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Healthy avocado recipes for kids
Even though you list out the health benefits of avocado to your children, it will be difficult to make them eat it. But you can cook avocado in interesting ways for children. Here are some options you can try!
1. Avocado filled tacos
Ingredients
• 1 avocado
•1 tomato
• ½ onion
• ½ cucumber
• ½ bowl coriander (chopped)
• 1 tablespoon of lemon juice
• 1 cup of wheat flour or multigrain flour
• Salt for taste
Method
• To make tacos, knead the dough well by mixing it with water.
• Let the dough rest for 15 minutes.
• Make small dough balls and roll them to make roti.
• Take a pan and cook them from both the sides and fold it into half.
• Let it sit on the pan for a minute after folding from both sides.
• For the filling, mix all the ingredients, add salt and fill it into the tacos then serve.
2. Avocado chickpea salad
Ingredients
• 2 avocados
• 1 bowl of chickpeas (boiled)
• ¼ onion
• ½ cube cheese
• Chopped coriander
• Olive oil
• 1 teaspoon of lemon juice
• Salt
Method
• Slice the avocados and put them in a bowl.
• Add the boiled chickpeas, sliced onion, cheese and chopped coriander.
• Drizzle a little olive oil and pour the lemon juice over the ingredients.
• Mix everything together and then serve.
3. Avocado pasta
Ingredients
• 50 gram of pasta
• 2 small avocados
• ½ cup basil
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 tablespoon of olive oil
• 1 teaspoon of lemon juice
• Salt
• ½ cup pasta water
Method
• Take a pan and add water, salt and a few drops of olive oil and let it come to a boil.
• Add raw pasta to it and let it cook for 5 minutes or till it is 80 percent cooked.
• Strain the pasta and keep the water aside for later.
• Make the sauce by blending all the ingredients (including the pasta water) until it turns smooth and creamy.
• Add the sauce into the pan with the pasta and mix it up.
• Add fresh basil and serve.
