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IMPORTANT NOTES:
This blog covers mainly simple, healthy and practical recipes that are suitable for toddlers. For this, the recommended age is two and half years old and above.
[WARNING: Some of the ingredients and seasonings used in my recipes may not be suitable for kids below two and half years old due to allergy and health issues. So, please use them with extra care and make the necessary adjustments or omit them if needed. The most prudent option is to consult your doctor.)]
Below are the best tried and tested recipes by readers (click on the thumbnail to get the recipe):
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ARTICLES
- How to deal with picky eaters and mealtime problems
HOW-TO:
- How to line a cake tin
- How to make “smooth & springy” fish paste
- How to remove tofu from the box
- How to make muffins
- How to make sushi
- How to roast cashew nuts
- Honey roasted almonds
- How to blanch broccoli
- How to make shallot oil and fried shallots
- How to make pineapple jams (for pineapple rolls)
- How to make fish stock
RICE/PORRIDGE:
- Orange pilaf
- Pumpkin rice (1)
- Pumpkin rice (2)
- Yam rice
- Mushroom rice
- Kiddy “mushroom rice”
- Indian vegetarian rice
- Claypot chicken rice
- Super fast meal (超级简单快餐)
- Sushi rolls (寿司卷)
- Special egg rolls with rice, salmon and spinach
- Onigir (rice balls) with salmon and cucumber
- Sesame seed rice balls
- Millet porridge
- Kiddy porridge
NOODLES/ PASTA:
- Spaghetti bolognese
- Meatballs and pasta – the Jamie Oliver’s way
- Broccoli and bow-tie pasta
- Pesto pasta
- Tuna pasta
- Italian pasta soup
- Pasta with minced meat and dried oysters
- Rainbow seafood pasta salad
- No-frying noodles
- Stir-fried brown beehoon (rice vermicelli)
- Stir-fry udon with prawns
SALAD:
- Chinese chicken salad
- Rainbow seafood pasta salad
- Frozen tofu salad with creamy sesame dressing
SOUP:
- Homemade fish stock
- Quick and easy fish soup
- Apple and white fungus soup
- Apple soup
- Burdock root soup （牛蒡玉米胡萝卜汤）
- Corn soup
- Corn chicken soup
- Chicken herbal soup(玉竹鸡汤)
- Chicken with cordyceps militaris soup (虫草花煲鸡汤)
- Liu wei soup (六味汤)
- Green radish and carrot soup (青红罗卜汤)
- White fungus and yu zhu soup (银耳玉竹清润汤)
- Fen ge herbal soup (粉葛药材汤)
- Fresh huai san (淮山) soup
- Borlotti beans (花豆) soup
- Black beans soup
- Cream of mushroom soup(1)
- Cream of mushroom soup (2)
- Cream of pumpkin soup
- Corn chowder
- Fresh tomato soup
- ABC soup
- Beancurb seafood soup (豆腐海鲜羹)
- Beetroot soup
- Simple asparagus soup
BOILING:
- Homemade dumplings (水饺）
- Sui Kow (水饺）- Feature recipe for Rasa Malaysia
- Mashed potato with corns
- Chicken balls
BLANCHING:
- Blanched broccoli
- Fine French beans with sesame dressing
STEAMING:
- Simply pumpkin
- Siew mai (steamed dumplings)
- Steamed silky eggs
- Steamed meat patties
- Steamed minced chicken with mix veg
- Steamed minced meat with mix veg
- Steamed egg rolls with fish paste
- Steamed egg rolls with fish paste (2)
- Steamed mashed beancurd and fish paste (老少平安) – 1
- Steamed mashed beancurd and fish paste (老少平安) – 2
- Steamed chicken with wolfberries and red dates
- Steamed lady fingers with chili shrimp sauce
- Okra with tomato sauce
- Nagaimo with shrimp paste
STEWING/ BRAISING:
- Pumpkin and cauliflower stew
- Chicken and potato stew
- Lentils with pumpkin and tomato
- Lentil and vegetable curry
- Chicken tikka masala
- Loh Han Zhai (罗汉斋）- 1
- Loh Han Zhai (罗汉斋）- 2
- Braised chestnut with chicken
- Braised Buddha’s hand gourd with mushroom
- Braised dried oysters with minced meat (蚝豉松)
- Braised taro with dried shrimps
STIR-FRYING:
- One-dish meal – Featured recipe for Delicious Asian Food (Hochiak)
- Stir-fried cabbage
- Stir-fried asparagus with prawn
- Asparagus and chicken stir-fry
