Not all children have such a good appetite, as we would like. Sometimes feeding your child is a serious problem for parents. But there are dishes that even the most capricious children rarely refuse. These include pancakes, which in fact can be made from healthy vegetables with the addition of other equally useful and even more satisfying foods: chicken breast, cottage cheese. Zucchini fritters for children can be cooked with different fillings or even without it - almost certainly they will satisfy your child’s taste, and he will not only eat his portion, but also ask for supplements.
Cooking Features
Wishing to feed their child with zucchini pancakes, parents should understand that this dish is not suitable for very young children. It is not necessary to offer fried children to three years, and for those who are older, fritters should be cooked according to special rules.
- The main rule to remember when preparing zucchini pancakes for children concerns the choice of products: only high-quality, fresh and unspoiled products are suitable for this purpose. And the vegetables need not just rinse and wash thoroughly, using a sponge and special detergents.
- To make zucchini fritters tender and to taste the child, it is better to clean the vegetables, even if they are young. You can rub them on both small and coarse graters - it already depends on the recipe.
- To make squash fritters smooth and ruddy, fry them in a hot frying pan in a large amount of butter. It is necessary to change this oil, if cooking for children, as often as possible, even if it is uneconomical: the health of the child is more expensive in any case.
- Before offering fried pancakes to a child, it is necessary to remove excess oil covering them. For this pancakes enough to put on a paper napkin, which quickly absorb excess fat.
- If the recipe suggests the possibility of cooking without frying, for example, if the pancakes can be baked, you should use this opportunity. Indeed, in this case, the dish will turn out no less tasty, but more useful.
Choosing with which sauce to make squash fritters to a child, it is worthwhile to choose the most useful products. For example, yogurt and sour cream are suitable for unsweetened pancakes, mayonnaise, ketchup and garlic sauce will not do. For sweet it is better to submit fruit and berry puree or the same sour cream, and not condensed milk.
Squash with carrots for children
Composition:
- young zucchini - 0.5 kg;
- carrots - 150 g;
- chicken egg - 1 pc .;
- wheat flour of the highest grade - 120 g;
- dill - 20 g;
- salt, sugar - to taste;
- vegetable oil - as required.
Method of preparation:
- Wash vegetables and clean them thoroughly.
- Grind carrots on a grater with small holes, grate zucchini larger.
- Put the vegetables in a strainer and leave for 20 minutes. After a specified time, squeeze them to remove excess liquid.
- Put the vegetables in a bowl, add the finely chopped dill, salt or sugar to them. Fritters of zucchini and carrots can be made as ordinary, without sugar, and sweet, adding a little sugar to the dough. You can taste it, but not too much. On the amount of ingredients given in the recipe, a tablespoon will be enough, but you can get by with half.
- Break an egg into a bowl of vegetables, mix them.
- Pour in flour. It is desirable to add it in parts, each time stirring until a homogeneous mass. If it turns out that the dough has already become thick enough and resembles homemade sour cream, but there is still flour, you do not need to pour it.
- Kabachkov-carrot pancakes can be fried or baked. You can choose the option yourself. If you decide to bake fritters, then you need to soak the parchment paper, lay it on a baking sheet and put dough on it with a tablespoon, keeping the distance between the pancakes. Next, the pan is placed in a preheated 200 degree oven for 20 minutes. For frying in a pan, pour oil on it and heat it up, after which the dough is spread out with spoons and the pancakes are fried on both sides until a brown crust is formed.
Whatever way you prepare squash-carrot pancakes for children, you can apply sour cream or yogurt, fruit or vegetable puree to them.
Zucchini Fritters with Curd
Composition:
- zucchini - 0.5 kg;
- egg - 1 pc .;
- wheat flour - 150 g;
- salt, sugar - to taste;
- cottage cheese - 100 g;
- sour cream - 20 ml;
- vegetable oil - as needed.
Method of preparation:
- Grate the washed and peeled zucchini on a fine grater, squeeze them through a sieve.
- Mix zucchini with egg and flour, add a little salt. If desired, you can add a teaspoon of sugar, but this is not necessary.
- Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, mix with sour cream and sugar, add it to taste.
- Heat the oil in a pan. Put in it spoons squash dough, put a little curd on top, level and cover with another spoon zucchini.
- Cover the pan with a lid, wait until the pancakes are browned well on one side, turn and fry for another 2-3 minutes.
- Put the fried pancakes on a baking sheet and send for 10 minutes to the oven preheated to 200 degrees.
Pancakes prepared according to this recipe are doubly useful because they contain such a necessary product for children as cottage cheese, rich in calcium and protein.
Zucchini and Apple Fritters
Composition:
- zucchini - 0, 25 kg;
- apples - 0, 25 kg;
- kefir - 150 ml;
- wheat flour - 160 g;
- egg - 1 pc .;
- salt - a pinch;
- soda - a pinch;
- sugar (optional) - to taste;
- cinnamon (optional) - to taste;
- vegetable oil - as required.
Method of preparation:
- Grate the apples and zucchini on a coarse grater, having washed them out beforehand, soaking them with a towel and peeling them. Fold in a sieve, after a quarter of an hour squeeze through it, removing excess juice.
- In the bowl, break the egg, add salt and sugar to it, beat with a whisk.
- Put soda in kefir, stir. Let stand for 5 minutes in a warm place and pour into a bowl with an egg. Stir kefir and egg mass.
- Add apples and zucchini, mix.
- Thicken the dough, mixing flour into small portions.
- Bake fritters by putting them on a greased baking sheet, or fry from both sides in boiling oil in a hot frying pan.
Fritters of zucchini and apples have a pleasant sour-sweet taste, aroma of baked apples, so that almost all children like it.
Hearty Pancakes from Zucchini with Chicken Breast
Composition:
- boiled chicken breast - 0, 2 kg;
- zucchini - 0, 25 kg;
- chicken egg - 1 pc .;
- wheat flour - 80 g;
- sour cream - 50 ml;
- salt - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Boil the chicken breast in salted water. Cool it and cut into small pieces. If desired, you can even chop the breast with a blender.
- Add sour cream to chopped breast, mix.
- Wash, clean the zucchini. Grind it grated.
- Add salt and egg to zucchini, mix.
- Connect the squash mass with chicken breast.
- Adding a little flour, turn everything into a homogeneous thick mass.
- Bake or fry the zucchini chicken pancakes in oil.
Pancakes prepared according to this recipe are very nourishing. They can try to feed a child who does not like meat - there is a high probability that he will eat this dish with great pleasure.
Healthy zucchini fritters with girasol
Composition:
- Jerusalem artichoke - 0, 25 kg;
- zucchini - 0, 25 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- wheat flour - 100-130 g;
- vegetable oil - as needed;
- salt, sugar - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Grind washed and peeled zucchini and Jerusalem artichoke on a coarse grater, mix.
- Add the eggs, if desired, lightly salt it or add quite a bit of sugar - just so that the pancakes do not turn out to be rather fresh.
- Pouring flour in parts, make a dough that has a consistency like thick sour cream.
- Fry the pancakes on both sides in boiling oil. Put on a napkin to remove excess oil.
Pancakes with this recipe are tasty and very healthy.
Zucchini fritters for children can be prepared according to different recipes. They do not add pepper and other hot spices, but they still get tasty and fragrant. Such a breakfast will agree to eat even the most capricious child.
