These days all moms are so much concerned about their kids having right kind of nutritional meal that they avoid too much of fat, sweets etc. in their diet at home. The moms work under pressure all the time as their kids fuss over the healthy food and always prefer junk food over the greens.
In my blog www.monishgujral.com which won the global best blog in the World Gourmand Jury Choice Award this year, I try to write the recipes which I call Go Green with over-pressurised moms and fussy kids in mind. The recipes are healthy and nutritive and yet palate-friendly for kids. A few days ago I was in Doha and saw this interesting juice and smoothie menu which said ‘like your greens’. It had many option of healthy yet tasty vegetable and fruit juices. Since summers are here, I thought it would be interesting to share a few of these recipes in this week’s column besides my kids’ favourite green pasta and chicken recipe.
The Green App
Green Machine
Put in juice machine and take out juice. Enjoy nutritional glass of juice
Green Punch
Put in the blender and take out juice and enjoy the punch.
And finally my special green pasta and chicken recipe. Surely this will bring a smile on your kid’s face and light up the meal experience.
Few weeks back, there was a big drama at home with my kids not wanting to eat home-cooked food but were demanding to order food from outside. Under ordinary circumstances, it would have been no problem, but the new house rule restricting ordering outside food to once a fortnight made the situation grim. Obviously as always I had to play the middle man between the mom and the kids and forged an agreement that I would make pasta and chicken which would be better than any neighborhood Italian restaurant in town.
So started the preparation with my little chefs at work with me. The theme was green so we decided to make pesto sauce to blend the chicken.
Green Pasta and Chicken
Pesto Chicken
Method
Mix the marinade evenly on the boneless chicken and set aside for 30 minutes
Sauce
Grilling
Pasta
Remove on a serving dish and place the skewed pesto chicken on the pasta.
Garnish with sliced tomato, oregano, chili flakes and serve hot.