Recipes to do with children

Recipes to do with children

Children enjoy imitating everything mom and dad do

One of the most engaging games is that of prepare the baby food. So, a good idea for spending time with the kids is to get them involved in the kitchen and do it together fun and delicious recipes, but possibly also healthy.

It is important that children from an early age are educated to good eating habits: the food must be as varied as possible, rich in seasonal fruit and vegetables, with limited fat intake and above all with the least possible use of ready meals and packaged foods.

So here's one selection of recipes taken from the children's magazine Focus Pico which can be easily made together with the little ones. There are fun ones though they help to eat vegetables, such as vegetable tops, spinach mice or pinzimonio; the fruit based snacks, such as the kiwi crumble, the fruit candle, the sorbets. But also recipes for special occasions such as Christmas, Halloween or Carnival; It is also important to introduce our children to new tastes, perhaps trying to experiment with recipes from other countries such as paklava, a Middle Eastern dessert, melon and shrimp taboulè, potato tortilla ... Enjoy your meal!

Index:

1. Christmas recipes 
2. Easter recipes 
3. Carnival recipes 
4. Halloween recipes 
5. Recipes for children 
6. Sweets and fruit 
7. Summer sweets 
8. Recipes for the whole year 
9. Foreign recipes

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Let them mix (even with your hands), roll out, shape the pizza dough or the pastry: the kitchen will not be a splendor but how much fun! And not only that: between pots and ...

Watch the video of how one is made fried vegetables in batter:

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1. Christmas recipes

• CHRISTMAS COOKIES

• CHRISTMAS HOUSE

• PANETTONE TRAMEZZINI

• CHRISTMAS ANKLE BOOT

• GINGER PEOPLE

• THE DONUT OF THE KINGS

• SNOWMAN

• SNOW BALLS

Christmas cookies

1. Mix flour, honey, sugar, butter, egg yolks, a tablespoon of yeast, 3 teaspoons of ginger and 3 teaspoons of cocoa, adding the milk a little at a time.
2. Let the dough rest for 30 minutes. Then roll out a 1/2 cm thick sheet and, with the help of molds, obtain the shapes in the shape of a star, heart, fir ...
3. Put the biscuits on a baking tray with paper oven. Make a hole for the tape with a toothpick. Bake at 175 ° C for 15 minutes.
4. For the icing, mix egg white, powdered sugar and a drop of lemon until the mixture is thick; adding the cocoa you will have a brown glaze.
5. Remove from the oven, leave to cool and cover with colored icing and sprinkles. Let it dry, put on the ribbons and decorate the Christmas tree.

2. Easter recipes

• EASTER CAKE
• LASAGNA
• FIOR DI POLPETTA

Pasqualina cake

1. With the help of a large boil, boil the vegetables
   for 10 minutes. Then drain and remove the excess water.
2. In a bowl, beat 2 eggs with the ricotta, add the parmesan, chard, a pinch of salt and nutmeg
3. Grease a pan with oil and extend the puff pastry on the bottom and walls. Pour the mixture of vegetables and cheese, making 5 small hollows and break 5 eggs into them.
4. Cover with the leftover pastry, closing the edges well. Bake at 200 ° C for about an hour.

3. Carnival recipes

• STRUFFOLI WITH HONEY
• CARNIVAL NUTS
• TALK ONLY!

Carnival pancakes

1. Put the flour in a bowl and mix with two egg yolks, a pinch of salt, yeast, water and milk
2. Wrap the dough in a cloth and let the dough rise for about 30 minutes, until it swells and becomes soft.
3. Then add a grated apple and the egg whites whipped (separately) until stiff. Mix everything together.
4. With a spoon make small balls and, with the help of a large one, fry them in abundant boiling oil. When they are well fried, take them out of the pot and pass them in the icing sugar. Take them to the diner ... be careful not to burn yourself though!

Just talk!

1. Place the flour in the hollow and pour: sugar,
   Eggs, olive oil, white wine, grated orange zest. Knead and leave to rest for half an hour.
2. Roll out the dough with the rolling pin, until you get a thin sheet, about 1 mm thick
3. Then add a grated apple and the egg whites whipped (separately) until stiff. Mix everything together
4. With the help of an adult, fry the chatter in hot seed oil. Drain them on absorbent paper. When they are cold sprinkle them with icing sugar.

