Until the baby is 6 months old, his diet includes only mother's milk or an adapted formula. Then they begin to introduce the crumbs to new products, one of which is porridge. This dish is prepared from different cereals. All of them are useful for the body of growing babies, but the introduction of some cereals has its own limitations, so parents should know in advance when to start giving this or that cereal dish.
And if cereals such as buckwheat or rice do not raise questions and are one of the first to cook for babies, then doubts arise regarding other cereals. Is it possible for children to cook millet and from how many months is it permissible to cook millet porridge for toddlers? What are the useful properties and contraindications of this cereal? Let's figure it out.
Benefit
Millet is millet grains, which have been removed from the shell. Usually they are simply ground, but sometimes they are also crushed. The resulting grain is rich in amino acids, starch and fiber.
Millet also has the following useful qualities:
- This cereal contains beta-carotene, B vitamins, as well as vitamins E and A.
- From millet porridge, the child will receive a lot of calcium, potassium, zinc, chromium, sulfur, copper and other trace elements.
- Since there is no gluten in millet, porridge made from it is allowed for feeding children with intolerance to this protein.
- Millet has a positive effect on the work of the heart, blood formation and liver function.
- In millet porridge, the ability to accelerate the elimination of toxic substances from the body is noted. For this reason, millet porridge is advised to be eaten after a course of antibiotics.
- This dish improves digestive function and helps to normalize the composition of the intestinal microflora. As for whether this porridge strengthens or weakens the stool, it all depends on the recipe, for example, porridge with the addition of an apple or prune will weaken.
Millet perfectly replenishes the child's body with the necessary vitamins and microelements
Minuses
- Some babies may be allergic to millet porridge, although it is extremely rare, since millet is called a hypoallergenic product.
- It is necessary to spend time preparing millet for cooking. The groats should be washed in hot water several times until the drained liquid is clear. Further, it is recommended to soak millet before cooking for 1 hour in water at room temperature.
- If you cook porridge from "old" millet, such a dish will taste bitter.
Digestion of whole millet grains at an early age is difficult, therefore children under one year old are advised to grind millet into flour before preparing porridge. To do this, the cereals need to be washed, dried and chopped with a coffee grinder.
Millet groats take a long time to cook and are difficult for small children to digest.
At what age can a child be given millet porridge?
Porridge made from such cereals usually begins to be boiled in water for children who, from the age of 7 months, have become familiar with rice, buckwheat and corn porridge.
Babies aged 8-10 months should grind millet to a state of flour, and then cook the porridge. To prepare porridge for a 10-11-month-old child, the millet may already be ground coarser. Whole grain is not cooked for children under 1-1.5 years old.
Millet can be introduced into the children's diet from 8 months, but the cereals should be grinded.
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How to introduce into complementary foods
The first millet porridge for children under one year old should be liquid and boiled in water. You can add a little human milk or a mixture familiar to your baby to it. First, the baby is offered a small portion of porridge, for example, 1 teaspoon. This is usually done for breakfast, so that by the evening it is clear if the baby has allergies. With normal tolerance, the next time the portion is doubled until the volume of the whole dish is brought to the required age.
To diversify the taste of porridge, instead of water, you can take a vegetable or fruit broth. If the child has already tried milk porridge, millet can be boiled in milk. Ready porridge can be mixed with fruit purees, and for children over 1.5 years old - add pieces of fruit and berries. A child who is 3-4 years old can make sweet casseroles from millet.
The first portion of millet in babies should be in the form of a liquid porridge cooked in water
The recipe for the first millet porridge
To prepare a thin porridge, take 10 g of millet flour and 100-150 ml of water. Bring water to a boil and then add flour to it. While stirring, cook the porridge for about 3-5 minutes. Before serving, add butter or fruit puree, which is already included in your baby's complementary foods.
How to cook porridge in milk?
For children over a year old, take 1/2 cup of millet and 200-250 ml of milk. Pour the cereals into the boiled milk and simmer until the millet is tender. Add sugar to the porridge to taste. If the dish is intended for a one-year-old child, you can also add fruit puree to such a gruel. For children over 1.5 years old, porridge can be served with pumpkin, pieces of fruit, steamed raisins or berries.
