3 Creative Recipes That Will Make Your Child Love Vegetables

To make your child love vegetables you do not need to despair looking for elaborate recipes. Rather, it’s all about simplifying meals a bit, getting creative, and playing with presentations. And it is that, when teaching children to eat, the key is in how the food enters the eyes.

As long as a meal is pleasing to the eye, children are more likely to try it. In the case of vegetables, by playing with their colors and shapes, we can get children to eat them without much resistance and, in the long run, with great pleasure.

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Mission: make your child love vegetables

There are children who enjoy eating raw carrot sticks with a little mayonnaise or a homemade sauce. Others prefer tomatoes in different foods. Of course, this achievement requires effort and creativity on the part of their parents.

Although there are parents who choose to include vegetables in “hidden” preparations, others argue that the child must know what he eats to obtain data. And based on experience, you can establish what you like and what you don’t.

We want to appeal to that sense of curiosity that every child brings. For this reason, our proposal of recipes for children includes dishes that are fun to prepare as well as eat. We know that the child’s play area will motivate him to eat his vegetables. We consider it an appropriate stimulus and that it will help us to create the habit of healthy eating.

Creative recipes to make your child love vegetables

1. One or more potato mice

We start with a vegetable that is one of the most “popular” among children: the potato. In addition, the potato will help introduce other vegetables. 

Ingredients

• Raisins (to taste).
• 4 potatoes (250 g).
• 4 chives (200 g).
• 3 chives (360 g).
• 4 radishes (280 g).
• 4 cherry tomatoes (45 g).
• 1/2 glass of milk (120 mL).
• Olive oil (to taste)
• Salt and pepper to taste).
• 1/2 cup of grated enmental cheese (60 g).
• 1 large stick of butter or margarine (30 g).

Preparation mode

1. First, wash the potatoes well and bathe them with the olive oil.
2. Then, put them in the oven at a temperature of 200 ° C and leave them there for 20-25 minutes.
3. When you have the potatoes cooked and warm, remove the upper part and stir the potato content until its interior is empty. It only leaves a thin layer of potato as a wall.
4. Mix the potato we remove with milk, grated Emmental cheese, butter, salt and pepper.
5. Then, fill the inside of the potato with the previous mixture.
6. Apply grated cheese to the potatoes and bake them again until golden brown.
7. To decorate, prick a cherry tomato with a toothpick and insert it into one end of the potato so that it simulates a nose.
8. The ears can be made with slices of radish.
9. For the eyes we use raisins, for the tail, a stem of chives and we make the whiskers with chives.
10. Finally, you will have obtained a delicious potato in the shape of a mouse.

We are sure that, with this fun character, you will be much closer to making your child love vegetables.

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2. Tomato and hamburger worm

Tomatoes are very easy fruits to include in the diet during childhood. Its color, in itself, is attractive to the eye and it just needs to be included in a fun dish so that your child will love vegetables in no time.

Ingredients

• 1 tomato (30 g).
• 1 olive (1 g).
• 2 cherry tomatoes (30 g).
• 1 can of sweet corn (425 g).
• 6 hamburger steaks (500 g).
• Mustard or mayonnaise (optional).

Preparation mode

1. First, fry the hamburger steaks in the skillet.
2. Then, remove the skillet from the heat and let the steaks rest at room temperature.
3. Meanwhile, cut the tomato into slices and set it aside on a plate.
4. To form the worm, you must take a fillet and knead it with your hands along with some pieces of tomato.
5. After forming the worm, you can use a skewer to fix all the ingredients and keep the shape well.
6. For the worm’s eyes, add two cherry tomatoes.
7. Place an olive under her eyes to make her nose and some sweet corn to make her smile. Also, you can make him smile with a touch of mustard or mayonnaise.
8. On the other hand, it never hurts to include a lettuce leaf under the body of the little worm. In this way, the plate will have more color and, therefore, more attractive.

3. The snowy ship

Ingredients

• 1 beet (80 g).
• 6 asparagus (30 g).
• Mashed potatoes (400 g).
• 3 small slices of radish (70 g).
• 1 teaspoon of chopped carrot (10 g).

Preparation

1. To build the boat, you will have to take the studs as a base.  For example, you can take a large stud for the base or bottom of the boat and two small studs for the sides and a longer stud for the top.
2. Use the larger stud to lift the candle and the carrot to cover the base of the flag.
3. Then fill the body of the boat with mashed potatoes to make it look like it has snowed. You can also put puree outside in the “sea” that surrounds the boat.
4. Cut three slices of beets to simulate the windows.
5. Add a pinch of salt and voila, with this boat you will surely make your child love vegetables.