Making kids eat veggies is a stressful job for most of the parents. Here I give you some kid-friendly recipes with hidden veggies that make your life easy and kids eat their vegetables without complaining. The hidden veggie recipes range from pancakes to burger cups and from chocolate pudding to jelly.
Tips to make kids eat veggies
I understand that each kid is unique and it takes a village to raise kids. Though I give you these tips which helped my kids to eat their veggies, it may work differently with other kids. But I would recommend you to give it a try. I would also love to hear any tips that you have tried for your kids and worked or turned out funny.
- Start introducing vegetables early in childhood.
- Be creative by making funny shapes out of vegetables while feeding. (I know it is hard)
- Start one new vegetable at a time.
- And lastly, be patient. We all have been there.
Kid-friendly hidden veggie recipes
Breakfast/Dinner
Eggless Beetroot Swirl Bread
Easy Eggless Instant Pot Beetroot swirled Bread recipe is one of the fun recipes you will make for your family. The beetroot extract gives a beautiful color to the swirl kids will love to have this bread for their breakfast.
Sweet Potato Bread Roll
These soft, fluffy, buttery, easy sweet potato rolls are perfect on your dinner table. Serve this warm with your favorite compound butter. You can find more veggie options to try inside this post. Try cooking sweet potatoes in an Instant Pot.
Whole Wheat Spinach Flatbread
Palak chapathi or palak paratha is just a simple whole wheat spinach tortilla. This is an easy way to include greens in the kid’s diet. The paratha has a nice, deep green color that not only enhances the taste but is also healthy. Try chickpeas wraps or chicken wraps using these flatbreads.
Similar recipe-Sweet potato Flatbread.
Zucchini Bread Pancakes
These lightly spiced Zucchini Bread Pancakes are a great way to sneak some hidden veggies into your breakfast.
Spinach Pancakes
These spinach pancakes are a vivid green color without the use of any food coloring or dyes and boast a simple ingredient list.
Pumpkin Pancakes
Tender fluffy pumpkin pancakes made with pumpkin puree, with a subtle fall classic fragrance delivered by pumpkin spice. These pancakes are a sweet and cozy reminder of the season whenever you have some leftover pumpkin puree.
Pumpkin Chia Seed Pudding
I present you this Pumpkin Chia Seed Pudding. Am sure this will make your family get-together special. You can use coconut milk or any nut milk in place of whole milk to make it vegan. You can also use Maple syrup as a sweetener.
Deep fried Italian eggplant meatballs
If you like Italian meatballs you will love these eggplant balls and if you are vegetarian you just found the best alternative to meatballs.
Wonton Cheese Burger Cups
These Wonton Cheeseburger Cups are fun to eat, tasty, kid-friendly, and most of all, easy!
Pumpkin falafel
In this Vegan Pumpkin Falafel, I have added roasted pumpkin to the rest of the ingredients. I roasted the pumpkins in the oven with some spices and ground them along with the chickpeas.
Palak Paneer
This Palak Paneer is a gravy with whole goodness of spinach along with yummy paneer.
Paneer in Veggie Sauce
The best and most incredibly creamy Paneer in the veggie sauce! The luscious veggie-based sauce has a unique restaurant-style flavor for all you paneer lovers.
Snack/Dessert
Broccoli Cheese Bites
These broccoli cheese bites are high in plant protein. They’re packed with quinoa and chickpeas, which are a natural source of protein. These healthy snacks are vegetarian and gluten-free.
Sweet Potato Chocolate Pudding
This vegan chocolate pudding recipe is one of the easiest, creamy, and delicious puddings you can try. The recipe calls for just 4 ingredients.
Eggless Semolina Carrot Cake
Here is the easiest cake recipe yet no compromise in the taste. This is a soft, crunchy cake with freshly grated carrots perfect for snacking.
Kale Brownies
These Kale brownies are a delicious way to make kids eat Kale, the king of all green leafy vegetables. The brownie is decadent, fudgy, and chocolaty.
Sweet Potato Coconut Cookies (Panellet)
Panellets are small cakes or cookies in many shapes but mainly round. The main ingredients comprise sweet potatoes and almonds. Actually, you need just a handful of ingredients.
Watermelon Beetroot Popsicle
This watermelon beetroot popsicle is a brilliant way to treat your kids in summer and feel great about feeding them their veggies.
Beetroot Jelly
Beetroot Jelly? Does it sound weird? Trust me it tastes so good if you love beetroot.
Beetroot halwa
Beetroot Halwa is one unique, hearty dessert made on festive occasions. But you can try this anytime as it is rich with the goodness of beetroot and milk.
Healthy Chocolate chip Cookies
Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies are a fun treat, made with some simple ingredients you are going to love!
Healthy Chocolate Cake
This healthy chocolate cake will blow your mind. Moist and gooey and covered in a delicious 3-ingredient healthy chocolate ganache, no one will believe it’s a healthy cake. It’s refined sugar-free, dairy-free, and contains not one but two hidden vegetables!
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Those are amazing recipes! I can’t wait to try them out one after another!
Thank you
Great recipes! It is always hard to make my daughter eat vegetables. One of our favourites is spinach pancakes; the colour is so vibrant, and she cannot resist. Thank you for sharing. I cannot wait to try more!
I totally agree. Thank you
Lots of great ways to hide nutritious veggies in recipes. I will give a few of these a try. My grandson is very picky, along with my oldest daughter.
Thank you. Let me know your feedback.
What a nice collection of recipes. Hidden veggies, sometimes with children who don’t like them, such a great way to add some extra!
Thank you