My 2 1/2 year old son adores cooking and helps me cook most of our meals. We spend friday afternoons baking and was wondering, does anyone have any ideas or recipes we could try? Nothing sweet please as i don't like the thought of him eating all the sugar that goes into tradtional sweet recipes. Plus, i don't want him developing a sweet tooth from eating things like that every week. Savoury things like nibbles or snacks or even something we could use in our evening meal? Must be reasonably healthy and suitable for young children to eat.
Thank you xSavoury ideas/recipes to cook with my son?
Good on you for your attitudes, both in encouraging him early and on being aware of the dangers of sugar. I hope that this will suffice.
Cheese and Carrot Flapjack. This is my recipe and includes the following:-
1 Large Egg - lightly beaten with salt and pepper.
1 medium onion
1 large carrot peeled and grated
2 oz melted butter or margarine
4 oz porrige oats - not jumbo ones (they will not stay together)
8 oz grated cheese like cheddar - mild or medium are best
Dried mixed herbs
Caraway seeds (optional)
Prepare all ingredients. Your son would enjoy mixing all this together, it can be heavy with a spoon, but provided he washed his hands after he would be alright. Shame they do not do disposable gloves for little hands.
If the mixture feels too dry and does not stick together properly add a little oil and mix again.
Line a small roasting tin with a flat bottom with grease proof paper and spread the mixture all around. Tightly packed. You could use a potatoe masher to press it down.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake for about 35 minutes - cover it if it gets too brown too quickly. Turn it once during cooking.
Remove from oven and cool slightly and then turn upside down on to a cooling rack. When cool enough to handle cut with scissors into small squares. These are good snacks which contain carbohydrate, veg, calcium from the cheese and butter. Store in an airtight container for up to 5 days in the fridge - if you can resist! When I make it, my mother cannot get past the cooling stage before she HAS to do a quality control test which involves quite a lot of the original!
Note: You might want reduce the amount of onion for your son and the salt.
Enjoy!Savoury ideas/recipes to cook with my son?
how about trying a fruit salad
My kids love home made cheese pasties - simply made with puff pastry, folded into triangles with a little cheese inside. You could also make them pizza type with some tomato puree or a little bit of ham (if you eat meat). Very quick, very easy, and make sure you eat them warm from the oven - delicious!
Pretzels
Prep time: about 30 minutesIngredients:
1 tbsp. yeast
1/2 c. warm water
1 tsp. honey
1 1/3 c. flour
1 tsp. salt
oven (You'll need help from your adult assistant.)
small bowl
mixing spoon
medium-size bowl
cutting board, sprinkled with flour
baking sheet, sprayed with nonstick spray
measuring cups and spoons
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit (165 degrees Celsius).
Put the yeast in a small bowl with the water and honey. Stir a little, then let the mixture sit for 5 minutes.
Mix the flour and salt together in a medium-size bowl.
After the 5 minutes is up, check on the yeast mixture. It should be bigger than before and a little bubbly. Add this mixture to the flour and salt mixture.
Stir everything together. Use a spoon to start. Finish with your hands. The dough is ready when it's still a little crumbly and flaky.
Put the dough on the cutting board and knead it like you are playing with clay. Knead it into one big ball.
Break off a piece of dough that's about the size of a big gumball or superball. Use your hands to roll it into a skinny snake.
Twist the snake into a medium-size pretzel shape, and put it on the cookie sheet. Do this with all the dough, making 12 pretzels.
Bake your pretzels for 10 minutes. Let them cool and take a bite!
Serves: 12
Serving size: 1 pretzel
Nutritional analysis (per serving):
56 calories
1 g protein
0 g fat
12 g carbohydrate
0 g fiber
0 mg cholesterol
192 mg sodium
2 mg calcium
0.7 mg iron
Cheese straws, sausage rolls (but decent sausagemeat), pasties, quiche?
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My son loves pizzadillas. Same concept as a quesadilla only using the ingredients for pepperoni pizza.
Coat skillet with a layer of butter,
Place tortilla (I prefer larger) in skillet
Use a spoonful of pizza sauce and spread on half the tortilla
cover sauce with mozzerella cheese
add pepperoni to taste
flip one side over to form half circle
flip on the other side once golden brown.
You'll want to use a medium heat that won't cook these to fast, but is good and hot. Your son may want to hand you the cheese and pepperoni while you stand next to the skillet.
These are quick and EASY and I haven't met a kid who would turn one down yet.
Pizza, 350g of strong white bread flour,
1 sachet of Hovis fast action bread yeast
2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
8fl oz of warm water
1 teaspoon of salt
put the flour,yeast and salt into a bowl
mix the oil and warm water together
slowly add oil/water mix to bowl, stirring with wooden spoon or stir by hand and mix till you have a soft stretchy dough
knead for about 10 mins by hand
transfer to another bowl and cover with a damp tea towel and leave for about 1hr ( the dough should double in size)
knead the dough for a couple of mins then cut in half (approx half, no need to measure)
roll out on floured surface to make pizza dough
and place on a baking sheet.
toppings: add whatever you like but use passata or tomato concentrate to cover base
I pre-heat my oven to 220deg and cook pizza for about 10mins
Savoury cakes just use potato's cook what you think will be right amount for how many people they are for ,then add a box off paxo or cheese if preferred ,then make your batter dip your savoury cakes in and fry in clean hot oil .x
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