Kid's Special :- Spinach Soup

Spinach Soup

Ingredients:-
1 tsp ghee
½ tsp jeera
3 black pepper corns
2 garlic cloves
½ chopped onion
½ tsp chopped ginger
1 bowl of cut spinach
½ potato
½ carrot
½ small beetroot (Here I have added one big beetroot so the color of the soup turned red :-))
Salt
2 Bowls Water


Preparation:-

Heat ghee in pressure cooker.

Add jeera, black pepper corns, garlic cloves, chopped onion and chopped ginger.

Saute for a minute and add 1 bowl of cut spinach, potato, carrot and beetroot.

Saute for 3-4 minutes and also add salt to taste.

Add 2 bowls of water to this and pressure cook for around 10 minutes on medium.

Puree this once it is cool. Strain and serve warm to kids.

Note:-
You can add little cream for better taste.

Kid's special - Beetroot rice

Beetroot is one of the vegetable which is full of nutrients. Beetroot contains folic acid, lowers cholesterol, reduces blood pressure etc etc. This vegetable is very good for growing kids.

This is a very simple recipe and kids will love to eat as it is bit sweet and colorful.

The ingredients required for beetroot rice is as below.

1. Beetroot - 1

2. Green chilli - 1

3. Curry leaves - 1 spring

4. Salt - As required

5. Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

6. Ghee - 1 tbsp / As required 

7. Cooked rice - 1 cup

8. Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Preparation:-

Cook the rice with salt and keep it aside.

Grate the beetroot and chop green chilli. Heat a kadai and pour ghee into it. Add mustard seeds and curry leaves into it. After a minute add the grated beetroot, turmeric powder and salt into it and cook it till the beetroots are done.

Now mix the cooked rice with the cooked beetroot and stir for a minute. Switch off the flame and keep it covered for five minutes.

Serve hot with curd or pappad. 

Tips:-

You can add cooked peas or small pieces of potato to this rice.

Easy Breakfast Idea- Egg rava chilla/Dosa

This is an easy breakfast recipe which you can prepare in 15 minutes. This is healthy and heavy breakfast and easy snack box idea for the school going kids.

To prepare this tasty dish you need the below ingredients:-

Onion - 1

Green chilli - 1

Ginger - 1 small piece

Rava/Sooji/Semolina - 1 cup

Water - As required

Salt - As required

Egg - 2

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

Oil - 2 tbsp

Cut the onion, ginger and green chilli into small pieces. Heat oil in a kadai and add the chopped onion, ginger and green chilli and saute for 3 minutes. Once the onion turned to light brown color switch off the stove.

If the rava is not roasted then roast the rava in a kadai and keep it aside. 

Note:-  

How to roast rava? -> Heat a kadai without oil and add rava into this. Stir continuously till the rava change it color.

Now in a bowl mix the rava, fried onion-ginger-green chilli together with salt and turmeric powder. Beat the egg in a glass and pour this egg mixture to the bowl. Now mix everything together and add water to make it to a dosa batter consistency. Check the salt.

Now heat a dosa tava and pour oil into that. Take a spoon full of the rava egg mixture and pour on to the tava. You will not be able to spread the mix like dosa batter, so carefully flatten it little bit and cover it. 

Once both sides of the dosa is done then transfer it to a plate and serve hot with sauce.

Tips:-

You can add chopped vegetables such as carrot, beans to make this dish more healthy.

Add tomatoes if you like.

You can pack this in the snack box and kids will love to eat this.