High protein cakes

RECIPE :


Ingredient :


Almonds - 1 cup
Ground nut - 1 cup
Sesame - 1 cup
Jaggery - 1 3/4 cup
Butter/ Ghee - 1/2 tbsp

Method :

1. Roast the sesame seeds lightly and allow them to cool down.
2. Meanwhile roast the ground nuts and allow them to cool down
3. Crush the sesame seed in mixer coarsely. Do not crush sesame seeds finely.
4. Peel the roasted ground nuts and crush them into a coarse powder.
5. Make the powder of almonds too.
6. Now grease the plate with butter/ ghee.
7. Add jaggery in a pan and heat it till it melts completely.
8. As soon as jaggery melt completely turn off the gas and add sesame, ground nut and almond powder in it.
9. Mix the mixture properly and pour it in butter greased plate. 
10. Make the batter flat by patting with greased hands or greased small flat bowl.
11. Now cut the flat cake in small pieces and remove it once mixture cools down
12. Your high protein cakes are ready to eat.
13. You can store these cakes for one month in air tight container.

Potato smash

Potato is rich in carbohydrates and mostly loved by kids. Potato smash is easy to cook.


RECIPE :
Ingredients :
Potato - 2 small
Cumin seed - 1/4 tbsp
Oil - 1/2 tbsp
Salt


Method :

1. Pressure cook the potato till becomes soft
2. Remove the skin of potato and chopped it.
3. Heat the oil in pan and crackle the cumin seed.
4. Add potato and salt. Saute for minute.
5. Smash the potato and saute for 2-3 minute.

Instant Rava Idli

Rava Idli is easy to made and healthy for toddler.


RECIPE:
Ingredients :
Rava (Semolina) - 3 small bowls
Curd - 1 small bowl
Lemon juice - 1 tbsp
Soda - 1/3 small spoon (5-6 pinches)
Salt
Oil for greasing


Method :

1. Take semolina in bowl, add curd, lemon juice. Add water to prepare batter for idli.
2. Add salt. Mix well so no lumps should be there.
3. Grease the Idli mould. Put the water to boil in Idli cooker.
4. Add Soda in Idli batter and mix well.
5. Pour batter in greased Idli molds.
6. Once water in Idli cooker starts to boil put Idli stand in it.
7. Steam the Idli's for 10-15 minutes on high flame.
8. Turn off the burner and wait for 5 minutes before opening cooker.
9. Remove Idli with the help of spoon.
10. Serve these Idli's with sambar or chutney.

Rava (Semolina) dhokala

Semolina is made of wheat and easy to digest. Instead of making dhokala by using gram flour, semolina is good option.


RECIPE :
Ingredients :
Semolina (Rava) - 1small bowl
Curd - 1/2 small bowl
Water - 1 small bowl
Soda - 1/2 tsp or less
Lemon juice - 1 tsp
Salt


For Seasoning :
Oil - 2 tbsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tbsp
Curry leaves - 7-8 leaves
Lemon juice- 1/2 tbsp
Sugar - 1/2 tbsp
water - 2-3 tbsp.


Method :

1. Take curd in container, add 1 bowl water and whisked to make buttermilk.
2. Add semolina and mix well so that no lumps there.
3. Add salt and lemon juice. Keep this batter for half an hour.
4. Meanwhile for steaming, take water in large vessel or pressure cooker and bring it to boil.
5. Grease plate or pressure cooker inner pot (separator).
6. Take the semolina batter, add soda and stir well to mix it. as soon as bubble start to come pour the batter in plate/ pot. (Tip 1)
7. Put the pot in pressure cooker or vessel. Cover the lid. in case of pressure cooker remove the whistle before putting the lid.
8. Steamed the dhokala for 15 minute on high flame. Turn off the burner and allow stem to settle for 5 minute.
9. Take out the pot with dhokala. You can check if dhokla cooked properly or not by piercing knife in dhokala, if dhokala does not stick then it is cooked.
10. Cut the dhokala in medium cubes.
11. Now heat 2 tbsp oil in small pan, temper mustard seeds and curry leaves. Add water,sugar and turn off the burner once it boil.
12. Add lemon juice and spread it on dhokala.

