Healthy recipes for your toddler

Your toddler is growing day by day, and giving your child a balanced diet at this stage means incorporating foods from all food groups, helping them develop new tastes and becoming accustomed to eating healthy right away.

Do not worry if your child has not been eating according to the food chart you have chalked out as dealing with toddlers and their food habits can be challenging. Do not force your child to eat, or only stick to one particular food item in order to provide good nutrition. Basically change, reintroduce and give him/her a variety; I bet your toddler will be more than happy.

Here are a couple of recipes that I am sure your little one would enjoy.

Fruity Bread Bonanza

Ingredients:

1. 4 whole-wheat bread slices
2. 3 tbsp homemade tomato ketchup
3. ¾th cup mixed fruits (you can add any fruits your child is fond of, or pineapple,apple,pear,orange,grapes,banana and pomegranate)
4. Salt and ground black pepper to taste
5. 2 tbsp fresh curd(preferably homemade; you can make this recipe without curd too)

Method:

1) In a bowl mix the curd and fruits well, set aside

2) Now place the 4 slices of bread on a table and remove the borders/crusts

3) Apply the homemade tomato ketchup on each slice, and place the fruit yogurt mixture on top

4) Sprinkle black pepper and salt on top, as desired

5) You can place some pomegranate seeds on top for it to look colourful and appealing to your little one

Paneer & Veggie Tikkis

Ingredients:

1. 4 boiled and mashed potatoes
2. ½ cup boiled green peas, roughly mashed
3. 1/4th cup grated carrot
4. 3 tbsp chopped capsicum
5. 1/4th cup grated paneer
6. Salt to taste
7. 1/4th tsp black pepper
8. Chopped mint leaves, 10-15
9. Oil as required

Method:

1. In a bowl mix together all the ingredients properly
2. Now make round balls from that mixture, and flatten them to make coin size tikkis
3. Make sure all the tikkis are of an even size
4. Heat a pan with a little oil;you basically need to shallow fry the tikkis, not deep fry them
5. Place the tikkis on the pan and heat till the colour turns brown on both sides
6. Serve with homemade ketchup or mint coriander chutney