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Once your kid is above the age of two, you can choose recipes from a wide spectrum of dishes that are nutritive, filling and delicious. Some of the recipes that kids usually like are already available in different sections of the blog.
Here are links to the same :

Fruit Punch
Diet Pakodas
Spring Onion Toasts
Chinese Salad

Please read posts in this section for some more attractive looking food designed specially for kids.

Pinwheel Sandwiches

To consume dinner leftovers the French designed the Pinwheel sandwiches, which they made for breakfast. Although the recipe mentioned below describes the procedure to make the filling you can always fill it up with any sabzi you are left with after your meal.

Ingredients :

1. 2 slices of sandwich bread (large size)
2. 1 tablespoon of cheese spread
3. 5 thin slices of tomatoes
4. 5 thin slices of cucumber
5. Pinch of pepper

Procedure :

1. Cut off the edges of a large slice of bread.
2. Place it on the clingfree side of a clig wrap.
3. Roll the bread flat using a rolling pin.
4. Mix cheese spread with pepper and spread it out on the bread slice.
5. Now arrange the thin slices of tomato and cucumber over the cheese.
6. Wrap up the sheet so as to roll the bread in and finally close the roll like a toffee.
7. Refrigerate for an hour and cut out the pinwheel slices.

Variation

You can even apply a layer of pudina chutney inside the sandwich to make it more chatpata.

Please NOTE :
Sometimes the roll wont stay together on its own in which case you can prick it with toothpicks. This also prevents the roll from bulging and breaking when you are cutting out the pinwheel slices.

Choco Logs

Ingredients :

• Chocolate sponge cake 100 grams
• Plain sponge cake 100 grams
• 1.5 tablespoons Chocolate sauce
• 1.5 tablespoons orange juice
• 1/2 tablespoon mixed fruit jam
• 1 tablespoon roasted Almond/ Cashew nut powder
• Fresh Cream (optional)

Procedure :

1. Crumble chocolate sponge in a mixing bowl. Mix chocolate sauce and jam into it.
2. On clingfree side of a cling wrap spread out the choco mixture.
3. Mix plain sponge cake with orange juice and spread over the chocolate layer.
4. Finally make a layer of dry fruits.
5. Pull up one side of the cling wrap so as to roll the mixture into a log. Set in a fridge for a few hrs.
6. Now you can make lines on the log using cream in a piping bag or you can dip your fork into Choco sauce and make lines on the log to resemble the bark of a tree. Cut the edges diagonally and serve yummy choco logs.

Please NOTE :

1. You can prick the log with toothpicks before cutting to prevent them from bulging and breaking from the sides.
2. If you use cream to make the lines on the log please add sugar and some cocoa powder to it so that the taste of cream blends well with the rest of the log.

Tricolor Sandwiches

These sandwiches are easy to make and yet unique in their appearance. Try it in the next birthday party you throw for your kid.

Ingredients :

• 1 loaf of freshly baked bread
• 2 tomatoes
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1/2 cucumber cut into thin slices
• 1 tablespoon Pudina chutney

Procedure :

1. Buy a freshly baked loaf of bread from the bakery and ask the baker to give it to you by making 2 horizontal cuts along the width.
2. Now you have 3 long, horizontal slices of bread.
3. Puree tomatoes and strain away the water.
4. Mix salt and butter with the strained tomato pulp. Apply this mixture on the first cut.
5. Apply pudina chutney on the second layer and arrange finely sliced cucumbers on it.
6. Place back the top slice of the bread and wrap this loaf of bread in a cling wrap.
7. After an hour remove the clingwrap and cut out thick slices of the bread (just as you usually have in breads, only thicker).

Variation

1. If possible, please try to use a loaf of brown bread to top up the nutrition value.
2. You can try using spring onion chutney instead of pudina chutney for a twist in taste

Chocolate Pudding

Involve your kids in making a dessert this weekend. They will feel doubly joyed to eat a pudding they made. You will have to help them blend and steam the pudding and they wont be able to wait for it to set.

Ingredients :

• 2 cups of milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 slice of bread
• 3 glucous biscuits
• 1/2 tablespoon cocoa powder
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 cup, your Choice of fruits

Procedure :

1. Heat sugar in a pudding bowl till it caramelizes.
2. Spread it to ensure the bottom surface is covered.
3. Blend milk, eggs, bread, biscuits, cocoa powder and sugar in a mixie jar.
4. Pour into the pudding bowl and steam for about 20 mins.
5. Chill in fridge and serve with your choice of fruits.

Please NOTE :

1. For steaming, use a cooker that best fits the size of the pudding bowl. If the cooker is too big then the pudding wont be steamed evenly.
2. To know if your pudding is done, stick a fork and check if it comes out clean.

Mixed Vegetable Gravy

This is the age when kids become very smart and start examining everything that they eat. A paste is made to cook vegetables so that kids cant fish out things like onions, tomatoes, dhania leaves and other things that they dont like.

Ingredients :

• 2 Tomatoes
• 1 Onion
• 1/2 teaspoon of Jeera seeds
• 1 teaspoon dhania powder
• 1/4 teaspoon haldi powder
• Few springs of mint leaves
• 1 cup of chopped vegetables (carrot, beans, peas, cabbage)
• Lime juice

Procedure :

1. Make a paste of tomatoes, onion and pudina leaves.
2. Heat oil. Add jeera and mixed vegetables. Saute well.
3. Add tomato, onion, pudina paste and fry well. Now add dhania powder, haldi powder, salt and cook till vegetables are done.
4. Add some lime juice and garnish with coriander leaves.