A children's table for a birthday or for other holidays should turn out to be bright, cheerful, beautiful. That is why they are approached with special awe. You need to prepare a menu in advance and buy everything you need. It is advisable not to focus on complex hot dishes, it is better to cook several different snacks. Children love them so much!
Children's snacks - general principles of preparation
The basic principle for preparing children's dishes is maximum safety. All products must be fresh. If the children are small, then it is advisable to refrain from sausages, chips, sweets and other confectionery products with a large number of dyes, substitutes, preservatives. Do not forget that children should not be mushrooms, and in any form. They can do great harm to a fragile body.
What to cook snacks from:
· Meat, poultry, fish;
· Vegetables;
· Cheese and other dairy products, eggs.
You can also put sweet snacks on the children's table. They are made from fruits, dried fruits, berries, cookies, sweets, marmalade, marshmallows. A huge number of options. But do not forget that dairy products are very capricious in storage, quickly sour, therefore it is advisable to cook a children's dish before use and do not keep it in a warm room for a long time.
Snack for children's birthday "Traffic Light"
A very bright and festive version of a snack for children's birthday. It will become a real decoration of the table, but it is very simple to prepare. Chicken is used as a base. You can take turkey or other meat.
Ingredients
· 2 chicken legs with a thigh;
· 120 g sour cream;
· 1 large tomato;
· 4 tbsp. l maize;
· 4 tbsp. l green peas;
· Salt;
· 3 eggs.
Cooking
1. Put the chicken legs in a pan, pour water, boil until soft and cool. Remove all bones.
2. Boil hard boiled eggs, peel.
3. Grind the chicken with eggs. You can just finely chop or twist through a meat grinder with large cells. You do not need to make a paste, let there be pieces.
4. Add sour cream and chicken to the chicken. If sour cream is liquid, put less. Stir well.
5. Put the cooked chicken on a flat dish in the form of a rectangle. It will be a traffic light.
6. Cut the tomato into four parts, remove all liquid entrails with seeds. Cut the pulp into small cubes.
7. Put a circle of tomatoes at the traffic lights. It will be red.
8. Now spread the yellow color of canned corn. You can also use yellow bell pepper for this color.
9. The green color is peas. But you can use chopped cucumber.
10. The traffic light is ready! He does not need additional decoration, but suffers various changes. Under the main layer with chicken, you can put chopped prunes, grate cheese, make a layer of chopped cabbage.
Children's snack "Mushrooms"
A variant of very beautiful mushrooms that can be made for each guest, set on a common plate and even used to decorate other dishes. For children's snacks, boiled eggs are used. You will need tea to stain. But you can use different dyes or beet juice.
Ingredients
Eggs
Tea brewing
· greenery.
Cooking
1. Brew cool black tea, about a teaspoon of tea leaves per cup of boiling water. Strain so that the gulls do not swim, otherwise spots will appear on the mushrooms.
2. Boil hard-boiled eggs. The amount is arbitrary. You can also use quail eggs for this snack, you will get miniature and very beautiful mushrooms. Cool in cold water.
3. Gently peel all eggs from the shell so as not to damage the protein.
4. Put the egg on the board and carefully cut the third part, which will be a hat. The yolk that got into it needs to be removed, a notch will result.
5. Put the mushroom caps in tea, wait until they turn brown.
6. Put greens on a plate, put most of the eggs with the slice down, these will be the legs of the mushrooms.
7. Put brown hats on top. Mushrooms are ready!
Snack for children's birthday "Snowballs"
The whole charm of this snack is that it consists of the most natural and healthy products. To roll snowballs you will need hard cheese.
Ingredients
250 g of cottage cheese;
· 10-12 pieces of hazelnuts or other nuts;
· Salt;
· A little sour cream;
80-90 g of cheese;
3-4 branches of dill.
Cooking
1. Cottage cheese must be grated through a sieve to make the mass tender. Children do not like the astringency inherent in a product.
2. Add salt, chopped dill or other greens to the curd. If the children are not small, then you can squeeze a small clove of garlic, it will turn out even tastier with it.
3. Add a little sour cream to the curd mixture. It’s important not to overdo it. It should make a cool mass.
4. We rub the cheese very finely. Pour a spoon to the cottage cheese, leave the rest for sprinkling.
5. Stir the cottage cheese well, then divide it into 10-12 parts, sculpt small balls with a nut inside. You can shove not hazelnuts, but other species, or replace with a piece of prunes, chicken, dried apricots, red fish.
