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Bread rolls prepared using bread as the primary ingredient can be eaten either as a breakfast or as an evening snack item which is the food mostly liked by the children. The ingredients used to prepare it are as follows.

• 4-5 bread slices
• 1 cup boiled milk
• 1 cup peeled, boiled and mashed potato mix
• 4 green chilies
• 2 tablespoons chopped coriander leaves
• Salt
• Oil

Follow the below steps to prepare yummy bread rolls:

• Dip the bread slices one after the other in the milk. Then press them slightly with the palms to remove excess milk and keep aside. This is done to make the bread soft. Instead of milk, water can also be used.
• Now mix the mashed potato mix, green chilies, salt and chopped coriander leaves together in a bowl.
• Place the above mix at the center of each bread slice and roll the sides of the bread so that the mixture present at the center can be covered completely and forms rolls.
• Refrigerate the rolls for 30 minutes.
• Deep fry these rolls in the heated oil.
• Remove them from oil when they become light brown in color and place them on tissue to remove the excess oil.
• Serve these hot and yummy bread rolls either with tomato sauce or chili sauce.

The yummy Gobi Manchuria is prepared using the following ingredients.

• 200 grams cauliflower florets
• 4 tablespoons corn flour
• 1/2 cup plain flour
• 3 tablespoons finely chopped ginger
• 2 tablespoons finely chopped garlic
• 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1/2 tablespoon red chili powder
• 2 red chilies
• 1 cup water
• Oil

Follow the below steps in order to prepare Gobi Manchuria:

• Take florets in a bowl. Add water and milk to it and boil them for 5 minutes.
• Drain the water. Place the boiled florets in a bowl and keep aside.
• Mix plain flour and corn flour in another bowl. Add water to it so that a thin batter if formed out of it.
• Now add 1/4 tablespoon each of ginger and garlic, chili powder and salt to it and mix well.
• Dip each floret in the batter prepared earlier and deep fry them in oil till they become light brown in color.
• In the remaining oil which is left out after frying florets, add chopped red chilies, garlic and ginger. Fry them for 2 minutes.
• Add chopped onions and salt to it.
• Add water to it and stir well.
• Add the mix of corn flour and water paste to it and stir well.
• Boil the mixture until total water gets absorbed that is the entire gravy becomes transparent.
• Now add the florets and boil for 2-3 minutes.
• Hot and yummy Gobi Manchuria is now ready to serve. Serve it along with noodles.

Banana cutlet prepared using banana and potato as primary ingredients, is nutritious as well as delicious snack item which can easily be prepared in not more than 30 minutes. It is one of the yummy Indian recipes whose recipe is as follows.

Ingredients required to prepare banana cutlet are as follows:

• 4 raw bananas
• 2 potatoes
• 3 tablespoons bread crumbs
• 1 1/2 tablespoons dry mango powder
• 5 finely chopped green chilies
• Oil
• Salt

Procedure to prepare banana cutlet include the following steps:

• Firstly peel off potatoes and bananas.
• Pressure cook the peeled potatoes and bananas on low flame for about 5 minutes.
• Take out the steamed bananas and potatoes from the pressure cooker and smash them.
• Keep the smashed mix in a bowl. Add salt, chopped green chilies and mango powder to the above mix and mix well.
• Apply some oil to both the palms. Take some portion of the mixture and roll it on the palms. Then press the roll to make it into the normal cutlet shape.
• Now roll the prepared cutlets in the bread crumbs.
• Take the oil in a pan and heat it. When the oil gets heated up, fry the prepared cutlets till they become golden brown.
• Place the cutlets on the tissue and serve the hot banana cutlets either with tomato sauce or with mint sauce.

Banana cutlets are nutritious as they are rich in fiber, vitamin C and vitamin B6 that help to reduce the risk of heart strokes. This food item can easily be digested as it contains less fat content in it. This snack item is also beneficial to the growing children. Instead of eating the banana as it is which some children doesn’t like, its better to prepare this cutlet so that children enjoy the great taste of it and can also get the great health benefits of banana too.

Paneer Manchuria prepared using paneer as the primary ingredient is the healthy and delicious snack item which every one of us likes to have them. The recipe for preparing the Paneer Manchuria is as follows.