- Stir-fried capsicums and cucumber with stewed veg mutton
- Stir-fried pumpkin and cucumber with veg duck
- Stir-fried french beans with chicken
- Stir-fried fine french beans with mixed vegetables
- Stir-fried long beans with tau gua
- Stir-fried celery with mixed vegetables
- Stir-fried brinjal with minced meat
- Shiitake mushrooms stir-fry
- Japanese eggplants with sweet and sour sauce
- Zucchini with prawns and tomato in sweet chilli sauce
- Silver fish (银鱼仔）omelette
- Simplified Kwai Fa Chee (桂花翅）
- Cabbage omelette rolls
- Ridge/ sweet gourd （丝瓜）and prawn omelette
- Simple omelette
- Long bean omelette
- Scrambled eggs with cauliflowers
- Scrambled eggs with tomatoes (黄金满屋，鸿运当头)
- Fried eggs in tomato sauce
- Jiu Hu Char (Stir-fried yambean with shredded dried cuttlefish)
- Baked beans with tomatoes and potatoes
- Minced fish with tofu
- Sweet and sour tofu
- Lemongrass chicken
PAN-FRYING/ GRILLING:
- Stuffed gluten balls ((酿面筋卜)
- Butterflied butter prawns
- Creamy butter prawns
- Pan-fried prawn and minced meat patties
- Tofu and crabstick patties
- Stuffed tofu poks( beancurb puffs)
- Pan-fried patties
- Fish spinach patties
- Chicken and corn patties
- Chicken and apple balls with barbecue dip
- Salmon cakes
- Pan-fried salmon with teriyaki sauce
- Cod fish with miso paste (pan-fry)
- Zucchini cake
- Zucchini cakes – revisit
- Teriyaki chicken skew (Yakitori)
- Cauliflower paratha
BAKING (MAIN DISH/ NON DESSERT):
- Teriyaki salmon in a parcel
- Baked eggplants with cheese – Feature recipe in Keys Ingredients
- Baked eggplants with bolognese sauce
- Chicken pie with cheesy mash topping
- Honey balsamic chicken drumsticks
- Oven baked fries
- Oven baked fish fingers
- Crispy anchovies
BAKING (DESSERT/ SNACK):
- Homemade pineapple rolls (pineapple tarts)
- Simple pizza bread
- Homemade pizza
- Thin crust pizza
- Baked donuts
- Healthy multi-grain bread
- Italian pesto bread
- Sausage rolls
- Raisin and seed rolls
- Hot cross buns
- Simple breadsticks
- Cheese breadsticks (tangzhong/ water roux method)
- Cranberry scones
- Raisin scones
- Banana bread
- Banana walnut cake
- Apple muffins
- Banana muffins
- Blueberry muffins
- Blueberry orange muffins
- Coconut banana muffins
- Oatmeal banana raisin muffins
- Steamed pumpkin muffins (no bake)
- Japanese steamed sausage cakes/ mushipans (no bake)
- Basic butter cake
- Lemon cheesecake (non-baked)
- Almond butter cookies
- Cheesy cookies
- Coconut butter cookies
- Cornflake cookies
- Gingerbread man cookies
- Wholemeal cookies
- Peanut cookies
- Sesame crisps
- Almond crisps
- Triple chocolate brownies (by Lee Mei of My Cooking Hut)
- Homemade snack bars (no bake version)
- Power-packed oat bars
- Apple flapjacks
- Bread and butter pudding
- Caramel popcorn
- How to roast cashew nuts
- Honey roasted almonds
- Crispy roasted chickpeas
DESSERT/ SNACK:
- Japanese egg salad sandwiches
- Cherry yogurt popsicles
- Konnyaku jelly
- Avocado with banana dessert
- Yogurt with stewed apples and raisins
- Stewed apple
- Homemade applesauce
- Egg in a basket (egg in toast)
- Fancy sandwiches with sardine fillings
- Wholemeal crepes
- Mini fluffy pancakes
- Hey! Pancake
- Banana pancake
- Grandma’s pancakes (aka mommy’s pancakes)
- Oaty fruit crumble
- Strawberry crunch
- French toast
- Steamed sweet potato buns
- Longan + lotus seeds + lily bulbs + wolfberries “tong sui”
- Sweetened red bean paste with lotus seeds and lily bulbs
- Gingko nuts, dried beancurd skin & barley dessert
- Purple sweet potatoes tong sui (dessert)
- Osmanthus poached pears
DRINK:
- Chrysantemum and wolfberry tea
- Masala chai (Indian tea)
- Barley drink
- Water chestnut and bamboo cane drink
- Homemade soybean milk
- Avocado drink
56 Comments
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i love your blog, keep it up!
