Kid's recipes - part 2

Some interesting and off beat recipes for kids

1. Honey chilli idli 

Ingredients:

Stale or fresh idlis 7-8, vegetables like onion, capsicum, carrot, zucchini, spring onions, honey, sesame seeds, salt per taste, soya or chilli sauce as per liking, oil as per requirement, oregano and other Italian seasoning, garlic, pepper powder, tomato ketchup. 

Recipe:

1. Cut the idlis into bite sizes, chop the vegetables into thin slices length wise.

2. Put 1 tb oil in kadhai, fry finely chopped garlic, onion till they turn translucent. 

3. Fry other vegetables and cook till they are crunchy, add soya sauce, tomato ketchup and give a good mix. Add Italian seasonings, oregano etc

4. Now add cut idlis and give it a good mix. Add 1.5 spoonful of honey and give a good mix again. 

5. Add finely chopped spring onion and sesame seeds on top for garnishing. Serve warm.

Rajgira jowar chilla

Ingredients:

1/2 cup rajgira flour, 1/2 cup jowar flour, 2 tb rava, grated boiled sweet potato, grated carrot, masalas like red chilli powder, coriander powder, jeera powder, salt as per taste, crushed green chilli and garlic paste, rava, spoonful of curd, ghee for cooking chillas.

Recipe:

1. Mix all the flours, vegetables and masalas along with curd and water as per requirement. Add salt. 

2. Give it a good mix and let it rest for 15 mins.

3. Spread medium thin chillas on tava with ghee. 

4. Flip once cooked from one side. Serve warm with chutney or ketchup.

Sweet potato halwa

Ingredients:

2 big sweet potatoes, ghee, nuts powder, cardamom powder, sweetener of choice (sugar or dates powder or jaggery), milk. 

Recipe:

1. Boil/steam sweet potato, peel them. Mash them finely.

2. Add 2 spoons of ghee,  fry the mashed sweet potato till it turns soft. 

3. Add milk slowly. Keep stirring. Add nuts powder and cardamom powder. 

4. Add sweetener of your choice, very little(1.5 or 2 spoons is required as sweet potato is already sweet). Give it a good mix again. Serve warm.

Rava ragi chilla/dosa

Ingredients:

Rava 1/2 cup, ragi flour 1/2 cup, 2 spoons curd, masalas like jeera powder, coriander powder, finely chopped green chilies, onion, coriander leaves, grated carrot or beetroot. Ghee for cooking, salt as per taste.

Recipe:

1. Mix rava and ragi with curd, whisk the mixture, now slowly add water. 

2. Add masalas, salt, veggies, chilies and onions. Let it rest for 15 mins.

3. Now slowly add water, keep the consistency as per your requirements. 

4. Spread the chillas on tava with ghee. Flip once cooked from one side. Serve warm with chutney or ketchup.

Egg roll

Ingredients:

2 eggs, 1 roti, grated and finely chopped veggies like onion, carrot, capsicum, masalas like pepper powder, finely chopped green chilies, salt and oil as per requirement. 

Recipe:

1. Whisk 2 eggs, add the vegetables and green chillies, pepper powder and salt to it.

2. Roast one roti on ghee or oil from one side, flip it and add the whisked egg on top. Let it cook for 1 min. Flip and again let it cook for  a min. It's ready, serve warm with ketchup.