The ingredients needed include the following:

• 250 grams paneer
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup corn flour
• 6 finely chopped garlic cloves
• 4 tablespoons ginger-garlic paste
• 1/2 cup finely chopped onions
• 6 finely chopped green chilies
• 2 tablespoons of soya sauce
• Coriander leaves
• Salt
• Oil

Preparation steps include the following:

• Firstly, cut the paneer into small pieces.
• Add ginger-garlic paste and salt to the paneer pieces and mix well. Keep it aside for sometime.
• Mix all-purpose flour, corn flour, ginger-garlic paste and little water together in a bowl to make batter.
• Fry the paneer pieces in the oil by after dipping them in the above prepared batter. Fry them until they become golden brown in color.
• Take another pan and add oil to it. Add the chopped garlic cloves to it and fry them.
• Now add green chilies to it and fry for about 5 minutes.
• Add fried paneer pieces, chopped onions, soya sauce and water to the above mix. Allow it to cook for 2 minutes.
• Mix corn flour and water together. Add this paste to the above paneer pieces and mix well.
• Lastly, add salt and coriander leaves. After 1 minute, off the stove.
• Spicy and yummy paneer Manchuria is now ready to serve. Serve hot along with tomato ketchup.

Potato-Corn Balls prepared using corn as the primary ingredient is a delicious snack item which will be liked by almost all the children. Children enjoy eating this yummy, spicy and delicious snack. The ingredients that are required to prepare this potato-corn snack include the following.

• 1 1/2 cup boiled corn
• 5 boiled potatoes
• 1 cup finely chopped paneer
• 4 tablespoons grated cheese
• 4 tablespoons of butter
• 1 cup maida

• 1 cup of breadcrumbs
• 5 green chilies
• 3 tablespoons coriander
• 2 tablespoons chili sauce
• Oil for deep fry
• Salt

Preparation steps to cook potato-corn balls include the following:

• Take a pan and melt the butter in it.
• For about 1 minute, seethe the flour in the butter.
• Add milk to it and stir well. Cook until the mixture becomes thick.
• Add corn, finely chopped potatoes, cheese, chopped paneer, green chilies and coriander to the above thick mixture and mix well.
• Now add salt to it.
• Make small balls out of the mixture and keep aside.
• Make the flour paste by thoroughly mixing 1 1/2 cup of water and flour.
• Now dip the small balls which are kept aside in flour paste and roll them in breadcrumbs.
• Fry the balls in oil till they become light brown in color.
• Place the balls on a tissue so that extra oil can be absorbed.
• Serve these potato-corn balls along with tomato sauce which tastes great.

Delicious chana chaat snack item can be prepared easily and quickly within not more than 5 minutes. This snack is not only yummy and delicious but also a nutritional food item. The ingredients needed to prepare the chana chaat include the following.

• 3 cups chana
• 1 cup peeled and chopped cucumber
• 1/2 cup chopped onions
• 1/2 cup chopped tomato
• 1 1/2 cup paneer cubes
• 1 1/2 tablespoon chaat masala
• 1 tablespoon coriander leaves
• 1 tablespoon tomato sauce

Follow the below procedure to prepare chana chaat snack recipe:

• Soak the chana in sufficient water for about 1 hour.
• After an hour, drain the water, place the chana in a bowl and keep aside.
• Add paneer cubes, chopped cucumber, chopped tomato and chopped onions to the bowl containing the chana and mix well.
• Add chaat masala to the above mixture and mix well.
• Now add tomato sauce to it and mix well.
• Garnish the above mix with coriander leaves.
• Serve the delicious chana chaat by adding the lemon juice to it if you desire.

Chana chaat is highly nutritious food as it is rich in fiber that benefits a lot in reducing and maintaining the cholesterol levels in the body. This food is best for the diabetic patients as the chana used to prepare this food item contains low glycemic index and consuming this food helps in controlling the glucose levels in the diabetic patients.

One of the tasty and yummy South Indian food items is the vegetable fried rice. The recipe for cooking this delicious food is as follows.

Ingredients required to prepare vegetable fried rice are:

• 3 cups rice
• 1/2 cup finely chopped carrot
• 1/2 cup finely chopped cabbage
• 1/2 cup peas
• 100 grams finely chopped beans
• 1 sliced onion
• 2 finely chopped spring onions
• 2 green chilies which are to be cut lengthwise
• 1 tablespoon finely chopped ginger
• 1 tablespoon finely chopped garlic
• 1 tablespoon soya sauce
• 4 tablespoons oil
• 1/2 tablespoon pepper powder
• Salt to taste

Follow the below steps to prepare vegetable fried rice:

• Firstly soak 3 cups of rice in water for about 15 minutes and drain.
• Take some water in a bowl. Add rice and salt to it and boil it till rice becomes tender.
• Cook the rice in such a way that each grain should be separate. Don’t overcook.
• When the rice is cooked, drain the water. Now again add some cold water to it. Again drain using a sieve and keep aside.
• Take a pan and add oil to it. Now heat the pan and add chopped vegetables to it.
• Cook the vegetables till they become crispy.
• Add salt and pepper to it.
• Now add the rice which is cooked and mix well.
• Add soya sauce and mix well. Cook for 3 minutes.
• Hot and delicious vegetable fried rice is now ready to serve.

