Quinoa Oatmeal Blueberry Pancakes

Is it difficult to make kids and adults eat healthy food? Maybe not, if the healthy food is tasty too. Pancakes are very easy to prepare and I always replace all-purpose flour with oats flour to make pancakes. This time I added quinoa flour and took my little cook(My kid) help. They turned out so good that my kid can't resist them. She enjoyed a lot while making and eating pancakes and even when taking photos. I told my kid to wait until I took photo's for the pancakes, but you can find two pancakes are missing in the photo as I told the batter yield 6. You may probably know why :-). 

My Little Cook Saanvi With Pancakes

Prep Time : 5 Minutes
Cook Time : 12 to 15 Minutes
Yield : 6 (May vary depending on size)

Ingredients

• Blueberries - handful or as wish
• Quinoa Flour - 1/2 cup
• Oats Flour - 1/2 cup
• Eggs - 2
• Milk - 1/2 cup
• Dates paste - 4 tbsp or to  taste (We can replace it with honey)
• Salt - Pinch
• Olive Oil to sprinkle

Preparation:

• For quinoa and oats flour, grind quinoa and oats separately in a mixer.
• For date paste, soak dates over night and make into paste in a mixer and we can store this paste for a week.
• Mix all the ingredients in a bowl.
• Heat griddle, add little oil and pour a ladle of batter and cook on both side till golden brown and repeat the process with the remaining batter.
• Serve them with honey. 

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Scrambled Eggs With Beans // Roasted Cauliflower

Perfect recipe to start or end a day. We can have this as breakfast or as dinner. My kid loved this recipe. The combo of scrambled eggs with beans, roasted cauliflower and guacamole is fantastic. Preparing scrambled eggs with beans is very simple. Sometimes it is hard for parents to make their kids eat beans. This recipe will solve our problem. 
I want to gave a try to the roasted cauliflower when I first had in a Mediterranean restaurant. Preparation will be very simple and we need very few ingredients. We can make this in oven or on stove top with very less oil. 

Ingredients:

• Eggs -  4
• Red beans/Rajmah - 450 grams (15 oz) or Any beans of your choice.
• Onion - 1, Medium size
• Capsicum/Bell Pepper - 1
• Tomato - 1
• Garlic - 1
• Green Salsa - 1 Tbsp or Chilli power to taste
• Oregano - 2 pinches
• Salt to taste
• Pepper to taste
• Olive oil -  1 tbsp

Preparation:

• Chop onion, tomato, bell pepper and garlic.
• I am using canned smoked red beans. If you to prepare them fresh, soak them over night and cook in pressure cooker up to 4 to 5 whistles or in slow cooker until they are done, drain water and keep the beans aside.
• If using canned beans drain the water and keep beans aside.
• Beat eggs in a bowl and add salt, pepper and oregano, Mix.

Method:

• Heat oil in a pan, add onion and garlic and cook for 2 minutes.
• Add chopped bell pepper, tomato and cook for a minute.
• Add beans, green salsa or chilli powder and cook for 5 minutes.
• Pour egg mixture over the beans cook for a minute and mix and cook till eggs are done.
• Adjust salt and  switch off the stove.

Let's see how to make Roasted Cauliflower

Ingredients:

• Cauliflower - 1 small head
• Pepper to taste
• Salt to taste
• Olive oil - 1 tbsp

Preparation:

• Preheat oven to 350 degree F heat.
• Separate the cauliflower floaters and make them into equal size.
• Wash and dry them.
• Arrange cauliflower floaters in a oven proof pan, add olive oil, salt and pepper and mix well.
• Place the pan in preheated oven and cook for 45 minutes or until cauliflower is done. Mix them in between.
• Serve roasted cauliflower with Scrambled egg with beans and Guacamole.

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Oat Flour Pizza And Funny Octopus Shaped Mini Pizza

Last week, I took my kid to hospital for her vaccination,  there was a magazine in which see saw a recipe which is in octopus shape and started asking me to make that. So decided to make pizza in that shape. I want to make pizza healthy, so used oat flour and unbleached all purpose flour. She was very happy looking at her octopus pizza. With remaining dough I made two small pizzas using green salsa as sauce which is so delicious and spicy.

Yield: 2 small pizzas and 3 Mini Octopus shaped pizzas.

Ingredients:

• Oats Flour - 1 cup
• Unbleached All purpose flour - 1 cup
• Wheat flour - 1/4 cup
• Butter - 1 tbsp
• Honey - 2 to 3 tbsp
• Egg - 1
• Yeast - 1/2 tbsp
• Salt - 1/2 tbsp
• Corn - 1/4 cup
• Capsicum - 1/2 piece
• Green Salsa - 1/2 cup or your  favorite sauce
• Onion - 1/2 piece
• Cheese - 1/2 cup
• Warm water - 1/2 cup

Preparation:

• Add yeast and honey to warm water and keep it aside for 10 minutes.
• Make oats into fine powder in a blander or mixer.
• In a bowl, mix oats flour, all purpose flour, salt and add butter and mix well with hands. Now add egg and mix well.
• Pour in the yeast mixture into the flour and mix well into a soft dough by adding wheat flour little by little. (If water is sufficient, no need to add wheat flour)
• Cover the dough and keep in warm place for 1 1/2 hour.
• Preheat oven to 500 degree F.
• Now knead the dough and roll with the rolling pin and poke holes and add your favorite topping or salsa, veggies and cheese.
• Place in the  for 10 minutes and serve hot.( This will not rise like normal pizza, but taste great)

For Octopus Shape:

• Take lemon size dough and roll it like small pizza base.
• Keep the upper part of the base like that and start from the middle to lower part, cut the dough with a knife to form the legs and bend them to form shape.
• After making the legs, if u have any excess dough on the head part cut and remove it.
• Place sauce, veggies and cheese on the head part and if you want cover it with a layer of dough and press it to surprise your kids .
• Preheat oven to 350 degree F, and bake 10 to  15 minutes until they turn golden.

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