How difficult it is to create different dishes as simple as pasta with cheese to get kids to eat without complaining. Do your kids only like eating the same thing and refuse to try new and healthy dishes?
Don’t worry, this article is for you! Here are a few tips to help your kids eat a healthier version of pasta with cheese.
1. Make a vegetable and tomato sauce for their pasta with cheese.
A great way to get your kids to eat a healthier and different version of pasta with cheese is to make a vegetable sauce including, for example: carrots, courgettes, red peppers, aubergines and fresh tomatoes.
This way your kids can start to get to know these new flavours. And most importantly? You will be giving them the nutrients and vitamins they need.
2. Switch your everyday pasta for a legume-based pasta to make your pasta with cheese 100% healthy.
Have you heard about legume pasta? In case you didn’t know, legume pasta is a variety of dried pasta made with pea, chickpea or lentil flour.
It’s a healthier option with a similar flavour to your regular wheat pasta. It’s ideal to make the pasta with cheese your kids love so much but also adding the nutritional benefits of a legume dish.
3. Add cheese made only with natural ingredients when making your pasta with cheese.
Another way to make your pasta with cheese healthier for your kids is to use a natural cheese.
How can you know if a cheese is natural? A cheese can be called natural if it contains milk as its main ingredient. It also contains ferments, salt and rennet (an enzyme that makes the milk curdle). In contrast, processed cheese contains butter, cream and preservatives.
So, next time you’re at the supermarket, read the ingredients on the cheese packaging carefully and make sure they are 100% natural. Then you’ll have a completely healthy dish of pasta with cheese!
4. Step by step: a simple tomato and vegetable sauce recipe to make pasta with cheese for your kids.
We couldn’t leave you without giving you a simple recipe for a delicious and, most importantly, nutritional tomato and vegetable sauce for your pasta with cheese. Write it down!
Ingredients:
- Half a courgette.
- Half an aubergine.
- Half a red pepper.
- Half a leek.
- One garlic clove.
- 250 g of fresh tomato.
- Extra virgin olive oil.
- Basil.
- Oregano.
- Salt.
Instructions: Peel the garlic clove, the onion and wash the other vegetables thoroughly. Then, thinly slice all the vegetables. Then pour a little olive oil into a frying pan and place it on medium heat.
First, add the onion and garlic clove and let them cook for about eight minutes. Then, add the leek, red pepper, aubergine and courgette and let them cook for about 5 minutes. Finally, add the tomato, oregano, basil and salt. Cover the pan, reduce the heat and let everything cook for about 20 minutes. Done! You can serve it on your pasta with cheese!
If you don’t have time to prepare the sauce, don’t worry. There are prepared sauces that can help you get your meals ready.
Why wait to try these ideas? Start cooking and make your kids fall in love with your healthier version of pasta with cheese!