Recently, adults are increasingly trying to keep their children busy with modern gadgets. But there are many other interesting activities with which you can spend more time together and develop useful skills in your child.
In fact, many moms and dads are deeply mistaken when they think that children will only get in the way and make a mess during the preparation of dinner, thereby prolonging the time of your stay in the kitchen. There are many culinary recipes that will captivate both adults and children, immerse them in the world of fantasy and creativity, and maybe make the inveterate pragmatists plunge into the minutes of their childhood for a while. By the way, a couple of generations ago, parents quite often trusted their not-so-grown children and more complex dishes, and sometimes completely shifted the responsibility to feed their families with dinner, which developed independence and organization in them, and girls from an early age became real culinary fairies …
Sandwiches "Ladybug"
Sandwiches are probably the simplest and most attractive food for both kids and adults. And if you take a creative approach to the process and create some cartoon characters or insects out of an ordinary sandwich, then such bread squares with filling will scatter with a bang.
Advice: if a very small cook is planned to be involved in the preparation of the dish - 3 - 4 years old, then, of course, it is better for mom to take care of cutting some products in advance so that the baby is not endangered, and together it is just to put together a fabulous sandwich.
Foods needed for 4 servings:
- bread - 4 slices;
- boiled sausage or carbonate - 100 grams;
- processed cheese in slices - 1 package;
- lettuce leaves - 1 bunch;
- mayonnaise or any ketchup - 50 grams;
- olives - several pieces for decoration;
- tomato - 1 pc. or Cherry - 8 pieces.
Step by step cooking:
- Lightly fry the bread slices in a non-stick skillet or brown them in a toaster.
- Grease the surface of the base with a thin layer of ketchup or mayonnaise.
- Add a piece of cheese and a piece of sausage / carbonate.
- Then a washed and dried lettuce leaf, and on top you can already improvise a ladybug from tomato slices or cherry halves. Make black dots and a muzzle from olives, and draw eyes with mayonnaise.
The photo below shows two options for creating "Ladybugs".
Cookies "Rainbow"
Ordinary cookies with an unusual decoration for little cooks. Bright, free-flowing, multi-colored, it seems that such decoration can be done endlessly.
For cookies you will need:
- wheat flour - 3 cups;
- butter - 100 grams;
- granulated sugar - 2 cups;
- chicken egg - 2 pieces;
- salt - 1 pinch;
- vanillin - 15 - 20 grams.
Step-by-step cooking:
- Pre-soften the butter, then beat with a mixer 1 egg with 1 glass of sugar, and then with butter. Add vanillin.
- In another bowl, combine flour and salt.
- Then combine the contents of both bowls and knead the dough.
- Form balls with a diameter of 3 cm from the dough, roll them into flat cakes and send them to an oven preheated to 180 degrees. It is recommended to cover the form with baking paper.
- After 15 - 20 minutes, put the cookies on a plate to cool.
- Separate the white from the yolk and beat thoroughly with sugar until a thick, fluffy foam is formed. Brush each cookie with a cooking brush and sprinkle with colorful confetti. Instead of protein cream, you can pour melted chocolate or whipped cream on the surface of the dessert, the powder will adhere well to any glaze.
Classic fruit salad with yoghurt
You can use absolutely any fruit in this recipe - your favorite or those on hand, fresh or canned - the perfect light dessert, low in calories.
Possible Ingredients:
- apples - 1 piece;
- pear - 1 piece;
- banana - 1 piece;
- kiwi - 1 piece;
- canned or fresh peaches - 4 small halves;
- seedless grapes - 100 grams;
- low-fat yogurt, preferably without flavors - 200 ml;
- for topping nuts or chocolate - 100 grams.
From this amount, you should get about 4 - 5 servings of a delicious treat.
Well, the preparation is simple: wash all the fruits, remove the cores from apples and pears, cut into cubes, peel and cut banana and kiwi into slices, make portioned slices of peaches, and cut the grapes in half, put all layers in deep ice cream makers and pour over yogurt and sprinkle with grated chocolate or chopped nuts on top.
homemade pizza
The recipe for such a pizza is simple, and if you have responsible and more or less adult children who at least already study at school, then they can cope with such a dish even on their own, and you will not have to puzzle over what to cook for dinner, and then also persuade a good half of the family to eat some kind of porridge, convincing them of the colossal benefits of such a side dish. The only thing that should be prepared in advance, preferably for an adult, is the meat component, but it will be quite possible to replace the minced meat with any meat product from the store - sausage, ham, carbonate, etc.
For pizza, you will need the following products:
- minced chicken or sausage / carbonate / ham - 0.5 kg;
- store-bought puff pastry, yeast is better - 1 pack;
- canned green peas - 1 can;
- hard cheese - 500 grams;
- tomatoes - 2 pieces;
- ketchup or tomato paste - 150 grams;
- pitted olives - 1 can;
- green onions - several branches;
- flour - sprinkle on the dough;
- butter - 15 grams;
- salt to taste.
Step-by-step cooking:
- If minced meat is chosen for the filling, then it must be fried in a non-stick frying pan greased with a small amount of vegetable oil until tender. If it is sausage or other ready-made meat products, then cut them into small cubes.
- The finished dough should be lightly rolled with a rolling pin on a cutting board with the addition of a small amount of flour, but if the child prepares himself, then you can distribute the dough over the entire mold with your hands, leaving high edges so that the filling does not flow out. The form must first be greased with a piece of butter.
- Grease the finished base with ketchup or tomato paste and start spreading the filling.
- The bottom layer is peas, then lay out the meat layer - minced meat or sausage, a layer of tomatoes cut into slices, then olive rings, chopped green onions and hard cheese grated on a coarse grater.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and send the collected pizza to the oven for 15 - 20 minutes. During this time, the dough should have time to bake, and the cheese should melt appetizingly and form a golden crust.
The supper is ready! You can praise the little chef and enjoy a wonderful meal.
Fly agarics from eggs
By the way, such fly agarics will perfectly fit into a duet with some meat dish or decorate a children's table with other sweets with their original design.
For a snack you will need:
- chicken eggs - 5 pieces;
- onions - 1 onion;
- mayonnaise - 100 grams;
- hard cheese - 50 grams;
- small tomatoes - 3 pieces;
- lettuce leaves - 5 - 6 pieces;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Recipe:
Hard-boiled chicken eggs and cool. Peel and cut off a thin layer of protein from the bottom so that the yolk can be removed. Then put all the yolks in a plate and add the onions, mayonnaise and grated cheese fried in a pan, salt and pepper everything, mix well and fill the empty proteins. Cover the plate with lettuce leaves and put the stuffed <> with the sharp end up. Wash the tomatoes and cut in half, take out the core and put the empty halves on the eggs - these are mushroom caps. Put drops of mayonnaise on the surface of the caps. The original appetizer is ready to eat.