You can also cook millet millet porridge in a slow cooker. Depending on the volume of milk, the dish may turn out to be liquid, viscous or crumbly. When boiling in such a device, milk does not "run away", and the finished porridge can be kept warm for the required time. The washed millet is poured into a multicooker bowl, poured with milk and salt or sugar is added to taste. Then the mode "cooking" and the product "porridge" are selected. When the dish is cooked, the multicooker will notify you with a sound signal.
Recipes for other dishes with millet for children
Millet soup with prunes (from 1.5 years old)
Take 500 ml of water, 40 g of millet, 120 g of prunes and a tablespoon of sugar. Go through and rinse the cereal, soaking it for 1-2 hours. Bring the water to a boil and put the cereals in it, then boil until tender.
Peel the prunes soaked for several hours and cook in a small amount of water, to which sugar should be added. Grind the finished prunes through a sieve, add to the cooked millet, pouring in the broth as well. Boil the dish for a few minutes and remove from heat. It is advised to serve such a soup chilled, adding a spoonful of sour cream to it.
The most popular orange vegetable dish is porridge. The product is easily digested and attracts the baby with its unusual color and delicate taste. Pediatricians recommend pumpkin porridge for a child to be introduced into the diet in the first year of life. This age is accompanied by both positive and negative aspects of growing up. The most difficult thing for a mother of a child at 1 year old is to feed him. His small body requires varied and delicious food. This is where sweet and nutritious baby porridge with pumpkin comes in.
Pumpkin is a beautiful and healthy vegetable. Possessing a bright mild taste, it saturates the body with necessary microelements and vitamins, keeps the body in good shape and brings an excellent mood to the whole family.
Pumpkin is an absolutely safe vegetable, it cannot be contaminated with harmful chemicals.
Millet
Delicious golden millet porridge with the addition of pumpkin will surely please your child. It can even be given to babies up to one year old (after consulting a pediatrician).
Ingredients :
- Millet - 1 tbsp.;
- Pumpkin - 200 g;
- Milk - 350 g;
- Water - 350 g.;
- Salt - 0.5 tsp;
- Sugar - 1.5 tsp;
- Butter - 100 g.
Preparation:
- We clean and cut the pumpkin into pieces, put it on fire, flood it with water.
- While the vegetable is stewing, rinse the millet under running water 3 times.
- After 20 minutes, slightly knead the finished pumpkin with a spoon in mashed potatoes. You should not turn the contents of the pan into a homogeneous mass, the taste with pieces will be much more interesting.
- Now you can pour the resulting mixture with milk and water, adding millet to the liquid.
- As soon as the porridge boils, we reduce the heat, cook until cooked for 20-30 minutes.
- Pour in salt and sugar.
- Hot porridge for children is served with butter.
Millet porridge with pumpkin is high in calories, it will come in handy for a growing active organism.
Baby millet: video recipe
Rice porrige
Your baby has grown up, and a one-year-old baby needs a varied diet. Prepare rice porridge with melon chunks.
Ingredients :
- Rice - ½ tbsp.;
- Pumpkin - 500-600 g;
- Milk - 1-2 tbsp.;
- Butter - 100 g.;
- Salt, sugar to taste.
Preparation:
- We peel the pumpkin, cut it into large pieces, it will be best if the cubes are of the same shape - this is more aesthetically pleasing.
- Fill the chopped vegetable with water (you need a little less than half a glass). Cook for 10 - 15 minutes.
- Now add milk to the mixture, bring to a boil over low heat. It is very important here not to leave a fragrant dish unattended, as the liquid can escape at the most inopportune moment, so stir the porridge.
- As soon as the milk has boiled, add the peeled and washed rice. Bring everything to a boil and leave to simmer under the lid.
- Please note that at the end of cooking, the porridge will change from light orange to bright red.
- That's all. Serve the dish with a piece of butter.
Sunny porridge for children: video recipe
Rice millet
You can diversify the menu by preparing Druzhba porridge, for this it is enough to mix rice and millet, adding stewed pumpkin to them. For this you need:
- Rice - ½ tbsp.;
- Pumpkin - 1 kg.;
- Millet - ½ tbsp.;
- Water - 1 tbsp.;
- Milk - 2 tbsp.
Preparation:
- Cook the chopped pumpkin until tender.
