Eat Right: Is your child refusing to eat veggies? Make them this yummy dish

Children, more often than not, tend to be fussy eaters. More so when it comes to eating their daily quota of vegetables, which have many health benefits. Doctors, therefore, recommend eating a balanced diet with sufficient greens.

Vegetables are rich in essential vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. They improve digestive health, help make new red blood cells, and protect heart health.

While there are a variety of Indian dishes you can make with veggies, you can heighten the experience for children by giving them a colourful, cheesy, and yummy platter of veggies.

Sangeeta Nistandra, principal, Apeejay School Rama Mandi, shared one such recipe: rainbow veggie delight. She has been regularly preparing healthy meal plans and sharing them with the parents of Apeejay students.

Loaded with veggies, rainbow veggie delight is not only delicious but a wholesome dish full of macro and micro-nutrients to satisfy children’s palate and hunger pangs. Check it out:

Rainbow Veggie Delight

Preparation time: – 20 Minutes

Cooking Time: – 5 Minutes

Ingredients

Red Bell Pepper – 1

Yellow Bell Pepper – 1

Capsicum – 1

Baby corn – 2,

Cheese cubes – 200 g

Onion – 1, medium size

Tomato – 1

Green chilly (slit) – 1, medium size

Rock Salt as per taste

White pepper as per taste

Oregano as per taste

Mushrooms – 200 grams

Broccoli – 100 g, cut into small pieces

Yellow butter/vegetable oil – 1 tbsp

Cloves of garlic – 5, cut into juliennes

Ginger – an inch long, cut into juliennes

Carrot – some juliennes

Method

*Dice all the vegetables including cheese into bite-size cubes and cut the mushrooms in half.

*In a non-stick pan, add yellow butter and heat it for a few seconds. Put the mushrooms and stir for 30 seconds.

*Add broccoli, onions, tomatoes, carrots, and ginger juliennes. Add salt, slit green chilli, and white pepper. Stir and cover for 30 seconds.

*Now put garlic juliennes along with red, yellow, and green bell pepper and diced baby corn. Make sure that the bell pepper is not overcooked and must be crunchy.

*At the final stage, add cheese cubes and stir lightly so that the vegetables and herbs are well-coated with cheese. In the end, sprinkle some rock salt, white pepper, and oregano as per taste.

*Add a dash of lime as per your taste. 

Note: Cheese can be replaced with diced chicken sausages according to personal preference

So, when are you making it?