4. Halloween recipes

• SPIDER OR TREAT
• BEWITCHED PUMPKIN
• MONSTER PIZZA

• PUMPKIN RISOTTO FOR HALLOWEEN

Spider or treat

1. Melt the chocolate bar and butter in a double boiler. Then pour in the sugar. Let it cool and add: an egg, the flour and the yeast. Follow these steps, always stirring with a wooden spoon.
2. With the mixture obtained, form round biscuits and place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Place in the oven and cook for 12 minutes
   about.
3. Mix the ricotta, cocoa and powdered sugar. Then spread this cream between two cookies.
4. From the swivels cut 8 pieces in order to have 8 legs per "spider". And fix them in the ricotta cream. Finally, with the cream and a piece of licorice make the eyes and the almonds with the big teeth.

Haunted Pumpkin

1. Cut the squash and potato into cubes and slice the leek.
2. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin, until you get a thin sheet, about 1 mm thick.
3. Cut out rectangles with the pastry wheel
4. With the help of an adult, fry the chatter in hot seed oil. Drain them on absorbent paper. When they are cold sprinkle them with icing sugar.

5. Recipes for children

• CREPES FOR MICKEYS
• COOKIES
• SMILE CURRY

• SOUP FACE

• ALWAYS GREEN TREE

• VEGETABLES

• FIOR DI POLPETTA

• PIRATE AVOCADO

• MICKEYS WITH SPINACH

• TUNA TUNA

• POTATO MICKEYS

Cookies

1. Mix the butter with the two sugars. Then combine the flour mixed with baking soda and baking soda. Let the dough rest in
   refrigerator for 1 hour.
2. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin and make the bunnies with a stencil (otherwise make a pattern by copying the shape of our bunnies).
3. Insert a wooden stick (Chinese chopsticks are fine too) in the center of each bunny. Bake at 175 ° C for 15-20 minutes.

Crepes for mice

1. In a bowl, mix: milk, eggs, salt, oil and water. Let it rest for 30 minutes.
2. Then make 8 crêpes. For each crepe, pour a ladle of batter into a greased non-stick pan and spread it over the pan. As soon as he solidifies, turn it over. When it's ready, put it on a plate.
3. Fill 7 crêpes with cheese and ham. From the one that is left over, make 7 ear-shaped cutouts and cover them with pieces of
   ham (see drawing).
4. Turn each crepe into a mouse: add the ear, an olive for the eye, a small piece of ham for the nose, two blades of chives for the whiskers and one for the tail.

6. Sweets and fruit

• CHEESECAKE

• FRUIT JELLIES

• FILLED PEACHES

• FLOWERS OF FIGS

• GRAPE LOLLIPOP

• FRUIT PASTRIES

• PANNA COTTA

• COLORFUL MUFFINS

• CHOCOLATE FONDUE

• FRUIT CANDLE

• KIWI CRUMBLE

• STRUDEL OF SEASON

• FANTASY CHOCOLATES

• CARROTS PIE

Fruit pastries

1. Take a ripe watermelon and cut it into slices (they must be at least 5 cm high).
2. With round cookie cutters (alternatively you can use small glasses) make small cylinders from each slice. Then insert each cylinder into a baking cup.
3. Separately whip the cream and put it on top of each watermelon "pastry". Complete the decoration by adding one on top
   Cherry.
4. Try making other fruit pastries using: kiwi, banana, melon ...

7. Summer sweets

• WATERMELON SORBET

• LEMON SORBET

• FRUIT SMOOTHIE

• FROST MELONE

• BEAUTIFUL AND FRESH COCONUT

Watermelon sorbet

1. Pour the water and sugar into a saucepan and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, to form a liquid, lump-free syrup. Turn off the stove and let it cool to room temperature
2. Squeeze a lemon, remove the seeds and add the juice to the sugar syrup. Empty half a watermelon by taking the pulp; remove all the seeds and pass it to the blender. Then add the pureed pulp to the syrup and mix vigorously, to mix all the ingredients.
3. Pour everything into an ice cream tub and put it in the freezer; every now and then mix the mixture, so that it takes on the consistency of a sorbet. Take the tray out of the fridge at least 10 minutes before serving. Decorate with whipped cream and leaves
   of mint.

8. Recipes throughout the year

• GREEN BUTTERFLIES
• SANDWICH CLUB
• SKEWERS IN PINZIMONIO

9. Foreign recipes

• TORTILLA OF POTATOES

• MELON AND SHRIMP TABOULE

• TRICOLOR SUSHI

• FISH AND CHIPS

• CLAFOUTIS OF CHERRIES

• PAKLAVA FOR CAKE

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