Simple Nutritional Sweet Potato and Pork Porridge Recipe for Babies

How to make Sweet Potato and Pork Porridge

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  Prepare the ingredients

  You wash the sweet potatoes, peel off the skin, and then cut them into small cubes to make it easier to mash later.

  The pork you buy should be washed with water, rubbed with salt on all sides, and soaked for about 10 minutes to reduce the smell of the pork.

  After soaking, continue to rinse the pork thoroughly under water and proceed to cut the meat into small pieces.

  Tips to eliminate the smell of pork:

  • Method 1: Blanch the pork in boiling water for about 2 – 3 minutes, then take the meat out and rinse it with clean water.
  • Method 2: Soak the pork in diluted salt water for about 20 – 30 minutes, then take the meat out and rinse it under running water.
  • Method 3: When blanching the meat, you can add one of the ingredients such as ginger, shallots, white wine, vinegar,… These ingredients can help eliminate the smell of pork.

  See details: Tips for preparing pork without smell

  

  
• 2

  Steam sweet potato and mince meat

  After cutting the sweet potato into small cubes, place it in a steamer or a pot for steaming, or you can put it in a rice cooker to steam together. Once the sweet potato is cooked, use a spoon to mash it until smooth.

  For the pork that has just been cut, put it into a blender, add a little water, and blend the meat until finely minced. Then transfer it to a bowl.

  

  

  

  
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  Cook porridge

  You cook a portion of thick porridge just enough for the baby to eat, note that it should not be too thick.

  When the porridge is bubbling, you add the minced meat just enough (depending on how much protein you want the baby to practice eating), stir well to let the meat dissolve and blend with the porridge, keep the stove on low heat and continue to simmer until the porridge boils again.

  When the porridge and meat are cooked, you add the mashed sweet potato, at this point you must stir continuously to prevent the sweet potato from clumping and to blend it with the porridge. Keep stirring for about 5 minutes then turn off the heat.

  As soon as you turn off the heat, while the porridge is still hot, you add 1 teaspoon of olive oil, stir well to mix the oil with the porridge.

  

  

  

  
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  Final product

  Sweet potato porridge with pork has a light yellow shimmering color, not too watery, with sweet potato and meat well mixed into the porridge, making it easier for the baby to eat.

  Thus, the sweet potato porridge with pork for the baby is very nutritious and ready. It helps the baby practice eating protein from pork while also changing the baby’s palate with sweet and fragrant sweet potato, and olive oil makes the meal more delicious. This dish is wonderful, isn’t it?