Children's salads - the basis of the menu for the child

What to prepare for the child? This issue often worries adults, because cooking for children is very difficult, it must meet a number of criteria.

First, you need a variety of dishes, so that the child can receive the necessary vitamins, nutrients and micronutrients.

Secondly, the children's menu should have necessarily original design, so that the kid is interested. For example, you can lay out fairy-tale characters on the plate , animal figures and so on.

Thirdly, the children's menu must necessarily be tasty.

Therefore, the best dish for the child are children's salads. Parents are encouraged to dream up, to cook just such a menu. We can offer some interesting recipes.

Sweet children's salads. These dishes can be made from any fruit, adding yogurt, juice and curd.

Salad "Tropical". Cut into small cubes sweet apple, peach and banana. Fill with yogurt and put in a tall glass, topping with whipped cream.

Salad "Sweet." You need to cut a hundred grams of canned peaches into large triangles. Raw small pineapple cut along into two pieces. Using a knife, remove the core and cut it with the same pieces. Mix half a cup of syrup from a jar with a jar of low-fat yogurt and season with this sauce a salad. Put it in the halves of pineapple. The dish turns out to be very simple, fast, but also stunningly tasty.

Salad "Useful". A small jar of yogurt, two tablespoons of condensed milk and a little sour cream to mix with half a pack of cottage cheese. Add in the salad crushed kernels of walnuts (fifty grams) and a handful of raisins. Thoroughly grind. For a small child, you can do this in a blender.

Salted children's salads. For the preparation of such salads, it is not recommended to use mayonnaise. It is better to replace it with sour cream.

Salad "Miracle". On a large dish in a circle you need to lay out a hundred grams: canned peas; Boiled and peeled shrimps; Finely chopped smoked sausage; Grated beets, diced fresh cucumber, circles of olives and olives. In the center, pour greasy sour cream. This dish will be an excellent treat at a children's party.

Salad "Lion". Two boiled potatoes coarsely rubbed and put on a flat plate, forming a mane and face of a lion. Apply a layer of sour cream. Next, two hundred grams of chopped boiled meat and again sour cream. Then two grated eggs - sour cream - one hundred and fifty grams of grated cheese - sour cream. Using a chopped carrot to form a mane. From a piece of Bulgarian pepper to make a mouth, from a crust of bread - a nose, from the squeezed squirrel - eyes and a muzzle, from twigs of greens - pupils, eyelashes and mustaches, and from a yolk - ears.

Salad "Merry caterpillar". Boil ten eggs, separate the proteins from the yolks. Grate a hundred grams of Parmesan cheese. Then add to it the crushed proteins, season with sour cream, salt, mix and form small balls. Yolks grate finely, add sour cream. Roll the same balls, as well as from protein. Put fresh herbs on the bottom of the plate, imitating the grass. Next, we begin to make a caterpillar, alternating balls, then white, then yellow.

Hot children's salads are best cooked from pasta. You need to boil two hundred grams of pasta and throw it into a colander. A small zucchini cut into cubes, fry in oil, add to it a crushed garlic clove. Stir the vegetables with pasta, two large spoons of sour cream and chopped greens. Sprinkle the dish with grated Parmesan cheese.

With this technology, you can prepare any children's salad. It will be enough to add boiled meat, brynza and other vegetables to it.

Bon Appetit!