Fish: ideas for eating small fish

Often, the fish did not score in the small plates. Of course there is the fried fish, but it is bold. Here are some ideas to eat fish to your children without going through the box "frying".

Choice of fish

Choose fish fillets or blocks (thick slices). In these pieces, there are fewer edges.

Opt for the fish to taste sweeter, they are often white-fleshed (hake, sole, cod ...), and avoid strong-tasting fish (not raw fish, or smoked, or sardines, or mackerel). Children generally like salmon, alternate but if you can, with leaner fish.

Preferably buy the freshest fish, the smell will be less daunting for children.

Note : Some fish such as dogfish contain very few bones. However, make no mistake. Because whatever the fish, chances are that when you fall even a few: Be vigilant.

Fish: accompaniments

To ensure that your child accepts the taste of fish, offer him a coaching he loves:

- A sauce (tomato, bechamel, herbs ...)
- Vegetables au gratin;
- A puree which you can crumble the fish.

Or try: 

- Pizza, lasagna or pasta with fish (a tuna bolognese or carbonara salmon);
- Tuna salad;
- Tuna steaks you cook the steak as "meat";
- Fish crust (pastry or coarse salt), or potted meat and fish pâtés;
- Breaded with flour, egg yolk, then the crushed biscuit;
- White fish fried with spices. 

NB : to involve children in preparing food can encourage them to taste more easily.

The problem edges

Your child must learn to remove the bones from the fish, just as he must learn to cut his meat only: show them how to recognize them, and do it with him to feel self Explain that s it feels a bone in his mouth, he has the right to hand it off.

But do not bother to add: remove the edges you can before cooking. Therefore, if the fish is fresh, if you feel the edges, remove them to the tweezers before cooking.
For babies, of course, crumble the fish by hand to feel if edges are present, and remove them!

Taste preferences are formed from 6 months in children and are more precise to 1 year: Administer fish very early in baby food diversification (after the meat). After 4 years, children experience a period in which he often refuses to try new foods.

NB : the fish is essential for the proper development of our children because it contains many minerals and is a good source of protein.