Your Kids Will Love Vegetables

Here are some delicious recipes that will make your kids love vegetables. The secret lies not only in the taste, but also in the presentation.

To get your kids to love vegetables, you don’t have to think for a long time or despair to come up with elaborate recipes. On the contrary, you have to simplify the dishes a bit and play with the presentation. When it comes to teaching children to eat well, the aesthetics and presentation of the dish is essential.

When a dish looks pleasing to the eye, children are much more inclined to taste it. In the case of vegetables, by playing with their colors and shapes, we can get children to eat them without too much resistance. And in the long run, they may even take a liking to it.

Your mission (if you accept it): to make your children love vegetables

Some children like to eat raw carrot sticks with a little mayonnaise or a homemade sauce. There are others who like tomatoes in dishes. Of course, this result required efforts on the part of their parents.

Although many parents choose to include vegetables in hidden preparations (smoothies, juices, etc.), not everyone shares this strategy. However, it is considered that thanks to this means, we familiarize children with different foods and in addition we arouse their curiosity.

The child needs to know what he is eating to make him want it. And, based on his experience, he can determine what he likes and what he doesn’t like.

It is necessary to appeal to the sense of curiosity of children. That’s why our recipe suggestions include dishes that are fun to prepare and eat. We know that their playful instinct will motivate them to eat the vegetables. We consider this to be an appropriate stimulant that will make them get into the habit of eating healthy.

1. Potatoes in the shape of little mice

We will start with a fairly popular tuber for children – the potato. It can also help you to introduce vegetables in their diet because it is not just the potato that we are going to incorporate.

Ingredients

• Raisins (according to taste)
• 4 potatoes (250 g)
• Chives (200 g)
• 4 radishes (280 g)
• 3 small onions (60 g)
• 4 cherry tomatoes (45 g)
• 1/2 glass of milk (120 mL)
• Olive oil (according to taste)
• Salt and pepper (to taste)
• 1/2 cup grated Emmental cheese (60 g)
• 1 large piece of butter or margarine (30 g)

Method of preparing our potato and vegetable mouse

• Wash the potatoes well and bathe them in olive oil.
• Put them in the oven at a temperature of 200 ° C and cook for 20-25 minutes.
• Remove the top of the potato and remove the inside until it is empty. This will give you a thin layer of potatoes.
• Mix the inside of the potato with the milk, grated Emmental, butter, salt and pepper.
• Fill the inside of the potato with the resulting mixture.
• Pour grated cheese over the potatoes, then put them back in the oven until golden brown.
• Pierce a cherry tomato with a toothpick and insert it into one end of the potato to make the nose.
• You can make the ears with radish slices. For the eyes, use raisins. For the tail, prick a stalk of chives and for the whiskers, a little more chives.
• You have succeeded in making a delicious potato in the shape of a little mouse. We are sure that with this funny character, you will surely convince your child to eat vegetables.

2. Tomato and steak in the shape of a caterpillar

Tomatoes are very easy to include in your child’s diet. Indeed, their color is already very attractive and their taste is fresh, which facilitates the work. Ready ? So let’s get to work.

Ingredients

• 1 tomato (30 g)
• 1 olive (1 g)
• 2 cherry tomatoes (30 g)
• 1 can of sweet corn (425 g)
• 6 steaks (500 g)
• Mustard or mayonnaise (optional)

Preparation method

• Cook the steaks in a pan.
• Remove the pan from the heat and let stand for a few moments at room temperature.
• Meanwhile, cut the tomato into slices.
• To form the caterpillar, you have to take a steak and knead it with your hands with pieces of tomatoes.
• Once you have a well-shaped caterpillar, you can use a skewer to secure all the ingredients and keep the shape.
• For the eyes of the caterpillar, place two cherry tomatoes.
• Place an olive under the eyes for the nose and sweet corn for the mouth.
• You can also do without the corn and give it a smile with a touch of mustard or mayonnaise. Remember that you can also incorporate other vegetables into your recipes.
• On the other hand, you can also add a lettuce leaf under the body of the little caterpillar. This will make the dish more colorful and therefore more attractive.

3. The snowy vegetable-based boat: asparagus

Ingredients

• 1 beet (80 g)
• 6 asparagus (30 g)
• Mashed potatoes (400 g)
• 3 small slices of radish (70 g)
• 1 teaspoon of grated carrots (10 g)

Method of preparing our vegetable recipe

• To build the boat, take the asparagus as a base. A good idea is to take a large asparagus which will be the base or the bottom of our boat. Then, two small for the sides and one longer for the top.
• Use the larger asparagus for the sail. Then use two small pieces for the flag.
• Fill the body of your boat with mashed potatoes to make it look like it’s snowed. You can even put some of the mash outside for the sea around the boat.
• Cut three beet slices (small) to simulate the portholes.
• Use the carrot to cover the base of the flag.
• Finally, add a pinch of salt and you are done. This boat is sure to make your kid love veggies, or at least this recipe, they’ll love it.