Soups

Easy and healthy dinner for toddlers.

Soups are one of the easiest food for feeding a toddler. It is easy to make, easy to feed and healthy. I use pressure cooker to cook the vegetables, as my little one is fussy about crunchy or lumpy soups. It needs to be absolutely soft, so I can feed her while she is watching some cartoon ( I have been warned not to let kids watch TV while they eat, but without TV it takes me a good 45 minutes for a small bowl of soup includes running around the house. TV makes her sit in a place). Sometimes she is excited about food, that is when I leave the bowl in front of her with a cut up bread in a plate. She will dip them in the soup and have it.

Pumpkin Soup

1/4th butternut pumkin
Onion – ¼
Tomato – ½
Garlic – 1 or 2 cloves

Preparation
1. In a pan add 1 Tbsp oil, fry onions till they are transparent
2. Add garlic and tomatoes and fry for couple of minutes
3. Now add pumpkin fry for few minutes
4. Transfer to a pressure cooker, add half a cup water and salt
5. Cook for 3 whistles (or same time you use to cook rice)
6. Let it cool and blend it in blender/mixie
7. Serve with toasted bread

P.s – if you don’t have a pressure cooker, add water and cook in the pan. Make sure the pumpkin is cooked to really soft.
Do not add too much water – this needs to be thick when served


Broccoli Soup

Broccoli – 1 medium size
Garlic – 1 or 2
Potato – ½ medium size
Onion – ¼

Preparation

1. In a pan add 1 Tbsp oil, fry sliced onions till they are transparent
2. Add garlic and diced potato fry for few minutes
3. Add diced broccoli fry for few minutes
4. Transfer to a pressure cooker, add half a cup water and salt
5. Cook for 3 whistles (or same time you use to cook rice)
6. Let it cool and blend it in blender
7. Serve with buttered bread