Showing posts with label Baby Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baby Food. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Different tikkis

Hara Bhara Walnut Kebabs 

Ingredients -
2 tsp oil
1 tsp cumin seeds
3-4 cloves garlic
1 inch ginger
2-3 green chillies
1 cup green beans, chopped
1/2 cup capsicum, chopped
1/2 cup green onions, chopped
Handful spinach, blanched
1/2 cup green peas, blanched
1/2 cup paneer, grated
2 medium potato, boiled & peeled
1 tsp red chilli powder
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp coriander powder
1/4 tsp cumin powder
1/4 tsp garam masala powder
1/4 tsp amchur powder
Salt, to taste
2-3 tbsp walnuts, crushed
3 tbsp corn flour
1/4 cup bread crumbs
Oil, to pan fry

Heat oil in a pan. Add cumin seeds, garlic, ginger, green chillies and cook for a few seconds. Add in beans, capsicum, green onions and cook for 2-3 minutes.

Once it cools down, add everything in a blender with blanched spinach, blanched green peas and blend into a coarse paste.
Add in a bowl along with remaining ingredients and mix well. Shape into tikkis, add a walnut on top and pan fry from golden brown.


Veggie Loaded Sabudana Punugulu -

Ingredients-
1 carrot, grated and chopped
1 cup broccoli florets
1/4 cup green peas
1/2 inch ginger, peeled
1/4 cup roasted peanuts
1/2 cup coriander leaves
1-1/2 cups sabudana
1/2 cup yogurt
1/4 cup rice flour
Salt, to taste
Pepper, to taste
Chaat masala, to taste
Oil to pan fry

Instructions -
Rinse and soak sabudana in yogurt for 4-5 hours.
Now, Add carrot, broccoli, green peas, peanuts, coriander and ginger in a chopper and grind coarsely.
Add the coarsely ground mixture in soaked sabudana with salt, pepper, chaat masala, rice flour and mix well. Make small balls and pan fry using oil until crisp.

Mini Handvo

Ingredients -
1 cup rice
1/2 cup chana dal
1/4 cup toor dal
2 tbsp urad dal
1/2 cup yogurt
2 green chillies
1 inch ginger
Salt
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup lauki, peeled and grated
1/4 cup carrot, peeled and grated
2 tbsp walnuts, crushed
1/4 cup coriander leaves, chopped
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
1/4 tsp hing
1 tsp Eno

For tadka -
Oil
Mustard seeds
Sesame seeds
Curry leaves

Instructions -
Soak rice, chana dal, toor dal, urad dal, for 3-4 hours. Drain the water, and grind with yogurt, green chillies, ginger, salt and water into a smooth batter.
Add in a bowl, and add the veggies, spice powders and mix well. Add eno, mix and add in greased appe pan.
Add tadka ingredients and pour the batter. Cook until crisp and enjoy.


Friday, April 4, 2025

Food items for 1+ year above

Some random kid schedule from youtube : Wake up 6am : luke water sips 

7am: cereal - oats/milk cereal banana prunes/ oats peanut butter

7:30:8:30  - park 

8:30: paratha - palak, aloo, gobi, dal, vegetable paratha / pancake / poha with veggies / besan toast

9:30 first map - milk 

11:30 wakes up 

12 - snacks - fruits - watermelon / papaya/ musk melon / apple 

1:30 lunch - rice based meal - ghee / khichdi 

3:00 milk and nap 

4:30 wakes up 

5 baje snacks - soup - dahi - buttermilk - anar juice 

5:30 park - banana and grapes 3rd snack

7:30 dinner - roti based meal - some vegetable paneer / aloo puri / beetroot puri / bhindi / dalia khichdi / sabudana khichdi / normal khichdi

8:30 milk and sleep





Thalipeeth recipe

 For 3-4 thalipeeth 


2 cucumbers, peeled and grated, combined with
1 green chili, finely chopped
2 Tbsp coriander, finely chopped
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1/4 tsp red chili powder
A fat pinch of heeng 
1 Tbsp sesame seeds
Salt, to taste

Mix everything well, then add

1/2 cup of atta/ whole wheat flour
2 Tbsp rice flour
2 Tbsp besan
2 Tbsp dahi

Mix this with your hands, adding a little water, as needed to make a soft dough that can be patted on the tawa.

Cook on both sides, serve with some butter/ dahi and enjoy!


