Did you think that salads were only meant for diet-conscious adults? Think again! Millets and vegetables can be easily mixed into salads and given to toddlers as a healthy snack, like this barnyard millet vegetable salad recipe. Barnyard millet cooks fast and is easy to digest. It is rather bland in taste, which means you can turn it into a yummy treat by adding veggies of your choice, like carrots, green peas, tomatoes or cucumber. The veggies like green peas are boiled before adding to the salad. Lime juice can be drizzled as seasoning. So, all set for the recipe? Here goes!

Barnyard Millet Vegetable Salad for Toddlers

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup barnyard millet
• 2 tablespoon green peas, boiled
• 1 small carrot, finely chopped
• 1 small tomato de-seeded and finely chopped
• 1 small cucumber finely chopped
• 1 red onion finely chopped (optional)
• 1 teaspoon lime juice
• 1/4 teaspoon crushed black pepper
• Salt to taste

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Method:

1. Wash the barnyard millet and soak in ¼ cup water for 10 minutes.

2. Boil 1 cup water in a sauce pan. Add soaked barnyard millet to it.

3. Add salt, cover and cook and simmer until the millet is well cooked. Keep stirring in between to ensure the millet does not catch the bottom.

4. Once cooked, turn off the flame and transfer the cooked millet to a plate to cool down.

5. Meanwhile, chop the veggies and boil the green peas either in a microwave or open vessel.

6. In a large mixing bowl, add the cooked barnyard millet along with veggies. Drizzle lime juice , add crushed black pepper and toss everything well.

7. Serve a delicious and healthy barnyard millet vegetable salad to your toddler.

This barnyard millet vegetable salad can be given to kids older than one and a half years. Always consider choking hazards when feeding anything to kids under the age of three, despite age recommendations. Of course, that doesn’t mean that you can’t have it – in fact, it looks so appetizing, I might just give it a try tonight!