- As soon as it is cooked, add water, milk and cereals.
- Cook a fragrant dish for 30 minutes, then leave to rise under the lid.
Buckwheat
Undoubtedly, you should pay special attention to buckwheat porridge with pumpkin. This is a great recipe for kids. Caring mothers are well aware that this is the richest cereal in nutrients. Pediatricians recommend giving it to children from a year and older.
Ingredients :
- Buckwheat - 1 tbsp.;
- Pumpkin - 500 g;
- Water - 1.5 tbsp.;
- Milk - 1 tbsp.;
- Butter - 1 tbsp. l .;
- Sugar, salt to taste.
Preparation:
- Cut the pumpkin into medium-sized pieces, fill with water, leave to simmer for 15 minutes on low heat.
- Pour buckwheat cleaned and washed under running water into a separate container, pour in a glass of water, cook until half cooked.
- Add buckwheat to the boiled pumpkin and fill everything with milk.
- Add sugar, salt and butter. It will add special tenderness to the dish.
- Let the porridge simmer over low heat for about 10 minutes.
Pumpkin in a slow cooker
When it's summer outside and the sun is baking with all its might, it is very difficult for housewives to stand by the hot stove in anticipation of culinary masterpieces. Cooking with a multicooker is another matter. This young technical work of art is already firmly entrenched in the kitchens of modern mothers. A pumpkin can be cooked very quickly, and most importantly, it will appeal to the whole family.
Ingredients :
- Pumpkin - 1 kg.;
- Water - 150 g.;
- Milk - 200 g;
- Sugar - 1 tbsp. l .;
- Salt - 0.5 tsp;
- Butter - 100-150 g.
Preparation:
- We clean the pumpkin, cut into cubes 2 × 3 cm in size.
- Lubricate the multicooker container with 50 g of butter
- We put the vegetable in a bowl, fill it with water, turn on the "stewing" mode for 10 minutes.
- Now pour the milk into the resulting mixture and cook the porridge for another 15 minutes.
- At the end, add sugar and salt, leave it to rise in the "heating" mode.
Pumpkin porridge in a slow cooker is a salvation for parents, because it can be cooked without much effort.
This dish can be mashed with a blender or eaten in slices. Porridge with pumpkin for children can be cooled, you get an original dessert. Monocomponent puree can be given to a child in the very first year of life, he will highly appreciate it.
Our grandmothers and mothers also used it as the first complementary food, since the babies liked the sweet taste, and it does not cause allergies. That is why we have every reason to talk about the solar product as an indispensable dish.
Would you like to prepare a nutritious and delicious side dish for your child that can be served for the whole family for breakfast, as a dessert for lunch and for dinner? Then be sure to add baby pumpkin porridge to the menu!
If you cook pumpkin porridge correctly, it becomes not only tasty, but also an unusually healthy dish for children. are necessary, since they contain a lot of vitamins and perfectly removes toxins, therefore it is recommended to eat it for children with weakened immunity, and in order to quickly remove antibiotics from the body after an illness.
Pumpkin porridge for a child can be prepared with almost any cereal.
Pumpkin millet porridge
Ingredients
- pumpkin slices - 300 gr;
- millet (or any other cereal) - 1 tbsp;
- milk - 2 tbsp;
- water - 2 tbsp;
- butter - 2 tablespoons;
- sugar, salt - to taste;
- dried fruits, nuts - to taste, for decoration.
Cooking pumpkin millet porridge for a child
For extraordinarily tasty pumpkin millet porridge, wash and peel the vegetable, then cut it into small cubes. Rinse the groats thoroughly until the water is clear. After that, melt the butter in a saucepan, add the pumpkin - "a storehouse of orange vitamins", and sauté for 3-5 minutes. 
Then sugar and salt, pour in the washed millet and mix well.
Next, pour all the water into a saucepan and over medium heat, stirring occasionally, quickly bring the porridge to a boil. After that, we reduce the heat to a minimum and cook the pumpkin millet porridge for the child for about half an hour, until all the liquid is completely absorbed. Then add milk (we do this only now, because millet, like any other cereal, is very poorly boiled in milk), bring to a boil and cook for another 3-5 minutes. Cover the pumpkin millet porridge with a lid and let it brew for at least a quarter of an hour. At this time, it is quite possible to take care of the baby - for example, play a little outdoor games with him. And when you work up an appetite together, you can safely sit down at the table and enjoy the taste of an unusually healthy, nutritious porridge with your child!
