Marie Biscuit Cake

Ingredients:

• 125 gms Marie biscuit
• 50gms Sugar
• 30gms butter
• Vanilla essence
• 1-1.5 cups of Milk
• Butter/ Ghee for greasing
• 6gms ENO plain salt
• Cashew for toppings (optional)

Method:

• Keep the cooker on your stove with water and start heating it.
• Take 125 grams of Marie biscuit
• put the biscuits in a mixer grinder and make it into powder
• Add 50 grams of sugar and grind it as a powder along with biscuit
• Melt 30 grams of butter in oven and add to the mixture
• Add a few drops of vanilla essence into the mixture
• Transfer the mixture now in to a mixing bowl and slowly add milk and the consistency should be like sauce (approx 1-1.5 cups)
• Take a vessel of choice and grease it with butter/ghee and keep it aside
• Add 6 grams of plain eno fruit salt into the mixture and start mixing it
• Pour this mixture into the baking vessel that you have prepared
• Keep this vessel into the cooker and steam it for 20 minutes do not put weight
• Switch off the stove take the vessel out let it cool down
• Turn the vessel upside down on a plate
• Your vannila cake is ready to serve.
• Optionally you can make some topping for the cake.

Orange Cream Biscut cake

Ingredients:

• 200gms orange biscuits
• 1-1.5 cups of Milk
• Butter or ghee for greasing
• 6gms ENO plain salt
• Cashew for topping (optional)

Method:

• Keep the cooker on the gas stove with water and start heating.
• Take 200g of cream - chocolate or orange or any flavour of your choice - biscuits.
• Put the biscuits in a mixer grinder.
• Now put the mixture into a bowl and slowly add the milk, to the same extent as the tomato sauce
• (approximately 1-1.5 cups of milk is needed).
• Take a round vessel and grease it with butter or ghee.
• Put 6g of Eno Fruit salt - plain salt into the mixture.
• Pour the cake mixture into the vessel you prepared.
• Place the vessel in the cooker and let it steam for 20 minutes.
• In exactly 20 minutes, turn off the stove and take out the vessel and let it cool.
• Put a plate on top of the vessel and reverse it with the tray.
• Then gently tap a plate over the top of the vessel and pick up the vessel.
• Your lovely cake will fall into the tray.
• Gently serve the pieces.

Notes:

• Fantastic cake in the cooker, in 20 minutes. Yes, with any biscuit you can make this cake; without any struggle. I've done it so many times, so you also give a try for your children or husband or family.

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Microwave Cup Cake

Ingredients:

• Melted butter - 2 tbsp
• Milk maid - 3 tbsp (Or condensed milk - 3 tbsp + sugar 2 tbsp)
• All purpose flour (or maida / wheat flour) - 4 tbsp
• Baking powder - 1/8th tbsp
• Milk - 3 tbsp
• Essence - Optional
• For Chocolate Cake
• Choco powder / Ovaltine / Nesquik / Any chocolate drink - 2 tbsp
• Choch chips for topping
• For Banana Walnut Cake
• Smashed Banana - 1
• Walnut broken - handful
• For Vanilla Cake
• Vanilla Essence - 5ml
• Tutti fruity for topping
• For Coffee Cake
• Instant Coffee Powder - 1/2 tbsp
• Choco powder / Ovaltine / Nesquik / Any chocolate drink - 1 1/2 tbsp
• Choch chips for topping

Method:

• Add all the ingredients one-by-one into a 350-400 ml Microwave safe mug
• Use a fork to stir the mixture to ensure that there are no lumps
• The consistency should be slightly thicker than dosa dough
• Keep the mixture in microwave oven. The time varies depending on your microwave power setting. For 750w, 2mins 40s mins; 850w 2mins; 1000w 1min 50s.
• The quantity in the mug should be just half of the mug because while microwaving, it will grow twice in size
• Your cake is ready to eat. You can directly eat it from the mug using spoon, or transfer it to a plate and cut it too

Notes:

• You can add other toppings according to your taste like Badam, Cashew, etc...

