Bread Omlette

This is an instant meal for kids or even elders with all the nutrition you might want in a meal.

I used to make it heavier for elders with lots of veggies like mushroom, bell peppers, onions, tomatoes and bread. But for my kid i made it very simple today as she doesnt want to eat same old lunch.

Ingredients:

Eggs - 2

Bread cubes - hand full (hard baguets would be best)

Tomato skin - chopped into small pieces

Onion - fist full chopped

Corriander/cilantro - chopped 1 tbsp

cumin - a pinch

red chilli powder - a pinch

salt - 2 pinches

Butter - 1/2 tsp

method:

1. Mix all the ingredients except eggs and mix well, finally add eggs and beat well.
2. Make 2 small omlettes with this batter if you are not a great flipper, with bread and vegs this is little hard to flip.
3. Use butter for kids as it tastes great. You can use oil too instead.

Variation: You can use peas and thinly grated carrots in this, for kids who love peas.

Spinach Fish Fry

This recipe is a kids version of my usual fish fry. An easy way to attract kids to eat a bit of leafy vegetables too. This is my own style of cooking which i invented according to my tastes and necessities(like moving the fried onions/veggies to the edges and frying the fish in the middle). I use the same style to fry chicken with different vegetables.

Ingredients:

Fish - 3 cat fish fillets (4 fillets would serve 3)

Spinach - a cup

Tomato - hand full size

Onions - 2 big hand fulls scliced.

Any coloured sweet peppers - 1/2 cup chopped.

oil to fry

Spice rub: grated ginger-garlic, salt, red chilli powder,turmeric, cumin powder, whole cumin - a pinch, corriander powder, garam masala, half a lemon juice, olive oil.

Method:

1. Mix all the spice rub ingredients and apply this on both sides of the fish fillets which i chopped each into 3 pieces.
2. The frying pan has to be most essentially a wide one which can accomadate all the fish pieces. If u are cooking for many people, can repeat this frying for each batch.
3. Add enough oil to fry the onions and sweet peppers. Once they are semi cooked, empty the middle of pan by pushing all the onions to the ends as u can see in the picture and add more oil and arrange all fish pieces in the middle of the pan.
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5. Pan has to be on medium high heat and fry one side of fish until it has a nice brown fried sear. Meanwhile keep moving the onions on the edges without bothering the fish. Flip the fish pieces to the other side and let the other side also fry. Once u know the other side is semi done, add chooped tomatoes and spinach to the edges of the pan, sprinkle little salt on them and cover with a lid. By the time the spinach and tomatoes cook, the fish should be done both sides. Once everything is cooked, mash the tomatoes, spinach, onion mixture frying on the borders and bring them onto the fish and flip the fish only if you can, without breaking them and let the whole dish ingredients get together.
6. This dish tastes tangy and sweet too with the caramalized onions and peppers.
7. We eat this with rice or chapathi, but i should say its great with rice. Its like heaven on the plate for my 4 yrs son.

Bow-tie pasta

Ingredients

Bow tie pasta (farfalle) - 1 1/2 cups

Tomato - 1 hand full size

Edamame (green soy beans frozen) - 1 cup

Cumin - 1/2 tsp

mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

dried red chilli - 1 small

Garlic - 1 pod chopped

EV Olive Oil - 1 tbsp

Method:

1. Cook the pasta in salted hot boiling water until done.
2. Meanwhile in another pan add oil and let the mustard crackle first and then add cumin, garlic, broken red chilli and fry.
3. Then add chopped tomatoes, thawed soy beans and cover with a lid and cook them until well done.
4. Once pasta is cooked drain the water, but not till the last drop...retain about half a cup of water in the pasta, which will let the pasta freely falling and moist, rather than sticking and lumping up.
5. Add this pasta to the gravy pan and mix well, check salt and adjust according to your taste.