Cooking with Kids

Cooking with kids can be an exciting and fun affair. This is also the time to get your children acquainted with ways to go about the kitchen. Most kids will always be fascinated with the kitchen but there are times this may fade away with time. Getting your kids to get hooked on to cooking may sometimes be a real difficult challenge. Therefore, you must ensure they help in the kitchen duties as time permits. All children would need supervision when they are cooking in the kitchen. Cooking with kids would therefore require you to think of such recipes that would make it easy for the kid to prepare and yet teach him something new every time. When cooking with kids, you would also need to be aware that your child would not always be neat and tidy all the time. You would need to help your child to go about it in the right way possible without really losing your lid over certain issues! This is the time when you can get your children interested in cooking. You would also need to look into the safety factor when you are cooking with kids. Most children, in their excitement of preparing something new can tend to get a little more enthusiastic than really needed; therefore give them the right tasks and help them prepare a mouth watering dish in the simplest way possible. Guide them wherever required and watch their culinary skills improve as they grow! Think you need some recipes to increase your kid’s interest in the kitchen? Read on for some easy recipes for cooking with kids.

Easy Recipes for Cooking with Kids:

Delicious Chocolate Truffles:
Chocolate is a huge favorite with most kids, so why not try these easy chocolate truffles with your children.

Ingredients
Chocolate chunks (175g- it could be milk, plain or white)
Digestive biscuits (100g)
Softened butter (50g)
Sieved icing sugar (50g)
Cocoa powder

Preparation:
First, crush around 100g of the digestive biscuits. Then help your child to melt the chocolate in the microwave. Add around 50g of softened butter to the chocolate along with the icing sugar and the crushed biscuits. Mix this well and place it in the refrigerator. A duration of 10 minutes would work fine. Use a teaspoon and roll some of this into a ball. Cover it with cocoa powder and place the truffle in a paper truffle case. Your yummy chocolate truffle is ready to be gulped down.

Strawberry Smoothie Recipe:
Younger kids may need assistance with this recipe. This is very delicious recipe for the summer season.

Ingredients:
Sliced strawberries in syrup (2 pkg. frozen)
Lemonade (3/4 cup)

You will need to mix both the ingredients in a blender or a food processor. Blend till it smoothens. Once it blends well, turn off the blender and scrape the sides. Blend this again and once it smoothens, pour it into another container and place it in the refrigerator. Once frozen, your summer treat will be ready for your friends and family!

Healthy Strawberry-Banana Shake:
This can be an ideal breakfast item! Use this with your regular snacks and have a healthy breakfast option.

Ingredients:
Frozen unsweetened strawberries (1/2 cup)
Medium banana - peeled, cut into chunks (1/2)
Orange juice - freshly squeezed (1/2 cup)
Plain low-fat yogurt (3 Tablespoons)

Preparation:
Place all the ingredients in a blender. Blend till it smoothens.