Before serving, pumpkin porridge for a child can be sprinkled with dried fruits and nuts.
Porridge based on corn grits with pumpkin
Ingredients
- 1 kg pumpkin
- 1 tbsp. cream,
- 1/4 tbsp. Sahara,
- 2/3 st. corn grits,
- 100 g butter.
Cooking porridge
Melt 20 g butter in a skillet and simmer peeled pumpkin slices in it until soft. Boil the corn grits, then season the almost finished porridge with cream, add the prepared pumpkin, salt, add sugar. Bring the porridge to full readiness, season with the remaining oil and let it brew.
Oatmeal with pumpkin puree in the microwave
To quickly cook pumpkin porridge in the microwave, you can add it in advance to porridge "in bags".
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp. oat flakes Instant Hercules
- 3/4 Art. milk
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 tsp Sahara
Cooking porridge with pumpkin puree in the microwave
Combine the cereal with milk and cook in the oven on high power for 2 minutes. Stir, add milk if necessary, turn on for another 1 minute. Add sugar, mashed potatoes, mix and bring in the oven until tender within 1 minute.
Pumpkin puree for babies from 7 months Colored mashed potatoes
A bright orange vegetable with a delicate taste and saturating with vitamins and microelements, useful for moms, dads and their kids! That's right, today we will talk about cooking a variety of pumpkin dishes for children of all ages - from the smallest to quite conscious. All the recipes are simple and very quick in execution, and the dishes are nutritious, light and tasty - your little ones will be satisfied.
Pumpkin with one of its colors already cheers up, and even more so with its composition. It contains a huge amount of vitamins and minerals, including potassium and vitamin T necessary for the normalization of metabolic processes, as well as vitamin K, which is responsible for the correct synthesis of bones.
Although there is enough sugar in this vegetable to make it an attractive food for young toddlers, it is easily and quickly absorbed. Pediatricians loudly advocate the introduction of pumpkin into complementary foods for the smallest children, because there is not so much fiber in it, and it is very easily absorbed without injuring or loading the still undeveloped digestive system of babies.
It goes well with any kind of vegetables, cereals, meat, dairy products, which is why it is so good in dishes for children. The kid will love his new pumpkin kids menu!
Pumpkin dishes for toddlers
Pumpkin puree
You can start introducing pumpkin complementary foods to a healthy baby already in the seventh month of life. It should be a simple puree prepared as follows.
Ingredients
- Fresh pumpkin - 100 g
- Filtered water - ¼ glass
Preparation
- We clean the vegetable from seeds, cut into pieces and, pouring water, set to cook under a lid in a small saucepan over low heat.
- After 15 - 2 minutes, when the vegetable becomes soft, drain off excess water, if it remains, and rub through a sieve. Why a sieve if there is a blender? The fact is that the blender, no matter how hard you try, "passes" large fibers. For an adult, they are not at all noticeable, but a baby who has not tried anything other than liquid food may not like them at all, and discourage him from "adult" food for a long time. So it's better not to risk it, but arm yourself with a sieve, especially since you only need to wipe 100 grams!
- To improve the taste, we can add a little breast milk or formula there. Ready! You can regale your treasure!
Vegetable puree soup with pumpkin
Your baby has already grown up, got used to a new taste and not even one. He wants variety, and you can pamper him with new dishes. Try a new pumpkin dish on the menu that is suitable for babies from 8 to 9 months.
Ingredients
- Pumpkin - 50 g
- Potatoes - 30 g
- Carrots - 30 g
- Zucchini - 30 g
- Broccoli - 30 g
- Water - ¼ glass
- Refined vegetable oil - ½ tsp
- We clean all the vegetables, cut them, put them in a small saucepan and, pour water over them, simmer them under the lid until tender - they should become soft and easily pierced with a fork.
- If the water remains, do not pour it out, but leave it to give the dish a more liquid consistency.
- Now that the baby has grown up, you can use a blender for chopping.
- Whisk, add a drop of oil and, if necessary, the remaining vegetable broth.
