Indian Recipes For 2 Year Old Picky Eater
It will be good to include some creative and delicious Indian food recipes for toddlers if you feel they are not eating properly. Eating healthy is essential for children’s proper growth and development. If they are fussy eaters, they might miss important nutrients. However, toddlers love exploring new things, and during their growth years, their taste evolves. So, if you feel your children have not been enjoying homemade meals recently, try giving a twist to traditional recipes and create something attractive and tasty by adding some Indian spices and flavors. This post gives you a list of different Indian foods that are easy to prepare and tempting for your toddlers.
Use small beets to prepare raita as they taste sweeter and have a soft texture, which helps accentuate its palatability and digestion for toddlers.
Shallow fry bread rolls to avoid excess oil use in preparing this dish. Baking rolls at 400°F (204°C) for five minutes is another way to prepare this dish with lesser oil.
Tricks & Tips On How To Feed Picky Eating Toddler
Once babies are 12 months old, you can offer them family food at the spice level they can tolerate. Add moderate amounts of spices, such as turmeric, cumin, coriander powder, chili powder, cardamom, and nutmeg, to their meals. You may add only one spice at a time to see how well they tolerate it. These practices may help them enjoy Indian food.
You can feed the usual Indian food such as curries, lentils, roti, paratha, rice preparations, dosa, idli, halwa, and poha at a spice level that your baby can tolerate.
Introducing some Indian food recipes for toddlers who hesitate to eat certain foods can be interesting. Beetroot and carrot raita, rotis with paneer, moong sprout dosa, Samarkand, and ragi halwa are some of the most nutritious meals and tasty Indian recipes for toddlers. Indian recipes are packed with flavors and various nutrients. You may make them less spicy for toddlers. You may also try beaten rice with banana or stuffed parathas to make your toddler eat healthy. Trying various recipes each day could help the child to get all the essential nutrients for a balanced diet.
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Toddlers should be fed nourishing and delicious foods that encourage them to try various flavors and textures and build their palate. To help you provide delicious and nutritious food to your toddler, we present simple recipes they will love. Explore!
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These photos are NOT my everyday life lol. Getting my child to eat Indian food (or heck, any food) can be a struggle some days. But there are days where he asks for dal – for biryani – for dosa and I consider that a win. He already has a taste for the cuisine which is basically all I want for my toddler’s taste buds at this point in time.
When my son Tony was born, I was told by friends and family members to start feeding him Indian food as soon as he started solids – and so I did. While I do think that helped develop his palate, I am also confident that it’s never too late to get your child interested in food from another culture.
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My son is now a very picky toddler. Some days he loves the Indian meals I prepare – to the point where a bowl ends up on his head! But there are other days where he gives me a very emphatic “NO MOMMY” and that bowl of food ends up on the floor.
I am by no means an expert on this topic – which is why I’ve asked my incredible community of parents to share their tips/advice/thoughts on getting children to enjoy eating Indian food. I’ve also asked them for their children’s favorite recipes and have listed Indian recipes to try according to age – you can find that later in this post.
This post is going to be “in-progress” for awhile. I’ll continue to update it as I learn more (I’ll be starting my youngest, Ace, on solids in another 3 months and hope to share more then too).
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I can’t wait to hear what you think of these tips! Not everything will work for every child but hopefully this post will give you some ideas. Please leave a comment to let us know what works for your family!
I’m starting with my own personal advice here. I’ve found that my son is hungriest when he first wakes up and will eat just about anything I put in front of him. Now that he’s a little older (2 years) he’ll first demand an apple or a banana but the moment I put a plate of Indian food down in front of him – he’ll gobble it all up and even ask for more. I’ve used this trick to feed him just about everything – including the food he flat out refused to eat the previous night for dinner. “No daal, Mommy” at dinner turns into “More daal, Mommy” for breakfast! Nothing is off limits. There’s no rule that says you can’t serve shrimp biryani for breakfast (I’ve done it). See that picture above of my kid eating palak paneer? He’s still wearing his Daniel Tiger pajamas.
“I let them pick a side (fruits, salad, small mithais, etc) to eat with their Indian meals (which they generally hate to eat) – works every time.”
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“We fed him bites of Indian food early, which I’m sure helped to pave the way. When he was old enough, I made a big deal out of taking him out to a proper Indian restaurant for the first time. Treated it like a rite of passage. I explained that this was my all-time favorite type of food, and how important it was to me. I even talked about how intimidated I was by it when I tried it for the first time (I grew up in the midwest, so Indian food was pretty exotic and foreign in the beginning.) He was so excited to be invited to share in something so special to me, he tried everything! I highly praised his bravery for trying so many new dishes, and we compliment him regularly for his adventurous eating habits. He even likes sushi! He now prides himself on having “grown-up taste.”😊
Okay okay okay…. so no one offered this advice in my group but I’m going to be controversial here and admit that I do this sometimes. It’s incredibly important to me that my toddler eat Indian food and so while I don’t make a habit out of this, if I’ve made something new that I really want him to eat and he refuses, I’ll feed him a few bites while he’s watching tv – then I’ll stop. If he’s hungry he’ll ask for more and I’ll have him move to the table to finish eating. I think the key is stopping after a few bites – that way I know whether he’s actually hungry or eating just because he’s not paying attention. No judgment y’all – please do what you think is best.
Sigh. Again, no one offered this advice but I like to keep it real with you guys. I know this is probably a terrible tactic BUT like I said, it’s important for me to get my child to develop a taste for Indian cuisine as it’s basically all I cook for dinner most days. If my kiddo refuses to eat, I’ll promise him something sweet when he’s done.
Year Old Kid Food Chart
I started writing this post when my son was 2.5 years old. Now, he’s almost 3 and loves to say that “we eat dessert AFTER dinner.” He happily eats dinner on most days knowing he’ll get a treat. I try to stick to healthy treats like mango (which he loves) or “mango ice” (just frozen mango chunks lol) but sometimes I’ll give him fruit snacks (annie’s organic to assuage my major mom guilt) or homemade popsicles or those mini mango mochi ice cream bites from Trader Joes. 🤷🏽♀️
Please note, you should absolutely discuss your feeding plans with your
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