Carrot Chapathi

Carrot chapathi is very simple and healthy breakfast for kids and even for adults. This recipe contains only carrot and wheat flour and I have not used any masala in it. Same chapathi dough can be used for preparing poori. These carrot chapathi can be served along with any subzi or even with coconut chutney.

Eggless Apple Muffin

Apple muffin is an eggless muffin prepared with stewed apple. It taste delicious if we serve warm. These muffins can be packed in kid's snacks box. Kids will love to eat as their snacks.

Custard Powder Halwa

Custard Powder Halwa is simple Indian halwa prepared with custard powder, sugar and water. It can be easily prepared by beginners without much mess like other halwa.

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Eggless French Toast

Eggless French toast is a quick and easy recipe and sweet version of french toast without egg. It can be prepared for breakfast, snacks and even it can be packed for snacks box or lunchbox for kids. Whenever you are out of time to prepare quick snacks or breakfast for your kids, then this is one of the quick recipe can be prepared with less time.

Chocolate Idly Cake

Chocolate Idly Cake is delicious, moist cake prepared in a pressure cooker. This cake recipe does not require Oven to prepare delicious cake. This is prepared the same way how we prepare Idly. This can be prepared as a breakfast or evening snacks for kids. Cake can be served along with chocolate sauce. 

Table Turnip Akki Rotti

Table Turnip Akki rotti is one of the healthy breakfast and even kids likes because of its pink colour and taste good. This akki rotti is prepared same as Masale akki rotti. Only the difference is ingredients used in it.

Masale Akki Rotti

Akki rotti is one of the signature dish from Karnataka. Each part of karnataka has their own type of akki rotti. Plain akki rotti, malnad akki rotti, masala akki rotti, baliyo akki rotti, soppina akki rotti. Main ingredient of akki rotti is rice flour. Similar to akki rotti, rotti can be prepared with ragi, jowar. Here is a recipe of masale akki rotti.

Table Turnip Paratha

Table turnip paratha is one of the healthy breakfast and its good for everyone at home. My kids prefer to eat poori instead of paratha. Usually, I use paratha dough itself to prepare poori for my kids. For rest of the family, We prepare paratha. I had bought Table turnip from ooty. I had prepared paratha using Table turnip's leaves and Akki rotti using Table turnip itself. I will be posting Table turnip akki rotti. 

Carrot Kheer (Grated carrot kheer)

Carrot Kheer is delicious and healthy sweet. I have already share one more carrot kheer recipe. In this kheer, we get to taste grated carrot. This kheer require less ingredients and even it takes less time to prepare kheer.

Tender Coconut Icecream

Tender coconut Ice cream is not churn and soft ice cream which has fresh tender coconut flesh in every bite. It is easy to prepare and which need less ingredients.

Rose Coconut Ladoo

Rose coconut ladoo has rose syrup flavor along with freshly finely chopped rose petals. It is one more easiest sweet which can be prepared during festivals and requires less ingredients and less time. Rose syrup gives nice pink color to the ladoo. You can skip adding red food color to the ladoo. Kids will like this ladoo because of its color itself. 

 

Paan Coconut Ladoo

Paan coconut ladoo has gulkand in the center and taste delicious. It is best sweet to prepare during festivals or any parties. Even it is simple, easy and quick sweet recipe which can be prepared with less time. Paan gives nice flavor, color and refreshing taste and gulkand in the center taste divine along with coconut. It can also be had after meal as a mouth freshener.

Coconut Ladoo using condensed milk

Coconut ladoo is one of the easiest sweet can be prepared with less time and with only two ingredients. It may take 10 mins to prepare 20 coconut ladoo. I wanted to prepare 5 different types of ladoos for lakshmi pooja. So I prepared 3 variation of coconut ladoo. Other two recipes are also quick and easy recipe with less ingredients and recipes will be posting soon. A year back for same lakshmi pooja, I had prepared Microwave Besan ladoo.  

Rava Idly

Rava idly is one of the quick and instant recipe can be prepared for breakfast with less time and ingredients. It is popular breakfast in south India, served along with coconut chutney and vegetable saagu / Aloo saagu.

Red Snapper / Rani Meenu / Sankara Fish Tawa Fry

In South India, Red snapper fish is popular as Rani Meenu or Sankara Meenu. One of my friend introduced this fish to me. I have started cooking fish only from past two years when I my daughter started eating fish. I prefer to give home made non-veg food for my kids. This recipe is from my friend's recipe. They eat fish at least 4 days in a week. It can be serve as a starters or along with rice and rasam.

DIY : Simple Bottle Painting

Any glass drinks bottle can be reused for many purposes like a show piece, pot for water plants, lamp stand and many more. In this DIY, I have shown very basic and simple bottle painting and require minimal materials. Before painting the glass bottle, remove the labels/stickers on bottle, clean it thoroughly and dry completely. This activity can be done along with your kids. Even they will enjoy. 

DIY : Basic Bird Feeder

Different types of birds like bul bul, myna, sparrow, pigeons, sun bird and many more visits my garden. I thought of keeping a bird feeder and water bowl for birds. It helps filling our garden with Birds. I made my kids to prepare the bird feeder. Its very simple and basic bird feeder.

Broccoli Carrot Stir Fry

Broccoli Carrot Stir Fry is one of the easiest side dish for Rice and it is very healthy.

White chocolate bounty balls / White chocolate coated coconut balls

White chocolate bounty balls are easy to prepare and require less time and less ingredients and less messy to prepare. This can be prepared along with your kids and definitely they will enjoy preparing these chocolate-coconut balls. They have named these as Raffaello.

