Soft Rasam for Kids Ingredients: 1/4 sp rasam powder or 1/4 sp crushed black pepper and cumin seeds 1 tomato 1 tab sp cooked thur dal 1/4 sp cumin seeds and mustard seeds 1 sp ghee a pinch turmeric powder a pinch asafetida powder 1/4 sp salt Method: Cut tomato into pieces. In a pan pour ghee and put cumin seeds and mustard seeds. Then add tomato pieces. Fry well. add 1 cup water and cooked thur dal. Bring it to a boil. Add rasampowder or pepper cumin powder and turmeric powder. Put asafetida powder. Again bring it to a boil. Add salt. Allow it to boil for a while. Pour 1/4 cup water. Remove from the fire and give with hot rice and ghee. Note: you can add 1 garlic when you make seasoning. You can add fresh coriander leaves in the rasam.
Cooked and mashed apple Take one apple and remove the skin and seeds. Cook it in a cooker for 5 min. Remove and mash it. Add sugar and milk and make like a paste. Serve to your kid. If you want you can add black pepper powder and salt instead of sugar and milk. Note: You can use any fruit like this. And you can use potato or carrot or beet root like this.
Bread Pizza Ingredients: 4 Slices round white bread 1 Pinch sugar 4 Round slices of cucumber 4 Slices carrot 4 Slices boiled potatoes with salt 1 tbsp Butter 2 tbsp Pizza sauce 1 tbsp Grated cheese Method: Butter the bread and keep aside. Spread pizza sauce over the breads. Put one slice of bread on tawa and keep sliced cucumber, carrot and potato on it and garnish it with cheese. Heat it over tawa for 3-4 minutes till bread turns crisp and cheese starts melting. Serve with tomato ketchup.
Cheese dosa Ingredients: 50 gms Cheese 1 Cup dosa dough 1 Onion 2 Green chilly 1/2 tsp Salt Oil Method: In a deep pan, pour oil and fry green chilly and onion with salt. Keep aside. Grate cheese. Make dosa in a tawa. Turn the dosa and place one spoon of onion mixture and 1 sp cheese. Close the dosa and serve with coconut chutney or as it is.
Cheese dip Ingredients: 2 tbsp Grated cheese 3 cups fresh curds 1 Grated carrot 1/4 tsp Green chilly finely chopped 1/4 cup milk 2 tbsp Fresh cream Salt to taste Monaco biscuits Fried French fires Cucumber sticks Carrot sticks Method: Put the curd in a thin cloth. Drain out water by hanging it for 3 hours Add cheese, carrot, cream, milk, chilly and salt to it. Mix it well. Chill the mixture thoroughly. Cheesy dip is ready to serve. Serve it with biscuits, French Fries, carrot and cucumber sticks as a evening snack.
Cheese and Corn Pasta Ingredients: 2 Cubes of cheese Boiled pasta 1 Cup boiled corns 1 tbs butter (salted butter is better) Salt and Pepper to taste Method: Melt 1 tbsp butter in a pan and put cooked corn and then add pasta for few minutes. Remove from flame and add grated cheese. Allow it to melt. Mix salt and pepper to taste. Cheese Pasta is ready.
Cucumber and yogurt salad In summer you can try this with your children. It is good for health and they like this. Ingredients: 1/2 sp dry roasted and powdered cumin seeds 1/2 sp salt 2 fresh little cucumbers 1/4 sp black pepper powder 1 cup Plain Yogurt or thick fresh curd 1 pinch asafotedita 1/4 sp garam masala (optional) Method: Wash and clean cucumber. If you want you can remove the skin. But it is better to eat with it. We get fiber from that, which is good for our health. In a serving bowl, grate cucumber. Pour yogurt, cumin powder,.black pepper powder and salt. Mix well and serve as it is. Or you can chill this and serve.
Chocolate balls Ingredients: 1 Package biscuits 1 tbsp cocoa 4 tbsp sugar 2 or 3 tbsp margarine Milk Cocunut flakes or decorative candies Method: Put all the biscuits in a plastic bag, seal and smash using hands or a heavy dish or rolling pin. Dont put it in mixer. Add cocoa, sugar, margarine, then add liquid until a homogeneous dough is formed. Shape into balls and sprinkle with coconut. Refrigerate and serve to children.
Yogurt with Fruits Ingredients: 1 large Banana (peeled and thinly sliced) <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /> 1 large Oranges ( loose jacket) (peeled into segments with pipe removed) 1 tab sp tutty fruity 2 tsp. sugar (powder it) 1/2 tsp. freshly ground black pepper 1/4 tsp salt 1 cup plain yogurt / fresh curd Method: Mix the sugar, pepper, salt and curd together. Add the banana and orange and mix together for 2 minutes. Put tutty fruity on that and serve.
Milk Aval/Poha Ingredients: 1 cup thick Aval 1/2 cup sugar ( you can add as per your taste) 1/2 cup coconut (optional) 1/2 sp cardamom powder 1 tab sp kis mis 1 tab sp cashew nuts (crushed) 1 'karpura valli' banana or 1 'malai palam' or 1/2 apple 1 cup milk Method: Clean and wash aval. In a big bowl put washed and squeezed aval. Pour warm milk and add sugar. Mix well. Add all other ingredients and allow aval to soak in milk. Then serve to your child. Note: You can add coconut milk instead of normal milk. You can add 'naattu sarkarai' or Jaggery instead of sugar. Even you can add 'palm candy'. You can use your imagination and according to your child’s taste you can make varieties.