Top 5 Indian Ways To Include Salad In Kids Diet

Kids and salad are not easy to bring together. Kids hate vegetables and it is challenging for parents to make them eat these. Salads are the combination of raw vegetables, boiled beans, and lots of other greens. These do offer lots of vitamins and antioxidants that help kids stay healthy. So, with the help of different types of salad dressing and recipes that offer lots of vegetables in each bite, parents can add more greens to the kids’ tables. Listed here are some of the interesting salad-based recipes that you can use to create win-win the situation at the table.

a.      Make salad sandwich: Three to five vegetable sandwich offers an easy way of making vegetable-rich breakfast and evening snacks. These salad sandwiches can be modified in the form of finger foods by tossing the vegetables in unique types of salad dressing and filling it between the bread slices. For easier eating and also to make the dish look more appealing, you can cut the salad sandwich into square pieces and put a toothpick on the top. These interesting ways of presenting the dish can keep the kids’ minds off the content of the dish and they will be happier eating it without a fuss.

b.      Add salad vegetables to crackers: Crackers that are salty in taste make very good options to go with salads. You can also toss the salad vegetables with nachos and burritos made of corn with little spices and lemon. This makes a very interesting combination that is colorful and crunchy at the same time. It can be made using cucumber, onion, and tomatoes and beetroot salted and soured with lemon juice. When tossed with nachos, these add a lot of flavors and give very good exercise to gums too.

c.       Turn lots vegetables into soup: Vegetables like cauliflower, cabbage, tomatoes, and bottle gourd can be boiled and ground to paste. These are then boiled with little water to achieve pouring consistency. It is further spiced up with salt and black pepper the way it is served in restaurants. Without straining the fibrous portion out, its fiber content is enriched. Children like this when served in small amounts. You can also store it in the fridge for a day or two and serve it after heating.

d.      Make filling of parathas: North Indian food is unimaginable without parathas. Instead of using boiled potato filling, you can use salad vegetables of various types for it. The vegetables like cabbage, cauliflower, and capsicum can be grated and cooked in small amount oil and gram flour to create a filling. By using this filling in making pancakes or parathas, you can add salad vegetables to the snacks of the kids.

e.      Dress salad in tasteful flavors or make curd recipes: Tastier salads can be made by coating them generously with savory salad dressing types made of mustard paste, mayonnaise cheese, and so on. These dressings can be replaced with beaten curd to make raitas which taste awesome with rice and roti recipes. Raitas or curd dips make very good side dishes to be used in lunches and breakfasts. These offer good bacterial along with proteins and calcium and vegetables of salad increase the fiber content of this dish too.

So, try these recipes to add lots of salad vegetables to the foods of the kids. These can help have happy eating time both for the kids and the parents.

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