Nachos - Snacks

Nachos:

Ingredients:

• corn tortilla chips
• 1 can refried beans
• small jar mild salsa or taco sauce
• few olives 6 oz., cheese

Method:

1. Arange the chips in a single layer on a baking sheet.
2. Top each chip with 1/2 tsp. of refried beans and then 1/2 tsp. of salsa
3. Add a small amount of cheese (grated or cut into small chunks) to top of each.
4. Put the baking sheet in an oven watching carefully, until cheese melts and bubbles.
5. Serve hot.

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Papa's Porridge

This post is written for Cooking for Kids Event.

Ingredients:

2 cups oats

4 cups warm milk

2 tbsp sugar

2 bananas, sliced

8 small pieces of papaya

8 small pieces of watermelon

few pomegrante seeds

Method:

a. Put the oats, 2 cups of milk and sugar in a bowl and mix it well

b. Keep it in oven for 2 mins (alternatively u can also boil for 2 mins on a medium flame)

c. Add remaining milk

d. Put all the fruits and mix it well

e. Serve it to the children

Benefits:

i. Oats reduces cholestrol

ii. Fruits are rich in vitamins (as we all are aware of)

iii. Will be ready in maximum of 10 minutes

Top-Ups:

a. Instead of sugar use jaggery, as jaggery is highly nutritions

b. Add butter (which has a little salt) before serving.

c. Use raisins, almond flakes for more taste.

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Mango Nut Muffins

Mango Nut Muffins

• 1 3/4 cups flour
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 cup bananas mashed
• 1 cup mango pulp
• 1/2 cup cooking oil
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts

1. Preheat oven to 400 degree Fahrenheit. Stir together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
2. Mix in oil, mango pulp and banana. Add nuts.
3. Grease muffin cups or put muffin paper cups in muffin pan.
4. Pour and bake for 18-20 mins till golden Cool and serve.

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Lemon Recipes

Lemon Lollipops:

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 tsp. yellow food coloring
• 1 cup light corn syrup
• 2 tbsp. lemon extract
• 1/2 cup water

Mix sugar, corn syrup and water in a pan.
Bake to 300 degree Fahrenheit or cook until mixture spins a thread.
Turn off head, add color and flavoring.
Pour the mixture in small aluminum moulds and insert popsickle sticks in them.
Allow them to set and become hard.
Your lick able lollipops are ready!

Lemon Cooler

• 1 cup apple juice
• 1 bottle (200 ml) lemonade
• 2 tbsp. chopped cucumber
• 2 tbsp. chopped apple
• 1 tsp. chopped mint leaves
• 1 tsp. honey

Chill the juices. Mix all the ingredients, pour into 2 glasses and serve immediately.

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Coconut Roughs

Recipe for Coconut Roughs:

• 1/2 cup mashed potato
• 40 gms. butter
• 1 1/2 cups icing sugar
• 2 tbsp. cocoa
• 2 cups coconut desiccated
• 1 tsp. vanilla essence

1. Place butter and mashed potato in a large bowl and beat well.
2. Gradually beat in the icing sugar and cocoa.
3. Add coconut and vanilla essence.
4. Place small spoonfuls of mixture on over proof paper.
5. Refrigerate coconut roughts until set.
   

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EGG BOATS

Children Activity:

1. Hard-boil one egg for every two children
2. Have the children work in pairs to peel the shell from the egg.
3. Slice the egg in half and carefully scoop out the yolk and put it into a small paper cup
4. Have each pair mix the yolk with
   1-tsp, mayonnaise
   1/2 tsp. mustard and
   a dash of salt and pepper.
5. Stuff this mixture back into the hollows of the white.
6. Have each child make a sail for the boat with a toothpick and a paper flag with teh letter E on it.
7. Don't forgot to stick the sail into their "boats" before they eat!!!

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Fruit Critter Salad

10 pieces lettuce
20 raisins
10 cherries
10 canned peach or pear halves
1 tray
toothpicks

Take the tray and the lettuce. Put lettuce in rows. Take peaches or pears and put on each piece of lettuce, round side up. Take raisins and toothpicks and put the raisins on the toothpicks. Put the raisins on the peach so it looks like 2 eyes. Take the cherries and the toothpicks and put the cherries on the toothpicks. Stick on the peach or pear so that it looks like a nose. Then you have fruit critter salads.!

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Delightful Doughnuts

To be mixed into a filling
1 slice chopped pineapple
2 tbsp. grated coconut
2 tbsp. sultanas
2 tbsp. brown sugar
1/4 tsp. cinnamon powder
oil to deep fry

For the dough:
1 1/2 cups plain flour
2 tbsp. fresh yeast, crumbled
3 tbsp. sugar
2 tbsp. cream
1 tsp. oil
a pinch of salt

1. Mix all the ingredients except the oil in a bowl and make a soft dough using water.
2. Add the oil and knead again.
3. Cover with a damp cloth and leave for 15 to 20 minutes
4. Press teh dough with your palms
5. Roll out the dough into a 5 mm thick sheet
6. Using cookie cutter, cut out 10 circles
7. Place a spoonful of the filling mixture on each of the 5 dough circles
8. Place the other 5 dough circles on top of the filling mixture and seal the edges tightly
9. Deep fry these doughnuts in hot oil over a medium flame till golden brown on both sides.
10. Serve hot.

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Snacks from Banana

BANANA SPLITS:
Let the children cut their own bananas with a plastic knife. Put these banana slices into ice cream (preferably vanilla) to make Banana Split Ice Cream.


BEAN SALAD:
Point out that beans are a vegetable. Make bean salad by mixing green beans and kidney beans. Top them with Italian dressing mixed with a little sugar. Serve.

BANANA PANCAKES:
1 cup plain flour
¾ cup milk
2 ripe bananas, mashed
¼ cup chopped walnuts
4 tsp. castor sugar
½ tsp. vanilla essence
¾ tsp. baking powder
1 tbsp. melted butter
some butter and honey or jam to serve

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl to make a smooth batter, making sure that no lumps remain.
Heat a non-stick pan, spread about 3 to 4 tbsp. (¼ cup) of the batter to make a thick pancake.
Cook the pancake over medium heat, using a little butter to cook both sides until golden brown.
Serve hot with honey or jam.

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Children Snacks Time with "Apple Chop and Apple Crumble"

APPLE CHOP:Chop apples, bananas and mangoes into bite-size pieces. Mix them in a bowl with grapes and a little bit of lemon juice. Sprinkle salt and black pepper over them. Serve cold.

APPLE CRUMBLE:
Ingredients:
400 gm tin of cooked apples
60 gm melted butter
½ cup rolled oats
½ cup brown sugar
½ cup desiccated coconut
pinch of cinnamon
ice cream or custard (optional)

Method:
Open the tin of apples and spread apple in a shallow microwave proof pie dish.
Mix dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
Melt butter and add to dry ingredients
Spread evenly on top of apples
Microwave for approximately 5 minutes
Cool and serve it as it is or with ice cream or custard

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