Multigrain beetroot thalipeeth

Ragi, jowar, aata, besan cumin salt, dhaniya leaves
cucumber, beetroot, carrot , ginger, 

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Protein rich food

- Spirulina: powder form of algae, so rich in protein

- Buckwheat : protection against type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and obesity

- Soba Noodles: made from buckwheat. Raman noodles are worst.

- Chickpeas: even chickpeas pasta should be used and say NO to white pasta

- Edamame

- Tempeh

- Tofu

- Seitan (you can make at home)

- Tahini (you can make at home)

- Peanut butter (many stores have machines installed to churn peanut butter. Store ones have high sugar and preservatives)

- Spelt

- teff (for injera bread),

- Enkorn,

- barley,

- sorghum,

- farro,

- Hemp seeds

- Amaranth

- quinoa

- Ezekiel bread (made from sprouted grains)

- Wild rice

- Oats

- Chia seeds

- Vegetables (broccoli, spinach, asparagus, artichokes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts)

- Mycoprotein (Fusarium venenatum fungus. A meat substitute in veggie burgers, patties etc)

Monday, November 28, 2022

Kid's tiffin ideas

 1. Washed poha, rawa, curd, water. Mix, keep it for 15 mins, add salt, coriander powder, turmeric, salt, make chilla. 

2. Cheese Sauce dosa

3.  Aloo Onion sandwich 

4. Sooji chilla
5. Garlic onion spinach rice
6. Corn rice
7. Soaked green moong daal appe
8.Oats water cooked sprout chilla
9. Bread dahi cutlet - bread, water curd, potato carrot mix, make tikki, put bread crumbs, shallow fry 
10. Mix dal chilla
11. 


Thursday, September 3, 2020

Food for toddlers

 1. Strawberry lassi -> 2 strawberries, curd and Brown sugar( Panachkari)

2. Oats moong dal dosai -> 1 cup oats, 1/2 cup mooong dal, 1/4 cup raw rice, carrot , onion spinach 

3. Oats dosa -> Powdered oats, buttermilk, hing, salt, pepper, onion, green capsicum, carrot

4. Sweet potato radish rice -> 1/2 tbsp rice, 1/2 tbsp moongdal, grated sweet potato, and radish with a pinch of salt

5. Spinach and paneer -> grind paneer with curd, corriander leaves and pinch of salt. mix this to boiled spinach.

6. Potato onion paratha -> Heat ghee, add turmeric, chilli powder, jeera, fry for few sec then add onions, cook till they turn brown and add salt for stuffing. Add boiled potatoes and corriander leaves and mix well. Make parathas.

7. Cerelac - Homemade cerelac 1 tbsp, 1/2 tbsp ragi, 1 creastone spoon pana chakaria and pinch of salt.

8. Oats apple porridge - Grate apple, 1 tbsp powdered oats 1 dates powderboil in water

9.Oats khichdi - > hing onion arrot spinach oats corander leaves

10. paneer kheer -> water coconute milk paneer almod powder cardamom pwder carrot rice potato 

11. Saboo -> Soak sago overnight or in hotwater for 3 hours. When you press sago it should break. Then add boil water in pan once it starts to boil, add sago and wait for it become transparent. Add little jaggery powder.

12. Coconut milk -> grind coconut in mixie once it's ground add water grind again n filter ... Tats ur first extract of coconut milk ll be vry thick... Use d filtered coconut n add mor water n grind again n filter again ... This s second milk wch is lighter

13. https://youtu.be/ARWb3rqOXsc. Homemade cerelac

14. Soak in water overnight n next day press d kismis with ur hands into the soaked water all d juices ll come out... Give this juice to her ..





Ragi laddu

 1. 1 cup ragi flour

2. 1/4 cup badam

3. 1 tbsp sesame seeds

4. 3 tbsp ghee

5. 1/2 cup + 3 tbsp jaggery powder

6. 4 tbsp milk or as needed


Dry roast badam and sesame seeds

Add ghee and roast ragi flour

Add jaggery powder once flame is switched off

Add nuts in mixi and grind it

Add ragu and jaggery and grind till it becomes wet consistency 

Add milk as needed to make into laddu shape


Ragi Oats cookies for toddlers

1. 6 tbsp ragi flour roasted

2. 2 tbsp wheat flour lightly roasted 

3. 2 tbsp oats

4. 4 tbsp palm sugar

5. 4.5 tbsp ghee melted

6. Half of 1/4 tbsp baking powder

7. A pinch of salt

8. 2 tbsp milk

Bale at 180 degress for 20 mins + 5 mins

Behavioral questions