6 home-cooked dishes to help children improve their brain power

All parents want their babies to be smart, but they don’t know how to help their babies become smart? In fact, balanced nutrition is very important. It is necessary to meet as many nutrients as possible for the growth of brain cells. Today, the editor introduces several recipes that can improve brain function and intelligence.

1. Longan and Lotus Seed Porridge

Ingredients: 30 grams of longan, 30 grams of lotus seeds, 10 red dates, 60 grams of glutinous rice, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

Preparation: First, peel the lotus seeds and remove the core of the jujubes. Then cook them with longan into porridge. Add sugar when eating.

Efficacy: Nourishes the heart and spleen, strengthens the brain and improves intelligence. Suitable for intellectual impairment caused by deficiency of both heart and spleen. When eaten by young people, middle-aged and elderly people, it has the effects of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the heart, nourishing the brain and improving intelligence. It is especially suitable for those who do mental work.

2. Sesame spinach

Ingredients: 200g spinach, 50g sesame seeds, 10 wolfberries, salt, sugar, sesame oil

Method: Wash the spinach, blanch it in boiling water with a little salt until cooked; take it out and let it cool, then rinse it with cold boiled water; squeeze out the water and put it in a large bowl; stir-fry the sesame kernels slowly over low heat; fry until golden brown, cool and set aside; soak the wolfberries in warm water and rinse them; shake the spinach, add salt; add sugar; add sesame oil and mix well; add sesame seeds; add wolfberries and mix well.

Effect: nourish liver, improve eyesight, improve intelligence and strengthen brain

3. Fried fish cakes

Ingredients: 50 grams of fish, 1 egg, 50 grams of milk, a little onion, oil, salt, starch, etc.

Preparation method: First remove the bones and spurs from the fish and chop it into a paste. Chop the onion. Then add the chopped onion, starch, milk, eggs, and salt to the fish paste and stir it into a sticky fish filling. Then, heat a frying pan on the fire, add oil, make the fish filling into small round cakes, put them into the pan and fry them.

Efficacy: Fried fish cakes contain sufficient protein, rich fat, iron, calcium, phosphorus, zinc and vitamin A, which are all excellent nutrients for improving intelligence and brain health.

4. Steamed Pig Brain

Ingredients: 25g yam, 1 pig brain, 1 scallion, 3 slices of ginger, seasoning salt and rice wine as needed

Preparation: Wash the pig brain and set aside; cut the green onion into sections and set aside. Place herbs, ingredients and seasonings in a shallow dish and steam for 15 minutes before serving.

Efficacy: Pig brain supplements choline acetate and delays the degeneration of brain tissue cells; yam is rich in starch, protein, vitamins and choline acetate, which helps to enhance memory.

5. Braised rabbit meat

Ingredients: 250 grams of wild rabbit meat, shiitake mushrooms, black fungus, onions, ginger, MSG, soy sauce, cooking wine, aniseed, and a little salt.

Preparation method: First cut the rabbit meat into pieces, then put a little vegetable oil in the pot, put the rabbit meat in after heating, stir-fry until it changes color, at the same time put some soy sauce and a little cooking wine, star anise, add water and simmer over low heat; after stewing, add mushrooms, fungus, ginger, onion, MSG and salt.

Efficacy: Rabbit meat contains a lot of lipids. Most of these lipids are polyunsaturated fatty acids essential for the brain. They also contain a large amount of calcium, which can provide necessary nutrients for brain development, and can also replenish qi and strengthen the spleen, nourish yin and promote body fluid.

6. Braised Yellow Croaker with Wolfberry

Ingredients: 1 yellow croaker (weighing about 750 grams), 20 grams of wolfberry, 50 grams of winter bamboo shoots, 9 grams of mushrooms, 100 grams of garlic moss, and 1 egg.

Preparation: First wash the wolfberry, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, garlic shoots, etc., cut the mushrooms and bamboo shoots back into slices, and cut the garlic shoots into small pieces; kill the yellow croaker, remove the scales, gills, and intestines, then wash; break the egg into a bowl, add starch and stir into a paste, and spread evenly on both sides of the fish body. Then place the pot on high heat, add oil and wait for it to be 70% cooked, then put the fish tail into the pot and fry the fish until it turns yellow, then add appropriate amount of stock and other ingredients, simmer until the sauce is reduced, add a small amount of running water, add vinegar and MSG when it starts to boil, shovel and mix well and remove from the pot.

Efficacy: It has the effects of strengthening the brain and improving eyesight. Suitable for young students and mental workers.

Therefore, parents should arrange their baby's diet reasonably. Only a comprehensive and balanced diet can ensure the baby's healthy growth.