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Colourful Veg. Dosas - Pancakes

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup each gram flour, rice flour, moong flour
• 1 grated carrot
• 1 onion finely chopped
• 1 tomato finely chopped
• 1/2 beetroot grated
• 1 bunch spring onion finely chopped
• 3 green chillies crushed fine (optional)
• 2 tbsp. oil
• salt to taste
• Oil to shallow fry

Method:

• Mix all ingredients. Add enough water to make batter.
• Spread a big spoonful thickly on a hot dosa or non-stick tawa.
• Pour oil turn over, roast other side.
• Cool, pack with ketchup.

Notes:

• Whenever you make dosa or chappati make it very small. Children will like them. Even now I used to prepare Nila dosa (Moon dosa) for Krishna my dear son.

Rice roti with greens

Ingredients:

• 1 cup ordinary steamed rice
• 1/2 cup wheat flour
• 1 tsp. red chilly powder
• 1/4 tsp. cumin seeds
• 1/4 tsp. sesame seeds (til)
• 1 tbsp. butter
• salt to taste
• 1 tbsp. of yogurt or curds
• 1 tbsp. fresh Coriander leaves /fenu greek leaves or spinach leaves
• oil to shallow fry

Method:

• If using greens, wash and drain very well in colander.
• Mix all ingredients well except oil to shallow fry.
• And form a dough like chappati dough.
• Divide in 5-6 round balls.
• Roll into chappatis, and make chappati.
• Pack with chutney or sauce.

Notes:

• You can add any veg. of your childs choice instead of greens. Or even you can use apple and banana. My son used to like apples in this dish.

Oats Dosa

Ingredients:

• 1cup Rolled Oats
• 1cup curd
• 1/2cup Wheat flour
• 1/2cup All purpose flour
• 1cup Banana puree
• 2tsp Honey
• 1tsp Nutmeg powder
• 1tsp Cinnamon powder
• pinch Salt
• Oil / ghee as per need

Method:

• Soak rolled oats in curd at least 4 - 5 hours.
• Then mix wheat flour, all purpose flour,banana puree, honey, nutmeg powder, cinnamon powder and salt.
• Or Just put all of them in a mixer grinder and just run it for 15 -20 sec.
• If you want add little water and make as thick batter.
• Heat a nonstick pan and pour a ladle of dosa batter and make dosa.
• Cook both sides until they turns golden brown also get well cooked.
• This dosa will come some what thick but soft.

Notes:

• If you want spicy, you can add green chilly, onion, carrot etc., and make dosa.

Idly With Milk and sugar

Ingredients:

• 1 Idly
• 1 to 2 sp Sugar
• 1/4 cup milk

Method:

• Add milk and sugar.
• Put Idly pieces in that.
• Feed your child.

Idly with curd

Ingredients:

• 1 Idly
• 1 to 2 sp fresh curd
• Salt a pinch

Method:

• Make a dip with curd and salt.
• Dip idly piece in that and give.
• That is all.

Soft Pongal

Ingredients:

• 1 small cup rice
• 1/2 small cup moong dal
• 1/2 sp crushed black pepper and cumin
• 2 sp ghee
• salt

Method:

• Cook dal and rice.
• In a pan pour ghee and fry crushed black pepper and cumin
• Put them on the cooked rice and dal.
• Mix well with salt.
• give this to your baby.
• Surely it will like this.

