Simple Homemade Chicken Broth | Healthy Children Recipes
Suitable Age
7 – 24 Months
Intended Purpose
Rehydration
Preparation Time
10min Preparation
3h Cooking
Homemade chicken broth is a great way to provide the body with micronutrients, such as magnesium, potassium and calcium. It also helps to rehydrate the body, which can be particularly useful when suffering from constipation.
Another advantage of homemade chicken broth is that it hardly contains any sodium. Please note that you should limit your baby’s sodium intake! Therefore, when you feed your baby chicken broth, please make sure it is really homemade as commercially produced chicken broths are often loaded with sodium.
Moreover, keep in mind that as long as you breastfeed your baby, she will receive all the fluids and electrolytes from the milk (the same applies to formula milk). That is why feeding chicken broth is only recommended for babies from 7 months of age, who receive increasing amounts of solid foods.
Ingredients
8 Chicken drumsticks (or 4 chicken thighs)
2 Bay leaves
Ginger (size of a thumb)
Saffron
4.5 cups (or 1 liter) of water
Step by Step Instructions
Step 1
Peel and finely chop the ginger
Step 2
Wash the chicken drumsticks and add them to a large pot
Step 3
Add all of the water
Step 4
Bring to boil, then reduce to medium heat. Cover with a lid, then simmer for 5 minutes
Step 5
After 5 minutes, add the saffron
Step 6
Add the bay leaves
Step 7
Add the ginger
Step 8
Cook the broth (low heat) for 3 hours. Then strain it through a sieve. That’s your “simple homemade chicken broth”.
Feeding Recommendation
This homemade chicken broth can either be served as a soup or used as an ingredient in other baby foods (f.e. to prepare vegetable puree). In so far, there is no particular feeding recommendation.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nathalie Kaufmann
Nathalie is a pregnancy and birth Consultant and a TCM Therapist with almost 20 years of experience in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), acupuncture, reflexology, Shonishin baby massage techniques, Western and Eastern massage techniques (including TUINA), as well as herbal medicine and nutrition.
She has worked in hospitals across London and was Head of the Maternity Acupuncture Clinic at the Whittington hospital in London. Today, Nathalie runs her own practice in London and helps pregnant women with pregnancy- and birth-related issues. She also specializes in alternative treatments for babies and children.
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