Starting New Episode Of Recipes For Kids

Sometimes we might run out of choice for making varieties of food for kids or even ourselves. This idea for starting new episodes just for Kids basically emerged becoz i kind of felt hard to maintain routine for my kid when my mom left after her stay with us . I usually give him the same usual kind of food. With my daily & busy schedule i found hard to even think of a new one. But later i managed myself to give my kid some varities as they have to get used to diff kinds of food. No wonder we will eventually become a pro.
Based on my personal experience i planned to compile all the recipes that suits Kids (mostly indian kids). Most of them are my mom's recipe, and some of them are personalised from tv and books. All these Kids recipes would be suitable for small kids age between 6 months to 3 years.

Although we need to train them and start giving them the usual food that we cook regularly for ourselves just with less spice and salt, i have shedded a few ideas which you can try if you bored of trying you usual stuff. Have fun and hope u all enjoy the recipes.
Stay tuned for my next post..........

Chicken Manchurian

Ingredients
1) 2 pounds of small pieces of chicken(boneless)
2) Soy Sauce - 3 to 4 tbsp
3) 2 tbsp Ginger cut into small pieces
4) 3 tbsp Garlic cut into small pieces
5) Coriander leaves
6)1 Onion cut into long pieces
7) All purpose flour Or Corn flour- 1/2 cup
8) Egg - 1
9) Bell pepper - 1 cut into small pieces
10) Agin-o-motto - a pinch
11) chilli powder, salt, black pepper to taste

Preparation:

Mix the all purpose flour or corn flour, beaten egg, salt, chilli powder to make a paste.Can add food color which is optional.

Add the chicken to the paste and let it for few minutes say 10 mins.

Heat some oil in a pan and deep fry the chicken.

Heat a little oil in a pan and fry the onions, bell pepper, ginger and garlic pieces.

Add the soy sauce and let it boil

Add the fried chicken pieces to the boiling mixture.

Add the agin-o-motto and coriander leaves.


Depending on your choice of having chicken manchurian, you can make it dry or like a gravy, by adding or lessening more(or less) of soya sauce and water.

Chicken Manchurian is best served with any kinf of fried rice or Rotis or Parathas.

Rava Dosa

Had been a long time since i posted anything in my cookery blog. As usual busy with daily routine and my other blogs. ried this rava dosa first time , and it came out to be a complete disaster. I got the batter perfectly done, but i couldnt get the shape of dosa. took some time to figure out wat was going wrong. And then i called my mom , she gave me these tips to get dosas on shape. So here i am, to share the tips with you all.Rava dosa is very easy to prepare & within short time.

Dosa Batter:
Rava/Semolina - 1 cup
Rice flour - 1 cup
Maida/All purpose flour - 1/2 cup
salt - accordingly
Pepper corns - accordingly
Green chillies - 3
Curry leaves - 1/2 hand full
Jeera/Cumin - 1 1/2 tsp
Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
Water - accordingly


Preparation :

The main thing to keep in mind while preparing the batter is to keep the consistency of the batter thin as a butter milk. So add the water to all the mixture above and get the batter ready and set it aside for 10 mins.

Now to make Dosas:

Now Keep the pan with almost more than a medium flame on the stove top. but make sure its not at the high flame. Since the batter is too thin we cannot pour it like a regular dosa as we will not get the desired shape. Therefore , to make onion rava dosa, first sprinkle on the stove and then sprinkle the bater with your hand and that forms a thin layer of dosa with its unique feature of forming holes . Now apply oil/ghee to make it wasy for us to flip.
Keep in mind that even though the flame is set to almost high, the rava-dosa does not gets cooked so fast. Also it does not get the brown color. So you may not worry that it would get burned at high flame. So leave it for a while until the sides of the dosa seem to get browned so that it can be flipped.
Thats the trick. Dosa is done. And can be served with any kind of chutney , but prefferebly mint or corriander leaf chutney , or coconut chutney , or sambar.

I miss-placed my digital-camera somewhere within our house :-)) will post the pictures once i find it. Till then try it out and have fun.