5 Ways you can make your roti (Indian flat bread) nutritious

Being mom, a part of my brain is always engaged in thinking how to feed my kids nutritious food. Many times the kids turn out to be challenging, and ignore food when they see something healthy kept on their plate. And, then the shrewd mom in me gets awakened, figuring out ways to sneak in nutritious components in their food.

Also, being adults many of our nutritional requirements are not met on daily basis. And so then I came up with a solution for both, we adults and kids.

Below are the 5 ways how you can make your rotis nutritious :

1. Sesame seeds

Ingredients:

• 1 cup wheat flour
• 2 tbsp sesame seeds
• water to knead

Recipe:

• Mix sesame seeds and flour.
• Add water and knead it well to make a dough.
• Keep aside for 10-15 mins.
• Roll out to make rotis.

Benefits:

• Provides essential oils.
• Good source of plant protein.

• Sesame is a good source of fiber, hence prevents water retention, and constipation.

2. Almond Flour

Ingredients:

• 1 cup wheat flour
• 1/4 cup almond flour
• Water to knead dough

Recipe

• Mix the ingredients, add water to make dough.
• Keep aside for 10-15 mins.
• Now, use the dough to make your chapatis/rotis.

Benefits:

• Good source of Omega 3 -fatty acids, hence aids in boosting immune systems.

• Good source of calcium and hence strengthens bones.
• Has high fiber content.
• Rich source of protein.
• Rich source of Vitamin E and hence good for skin.
• Boosts energy level

3. Flax Seeds Flour

Ingredients

• 1 Cup of wheat flour
• 1/4 cup flax seed flour
• water to make dough

Recipe:

• Mix all the ingredients, and add water to make a dough.
• Keep the dough aside for 10-15 mins.
• Now, make your rotis out of the dough.

Benefits:

• Rich source of Omega 3- fatty acides, hence aids to boost immunity.
• Provides good fat.
• Is a great source of protein, and aids in cells and tissues repair, which innturn helps repair bumps and bruises in kids.
• Good source of fiber.

4. Chia Seeds

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of flour
• 1 tbsp of chia seeds
• Water

Recipe

• Mix all the ingredients, and add water ti make dough.
• Keep the dough aside for 10 mins.
• Now, use it to make your rotis.

Benefits

• Is a rich source of protein.
• High in Omega 3- fatty acids, and hence boosts immunity.
• Loaded it anti-oxidants.
• Wonderful source of iron and calcium and hence good for bone developments.

5. Ragi /Finger Millet Flour

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of wheat flour
• 1/4 cup of ragi flour
• water to knead dough

Recipe

• Mix the ragi flour with wheat flour and add water to make soft dough.
• Keep the dough aside for 10 mins.
• Now, use your dough to make rotis.

Benefits:

• Is rich source of iron.
• Rich source of calcium and hence beneficial for children’s developing bones.
• Wonderful source of vitamin C, and hence boosts immunity and improves hair & skin quality.

These are very simple ways how we can make feed ourselves and our kids nutritious meals.

Disclaimers:

1. If your child has some special needs or some pre-existing health condition, please check out with your paeditrician before hand.

1. Check for nut allergy before consuming or feeding almond flour.
2. You can increase or decrease the amount of ingredients based on your requirements and tastes. But, these amounts are tried ones for better quality of rotis. Also, I have tried to keep amounts optimum and not overdo, to keep it under notice from my children. You know how smart kids are, they can figure out and go on food strike. ??
3. If you have a habit of adding salt to your roti dough, you can go ahead with it. I personally do not add salt to my roti dough, to avoid habbit of taking excessive sodium.

What I do?

I practice one combination each day. This way 5 days of week, my kids gets variety to eat. It helps:

• Easy to check if any ingredient triggers any allergy.
• Balanced nutrition in a whole week
• It will make kids not to expect any pattern and hence not avoid the food. (I know it is funny, but all moms thinks this way ??)

Try out these alternative and nutritious recipes with your kids. Let me know your experiences with these recipes and your kids’ reactions.

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