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Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Quick Cherry and Cheese Bites

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Hi!
First of all a quick reminder to all of you to send your entries for ‘Only’- Chaat and Flavours Of Punjab events hosted here by me, which ends on 30th Nov.
These days I am facing a big problem, my younger one refuses to eat his lunch box. He is so engrossed in his  school activities and play that he prefers to chuck his meals. So, I ensure that he eats something in the morning before he leaves as he leaves quite early and then provide him some quick bites in his lunch box that he can gobble up (that’s what they do in school).
I am always on a look out for such preparations which are easy to make and look attractive too. While watching one of the cookery shows, in the kids segment they had shown these attractive and healthy bites and I also felt like grabbing them right from the TV. These are extremely quick to make, need very few ingredients which are easily available in our kitchen. Since, I had all the ingredients in hand I tried them immediately. In the original recipe they had used raw asparagus, since that is not easily available here I replaced it with tender French beans which I preferred to saute a little.
I was extremely glad to see the younger one gobbling these and I was happy to see some vegetable going into his system. This is perfect snack to go for the line “taste bhi aur health bhi”.
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Ingredients
a whole wheat bread slice
3 french beans
mayonnaise
3 cheese slices
1/2 tsp olive oil
cherries
toothpicks
for seasoning- salt,white pepper and garlic powder
Method
String the beans and saute them in olive oil for a minute. Season them with salt, pepper pwd and garlic pwd. Cool them.
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Take  a bread slice and cut off the edges. Spread a tbsp of mayonnaise on it. Cut the slice into three equal parts.
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Take a cheese slice and keep a french bean on one edge and roll the slice over it. Make three cheese rolls.
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Keep each roll on the three bread pieces and then cut each bread piece again into 3 equal parts to get bite size squares.
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Place cherry piece on each bread square  and then insert a toothpick into it. Arrange on a plate and serve. These can be given in the lunch box or it can be good after play snack.
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Sending this to Priya and Aipi’s

31 comments:

  1. hey this recipe is truly awesome! i make cheese slice rolls with eggs as toppings, but this one is even better----it calls out to the child in me! bookmarked :)

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  2. yummy finger food. Would love to try this for my little one :)

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  3. Thanks Priya, for that sweet comment.

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  4. superb appetizer n loved ur presentation

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  5. This snack is a 'melt-in-the-mouth' snack! Excellent.

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  6. Cheese Pieces look delicious to eat. Nicely presented.

    Deepa
    Hamaree Rasoi

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  7. Perfect finger food for parties n get -togethers..kids will love it too.They look delish n cute!!
    Thanks a lot for linking this to bookmark event :)


    US Masala

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  8. Thats really very innovative and great way to make kids eat the veggies.will try this soon

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  9. yummy n superab finger food for kids..

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  10. Truly Kid friendly recipe pari...

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  11. they look so cute and yummy!...kids will love it!

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  12. Perfect kid food Pari. Nice one.

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  13. MOUTHWATERING AND VERY ATTRACTIVE
    IT IS FOR CHILREN BUT ELDER ARE ALSO LIKE VERYMUCH

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  14. lovely idea...love to try this for my lil one!!

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  15. what a cute little snack! my kids will be thrilled if they find this in their lunchbox :)

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  16. Lovely!! Great way to make the young ones eat nutritious food!!

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  17. Wonderful appetizer..looks awesome

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  18. I am so making these soon, sound super hit with kids. Thanks for linking it to our event :)

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  19. lovely try, looks yummy and beautiful

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  20. yum!!!! Wanna grab some from the screen :)

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  21. that is an interesting recipe to make the kids eat... looks cute!

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  22. truly amazing n innovative snack:)

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  23. It would be a gr8 party snack without much effort..looks eye catching too

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  24. Looks lovely. I will try it soon..

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  25. looks very taste and esay one...surely kids will like it...colourful!

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  26. Definitely a kid's friendly bites, lovely..

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  27. Looks cute. kids will love this :)

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