In Real Food Kids Will Love, Annabel Karmel brings you a mouthwatering batch of never-before-seen recipes featuring delicious ingredients with serious nutritional credentials.

With beautiful photographs and fresh design, this is an essential book for every modern parent.

Chapters range from Fifteen Minute Meals to Healthy ‘Fast Food’, via Holiday Cooking with Kids and Lunchbox Snacks, and fresh, easy and modern dishes include Quinoa Chicken Fingers, Crispy Baked Cod, The Best Buttermilk Pancakes and Carrot Cake Balls.

The chapters are designed to make choosing a fuss-free dish simple. Many recipes include swap-outs to cater for those with food allergies, intolerances or particularly fussy eaters! There is a huge range of meat-free and vegan meal options as well as recipes including meat and fish.

Real Food Kids Will Love offers everything today’s parents are looking for once their babies are ready to start joining in with family mealtimes. Each dish is designed to be enjoyed by the whole family, while remaining simple, healthy, and not too salty or sugary for young children.

No sugar chocolate-orange energy balls

Total time
15 minutes

Prep time
15 minutes

Amount
Makes 15-20 balls

Ingredients

• 160g/5½oz pitted dates
• Chopped 160g/5½oz cashew nuts
• 100g/3½oz raisins
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder
• ½ tsp orange extract
• Cocoa powder
• Desiccated coconut
• Chocolate sprinkles

Method

Put all of the ingredients in a food processor with 4 tablespoons of boiling water and blitz until the mixture is finely chopped and well blended.

Transfer the mixture to a bowl and shape it into 15–20 balls.

Roll the balls in cocoa powder, desiccated coconut or chocolate sprinkles, as you wish. Chill on a plate in the fridge for at least 1 hour to firm up before eating.

The balls will keep in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 1 week.

• Source: Pan Macmillan

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