Vegetable Burrito
Involving your children in the process of cooking can prove to be an
extremely fun learning experience for them, because while for adults
cooking is sometimes a chore, for children it means that they can get
really dirty while under parental supervision. But beyond that, cooking
with your children allows you to have a much more active role in their
nutritional habits teaching them about healthy and nutritional foods,
and how to cook or prepare them. Nowadays, there are healthy versions
of almost any sort of what one might consider typical child food, like
pizza, burritos and tacos, the sort of normally unhealthy things that
they seem to be attracted to, so here’s a recipe for fresh vegetable
burritos that will go down very well both with children as well as
adults.
You can have your child dice up two onions, a red bell pepper and a
large tomato, once you show them how to cut them, most children will
love being able to wield a knife and the results that they can obtain.
You’ll also need a bit of oil, some cooked and drained kidney beans,
salsa, Mozzarella cheese, yogurt and of course a couple flour tortillas.
If your child is old enough then he or she can do the next step which is
lightly cooking the now finely chopped onions and bell pepper for about
five minutes or until tender; you can choose to do this in your oven or
in a covered pan on your stove. In the meanwhile you place the rest of
the ingredients, the beans, salsa and other herbs that you prefer into
the blender and make a nice mixture out of them.
After these steps are done all you have to do is spread each tortilla
with equal amounts of the bean mix, the cooked vegetables, cheese,
tomato and yogurt and then roll them up not forgetting to secure them
with toothpicks. Once this is done you can pop them in the hot oven in
an un-greased pan for about ten minutes or until the cheese is melted.
This is a very quick, fun and healthy recipe that you and your child
will enjoy both participating in as well as eating after it’s done, and
it shouldn’t take more than thirty-five to forty minutes. Such a
vegetable burrito contains quite the punch from a nutritional stand
point, offering a great mix of grains, protein, carotenoids and calcium. |
