Delicious salmon porridge with water spinach, full of nutrients, is a great suggestion for your baby’s weaning meal. Let’s get cooking with TasteVN and immediately prepare this salmon porridge for your little one. The detailed recipe is right below.
1. Salmon porridge with water spinach
Preparation
10 minutes
Cooking
20 minutes
Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Salmon porridge with water spinach Serves 2
Salmon 100 gr (Preferably use salmon fillet) White rice 2 tablespoons Water spinach 100 gr (about 1 handful) Olive oil 1 teaspoon Salt/seasoning powder a little
How to make Salmon and Malabar Spinach Porridge
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Prepare the ingredients
After buying the salmon, rinse it with dilute salt water and then rinse it again with clean water, and let it drain.
Pick the fresh leaves of malabar spinach, wash them, and chop them finely. Next, put them into a blender, add 2 tablespoons of water, and blend until smooth.
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Boil and mash the salmon
Put about 1 cup of water (rice bowl size) into a pot, bring to a boil, and add the prepared salmon to boil for about 1 – 2 minutes until cooked, then remove. Note that you should keep the fish boiling water for cooking the porridge.
Wait for the salmon to cool slightly, then proceed to remove the bones, discard the skin, and mash the fish flesh.
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Cook porridge
Add 2 tablespoons of rice to the pot, add 200ml of water and cook until soft for about 10 – 15 minutes.
After the porridge is soft, season with 1/2 teaspoon of seasoning and add the fish boiling water, cook until the porridge starts to boil again, then add all the prepared fish and stir well.
Cook for about 1 minute, then add the blended water spinach, use a spoon to stir well and cook until the porridge boils a little more, then you can turn off the heat and serve in a bowl.
To increase the nutrition of the porridge, add 1 teaspoon of olive oil and mix well.
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Finished Product
With just a few extremely simple steps, you can have a delicious salmon porridge with water spinach for your little one.
The porridge grains bloom, soft and smooth, combined with the eye-catching green color of water spinach, fresh salmon, and sweet meat will be your baby’s favorite weaning food.
2. Salmon Porridge with Water Spinach and Sweet Potato
Preparation
10 minutes
Cooking
10 minutes
Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Salmon Porridge with Water Spinach and Sweet Potato For 2 people
Salmon fillet 50 gr White rice porridge 1/2 cup (rice bowl) Water spinach 100 gr (about 1 handful) Sweet potato 1 tuber (medium-sized) Ginger 1 tuber (small) Chopped shallots 1 tablespoon Cooking oil 2 teaspoons (suitable for babies) Salt a little
How to choose fresh and delicious sweet potatoes
- You should choose sweet potatoes that are long and round, and feel heavy when held.
- Choose sweet potatoes that feel soft and light when squeezed; these are shriveled potatoes that will be very sweet and delicious, not fibrous.
- Avoid choosing sweet potatoes that are too soft or have black spots as these indicate rotten potatoes.
- Do not choose very small sweet potatoes as they will be fibrous and lack starch, making them not tasty.
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How to make Salmon Porridge with Water Spinach and Sweet Potatoes
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Prepare and mash the salmon
Wash the salmon with diluted salt water and then rinse with cold water, drain.
Prepare a pot with about 500ml of water, slice ginger thinly and add to the pot, bring the water to a boil.
Once the water boils, add the salmon and cook for about 2 minutes until cooked, then remove it and strain the cooking water through a sieve to use for making porridge. Next, mash the salmon.
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Prepare other ingredients
Peel the sweet potato, cut it into bite-sized pieces, then steam until cooked. After steaming, mash the sweet potato.
Pick the leaves of the water spinach, wash them clean, then put them into a blender, add 2 tablespoons of cold water and blend until smooth.
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Cooking porridge
Add 1 teaspoon of cooking oil for the baby into the pot, heat the oil and add 1 tablespoon of minced shallots, sauté until fragrant, then add the prepared salmon, stir-fry quickly for about 1 minute.
Add all the white porridge into the pot, add 1 cup of fish broth (rice bowl). Cook until the porridge boils, then add all the mashed sweet potato, stir well and cook for about 2 minutes.
Next, add the blended water from the amaranth and cook together, stirring constantly to prevent the porridge from burning during cooking.
When the porridge boils again, add 1 teaspoon of baby oil, mix well, turn off the heat, and the dish is complete.
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Final product
The salmon porridge with amaranth and sweet potato is delicious and nutritious, ready for your baby to start weaning.
The porridge grains are fluffy, smooth, the salmon is sweet and meaty, the sweet potato is fragrant and rich, and the amaranth is fresh, ensuring that your baby will enjoy this porridge very much.
How to choose fresh and delicious salmon fillet
- Fresh and delicious salmon fillet will have a bright orange or dark orange color that is very eye-catching.
- Choose salmon when you observe that the fat stripes of the salmon are evenly distributed and have a bright white color.
- Fresh salmon meat will have very good elasticity when pressed, and it has the characteristic smell of fresh fish.
- Avoid purchasing pieces of fish with cloudy white fat stripes, soft and mushy flesh, and pale meat color.
See details: How to choose fresh and delicious salmon fillet
How to choose fresh and delicious water spinach
- Fresh and delicious water spinach will have a bright green color from the tips to the stems and leaves.
- You should choose water spinach plants with small leaves, as they will be very tasty and sweet when eaten.
- Good quality water spinach will have shiny leaves, dark green color, and plump, juicy leaves.
- Avoid choosing water spinach with pale leaves, large leaves, as they will not taste good.
- Do not buy if you see the water spinach leaves are bruised, leaking water, or have an unusual smell.
How to eliminate the fishy smell from salmon fillets
- To remove the fishy smell from salmon, you should wash the salmon with diluted salt water or lemon juice, then rinse with clean water.
- Alternatively, you can eliminate the fishy smell of salmon using white wine and ginger. Clean the fish, then soak it with a little white wine and smashed ginger for about 10 minutes before rinsing with water.
- Use unsweetened fresh milk to remove the fishy smell from the fish and also enhance the flavor of the salmon. First, wash the fish meat with water, then soak it in unsweetened fresh milk for 10 minutes, then take it out and you can proceed with cooking.
- For salmon porridge, you can wash the fish with clean water, and while boiling the fish, add a few slices of ginger to eliminate the fishy smell.
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Above is a detailed guide on 2 ways to cook salmon porridge with water spinach that is rich, sweet, and nutritious. TasteVN hopes that these weaning suggestions will help your baby eat well, grow quickly, and develop comprehensively. Wishing you success in your cooking!
*Image and recipe sources from 2 YouTube channels Kimi Food TV and Baby food
