5 quick easy and healthy tiffin box recipe ideas for moms
Kids love when they find new dishes packed in their lunch boxes. They like it, even more, when they find their foodstuffs hidden beneath layers. Fill their tummies with nutritious bites with our yummy recipes. These recipes will keep them going all afternoon!
1. Malai Bread
Here’s a yummy recipe for those with a sweet tooth.
Ingredients:
- Bread – 4
- Milk
- Paneer
- Mixed nuts – chopped
- Oil – 1 tablespoon
- Cardamom powder
Method
- Take the bread and soak in milk
- In a pan heat oil and fry mixed nuts
- Add some sugar and cardamom powder and mix well
- Add the bread and half a cup of grated paneer
- Cook for 5-6 minutes and pack!
2. Egg Atta noodles
Ingredients
- Oil
- Onion, peas, beans, tomatoes and other veggies you like
- Noodles
- Water
- Egg
Method
- Heat oil in a pan
- Add all the vegetables you have
- Fry for a couple of minutes
- Now add noodles, salt, pepper, water and one egg
- Cook till the water is absorbed
3. Spinach Corn with Bread
Ingredients
- Boiled corn and spinach
- Salt as per taste
- Black pepper
- Yogurt/hung curd – 2 tablespoon
- Cheese
- Olive oil
- Sesame seeds
- Onion – chopped
- Tomato – chopped
- Garlic – 2 teaspoon, crushed
Method
- Mash together palak and corn
- Add salt, black pepper, and yogurt
- Add a bit of cheese if you want
- In a pan heat oil
- Add sesame seeds, chopped onion and tomato and crushed garlic
- Now add the mashed mixture of palak and corn
- Stir for 2 minutes and remove from fire.
All set to be served with any kind of bread.
Also Read : 11 Healthy & Yummy Snacks Ideas For Kids
4. Pizza Quesadilla
These are made just like any other quesadilla or grilled cheese sandwich
Ingredients
- Tortilla (or chapatti) – 4
- Spaghetti sauce/ pizza sauce – 3 tablespoon
- Cheese – ¼ cup, shredded
- Pepperoni – 8 slices
Method
- Spray the bottom of a non-stick skillet with cooking spray and preheat
- When the pan is fairly hot place 1 Tortilla in the pan
- Quickly spread a few tablespoons of sauce
- Then add a layer of Pepperoni (or any thing else you like)
- Then top with shredded cheese
- Top it off with the second tortilla
- Just like any other quesadilla or grilled cheese let it brown then flip it over
- After both sides are browned and the insides are hot and melted take the “pizzas” out to cool
- Once cooled slice in 1/4 like a pizza and wrap snugly with plastic wrap or aluminum foil.
5. Cocktail Idli
Ingredients:
- Rava / Sooji – 1 cup
- Yogurt – 1 cup
- Urad dal – 1 teaspoon
- Baking soda – 1 teaspoon
- Oil – 1 tablespoon
- Mustard seed – ½ teaspoon
- Cumin seeds – ½ teaspoon
- Curry leaves – 5-6
- Pinch of asafoetida
- Salt for taste
- Red chutney (for red idli) – Heat 2 teaspoon oil and saute half onion until translucent, add 2 cloves of garlic, ½ teaspoon paprika, and salt to taste. Grind them to make a fine puree.
- Spinach puree (for green idli) – Heat 2 teaspoon oil. Add 2 cloves of garlic and saute for few seconds. Add 1 cup of chopped spinach and salt for taste. Saute for a minute. Grind it to make a fine puree.
Method:
- Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a pan
- Add mustard seed, urad dal, a pinch of asafoetida, curry leaves, and cumin seeds. And let them sputter.
- Reduce the heat and add in sooji/rava and saute for a minute.
- Transfer this rava to a mixing bowl and let it cool down completely
- Meanwhile, prepare the steamer and grease the idli mounds
- Add in yogurt to a roasted rava and mix well
- Add little water just enough to make pouring consistency
- Divide this mixture into 3 equal parts
- In one part, add red chutney
- In another, add spinach puree
- Finally, add salt to taste and baking soda in each mixture
- Mix all the batter really well
- Pour batter in a greased idli mounds
- Transfer those to streamer and steam for 15-20 minutes
Also Read : 31 Healthy Recipes Using Weight Gain Foods for Babies and Kids
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