Spicy dal with Cut Chappati

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup dal
• (green moong or yellow moong or black eye peas dal) soaked overnight
• 1/2 cup finely chopped onions
• 1/2 tsp. grated ginger
• 1/2 tsp. red chilli powder (optional)
• 1/2 tsp. cumin seed
• 3 tsp. ghee or oil
• 1/4 sp sonf
• 4 chappatis
• Salt to taste
• 2 sp oil or ghee

Method:

• Wash the soaked dal well. Do not remove the skin if using green dal.
• Its very nutritions. Drain dal well.
• Grind in a wet grinder till fine.
• In a kadai pour oil or ghee.
• Put sonf, cumin seeds and ginger.
• Fry well.
• Put the dal mixture and salt.
• Mix well and cook. You can cover and sim the flame.
• Cook well and remove from the fire.
• (It will look like parappu usilli)
• Keep aside.
• Now in another kadai, pour some more ghee or oil.
• Put cut onions. Fry for a min or two.
• Cut chappati into pieces and put them in that.
• Just fry for a min. Then add the dal mixture and mix well.
• Remove from fire and serve.

Notes:

• You can add tomatoes or boiled potatoes in this.

Porridge -A healthy drink for All

Ingredients:

• 1cup Boiled rice
• 1 cup Peanut
• 1 cup Moong dal
• 1 cup Ragi
• 1 cup Processed Channa dal (pottukadalai)
• 1 cup Punjab Wheat

Method:

• Dry fry each and every ingredient separately till you get good flavour.
• Mix everything and grind in a flour mill.
• Keep it in air tight container.
• Whenever you want to make porridge - kanji, take 2 sp kanji podi and mix with water without lumps.
• Keep it on the stove and stir continuously to avoid lumps.
• Cook it well.
• Remove it from the fire.
• Now add milk & sugar and drink.
• OR add curd or thick buttermilk and salt & drink.

Notes:

• It is very good to health. It is rich in Protein. good for breakfast. You will feel filling till lunch.

Banana Sweet Dosa 2

Ingredients:

• 250g all-purpose flour (maida)
• 4 bananas, mashed
• 75g sugar
• 2g cardamom powder
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 glass milk
• 50g ghee

Method:

• Mix sugar, milk and mashed bananas.
• These ingredients can also be mixed in a blender.
• To the all-purpose flour, add the above banana mixture and mix well to form dosa batter.
• Now add cardamom powder and baking powder to the batter and mix well.
• Heat a flat pan and make thin dosas.
• Fry on both sides until golden brown in color with little ghee.
• Serve hot with any jam.

Porridge for Infants

Ingredients:

• 1 cup boiled rice
• 1 handful barle
• 1 sp cumin seeds

Method:

• Dry fry boiled rice and barle.
• Add cumin seeds and off the stove.
• keep aside for a while.
• Then make it like fine rava.
• You can store this in air tight container.
• Whenever you want to make porridge for your baby, take 1 - 2 cups of water and put 2 sp of this "porridge powder in that.
• Mix well and cook well.
• Remove from the fire and add sugar and milk.
• Keep as it is for a while.
• All the rava particles will settle down.
• Then remove the above liquid and pour in the feeding bottle and give for your 3 months old baby.
• If your baby is more than 9 months, you can give the thick porridge also.

Notes:

• You can add curd and salt instead of milk and sugar.
• Not only infants any of us can take this porridge. It is a tasty dish and also healthy dish. It is my grandmothers recipe. In our house all the children tasted this when they are small.

Green rice roti

Ingredients:

• 1 cup rice flour
• 1/2 cup cooked rice
• 1 bunch spinach - blanched and drained
• Salt to taste
• 1 green chilly

Method:

• In a mixer grinder put cooked rice and spinach, and make a smooth puree.
• Put it in a big bowl.
• Add rice flour and salt.
• Knead well with enough water to make soft dough.
• Make rotis and serve with dal.
• Children will like this green - iron rich roti.

Notes:

• Use oiled plantain leaf or plastic cover to make rotis.

Cheese chilly Sandwich

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons grated paneer
• 8 slices of bread
• 2 tablespoons grated cheese
• 1 green chilly finely chopped
• salt to taste
• coriander leaves to garnish
• A pinch of pepper
• 3 teaspoons butter

Method:

• In a bowl, mix all the above ingredients except butter and bread.
• Spread butter on the bread and half of the mixture on one slice bread.
• Then close it with another slice of bread.
• You can also apply butter on the bread.
• It will give a good golden finish for the toast.
• In a sandwich toaster make toast.
• Serve hot with tomato ketchup.

