Snacks to Pack for Your Kids

Every morning or let’s admit that from almost last night prelude, one thing that constantly hits the brain of any Mom is the kids’ School Lunch. You keep looking for something healthy, appealing, nutritious, easy to make in the morning and something that will survive a few hours in the lunch box. Again a change is must for every day a week. Priya Singh pitches in recipes of some yummy to taste, amazing to look and yet easy to cook snacks to pack for your kids. Read to select what would you pack for kid.

Veggie Cheese Sandwich

Ingredients: 6 – bread rolls, 15 gm – butter, salt to taste, 2 pinches – white pepper powder, 20g – cheese, 5 – black olive, 4 tbsp – chopped carrot, 2 tbsp – chopped onion, 3 tbsp – chopped mushroom, 4 tbsp – chopped beans, 1 tbsp – chopped garlic, 1 tbsp – chopped green chilli, 15 gm – refind flour, 150 ml – milk , olive oil

Method:  Melt butter in a pan & mix it with flour. After mixing butter – flour, pour milk in mixture. Heat olive oil in the other pan and fry garlic. Once garlic changes colour add all vegetables. When vegetables are soft, mix prepared sauce in it. Add salt, pepper and prepare a thick filling and keep a side. Cut the rolls in half and toast in a toaster. Then fill the toasts with the prepared mixture topped with grated cheese, a little chopped carrot, chilli and black olive rings. Toast this under salamander or oven. It makes a good snack pack option as cheese always delights kids.

Colourful Parathana

Ingredients: 1/4 cup wheat flour, 1/4 cup rice flour, 1 tbsp. soaked moong dal (soaked for 2 hours), 1 tsp. bombay rava, 1 tbsp. spinach chopped, 1 tsp. paneer or cheese grated, 1 tbsp.carrots, beans, peas, cabbage etc. 1 flake garlic crushed, 1/4 tsp turmeric powder, 1 tsp oil, 2 spring onion stems finely chopped, salt to taste, oil for shallow frying.

Method: Cut vegetables very fine. Grind spinach to a paste, add chillies if you want. Now mix all ingredients except oil and cheese to make dough of the mixture (consistency like that of paratha). Roll into small parathas . Heat the tawa and make parathas. Cook till even browned and golden on both sides. Garnish with grated paneer or cheese. And pack it in hot wrap for lunch. Ketchup, chutney or jam woul make great add on, select as per your child’s taste.

Moong Flour Pancake

Ingredients: 1 cup moong dal flour (green or yellow), 1 tbsp corriander finely chopped, 1 carrot grated, 1/4 tsp. grated ginger, 1 green chilli ground (if your kid prefers), 1/2 pinches soda bicarb, salt to taste, oil to shallow fry.

Method: Mix all ingredients in a bowl with enough water to make thick batter. Pour the batter in a big spoonful on a warmed dosa tawa or non-stick tawa. Make dosa out of the dough. Cool and pack. If desired with green chutney or sauce.

Paneer Pasta with Garlic Bread

Ingredients: 1 bowl boiled Maccaroni, diced onion, 100 gm paneer, bell pepper, tomato ketchup 2tbsp, voila, red pepper, olive oil 2 tsp and salt to taste.

Method to prepare pasta: Boil the maccaroni with a pinch of salt and keep it aside. Cut the onions into small cubes. Cut the tomatoes, paneer and bell pepper and keep it aside. Now heat the oil in a pan and put the onions in it. Cook for some time till onion changes colour to golden brown. Now add the boiled maccaroni and cook for 15 min. Now add bell pepper and paneer and cook for 2 mins. Take care to see that is does not stick to the bottom. Now add salt and red pepper. Finally add tomato ketchup and voila its ready. Serve hot!!

How to prepare garlic bread Mix some minced cloves of garlic with butter and apply on sliced bread. Wrap it with foil paper and toast it in the oven for 2 mins and it ready to eat.

So now try these recipes and see how you win the fight of getting your kid finish the lunch pack. With these, no more after school lectures would be required.