Tia: Tks for your kind support!! Hope to see you more often in future.
Loves ur blog & photos!! the 1st recipe i tried is ur zucchini cakes!! yum yum!!!
Veronica Chia: Tks for your kind support and feedback. Glad that you love my zucchini cakes recipes.
I’d stumbled upon your blog and it;s the best blog on cooking for toddlers that I’ve ever seen. Thanks soooooooooo much for sharing the recipes for helpless mums like me!!
Paik Ling: You are so kind with words!! I’m sooooooooooooo flattered with your sweet comment. Thanks!
i was surfing the website for cooking class so that i can learn how to cook!and somehow miraculously i got to your site!if no one told you before,i am going to! You are god sent! Amazing! Thank you so much!!! I am so excited and just want to run out to the nearest supermarket to buy groceries and cook!I have just started writing a blog and i must share about you!Once again,thanks!
Kaviitha: I’m so FLATTERED with your super duper wonderful compliments and words of encouragement!!!!!! Hope my recipes will be helpful to you! Looking forward to reading your post in your new blog! Thanks so much for your kind support!!!!
it was only a simple post – you can read it here > http://kaviithakumar.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/grin/
i am gonna try your recipes and will let you know how it goes.
Kaviitha: Thanks so much for your “publicity”! You’re so kind. Looking forward to hearing your feedback.
Wowwww… I’m also really thankful that I found this website.. it’s very attractive and all the food look really yummy too. my baby turned 1 year old last week so I can’t wait until he can eat all this food when he’s a bit older perhaps
but your website is already in my bookmark.
I love the photo and your website design, very2 nice.. are you a food stylish?
Thanks again!
Astrid: Your wonderful compliments make me feel so flattered!! Thanks!!! Yes, you got to KIV my recipes to a later date. I’m just a homemaker. My food styling skill is still far from perfection. LOL!
Thanks for all the wonderful recipes. There are so many interestng recipes that I can prepare for my 2 boys. I’ve quite a no. of cookbooks on the shelves, but most of them are not easy to prepare and requires a lot of ingredients. I must say, yours is very useful and not too difficult for mommie like me =))
Connie: Thanks a lot for your kind comment and wonderful compliment. I’m so flattered!! Hope your boys will like my recipe.
May i know how to make a butter cookies???
Celine Loo: Sorry, I haven’t tried butter cookies before. But I recommend that you give my coconut butter cookies a try. The taste is quite close to butter cookies.
Hi, do u have any recipe for almond cookies?
Joey: Sorry, I don’t have one now.
Love your website! But do u have any beef recipe to share?
Adele: Thanks for your sweet comment. My family doesn’t consume beef due to religious belief. Hence, I don’t have any beef recipe to share in this blog. Sorry about that. Hope you understand.
Your blog is great, you know I can’t cook for nuts but with your receipe my kids get to eat healtier food!
Ashley: Thanks for your wonderful compliment!! If I can do it, so can you! Nothing is impossible! Hope my recipes suit your kids’ taste buds
Hi, ca u share a simple fish soup and spinach recipe for my 2 year old…she loves eating clear fish soup wenever she goes to thai rest…bt i dont ve a clue on hw to go abt it.thk you.
Keira: You can refer to this link on how to make simple fish soup – http://www.101healthyeasyfoodrecipes.com/healthy-easy-stocks-soups-sauces-recipes/fish-stock-recipe.php. For spinach, I usually blanch it and toss with some flavoured shallot oil and oyster sauce. If your daughter loves patties, maybe you can try this recipe – http://food-4tots.com/2010/03/15/fish-spinach-patties/. Hope it helps.
