Healthy Recipes: Fruits for Kids

CHERRIES Toast with Cherries Cherry Balls APPLES Quick Baked Apples Apples in a “Shawl” Apples with Cottage Cheese and Lemon Vitamin Salad GRAPES Freshness Salad Cottage Cheese with Grapes PEARS Pear in currant puree Pears with mountain cranberries PLUMS Sugared plums Plum loaf APRICOTS Dried fruit balls Fruit souffle made of peaches, apricots, and bananas CITRUS Honey orange Stuffed lemons BANANAS “Winter's kiss” salad Baked bananas FIGS Cough medicine Fig bread PINEAPPLES Fruit Salad Cheese Cake with pineapples and apples FEIJOA (PINEAPPLE GUAVA) Beetroot and guava salad Guava and nut compote PERSIMMON (SHARON FRUIT) Orange salad Sharon fruit and banana caviar POMEGRANATES “Traffic light” salad Pear and pomegranate dessert PEACHES Fruit soup Cheese souffle with peaches QUINCE Quince marmalade Spicy salad MELONS Melon nectar Melon sweets WATERMELON Watermelon salad Watermelon juice KIWI (CHINESE GOOSEBERRY) Exotic salad Kiwi salad with pomegranate seeds DATES Magic sweets Date dessert

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Magic sweets

• 1 cup dates
• 1/2 cup nuts (any variety)
• 2 tbsp honey

Grind the nuts and mix with the honey. Slice open the dates, remove the stones, and stuff with the nut and honey mixture. Then cover with sweet wrappers.

Date dessert

• 1 cup of dates
• 1/2 cup of nuts (any variety)
• 1 apple
• 1 lemon
• 1/2 cup cream

Cut the dates into strips and grind the nuts. Grate the lemon rind, chop the apples, and mix all ingredients together with the cream.

Honey orange

• 2 whole oranges
• 1 tablespoon of honey
• 1 tablespoon of nuts

Mix together the honey and 1 tablespoon of water, and heat for one minute in a pan. Peel the oranges, cut them into slices, and place them on a plate. Sprinkle the ground nuts over the oranges, then cover with the honey mixture.

Stuffed lemons

• 6 large lemons
• 30 olives (6 for decoration)
• 200g of boiled, filleted fish
• 3 hard boiled eggs
• Mayonnaise, parsley and salt to taste

Sugared pears

1 kg pears
1 kg sugar
2 ? cups of water
1 whole lemon

Cut the pears in half and place in the boiling water for 10 minutes, before cooling them with cold water. Add the sugar to 2 ? cups of the boiling water, and cover the pears with this syrup for 3 hours. Then heat the mixture and boil for 5 minutes. Leave to stand for 5 hours. Repeat this process three times, or until the pears become transparent. Finally, add the lemon juice, remove the pears from the syrup, and dry them off in a warm oven.

Pears with mountain cranberries

2 whole pears
1 tablespoon of currants
1 tablespoon of mixed nuts
1 tablespoon of mountain cranberries

Wash the pears, and remove the cores, leaving the fruit intact. Mix together the currant, ground nuts and cranberries. Stuff the pears with the fruit and nut mixture. Bake for 30 minutes at 180 degrees.

All Healthy Recipes you will find in the book 'The World of Fruits'

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This was fragment from the story about BANANA from the book on Healthy Food for kids: 'The World of Fruits', part I >>

For the Book II 'The World of Vegetables' visit project Talking Veggies: Vegetables-for-kids.com

For anyone interested in their child's well-being, “The Storyteller's Guide to Health” series is sure to be of value. Following each selection of delightful stories, games and activities you'll also find recipes for the vitamin-conscious kitchen. The recipes are simple, allowing children to prepare dishes themselves with only minimal supervision, and are also designed to preserve the largest possible share of vitamins and other nutrients in the final serving. Read fragments from our stories: fruits for children

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