Summers come with long days, hot spells, and kids at home. If you are a parent, you will know precisely what summer vacations seem like. Parents see the plight well with toys scattered around the floor, television channels set on cartoons, and kids running around all day.
The only time that calms down this chaos is snack time. Pizzas, Cookies, Chips, Burgers, Cups, Rolls, Fries, and goes the list. However, with kids actively engaged all day, they need extra healthy nutrition that will be both gut-friendly and delightful. Blending fun and food has become yet another challenge.
We at Hafele Appliances decided to address this particular challenge. Here are some easy summer healthy snack options you can quickly prepare with the help of our Hafele Kitchen appliances.
Pro Tip: Fried and oily snacks might be tempting, but our gut tends to resist such foods in summer. Hence, go for baked or steamed snacks to balance your cravings.
We are sharing two irresistible snack recipes that your kids will love, Onion Tikki & Steamed Buns. Interestingly, our Hafele’s Combi-Steam Microwave Oven comes with the ability to cook two dishes at a time. Therefore, if you wish, you can make both these dishes together.
Onion Tikki
This is one of the healthiest snack recipes as you don’t fry the tikkis. Serve these tempting tikkis to your child as an evening snack.
Ingredients
For stuffing:
- 2 onions
- 1 cup poha
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric
- ¾ teaspoon chilli powder
- ½ teaspoon cumin powder
- ½ teaspoon chaat masala
- 2 chilli
- 1 teaspoon ginger paste
- 2 tablespoon coriander
- ½ teaspoon salt
For dough:
- 2 cup wheat flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Water (for kneading)
Method
- Take a bowl and add all the ingredients mentioned in the stuffing section and mix them well as you knead and mix the spices well with poha and onion slices. Keep this mixture ready.
- Now take dough ingredients, wheat flour, salt, oil, and water and knead the dough with the help of Hafele’s Klara Kitchen Machine. It will prepare a soft dough. Cover it and let it rest for 20 min.
- Once done with kneading, prepare square folding from the dough.
- Now add the stuffing material according to the dough folder and seal it properly.
- Place these tikkis in your Hafele’s Combi Steam Microwave Oven. Steam cooking helps to penetrate deeper into the tikkis and cooks them evenly from within.
- Once done, you can immediately serve them with your child’s favorite sauce.
Our Combi Steam Microwave Ovens allow you to cook around 4X faster than traditional cooking methods, thus making it one of the best microwave oven choices. Steam penetrates deeper into food; removes excess fat and salt while locking in more of the beneficial nutrients your body needs, thus making our Onion Tikkis smooth, healthy and nutritional. Cooking with steam is also the gentlest method of cooking and preserving food’s natural colors, flavor and textures.
Steamed Bun
Steamed buns are yet another healthy snack recipe that is easy to prepare and you can enjoy with your kid both as a morning as well as an evening snack.
Ingredients
For potato stuffing:
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- ½ teaspoon chilli flakes
- 2 chilli (finely chopped)
- ½ onion (finely chopped)
- 1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
- ½ teaspoon turmeric
- ½ teaspoon cumin powder
- ½ teaspoon garam masala
- 1 teaspoon chaat masala
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 4 potato (boiled & mashed)
For dough:
- 1 cup milk (warm)
- 2 teaspoon sugar
- 7 gram dry yeast
- 2 cup maida
- ½ teaspoon salt
Method
- First, prepare the aloo/potato stuffing—heat oil in a pan. Add cumin, chili flakes, and chilies. Sauté for some time. Now add onion, ginger garlic paste and sauté again. Now add other spices and salt. Sauté for a while. Now put off the flame and add smashed potatoes to the mixture. Keep aside.
- Knead the dough with the help of Klara’s Highline Pro Kitchen Machine for smoother and softer dough. Roll out small dough balls and stuff them with the already prepared stuffing material. Give a round shape.
Klara’s Highline Pro Kitchen Machine comes with precise kneading movements that result in the soft and fluffy dough.
The planetary movement of our Hafele Power mixers ensures a consistent kneading result.
- Place these dough balls into your Hafele’s Combi Steam Microwave Oven. Steam it for 5-10 minutes, and it’s done.
- You can finally enjoy your steamed buns and serve them to your kids with a tangy tomato sauce.
These easy-to-cook recipes are a time saver and mouthwatering snack option for your kids. Make them, eat them, and enjoy them with your kids.