Pumpkin puree soup for your little one is ready!
We have grown up!
If your son or daughter is more than a year old or even two years old, the following pumpkin dishes will definitely suit them both in age and in taste!
Such porridge can be given to children from one and a half to two years, and adults will like it, because it turns out sweet, nutritious and very healthy, so we will cook it for several servings at once so that there is enough for everyone.
Ingredients
- Millet groats - 2 tbsp.
- Pumpkin (peeled and cut into pieces) - 400 g
- Milk - 700 g
- Water - 700 g
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Granulated sugar - 1 tbsp
- Butter - calculated individually, when served.
Preparation
- As we remember, our pumpkin has already been peeled and cut, which means we put it right on the fire, pouring water so that the pieces are only slightly covered.
- While the vegetable is stewing, rinse the millet thoroughly. Regular cereals can be very dirty, so take the time and rinse them in several waters.
- After 20 minutes, when the pumpkin becomes soft, knead it with a mashed potato pusher, but only slightly! There is no need to turn it into a homogeneous mass, just knead individual pieces a little. So the porridge will turn out to be tastier and more unusual - the pumpkin taste will be much more noticeable, and the bright orange pieces will delight your baby.
- Now pour hot milk, the remaining water into a saucepan with vegetables and add millet.
- As soon as the porridge boils, we reduce the heat and, opening the lid, cook until ready for at least 25-30 minutes. Add salt and sugar at the very end, 5 minutes before the end of cooking.
- If possible, let the porridge stand a little. Wrap it for 15-20 minutes - this way the taste will be even richer and deeper.
- Place a piece of butter on a plate when serving. Another baby pumpkin dish is ready!
This recipe makes a real dessert, not just a new pumpkin dish for kids! He will delight all the sweet tooth in your family. It is not a shame to offer pumpkin casserole to “little” guests at a children's party or at “mother's” gatherings with children - tasty, healthy and unusual!
Ingredients
- Chopped pumpkin - 350 g
- Semolina - 75 g
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Powdered sugar - 3 tsp
- Raisins or chopped dried apricots - 20 - 30 g
Preparation
- Again, as in the previous recipes, we boil the vegetable, but now we completely drain the water and make the most real puree - with a blender or a crush.
- Add an egg and icing sugar to it, mix well.
- Pour semolina into the pumpkin-egg mixture in small portions and stir again so that there are no lumps. Add raisins or dried apricots.
- You can cook casserole in the oven or in a double boiler:
- In the first case, cover the baking dish with paper or grease it with vegetable oil. It is also good to use small muffin tins. Divide the mixture into tins and bake for 25 - 40 minutes at 180 ° C. Remember, the smaller your tins, the shorter the baking time!
- If you are cooking in a double boiler, you will need 40 to 45 minutes.
Serve with ice cream, milkshake, or powdered sugar on top. Such a pumpkin dish will add a pleasant variety to both a children's menu and an adult.
Pumpkin cutlets
It is not at all necessary to cook only sweet desserts from a bright vegetable. As we remember, it may well be a component of a "serious" dish that can be given to children from one year old.
Ingredients
- Peeled pumpkin (large pieces!) - 500 g
- Chicken egg - 1 pc.
- Cream 10% - 50 g
- Semolina - 1 tbsp. l
- Salt - a pinch
- Breadcrumbs - 2 tablespoons
Preparation
- Three pieces of pumpkin on a grater, squeeze the juice.
- We put on a small fire to simmer for 5 minutes, adding juice and cream.
- We spread the grated vegetable in a deep plate, stir in the egg and semolina. Salt.
- We form cutlets, dip in crackers and steam.
Serve hot right there.
Pumpkin figurines with cheese
This fun dish is a real find! It will decorate the festive table or simply cheer you up and your child with its mischievous look. You can even cook it together!
Ingredients
- Pumpkin - 300 - 400 g
- Hard cheese - 50 - 70 g
- Salt - ½ tsp
- Flour - 2 tablespoons
- Refined vegetable oil - 1 tsp
- Shortbread cookie cutters
Preparation
- Cut the peeled vegetable into thin slices - no more than 0.5 cm and, using figures for cookies, cut out stars, months, circles, hearts, etc. Salt.