Tips :
1. Depend on the size of plate/cooker separator steam dhokla in one or two batch.
2. You can add a piece of green chilli at the time of seasoning if your kid started to eat spices.

Fried drumsticks

Drumsticks are rich in iron, calcium and vitamins and hence considered as good tonic for growing child.

RECIPE
Ingredients :
Drumstick - 15 pieces (Approx 3 inch)
Oil - 1 tbsp
Cumin seed - 1/2 tbsp
Salt

Method :
1. Boil the drumsticks in salty water till it becomes tender.
2. Drain the water.
3. Heat the oil in pan. Temper cumin seed.
4. Add drumsticks and saute far minute.
5. These fried drumsticks are good finger food children more than 2 years. For small toddler there might be chocking hazard of drumstick's fibrous residue. In this case feed the drumstick pulp to your toddler by your hand.

Salty Shankarpale

Salty shankarpale is favorite recipe of kids and adults. For your toddler it would be good finger food.

RECIPE :


Ingredients :
All purpose flour - 2 bowls
Ghee - 1/2 bowl
Cumin seed - 1 tbsp
Oil - to fry
Salt
Water

Method :
1. Take a flour in large bowl. Heat the ghee till it melts and become lukewarm.
2. Add ghee in flour and mix it properly. knead flour by sing water to make soft dough.
3. Cover dough with wet cloth and keep for 15 minutes,
4. Roll dough in rectangular shape.
5. Roll this rectangular shape in small folds to make tight roll.
6. Keep this roll in refrigerators chiller section for 10-15 minutes.
7. Take out the roll and cut into small pieces.
8. Roll this pieces thinly and cut into desired shapes.
9. Fry these pieces into oil and keep on paper towel.

Tips :
1. If you have oven instead of frying you can bake it. and also can prepared khari by same way.

Chicken nuggets

Chicken is good source of proteins. Your toddler will love this chicken nuggets as finger food.

RECIPE :


Ingredients :
 Chicken - 400 gm (boneless)
Garlic paste - 2 tbsp
Ginger paste - 1tbsp
Pepper powder - 1/2 tbsp
Rice flour - 3 tbsp
Corn flour - 3 tbsp
All purpose flour - 2 tbsp
Oil
Salt
Water

Method :
1. Wash chicken and cut into 1-2 inch pieces.
2. Take chicken pieces in bowl and marinate with Ginger-Garlic paste, pepper powder and salt.
Keep it for half an hour.
3. Meanwhile take all floors in another bowl, add salt and add water to prepare batter. This batter should not be too thick or thin.
4. Now heat oil in pan. Take a marinated chicken piece, deep in a prepared batter and put in frying pan.
5. You can fry 4-5 pieces at a time. Fry the pieces on medium flame and turn upside down ,once one side gets cooked.
6. Fry chicken nuggets on medium flame still it becomes golden. Take out the nuggets from frying pan and keep  on paper towel.
7. Chicken nuggets are ready to serve. You can serve it with sauce.

Puffed rice (Churmure) chiwda

Puffed rice chiwda is a good for afternoon snack. You child will love it as finger food.


RECIPE :


Ingredients :
Puffed rice - 1 medium bowl
Cumin seed - half tbl spoon
Oil - 2 tbl spoon
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tbl spoon
Salt


Method :
1. Heat the pan, add oil and temper the cumin seed. Add turmeric powder.
2. Add puffed rice and salt. Saute it for 2-3 minutes.


Chiwda is ready to serve. Your child can have it warm or you can store the chiwda.


Tips :
1. For elder lid you can add peanuts  and a piece of green chili.