Thks so much for sharing! Your recipes are fantastic! Always look to your blog for my son’s weekend meals now! Look forward to more great recipes from u!
Mei: Thanks for dropping by and your wonderful comments. Happy trying!!
Hi!
I so love your site. keep it up! love the simple recipes you posted.
Thanks for sharing =)
Corinne: It’s my pleasure to share. Thanks for your kind support and word of encouragement!
Hi just wanna tell you you are a great cook! I have tried a few of ur recipes, and everyone of them was great and accepted by my fussy 21 month old boy! Eg black bean soup, beetroot soup, steam egg, steam meat patty, long bean omelette, chicken potato stew, steam chicken with red dates and wolfberries, okra with tomato sauce and blanched brocolli ! Keep up ur good work! Thank you for sharing!
Yixi: Thank you so much for your kind feedback and wonderful compliment! I’m so flattered!! So happy that my recipes suit your little boy’s taste bud. Well done to mommy too!
Thank you! Btw I just tried the pumpkin rice tonight. It is so so yummy!! I love it so very much! It tastes so much more wonderful than i imagined! Thank you again for sharing!
Yixi: You’re most welcome! It’s my pleasure to share. Glad it suits your palate.
Hi
Tried your pumpkin rice..whole family including my 1yr+ girl love it!
ZY: Thanks for your kind feedback!! So glad that it suits your family’s palate especially your little girl.
Chanced upon ur blog and i got hooked looking thru ur recipes and pics! very nicely done! Printed a numbs of recipes hoping to try it asap.
Thanks for sharing
Gin: Thanks for dropping by and your wonderful compliment! I’m so flattered!
Amazing recipes with pretty pictures! Very well done!! Gona start getting busy in my kitchen
TK: I’m so flattered with your wonderful compliments. Thanks and have fun in your kitchen!!
Dear, what a great blog =D thank you so much for sharing. i will surely recommend you blog in the future. keep up the good work =D
Jennifer: Thanks for your wonderful compliment and words of encouragement!!
I have tried many of your recipes for my DD and husband. My husband is totally amazed how a cannot-make-it-cook like me can churned out so many delicious meals these days. Thank you for your recipes. Keep up the good work and keep them coming!
CN: Thanks for your sweet words. So glad my recipes work for you and your family. I’m sure you can be better than me one day. Keep up the good job!
Am so so so so glad I found your blog, I’m a total failure at cooking and now that I have a 2yr old, I wanna be able to cook delicious n healthy food for her. Thank you so much for your recipes!!
Rach: Thanks for your kind compliment. If you start cooking now, I believe you can do it too. I also have zero knowledge in cooking before that. Luckily I have 2 loyal supporters who swallowed all my “failures”. lol! Happy trying!
Hi! Love your recipes! Thinking of trying out the pineapple tarts. Could u pls advice where i can buy the pastry/dough press from? I could not find it anywhere
Thanks!
Lily: Thanks for your kind words! I had already mentioned the address at this link: http://food-4tots.com/2010/01/30/homemade-pineapple-rolls-pineapple-tarts/3/. Hope it helps!
Hi, I must admit it’s the best website I’ve ever seen. I’m a big fan of trying new stuff and I’ve a lot of recipe books and almost everyday I browse through different websites. This is really the best!! Thanks a lot for sharing such wonderful recipes:)
Nikita: Thanks a lot for your high rating!! I’m so flattered!!
Thanks for writing this amazing blog. We love it. Will be trying them out this weekend.
Cheers.
Jo Teh: I’m so glad to receive such a wonderful compliment!! Thanks!!
Hi, I’ve tried a few of your recipes and it has worked out every time. My family was never disappointed. My hubby recently said “I noticed we are having more home cooked food these days”.
SL: Thanks for your wonderful feedback!! I am so glad that my recipes work for you.
Hello there,
I bookmarked your site. Love the no fuss recipes. Thanks for sharing =)
Corinne: Thanks for your kind support!
wish u have a section for recipes for toddlers below 2…don’t know what to cook for my girl, everything seems not so tasty without salt and sugar. ;_(
Tiang: I wish I could do it too. You can refer to this site for ideas – http://www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes.