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The Toddler Cookbook
You don’t need to be an expert chef to create a culinary masterpiece – just a few small helping hands!
Sharing a creative project is a real bonding experience between parent and child, and there is no better project than one you can enjoy twice—once in the making, and again in the eating! The Toddler Cookbook by leading children’s nutritional expert, Annabel Karmel, makes cooking even more enjoyable for the whole family with recipes created for kids and step-by-step photographic instruction.
Involving children in cooking from an early age helps them take an interest in healthy eating that will set them up for life. The Toddler Cookbook encourages kids to take an active role in the kitchen: from weighing and counting, to mixing, whisking and rolling, there is something for even the youngest child to enjoy doing!
Click here to watch Annabel Karmel make quesadillas! (Quicktime required)
Like the video? Try the recipe out with your kids at home!
Corn Quesadillas
Makes 4-5 quesadillas
Ingredients:
1 small red onion
½ red or orange pepper
7 oz (198 g) canned corn
1 cup (100 g) cheddar cheese
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp honey
4-5 flour or corn tortillas
¼ cup salsa
- Prepare ingredient
Chop up the red onion and the pepper, drain the canned corn. Have an adult grate the cheddar
cheese.
- Stir, stir, stir
Heat oil in a pan and stir-fry onion and pepper for 3 minutes. Add corn and cook for 2 minutes until onion and pepper are soft. Add vinegar and honey – after 1 minute remove from heat.
- Spread the mixture
Spread half of each tortilla with a heaped tbsp of salsa. Then add some of the corn mixture.
- Sprinkle with cheese
Scatter a little cheese over the salsa and corn mixture. Make sure you don’t use too much since you will need some cheese to put on top of each tortilla.
- Roll and cook
Roll the tortillas up and put on a cookie sheet. Scatter over the rest of the cheese. Broil the
quesadillas for 1-2 minutes until the filling is hot and the cheese topping is lightly golden.
About Annabel Karmel
Annabel Karmel is a leading author on cooking for children and has written 15 best-selling books that are sold all over the world. She is an expert in devising tasty and nutritious meals for children without the need to spend hours in the kitchen. The London-based Karmel writes for many newspapers and magazines and appears frequently on radio and TV as the UK’s expert on children’s nutritional needs. She has her own line of health foods for children in supermarkets. Annabel was awarded an MBE in 2006 in the Queen’s Honours List for her outstanding work in the field of child nutrition. Visit Annabel’s website at www.annabelkarmel.com.
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