The famous yummy Indian sweet carrot halwa is prepared using carrots as primary ingredient. Carrots are natural and best source of vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin B6, folic acid and thiamine. Presence of these vitamins and minerals helps to maintain good eye sight, reduce the risk of heart diseases and blood pressure. Especially vitamin A helps to maintain healthy cell membranes that fight against the disease causing organisms. In spite of these healthy benefits, most of the children hesitate to eat the carrots as the children doesn’t concentrate on the benefits rather they like those foods which look attractive and are good to taste. So instead of forcing the children to eat the carrots as it is, its better to prepare some tasty, yummy and delicious recipe out of it so that children like to eat it and enjoy its taste and get the benefits out of it. Now let us see the recipe for preparing the colorful and tasty traditional Indian halwa sweet made using carrots.

Ingredients

• 4 carrots
• 5 tablespoons sugar
• 400 ml milk
• 1/2 tablespoon cardamom powder
• 3 almonds which are chopped

Procedure

• First wash the carrots properly.
• Now grate the washed carrots.
• Add milk and grated carrots mixture into the pan and cook well for 40 minutes until the milk dries and carrots are cooked well.
• After 40 minutes, add sugar to it and cook for 5 minutes until the mixture dries up.
• Add the cardamom powder and stir well.
• Now off the stove, place the mixture in a bowl and garnish it with almonds.
• Yummy carrot halwa is now ready to serve.

This halwa can be prepared in not more than 45 minutes and it tastes great. No doubt it attracts the children and they will definitely like this recipe. Now hope rather than forcing the children to eat carrots, parents can cook this delicious sweet as it provides the same benefits of that of carrot which the children eat happily and enjoy this recipe.

Coconut Milk Mushrooms

Coconut Milk special recipe is prepared using coconut milk and mushrooms as primary ingredients. The other ingredients needed to cook coconut milk mushrooms include the following.

• 1 tablespoon cumin seeds
• 3 tablespoons roasted peanuts
• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• 4 chopped green chilies
• 1 tablespoon mustard
• 1 tablespoon turmeric powder
• 1 tablespoon garlic paste
• 2 tablespoons oil
• Salt
• Tamarind

Preparation steps to cook the coconut milk mushroom include the following:

• Grind all ingredients except coconut milk and mushrooms to prepare a smooth paste.
• Heat the pan containing the oil.
• Add the garlic paste to it and fry well.
• Add the above smooth paste to it and fry well.
• Add 500 grams sliced button mushrooms and salt to it. Add 2 1/2 cups of water.
• Let it cook for 5 minutes.
• Now add 200 ml of coconut milk to it.
• Cook for 2-3 minutes and off the stove.
• Tasty coconut milk mushrooms is now ready to serve. Serve it with steamed rice which tastes great.

Beetroot is one of the vegetables that help a lot to maintain good health. It is great source of vitamin C, calcium, iron and is the natural blood building vegetable. Beetroot contains zero fat content, few calories and is rich in fiber. Beetroot helps to treat cancer and prevent anemia. Any food prepared using beetroot as an ingredient is a healthy one as it directly or indirectly provides many healthy benefits that help to maintain healthy body. Now let us see one food recipe in which beetroot is used as a primary ingredient. The recipe of Beetroot Rice is as follows.

Ingredients includes,

• 2 cups of shredded beetroot
• 3 cups cooked rice
• 15 cashew nuts
• 4 red chilies
• 3 tablespoons of shredded coconut
• 1 tablespoon mustard seeds
• Curry leaves
• Salt
• Oil

Preparation steps include the following:

• Fry mustard seeds, cashew, curry leaves and red chilies in a pan containing the oil.
• Add shredded beetroot and salt to it and fry for about 3-4 minutes.
• Add some water to the above mixture and cook for 3 minutes.
• Now add coconut to it and fry again.
• Add cooked rice to the above mixture and mix well.
• Cook it for 2 minutes and off the stove.
• Colorful hot and delicious beetroot rice is now ready to serve.