- We heat the oil in a frying pan and, dipping pumpkin figurines in flour, lay them out to fry. This should be done no more than 3 minutes, over low heat, as they are very thin.
- In the meantime, three cheese and, putting the figurines fried on both sides on a dish, sprinkle on top, while hot, so that the cheese melts.
- Serve right there, garnished with a mint leaf or sprinkled with herbs.
Here are the recipes from which you can prepare delicious and very healthy pumpkin dishes, not only for your children, but also diversify the adult menu with dignity!
Pumpkin is a sweet but healthy vegetable. This melon crop is a storehouse of useful substances. Strengthening the cardiovascular system, normalizing sleep and metabolic processes, improving vision and motility of the gastric tract - this is what pumpkin is useful for for children.
For a child to fall in love with this orange fruit, you need to regale pumpkin from early childhood. You can cook a large number of dishes from it: both the first and the second, and the dessert loved by all kids! Young mothers often ask themselves the question: how to cook a pumpkin for a child, so that it is tasty and the benefits are preserved.
Pumpkin puree for baby
For babies, this fruit is prepared in the form of mashed potatoes. Most likely, the kid will not refuse to eat an unusual vegetable.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 50 g.
Preparation
The pumpkin is washed, peeled and cut into small pieces. Pour in water and put on the stove. How much to cook a pumpkin for a child? The readiness of the vegetable is determined with a knife: when the pieces become soft, the fire can be extinguished. Cooking will take approximately 30 minutes. Then, using a blender, the pumpkin is crushed into mashed potatoes.
Porridge with pumpkin for children
The best breakfast is porridge, which gives your little one a boost of energy for new discoveries and tricks. So why not cook it with pumpkin?
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 150 g;
- groats (rice, millet or semolina) - 50 g;
- milk - 0.5 cups;
- water - 1 glass;
- butter - 15 g;
- sugar - 1 tsp;
- salt - on the tip of the knife.
Preparation
We clean the pumpkin, rinse and cut into small pieces. Pour boiling water over it, add sugar and cook for about 15 minutes, covered with a lid. Then mix the pumpkin with milk and cereals, simmer for another 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Turning off the stove, put salt and oil in the prepared porridge.
Delicious porridge for the best baby is ready!
Pumpkin soup for children
A bright and appetizing pumpkin first course will delight your baby with a wonderful taste. But inexperienced mothers do not know how to cook pumpkin for a child for soup. The recipe below will be a great help.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 150 g;
- carrots - ½ root vegetable;
- potatoes - 1 pc.;
- sunflower or olive oil - 1 tsp;
- water - 500 ml;
- salt - a pinch.
Preparation
Put a pot of water on fire. Peel and wash vegetables. Cut the pumpkin and potatoes into small cubes and grate the carrots. Put all vegetables in boiling water and cook over medium heat for 30 minutes. Grind the soup with a blender, salt and add oil. It's time to serve!
Pumpkin pancakes for children
Please the little ones with little "suns" - pumpkin pancakes. This dish is especially suitable for little fussy people who do not like this sunny fruit: in pancakes, they simply will not notice the pumpkin.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 200 g;
- kefir - 2 glasses;
- flour - 150 g;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- water - 0.5 l;
- sugar - 2 tablespoons;
- salt - on the tip of the knife.
Preparation
The pumpkin must be peeled, washed and grated. Kefir must be mixed with egg and flour in such a way that no lumps remain. Add pumpkin, sugar, salt and stir again. The pancakes are fried in vegetable oil. When serving, pour over sour cream.
Pumpkin casserole for kids
A little gourmet is unlikely to refuse to feast on a slice of delicious pumpkin casserole! Give him this pleasure by preparing a dish for breakfast or dessert.
Ingredients:
Preparation
Peel the pumpkin and seeds and cut into small pieces. Beat eggs with cream, salt and sugar. Grease a baking dish with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Place the pumpkin in a mold and cover with beaten eggs. The casserole is baked for 30-35 minutes at a temperature of 200 ° C.
Cook pumpkin dishes 2-3 times a week, not more often, as carotene jaundice can develop due to the high carotene content. To avoid a pumpkin allergy in a child, introduce this product from 6 months and in small doses, carefully monitoring the reaction.