Srividhya Mahesh
31st October 2004, 08:15 AM
Healthy recipes for children
In today’s fast world, everyone has taken to eating fast foods and readily available ones. Even the children are not spared. All cartoon channels display ads of junk food like chips, kurkuree, cheese balls, aerated drinks and what not. And surprisingly most mothers are not aware of the ill-effects of these junk foods and buy it for their children without giving a thought. Junk foods apart from containing saturated fat , also contains high sodium levels which are harmful for children. These children may get High blood pressure when they reach their twenties! It’s high time mothers start realizing and switch on to healthy alternatives which are nutritive too.
This thread is started mainly for healthy recipes that are also tasty and will be liked by children. I am presenting two recipes for the benefit of forum hubbers. I shall be sending more recipes from time to time. I also invite other forum hubbers to present healthy recipes in this thread.
Urad(Ullunthu) laddu
The method of preparation is similar to rava laddu
Ingredients
Whole urad dal (black) – ½ cup
Whole urad dal(white) – ½ cup
Jaggery – 1 cup
Ghee
Dry roast black and white whole urad dal and powder it in mixie. Take 1 cup of powdered jaggery, pour little water and keep it in a kadai in stove, once jaggery dissolves filter it and keep it again in stove for ½ a minute. Pour this jaggery water over the urad dal powder. Make it into small lemon-sized balls after pouring 4 tbsp of ghee.
This is a very healthy recipe as urad dal contains protein and jaggery contains iron.
Alternatively, this can be done with sugar as we do it for rava laddu.
Sweet corn chaat
Ingredients
Boiled sweet corn (or baby corn) – 1 cup
Onion – 1
Tomato – 1
Carrot - 1
Cucumber, raw mango – 2 tbsp each
Boiled potato – 1
Green chilli – 1
Chaat masala – ½ tsp
Salt
Coriander leaves - optional
Sev (omappodi) – optional
Chop onion, tomato, green chilli into very small pieces. Grate cucumber, raw mango, carrot.Mash potato. In a big bowl, put boiled sweet corn, mashed potato, chopped onion and tomato, grated cucumber, raw mango and carrot. Add salt, green chilli, chaat masala and mix it well . Garnish with coriander leaves and sev.
You can also pour sweet chutney over it if you like it sweet.
Sweet chutney:
Take a tiny ball(size of amla/nellikkai) of tamaring, add one date(peyricchampazham), a pinch of jaggery and grind it in a mixer. Pour water to this and boil it for two minutes. Turn off the stove and add jeera powder. This mixture can be stored in fridge for 15 days.
:D
In today’s fast world, everyone has taken to eating fast foods and readily available ones. Even the children are not spared. All cartoon channels display ads of junk food like chips, kurkuree, cheese balls, aerated drinks and what not. And surprisingly most mothers are not aware of the ill-effects of these junk foods and buy it for their children without giving a thought. Junk foods apart from containing saturated fat , also contains high sodium levels which are harmful for children. These children may get High blood pressure when they reach their twenties! It’s high time mothers start realizing and switch on to healthy alternatives which are nutritive too.
This thread is started mainly for healthy recipes that are also tasty and will be liked by children. I am presenting two recipes for the benefit of forum hubbers. I shall be sending more recipes from time to time. I also invite other forum hubbers to present healthy recipes in this thread.
Urad(Ullunthu) laddu
The method of preparation is similar to rava laddu
Ingredients
Whole urad dal (black) – ½ cup
Whole urad dal(white) – ½ cup
Jaggery – 1 cup
Ghee
Dry roast black and white whole urad dal and powder it in mixie. Take 1 cup of powdered jaggery, pour little water and keep it in a kadai in stove, once jaggery dissolves filter it and keep it again in stove for ½ a minute. Pour this jaggery water over the urad dal powder. Make it into small lemon-sized balls after pouring 4 tbsp of ghee.
This is a very healthy recipe as urad dal contains protein and jaggery contains iron.
Alternatively, this can be done with sugar as we do it for rava laddu.
Sweet corn chaat
Ingredients
Boiled sweet corn (or baby corn) – 1 cup
Onion – 1
Tomato – 1
Carrot - 1
Cucumber, raw mango – 2 tbsp each
Boiled potato – 1
Green chilli – 1
Chaat masala – ½ tsp
Salt
Coriander leaves - optional
Sev (omappodi) – optional
Chop onion, tomato, green chilli into very small pieces. Grate cucumber, raw mango, carrot.Mash potato. In a big bowl, put boiled sweet corn, mashed potato, chopped onion and tomato, grated cucumber, raw mango and carrot. Add salt, green chilli, chaat masala and mix it well . Garnish with coriander leaves and sev.
You can also pour sweet chutney over it if you like it sweet.
Sweet chutney:
Take a tiny ball(size of amla/nellikkai) of tamaring, add one date(peyricchampazham), a pinch of jaggery and grind it in a mixer. Pour water to this and boil it for two minutes. Turn off the stove and add jeera powder. This mixture can be stored in fridge for 15 days.
:D