Meals for kids – The Recipe Train

Ingredients:
1/4 cup ground chia seed
1 cup warm filtered water
Vegetables to grind up in processor, or Ninja (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, kale, spinach, onion, rutabaga, are some ideas. Use whatever you like!)
1 cup of quinoa flakes
Sea Salt (to taste)
Seasonings (to taste) I like fresh parsley, basil, rosemary, and thyme.
2.5 pounds of organic beef or turkey

Directions:

Using a blender, food processor, or Ninja, grind up

– 1 head of cauliflower and some broccoli

– 2 to 3 med. rutabagas or carrots or any other veggie

– 2 to 4 kale leaves, several spinach leaves, OR any variety of veggies you prefer.

In a large mixing bowl:

Tip the bowl sideways to add 1/4 cup chia seed and 1 cup warm water. Use a wire whisk to mix up chia seed and let it firm up or ‘gel’ ( also called gel eggs or chia eggs.) It won’t take long to gel and you can set the bowl down on it’s bottom.

Add the seasonings and salt and whisk into your chia eggs

Add the ground meat and mix well with a large spoon.

Add the ground veggies. Mix with spoon.

Add the quinoa flakes. Mix with spoon or hands.

Shape into Meatballs of preferred size and bake in casserole dishes or on cookie sheets at 350 for 45 minutes to an hour.
DISHING ON THIS DISH: We don’t eat noodles from a box. These meatballs are fabulous with spaghetti squash!

Gluten, Dairy, Egg free Chicken Nuggets – fry or bake
Ingredients:
3/4 cup King Arthur gluten free flour
2 tsp each of parsley, rosemary, thyme, basil (or to taste)
2tsp Sea Salt (or to taste)
2 lbs organic chicken breasts cut into 1 inch cubes or use full tenderloins
Coconut oil to fill frying pan up to about 1/8 inch (olive oil, grapeseed, or safflower)I

TO FRY:
Mix flour and seasonings in a bowl or 2 qt size baggie.
Add cubed chicken and coat well.
Fry on medium heat and rotate as needed, until crispy-brown.
Drain on paper towels and serve.

TO BAKE:
Just spritz a little bit of oil onto the nuggets before baking.
Bake in single layer at 400 degrees for about 25 minutes.
I used a small convection oven for this, so bake times might vary.

**If you have allergies to seasonings, flour and sea salt alone tastes great.

**Add chili pepper and cayenne pepper if able. Yum!

Dishing on this dish: I was so frustrated trying all kinds of recipes to make chicken nuggets. I really gave up for a couple years. One day, I happened across a recipe that I thought would be so easy to switch up to an allergy free recipe for chicken nuggets and voila, this recipe was born. As a bonus, this recipe is super fast to make whether baking or frying. Make extra! Your kids will gobble these right up. If I have left-over flour mix, I store it in the fridge and use it up the next day.

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