Flaxseed Chutney Powder / Agase Beeja Chutney Pudi

Flaxseed chutney powder is healthy and nutritious chutney powder. It goes well with chapathi, paratha, Idly, Dosa, Akki Rotti and even with Rice. 

Crispy Onion Pakoda

Onion pakoda/Eerulli pakoda is very easy to prepare and can be prepared and served as a snack when guest arrives without prior notice. I prefer to eat during rainy season. Onion and besan are the main ingredients for onion pakoda. Onion pakoda can be prepared crispy and even soft. This is crispy version of onion pakoda.

Carrot Kheer

Carrot kheer is one of the easiest kheer which can be prepared with less time apart from cooking time of carrot with milk. This is long pending post which was in my inbox from more than 6 months. Always I keep finding a way to feed vegetables to my kids. Especially my son is fuzzy eater and very difficult to convince him about any recipes. Another variation of carrot kheer recipe where carrot is grated and cooked in milk and sugar. On my son’s demand, I have prepared this kheer with carrot puree. This kheer has creamy and smooth texture and flowing consistency. We can adjust the consistency by adding more milk to the kheer. 

Tamrind Dates Chutney

Tamarind dates chutney is a sweet, tangy chutney serve along with chats like samosa, kachori, dhokla and even used to prepare chats like Pani puri, Sev puri, Churmuri, Bhel puri and many more. 

Pomfret Tawa Fry

Bellada Kaayi Chutney / Coconut Sweet Chutney

Generally we prepare Sihi(sweet) chutney for Idly and Neer Dosa. It is one of easiest coconut chutney to prepare, less time consuming and has only three ingredients. Kids will love this chutney. Since its sweet for their taste buds. Jaggery can be replaced with sugar but jaggery will give the traditional touch to the chutney. Freshly grated coconut will be give a nice taste to the chutney.

Neer Dosa

Mangalore Neer Dosa is an easy, simple, quick and healthy recipe to make. This dosa requires less time unlike other dosa batter requires extra time for fermentation. It has mainly two main ingredients , Rice and Coconut. It can be prepared without coconut but coconut will give smooth and soft texture to the dosa. It can be served with Sweet chutney, Mangalore Style Tomato gassi, Egg curry or chicken curry.

Peanut Chutney Powder / Kadlekaayi chutney pudi

Peanut chutney powder is one of the easiest chutney powder can be without any mess and super delicious and healthy powder. It can be served with Chapathi, Dosa, Idly and sometimes even I eat with Rice.

Carrot Cake

Carrot cake is soft and moist cake with lots of grated cake and kids won't say NO to eat carrot cake.  

Kadle Puri Oggarane / Spicy Puffed Rice

Oggarane kadle puri is one of the healthy snack with low calories and famous around India with different names. Best snack to munch during monsoon and winter season.

Sabudana Kheer / Sabakki Kheer / Sago Kheer

Kheer is one of the easiest dessert or sweet which can be prepared with less time. But this Kheer is easy but need quite time to prepare. Since sabudana has to be soaked for 30 to 60 mins. I prefer preparing this kheer by soaking sabudana for some time and boil in milk till turns into milky and creamy texture but my mom prepare this kheer by roasting sabudana and cook in the pressure cooker. My daughter loves this kheer and calls it as a ball kheer. This can be served hot or chilled. It can refrigerate for 2 to 3 days. 

Fruit Trifle Pudding

Fruit Trifle is a simple layered dessert with sponge cake, custard, fruits and jelly. This dessert is perfect for party and can be prepared a day before the party and even kids can prepare this dessert with little guidance of elders. This dessert is layered with sponge cake, thick custard, fruits, jelly and topped with whipped cream and cherry. Since I didn’t have whipped cream, hence skipped in my recipe.

Mint Chutney / Pudina Chutney for Chat

 

Mint Coriander chutney can be used for sandwiches or can be served along with any Indian chats like Samosa, Pakoda, Dhokla. It goes very well with any Indian chats or snacks. In this chutney, I have used coriander along with Mint. Coriander can be skipped for Mint chutney. I have freeze mint chutney into ice cubes which can be preserved for longer period. 

Stuffed Dates in Chocolate

One of the dessert which can be served after heavy meals and people won’t say ‘No’ to it. Healthy and simple dessert. Milk chocolate can be replaced with Dark chocolate, healthier and better version.

Badam Pista Milk Powder

Badam milk is very healthy and tasty drink for both kids and elders. It can be served both cold or hot according to the season.

Oreo Bites / Chocolate covered Oreo

Aloo Bajji

Egg Pakoda/ Egg Bajji /Egg Bonda

 

Milk Popsicle

One of the recipe linked to everyone's childhood and after school delight for every kid. 

Kids Activity : Mango Popsicle

Ice cream or Ice candies are the best way to beat summer heat for kids. Mango ice candy is prepared with only one ingredient and it can be prepared by kids. My kids enjoyed preparing their own mango ice candy. 

Khara/ Spicy Maida Biscuit

 

Khara Miada biscuits are easy to prepare and very tasty to munch. My mom used to prepare spicy and sweet versions of Maida biscuits when I was a kid. Now my kids love to munch these biscuits. 

Green Chutney / Coriander Chutney for Chats

Green chutney or Coriander chutney for different type of Indian snacks like samosa, pakoda, chaats and it can also be used as a dip.  

Peas Poori

Cripsy and tasty variation to the regular poori and kids will like to eat peas poori with out any complains about peas in it.

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Kids Activity : Jelly

Do you want your kids to develop interest in cooking. This is one of the activity , I had given to my kids. Kids love to prepare their own jelly and it is very easy to prepare and attractive activity for kids.

Cooking interest can be developed in kids through their favorite dishes. Jelly is one of the dessert, where almost all kids love to eat. I have used ready made jelly ready mix.