Delicious and Nutritious Home Cooked Lunch Ideas for Kids: As a mother providing healthy and tasty meals for your child is a priority. Explore these healthy and easy to prepare home cooked daily lunch options for your kids that are far better than any fast foods. Below mentioned food with recipes ensure not only a tasty lunch for your child but also a nutritious one.
1. Rapid Oats Idli
Recipe:
- Heat oil in a Kadai, splatter mustard, cumin, and curry leaves.
- Roast Urad Dal, Chana Dal, and add powdered oats and suji.
- Mix well, let it cool, then add curd, water, coriander, salt, and let it rest.
- Add baking soda, mix, and ferment for 5 minutes.
- Grease idli molds, fill halfway with batter, and steam for 15 minutes.
- Serve hot with sambar and coconut chutney.
2. Stuff Parantha (Cauliflower and Potato Stuff)
Recipe:
- Knead wheat flour with ghee, let it rest.
- Mix boiled aalu, grated cauliflower, spices, and coriander for stuffing.
- Roll a ball of dough, place stuffing, pleat, and roll thicker.
- Cook on a heated tawa with ghee until both sides are golden.
- Serve with curd or pickle.
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3. Paneer Roll
Recipe:
- Mix paneer, capsicum, carrot, tomato, onion, curry leaves, jeera, and spices.
- Roll out chapatti dough and place the filling.
- Roll tightly and cook on a tawa with ghee.
- Serve with onion rings and a sprinkle of chat masala.
4. Matar (Green Peas) Puri
Recipe:
- Mash boiled green peas, mix with wheat flour, spices, and mint.
- Knead into a soft dough.
- Roll lime-sized balls into thin discs and fry until puffed and golden.
- Serve with Tamatari Aloo and Ki Sabzi.
5. Vegetable Pulao
Recipe:
- Soak basmati rice for 20 minutes.
- Cook onions, ginger-garlic paste, and tomatoes in ghee.
- Add vegetables, rice, and water.
- Cook covered on low to medium heat for 5 to 10 minutes.
- Sprinkle garam masala, garnish with cashews and raisins, and serve with Raita.