6. Roll the rolled balls in grated cheese, transfer to a plate. Snowballs are ready!
Children's snack "Caterpillar"
A very simple and quick recipe for a sweet baby snack for Birthday and other holidays. Choose sturdy berries that won't crumple or drip.
Ingredients
Grape berries;
· Strawberry;
· 1-2 prunes.
Cooking
1. String grapes on a toothpick or on a small skewer.
2. At the end, stick the strawberries with the tip out. This will be the head of the caterpillar. Well, or snakes. By the way, leaves from strawberries can not be removed, let the collar remain.
3. Cut prunes into small pieces.
4. Carefully make small holes in the strawberries with a knife, stick the prune slices and the eyes are ready!
5. Place caterpillars on lettuce leaves or each guest in a plate.
Snack for children's birthday "Hedgehog"
Option fruit snacks for children. For cooking, you need one big pear and any other berries and fruits. It is better if they are of different colors, then the hedgehog will turn out to be very bright. There is absolutely the same version of salty snacks. It is made from slices of vegetables, olives and cheese.
Ingredients
Pear;
Berries;
· fruits.
Cooking
1. Cut a piece of pear so that it fits well on a plate and does not swing.
2. Cut the fruit into cubes. Wash and dry the berries.
3. String pieces of fruit and berries on the toothpicks. It is better to follow a certain sequence, and end with a round berry, for example, grapes.
4. Insert the filled toothpicks into the thickened part of the pear, leaving the narrowed area open, it will be a muzzle with a nose.
5. Make a hedgehog eyes from cloves. Bright appetizer is ready!
Snack for children's birthday "Ships"
You can cook cheese boats on bread with sausage or ham, but here is another option. A special feature of this children's birthday snack is the use of eggs as a basis. They have a number of advantages: they are small, a half is a real boat, children eat eggs better than dry bread.
Ingredients
· 3 eggs;
50 g of boiled chicken or ham;
· 6 triangular pieces of cheese;
· 1 tbsp. l sour cream;
· Salt, greens.
Cooking
1. Boil hard-boiled eggs. Cool well in cold water, carefully release from the shell, cut along each to make two boats.
2. Remove the yolks, grate or just knead well.
3. Finely chop the chicken. You can use ham or sausage, add the product to the yolks.
4. Add a little sour cream and salt, stir. It should get a thick mass.
5. Fill the egg halves with the prepared filling. You can make a small slide.
6. Insert a toothpick.
7. Put on a toothpick a flag from a triangular piece of cheese. But you can use a slice of ham, as you like.
8. Launch the ships on a plate with greens.
Children's snack "Carrot"
Original salad for a children's table. You can cook one large carrot or lay out a few small ones. It is advisable to boil the products in advance and cool well. The salad also needs to be allowed to brew for a couple of hours.
Ingredients
250 g of boiled chicken;
· 2 boiled carrots;
3 eggs (boil);
180 g sour cream;
100 g of cheese;
150 g of potatoes (boil);
· Spices, herbs.
Cooking
1. Peel boiled potatoes, grate and put as a first layer on a flat bowl. Level, shape the carrots. That is, an oval with a pointed tip.
2. Mix sour cream with spices, salt, grease the potato layer.
3. Cut the boiled chicken and lay on the potatoes, this layer does not need to be lubricated.
4. Grate the eggs and cheese in a bowl. Add the remaining sour cream to them, stir well and put the mass on the chicken. Smooth well while continuing to shape the carrots.
5. Finish the salad with boiled carrots, peeled and grated. Align the shape, put a bunch of dill or other greens at the thick end and you're done!
Children's snacks - useful tips and tricks
· If you need to color some products, then do not rush to add chemistry. It is better to use natural products. The juice of beets, carrots, spinach, red cabbage do their job perfectly and are completely safe for health.
· You should not add mayonnaise, fat sour cream to children's salads and snacks. It is better to choose the lightest sauces that will not complicate the digestive system. Ideal are yogurts, healthy vegetable oils.
· Smoked meats and sausages - not the best product for a children's table. In your favorite dishes, you can replace them with boiled, baked poultry, meat, or choose high-quality ham.
