Cook healthy meals with children (India)

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Healthy foods help kids grow healthy and strong. And cooking with your child gives you the chance to introduce them to the food groups and highlight healthier choices like fruits and vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, meat and seafood. Children helping to pick and prepare foods are more likely to try them--and develop a taste for them. the work in the kitchen with your young children from also provides you the opportunity to teach them about food safety and food handling to avoid common food-borne diseases. How to design these cooking classes will have a direct impact on whether or not they enjoy the experience. Here you can set your aspiring chefs on the right culinary path.

Children will have fun--and be more likely to get--if you choose a healthy Recipes geared to their level. Introduce children to the "cooking" by making a simple trail mix with nuts, dried fruits and whole grain pretzels or crackers. Little hands can ladle out each ingredient and maneuver a large spoon to mix them together. Even if you're a measurement, have your child count off each nut or cracked--you can even make a game of it. Prep work a child can do naturally increases with age. Disassemble the lettuce leaves and give them a water spray is a fun introduction to make a healthy salad as a 2-or 3-year-old can handle. Three-year-olds can also knead dough and put premeasured ingredients in a mixing bowl. 4-to 5-year-olds usually have enough finger dexterity to be able to measure the ingredients. a 5-year-old is not old enough to use a knife to cut carrots, but can wash and peel them with a peeler. Related jobs like cleaning up and set the table can be assigned by age, too.

A better idea is to choose from a specific recipe and prepare it with your baby just for the experience. Make shopping for the ingredients for a special outing, just as you would go to an art shop for craft supplies. It's always smart to have extra ingredients in case you have a cooking mishap and must begin the recipe from scratch. Let's discuss such recipes that you can easily cook with your kids.

* Prep time: 45 minutes
* Cook: 10 minutes
* Yield: 8-10 servings

Ingredients
* 2 cups flour
* 1 tsp salt
* 1/4 TSP baking soda
* 1/4 cup shortening or vegetable oil
* 1/2 cup lukewarm water

Directions

Put flour, salt and baking powder in a mixing bowl. Mix shortening or oil into the flour mixture until it forms pea-size balls. Add lukewarm water, a little at a time, until the dough is soft and pliable.
On a floured surface, knead dough until smooth, 1 to 2 minutes. Place in a bowl, cover with a clean dish towel and let it "rest" for 30 minutes. Knead the dough and form 8-10 balls. Roll them so thin and smooth as possible.
Heat an ungreased GRIDDLE or cast-iron skillet. Cook tortillas on GRIDDLE one at a time, turn when a bubble forms (less than a minute). Put the cooked tortillas in a plastic bag until ready to serve, to keep them warm and soft. Serve with butter, or fill with eggs, cheese or cooked chicken.

How kids can help: sometimes Garcia gives her grandchildren a small cookie cutter to press out fun shapes. Ashley's favorite way to eat his tortilla is warm and filled with scrambled eggs or cheese.
Per serving: 175 calories, 7 g fat (5 g saturated), 292 mg sodium, 0 mg cholesterol.

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