What is your toddlers favourite recipe?

[Nadine]

I am looking for some new and exciting dinners that I could make for my 19mth old DD. She is a good eater most days, but I am just looking for some new things to cook for her.

So what dinner does your toddler enjoy the most?

Thankyou

[christy]

Last night she really enjoyed turkey meat balls.

1 carrot grated
1 zucchini grated
1 handful spinach finely chopped
1 clove garlic minced
1 tbsp coriander
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 egg
500gm turkey mince

I mixed them all together & put it in the fridge for 30 minutes. Then I formed into balls & put them in a fry pan with a spray of olive oil.

I make home made sweet potato chips and let her dip in tomato sauce. She finished her plate & asked for more.

Another favourite is soup for Matilda.... she loves potato, leek & bacon soup (I add a zucchini) and give her toast fingers to dip.

Dipping is a favourite

Matilda loves fried rice & stir fries, bologaise, omlettes, happy face dinner...

mashed potato face
savoury mince hair
tomato sauce eyes nose & mouth

In the savoury mince I grate veges and put a tin of tomatos. My girls are allergic to dairy so I use rice milk in the potatos, but if dairy is your thing you could put grated cheese on the hair as well.

Having said that, tonight is 2 minute noodles with homemade soup mix...instead of the packet given, and as always I grate veges in them

[Nadine]

Thankyou Christy. I will have to try some (or all) of these

[Lucy]

Olivia and Charlie love "dippy soup dinner":like Christy, soup and toasted fingers. I often make french onion and they have toasted cheese fingers to dip in it.

They also love tuna anything.especially tuna croquettes/tuna patties.

A recent addition to their menu is eggy bread......just bread dipped in egg and milk and fried with spray oil, served with some cherry toms........

Also, I am a fan of fish fingers (i know they are percieved as a "kiddy food" but they are a great way of getting a fairly ehalthy fish dish into kids!).....I oven bake them, and then serve them up with a jacket potatoe and some salad......

(Charlie at just over 2 is a shocker for anything with a sauce, he is SUCH a grot, so I guess I am veering at the moment to foods without a sauce.........)

[Rach75]

although Jack is a little younger he loves cheesy vegie muffins

Cheesy Muffins

1 1/2 cups SR flour
1 cup grated zucchini
1/2 cup grated pumpkin
1/2 cup grated sweet potato
1 cup grated cheese
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup olive oil
2 eggs

preheat oven 180c, grease muffin pan
combine flour, vegies, and cheese
in a jug whish eggs, milk and olive oil
make a well in dry ingredient, add egg mix stir till just combined
2/3 fill each muffin cup
bake for 20-25 min or till skewer comes out clean
cool in pan 5 min, cool on wire rack

my oven normally runs very hot but it took the full 25min, make sure tray is well greased mine stuck a little. when they come out they feel a little oily but as you tasted they weren't greasy at all

[Nadine]

Oh thankyou so much ladies. They all sound very yummy

[krisp]

My DS loves his Nan's spaghetti sauce with spiral pasta.

Finely diced onion cooked until soft
Add chopped apple (about half)
Add minced garlic
Cook until all soft
Add some chicken stock and tomato paste and cook together for a few mins
Blend all up together so you end up with a thick sauce

Serve over spiral pasta and grate some cheese on top.

Very messy as he eats with his hands at this stage but it's his favourite!