17/05/2025
Healthy recipes for Growing children with creative ideas
1. Rainbow Veggie Paratha Rolls
• Ingredients: Whole wheat dough, grated carrots, beetroot, spinach, paneer, cumin.
• Creative Touch: Use different colored veggie stuffings to create a “rainbow” roll. Cut into spirals for a fun visual.
• Benefits: Rich in fiber, iron, protein, and essential vitamins.
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2. Power-Packed Smoothie Bowls
• Ingredients: Banana, berries, spinach, oats, chia seeds, peanut butter.
• Creative Touch: Decorate with fruit shapes, granola, and seeds to make smiley faces or animal shapes.
• Benefits: High in antioxidants, healthy fats, and energy-boosting carbs.
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3. Mini Veggie Pizza Faces
• Ingredients: Whole wheat mini pizza base or roti, homemade tomato sauce, assorted veggies, cheese.
• Creative Touch: Kids can decorate their own pizza using veggies like olives for eyes, capsicum for mouth, etc.
• Benefits: Great way to sneak in veggies with fun engagement.
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4. Lentil & Vegetable Muffins
• Ingredients: Cooked moong dal or masoor dal, grated veggies, besan, herbs.
• Creative Touch: Bake in silicone muffin molds shaped like stars or animals.
• Benefits: High in protein, iron, and fiber.
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5. Stuffed Idli Pops
• Ingredients: Rava or rice idli batter, mixed vegetable stuffing (like peas, corn, carrots).
• Creative Touch: Steam in mini muffin molds, insert food-safe toothpicks or skewers to make them like lollipops.
• Benefits: Good for breakfast or snacks, easy to digest.
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6. No-Bake Energy Bites
• Ingredients: Oats, dates, nuts, seeds, cocoa powder, jaggery.
• Creative Touch: Shape into balls, bars, or use cookie cutters to make stars and hearts.
• Benefits: Rich in iron, calcium, and healthy fats.
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7. Vegetable Millet Khichdi with Fun Plating
• Ingredients: Foxtail millet or barnyard millet, moong dal, veggies.
• Creative Touch: Serve using cookie-cutter shapes or mold into animal faces with veggie decorations.
• Benefits: Gluten-free, rich in fiber, protein, and minerals.
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8. Fruity Yogurt Popsicles
• Ingredients: Hung curd, fruit puree (mango, strawberry), a touch of jaggery or honey.
• Creative Touch: Layer different colored fruit purees for a striped popsicle effect.
• Benefits: Rich in calcium and probiotics.
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9. Nutri-Tikkis
• Ingredients: Boiled sweet potatoes, beetroot, green peas, oats powder, spices.
• Creative Touch: Shape into animals or emojis, pan-fry and serve with healthy dips like hummus or mint chutney.
• Benefits: Great source of complex carbs, fiber, and iron.
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10. DIY Salad Jars
• Ingredients: Chopped fruits, veggies, sprouts, nuts, lemon or curd dressing.
• Creative Touch: Layer in small transparent jars and let kids shake and mix before eating.
• Benefits: Teaches portion balance and encourages raw food intake.
Dietician Chetna Vineet Arya