Children are infamously finicky eaters. When it comes to forcing kids to eat healthy meals, their parents often get annoyed by their frequent mood swings.
We discuss the most well-liked and simple recipes in this blog post to help you manage your children’s moods.
Vegetable Pulao :
Vegetable pulao is the most basic Indian dish cooked in almost every home. This easy to cook and super delicious dish made out of aromatic rice and healthy veggies is loved for its rich and flavourful taste. You can also find this in celebration menus, served best along with yogurt and raita.
Basic rice, when cooked with fine spices and vegetables, could bring a completely new form to it. Thus, kids who love eating experimental food will definitely like this dish.
Dal Makhani
Dal Makhani is the most popular north Indian dish. Specifically famous as a Punjabi food recipe. It is made out of black lentils or urad dal. This dish is known for its subtle smokey flavors and creaminess of the lentils.
Fragrant and whole spices give your regular dal an appetizing taste and flavor. Kids will surely love this overly scrumptious meal for its amazingly awesome taste.
Upma
Upma is a popular South-Indian food, especially eaten for breakfast. It is made out of semolina flour or rava cooked with vegetables, spices, and herbs.
Due to its grand taste, it continues to be a favorite breakfast recipe in Indian homes. The ingredients used to prepare this rava upma give it a deliciously satisfying taste that will make this dish one of your new preferred go-to breakfasts.
Idli Sambhar
Idli sambhar is the most famous staple diet of South Indians. The little idli cakes are made out of rice flour and are eaten along with sambhar. Sambhar is a vegetable lentil stew made using plenty of vegetables, mixed spices and herbs.
This hearty, protein packed, flavorsome meal is the ideal dish to get your kids to enjoy eating healthy food without much tantrums.
Aloo Paratha
Aloo paratha is the most popular Indian flatbread made out of wheat flour.
They are stuffed with boiled potatoes mixed with various spices and herbs.
This dish is famously cooked in North Indian homes, Dhabas, and restaurants. They are served best with white butter, along with pickle and yogurt. The rich mashed potatoes stuffing , would certainly make this dish your child’s favorite.
Palak Paneer
Talking about the favorites and not mentioning paneer would be disrespectful. Palak paneer is a widely popular dish in the country, cooked using paneer in a smooth, creamy, and delicious spinach gravy.
This flavourful dish is eaten along with paratha, butter naan, jeera rice, and plain rice. If you are looking for something which is both healthy and delicious, you shouldn’t give this dish a miss.
Moong Dal Ki Khichdi
This super easy to cook, nutritious & healthy dish is cooked by mixing rice and moong dal along with various spices and herbs to enhance the taste.
Along with being rich in flavor it is also found to be easy to digest, especially preferred to eat if you are unhealthy, this could otherwise be eaten at any time of the day as a usual wholesome meal.
Vegetable Cutlets
Beside potato patties, you can also prepare healthy vegetable cutlets for your kids. This is an easy to prepare recipe without much experimentation to basic potato patties or cutlets.
All you need to do is boil vegetables, ginger garlic paste and spices, mash the mixture and make small tennis ball sized flat patties. Now, shallow fry them and serve them with tomato ketchup or chutney.
Samosa Wraps
You can give your usual samosa a truly experimental touch by preparing it in the form of wraps. Make a mixture using mashed potatoes, spices and herbs using boiled chickpea, chopped onions, and garlic.
Add an appreciable amount of filling to the wrap, fold it up in the form of a flat roll. You can pair these scrumptious wraps alongwith chutney or tomato sauce. This dish is easily loved by kids of all age groups.
Naan Bread Pizza
Pizza is one such dish that easily mesmerizes all without fail. To make the usual whole wheat pizzas healthy and to still keep them delicious, you can prepare this super easy recipe, made with a base of naan bread.
Cooking pizzas at home has an added advantage as you can use your favorite vegetables as toppings. Prepare this your kid’s favorite sauces and veggies to tempt them into eating this dish.
Conclusion :
We hope the above mentioned dishes will help you win over your kid’s uncertain moods around eating. The dishes mentioned above are not just super easy to cook but are also extremely healthy and delicious in taste.