the ratio of ingredients and steaming temperature , and the success rate is extremely high.
❌Misunderstanding 3: Demold failure. Don’t skip the oiling step!
If you are worried that the amount of oil applied is not enough, you can place a piece of oil paper cut to the size of the bottom of the bowl on the bottom of the bowl to ensure a perfect demoulding effect.
After mastering this practical tutorial with standard specifications, you can easily copy the same baby meal as the competition.
As a nutritious snack on weekdays, or as a creative food supplement during holidays, this shrimp cake can make the baby eat with joy, and make the mother feel at ease while making it.
Come and give it a try, and let scientific feeding begin with this delicious "Spring Shrimp Cake" !
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