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For those of you on the AB blogging pack that are parents I hope you enjoy my blog. This post is a kid friendly recipe and gives you more than just ingredients and method. If offers you several strategies to help prevent the dinner battle. This post will give explain more about my recipes.
Why it’s good for Mums
Fritters are easy to disguise vegetables and any leftover fritters are great for morning tea or school lunches.
Why it’s good for Kids
Kids love to dip food and they can dip the fritters and chicken into the avocado dip. It’s also semi finger food.
Ingredients
350g chicken tenderloins
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoon lemon juice
2 corn cobs, kernels removed or 310g tin corn kernels, drained
150g zucchini, grated
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1/3 cup milk
1 cup self-raising flour
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon ground coriander
salt and cracked black pepper
2 large ripe avocados, halved, stones removed, peeled
120g (1/2 cup) sour cream
Salt + pepper to taste
Method
- Toss chicken in olive oil, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, salt and pepper and allow to marinate until cooking
- Place the avocado, lemon juice and sour cream in a bowl. Use a fork to mash until smooth. Transfer to individual dipping bowls.
- Whisk together the corn, zucchini, eggs and milk. Gradually stir in the sifted flour and cumin, coriander, salt and pepper.
- Heat a little oil in a non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Using a tablespoon, place heaped spoonfuls of the mixture in the pan and cook in batches. Using a spatula, turn them once, until golden and cooked through. Keep warm in preheated oven as you cook remaining fritters.
- Add chicken to pan and pan fry for 3-5 mins and golden brown on both sides.
Tips
Use any vegetables you like; grated carrot, diced capsicum, finely chopped spinach, grated sweet potato or potato, peas, diced beans, shredded cabbage, diced tomatoes.
This is a great way for using up vegetables in your fridge.
Marinating the chicken in the olive oil and lemon prior means you don’t have to add additional oil to the pan when cooking.
I used wholemeal self raising flour and find that it makes no difference and the kids are just as happy.
Hidden vegetables
Use any pureed vegetable you like and mix in. My suggestions are zucchini, squash, cauliflower, pumpkin, sweet potato, spinach, eggplant, mushrooms, parsnip, peas
If you child is picky about eating ‘green’ or other colours select carefully what vegetables you use. If your child can detect hidden vegetables stick with the white options – cauliflower, parsnip, squash and zucchini (peel skin).
Busy Mums
Fritters can be made in advance and successfully reheated in the oven or microwave.
2nd Sitting
Fritters can be reheated in microwave or oven.
Pan fry chicken when required
After making the avocado dip, sprinkle with extra lemon juice and cover with plastic wrap to prevent browning.
Spice It Up
There is loads of potential to spice this meal up;
Fritters – cook the kids first and then mix thru 1 teaspoon of minced chilli
Chicken – add 1 tablespoon of sweet chilli sauce to marinade
Avocado Dip – add diced Spanish onion, diced tomato and Tabasco sauce to taste.
Substitute the avocado dip for tomato salsa or spicy tomato relish. Serve with green salad leaves.
Creating a Scene
Serve 1-2 chicken tenderloins (depending on size) on top of fritter. Serve avocado dip in separate bowl for dipping or alternatively spoon on top of chicken.
Hands On
- Toss chicken in olive oil and lemon
- Sift flour
- Grate zucchini or other vegetables
- Break eggs and lightly beat
- Mix fritter batter
- Mash the avocado and mix with sour cream and lemon
Game Time
Tell A Story
Start a story at the beginning of dinner but only tell the first line, then everyone has to have a bite before you can tell the next line and so on. Make the story silly, funny and it doesn’t have to make any sense at all.
Alternatively, each child can add to the story after they eat a bite of dinner. My son loves this game but I give you fair warning that toilet humour will raise its head when they join in.
Your Feedback
If this recipe appeals to you and you bookmark it to cook for a family dinner, please stop by after the dinner and let me know how it went. I really want to know what you think of the recipe, how your kids reacted, how your hubby reacted, was it easy to follow etc. While I love hearing all the good stuff, I also don’t mind hearing from you where things went wrong so I improve it.
PS I apologise for the terrible food shot, I think my camera is dying.
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Disguising vegetables! I’ll have to remember that when I’m a mom!
Hi Trisha
Thanks for stopping by. Disguising vegetables is an easy way for mums to get their picky eaters to eat vegetables and take some pressure off themselves. You also need to serve vegetables on the side so they become used to seeing them and develop an understanding that eating vegetables is part of dinner.