Notes:

• One of the best sandwich.

Porridge with oats and wheat

Ingredients:

• ½ cup wheat rava (small size)
• ½ cup oats
• ½ cup milk
• ¼ cup raisins (wash)
• ¼ cup almonds (chop)
• sugar as per your taste

Method:

• Bring water to boil over medium heat.
• Put wheat rava and cook well.
• Next put oats and allow it to cook.
• Stir continuously.
• Add raisins and almonds.
• Mix well.
• Add sugar.
• Add milk.
• Stir it again.
• Your yummy porridge is ready to serve.

Notes:

• You can add cut fruits like apple , banana in this.

Vegetarian Hot Dogs

Ingredients:

• 8 length buns
• 2 slices of brown bread
• ½ cup soya granules
• 2 medium size mashed potatoes
• ½ cup paneer - grated
• 2 tsp cumin powder
• 2 tsp coriander powder
• ½ tsp chilly powder
• 2 tbsp finely chopped coriander
• 1 green chilly finely chopped
• ½ tsp mango powder
• Oil to fry
• salt to taste

Method:

• Put the bread slices in a mixer grinder and make powder.
• Put it in a large bowl.
• Soak soya granules overnight in water so that it becomes three times it size.
• Now put this soya granules in the mixer grinder and make fine.
• Add this in the bowl.
• Add all other ingredients other than oil and bun.
• Mix well like chappati dough.
• Divide into eight equal portions, make shape into cylinders like hot dog but smaller than your bun size.
• Fry them till golden brown.
• Serve them in between the bun.

Notes:

• You can add lettuce leaves, tomato slices, cheese-lets as per your requirement.

Fruit Chat

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Fresh fruits (guava, apple, chickoo, banana, oranges)
• ½ teaspoon chat masala
• ¼ teaspoon sugar, finely powdered
• ½ teaspoon tamarind chutney
• 1 spoon lemon juice
• Two spoons of honey

Method:

• Wash the fruits properly.
• Peel them and cut them into small pieces.
• Add chaat masala, sugar powder, tamarind chutney, lemon juice and honey.
• Mix them well and serve.
• This is a very nutritious snack.

Notes:

• You can select the fruits according to your kids taste.

Beet Root Sweet Paratha

Ingredients:

• 1 cup wheat flour
• 2 - medium size Beet root.
• 2 - 4 tbsp sugar
• salt - a pinch
• ghee to make parathas

Method:

• Cook beet root and remove its skin.
• Grate it. Add sugar and wheat flour.
• No need to add water.
• Add salt to it.
• Mix this in a large bowl.
• Knead with your hands or in a food processor until the dough is soft.
• Cover the dough with a moist cloth and keep aside for atleast 30 minutes.
• Now make parathas with ghee.
• Serve with plain yogurt or sugar syrup.

Notes:

• your children will like this colourful and sweet paratha. You can also serve this paratha with honey.

Tomato Parata

Ingredients:

• 1 cup wheat flour
• 2 - medium size tomotao (ripe and juicy)
• 1 to 2 - green chillies
• 1/2 inch piece - ginger
• salt - 1 tsp
• fresh coriander

Method:

• Blend tomatoes, ginger, chillies in to a smooth paste.
• Add salt to it.
• Mix this paste to the wheat flour in a large bowl.
• Add finely chopped fresh coriander leaves to it and knead with your hands or in a food processor until the dough is soft.
• (Add water accordingly if the dough is too hard.)
• Cover the dough with a moist cloth and keep aside for atleast 30 minutes.
• Now make parathas.
• Serve with plain yogurt or mint chutney.

Notes:

• Your children will like this colourful paratha.