Hi Preethi, Yes. BowThanks for your complements. Now a days we have take care of our children more, than our parents. Because 'junk food ka jamana aagaya ' So we have to create good eating habits by giving them colour ful dishes. That too traditional.
Dear Susri, I think you know a Tamil 'pazhamozhi' 'Theen (honey) eaduthavan puram kaiyai naka mal vidu vana":thumbsupSo when we prepare for kids we can also have them. Enjoy preparing dishes for kids.
dear krishnaamma, thanks for the links- i read the recipes. they are good. but,i need recipes for soya granules, that is, crushed and powdered soya to the size of rava. i got a packet of it, but don't know how to use it. please give some ideas. shreyasri
Soya granule patties Hi shreyasri, Here is one recipe. My son loves Soya items and this is his recipe. Try and give me a feed back. Ingredients: 1 cup boiled corn 3 medium sized potatoes ( boil and mash them) 1 tbsp chopped ginger and green chili ½ sp sugar 1 tbsp lemon juice (optional) 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves 2 - 4 tbsp soya granules (soak for a while) Salt to taste Grated mozzarella cheese Cheddar cheese cubes Oil to make 'patties' Method: In a bowl mix together boiled potatoes, boiled corn, ginger, chilly, sugar, lemon juice, chopped coriander and salt. Now add soaked and squeezed soya granules and mix well. Cut one cheese cube in to 9 small pieces. Make small small ‘patties’ and keep one cheese cube in the center and a little grated mozzarella cheese and again make it as a potato patti. In a hot tawa, pour a little oil and keep the patties. Cook the ‘patti’ on both sides till brown. Serve with tomato ketchup.
Sweet Banana Chappati Ingredients: Wheat flour 1 cup Ripe Banana 1 Milk as required Ghee 1 sp Ghee to prepare chappati Milk maid 4 sp Method: In a bowl, put wheat flour and mashed banana. Add ghee and add little milk and mix like chappati dough. Make small small chappati and serve with a spoon of ' milk maid' or sugar. Yummy sweet banana chappati is ready.
Banana Sweet Dosa Ingredients: Fresh dosa dough 1 cup Ripe Banana 1 Jaggery crushed 1/2 cup Tuty fruity 2 tab sp Cardamom powder Ghee to prepare chappati Milk maid 4 sp Method: Mix powdered jaggery in the dough and mix well. Mix tuty fruity and smashed banana in that. Add cardamom powder. Make small small dosa using ghee. Remove and serve with milk maid. Note: you can serve with sweet coconut milk. you can add kis mis or cashew nuts also in this sweet dosa. Wheat sweet dosa I already given in 'items can prepare with wheat flour'
Potato and Aval Ingredients: 2 cups Aval (thick varity) 1 Potatoes (boiled and cubed) 1 Onions 1 Green Chilly 1 tsp Chana dal 1 tsp Urad dal 1/4 tsp Mustard Seeds 1 Curry leaves 2 tsp Peanuts optional Corainder leaves Salt to taste Oil 1 sp lemon juice Method: Clean and Wash aval. Drain the water and keep aside. In a deep pan pour oil and make seasoning. Add onion and chlly. Add potato cubes and fry well. Add turmeric powder if you want colour. Add drained poha/ aval and salt. Mix well. make the stove 'sim' and mix again. Add coriander leaves and lemon juice. Remove from the fire and serve as it is. Or serve with thick curd. Note: You can add cooked peas or grated carrots or beet roots in this according to your child's taste. Or even you can avoid green chilly and just add tutty fruity, apple pieces and make it sweet poha. At that time you can add coconut and sugar too.
Rice Noodles with veg. Ingredients: rice noodles 1 packet Green chilly 1 Soft ginger 1 inch Mustard seeds 1/2 sp Udad dal 1/2 sp Channa dal 1/2 sp Cashew nuts 1 sp crushed Cooked veg. 1 cup ( you can choose veg. as per your child's taste. Like diced potatoes, peas, carrot, onion, bell pepper etc.,) Salt Ghee to make seasoning turmeric powder 1/2 sp Coriander leaves Method: Cook rice noodles and keep aside. In a deep pan, make seasoning and add greeen chilly and ginger. Add cooked veg. and mix well. Now add cooked noodles and mix well. Remove from fire and serve. It will look colour ful and surely your children will love this dish.
Yummy Parappu Sadam This is very Yummy Sadam for children. Just smash cooked rice with ghee and add cooked dal. You can use yellow moong dal or thur dal as per your kid's taste. Try one by one and then regularly use the same dal. Note: you can add a spoon of rasam to this and give.
cooked Veg. and rice When you are keeping cooker for others, you keep a small cup for the kid seperately, with dal and rice. With this you can keep potato ( always cook potato with salt, sot hat you can give cooked potato to your kid to eat) , carrot, beet root with that. Mash with ghee and give. Note: you can introduce veg. and greens one by one with rice and dal. You can prepare simple rasam and mix with dal and rice and give. You can put one garlic in the dal or make seasoning with garlic to make different type of dal and rice mixture to the child. They always like different taste.