Thank you for visiting my blog and if you landed here that means you want to know new recipes for your fussy toddler, don’t worry you have landed in right place. When I started with baby led weaning it was easy path as my daughter was not a fussy eater she was just exploring new texture and taste and had lots of fruits and soft texture food which was easy to gulp for her and she loved sweet food, which I heard mostly every baby loves sweet food but its us who have to make child aware or different taste and then let them decide on their favorite taste.
The real struggle starts when they start moving and enter toddler stage and become cranky and choosy about everything around them feeding them during this stage is a war which we try to win everyday. Few tips which will help you win this war with better points 😉
Eat together– Don’t make your child eat alone and whole family just watching them. They feel something different is been served to them and others don’t eat that.
Don’t force– Never force a child to eat as you cannot decide the quantity your child should eat after all its his/her stomach and they are humans too.
Try after breaks- once the dish is rejected by your toddler don’t give up just try after 15 min or may b half n hour they may like it or feel hungry and eat it. But don’t go and cook different dish for them if they reject first as this encourages them to reject more and eat only what they want everyday and your child will lack necessary nutrition.
Try new dish for breakfast or lunch because they have lot of time left in a day to digest the stuff if ever their tiny stomach doesn’t like it. For dinner give them light dish which you have already tested so that they can sleep happy. 🙂
Few dishes which I tried and worked are below:
Oats chilla/Pancake-
Ingredients: 1 cup oats , ½ cup suji (optional as I tried without this for swara) , 1 cup buttermilk, 1tsp lemon juice, salt to taste, 1 green chilli finely chopped, ½ tsp cumin seed or powder, 1 onion finely chopped, 1 small tomato finely chopped, 1 small carrot finely chopped, 2 pieces garlic finely chopped, some fresh coriander, 1tsp fruit salt/eno and butter/ghee for cooking.
Procedure: Mix everything well mentioned above keep aside for 5-10 min and take pan heat it with butter/ghee and spread the batter cook both sides properly and serve hot with green coriander chutney .(Make sure you cut it in small pieces for them to eat easily and avoid chocking).
Moong dal & rice chilla/ dosa-
Ingredients: Moong (whole moong) ½ cup , rice 1 cup, salt to taste, cumin seeds powder to taste, 1 green chilli finely chopped, pinch of hing, 1tsp fruit salt/eno and butter/ghee for cooking.
Procedure: soak moog and rice over night or at least for 7 hours and mix it grinder to make fine paste like dosa batter by adding water as required. Add salt, cumin powder, green chilli, hing, fruit salt/eno mix well and take pan heat it with butter/ghee and spread the batter cook both sides properly and serve hot with tomato sauce. .(Make sure you cut it in small pieces for them to eat easily and avoid chocking).
Carrot & Rice chilla/Dosa –
Ingredients: 1 big carrot finely chopped and steamed, 2cups rice soaked at least for 2 hours, salt to taste, pinch of hing, cumin powder, butter/ghee for cooking.
Procedure: Grind both steamed carrot and rice to fine paste like dosa by adding water as required. Add salt, cumin powder and hing and take pan heat it with butter/ghee and spread the batter cook both sides properly and serve hot. .(Make sure you cut it in small pieces for them to eat easily and avoid chocking).
Tip: You can add beetroot finely chopped and steamed along with carrot 🙂
Oats with fruits-
(This can also be given to 7 month+ babies)
Ingredients- 2 tsp of oats, water/ milk, fruit of your choice (generally tastes good with apple, banana), some chia seeds, jaggery (optional).
Procedure: Add oats to water/milk and mix well without lumps, now add apple by chopping it fine and cook on medium flame. (If you are adding banana it has to be added at last when you switch off the flame by hand mashing it.) Once oats and apple are cooked add some chia seeds some strawberries to garnish and serve. Its yummy and easy to make.
Curd Rice-(This can also be given to 7 month+ babies)
Ingredients– 3tsp of curd, some rice cooked, pinch of hing, mustered seeds, salt to taste, some fresh coriander.
Procedure: Add some cooked rice to 3tsp of curd in a bowl now add salt to taste. Heat a small pan with 1tsp of ghee/oil once heated add mustard seeds wait for it to pop and add pinch of hing switch off the flame and pore that ghee/oil on curd rice, now garnish with some fresh coriander and ready to serve. Yuummm
All the above recipes are tested on my baby and we ate it too as we loved it :p
Do give it a try and let me know which was hit and which was miss.
Love
Seema
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