Shivi Ramoutar
Shivi is a cookbook author and TV presenter known for her vibrant, flavour-packed recipes. She shares simple ways to add more beans, vegetables and colour to everyday meals.
Shivi’s Cabbage & Kimchi Pancake
Shivi Ramoutar
Featuring:
Cabbage
Effort:
Complexity:
Cost:
In season now
Serves: 2-3
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Ingredients:
70g plain flour
1 tbsp cornflour
½ tsp baking powder
1 large egg
1 tbsp veg oil
1 ½ tbsp juice from the kimchi
75g cabbage, finely shredded/chopped
75g kimchi, roughly shredded
2 spring onions, finely chopped
Dipping Sauce
3 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
2 tsp sugar
½ tbsp sesame seeds
Breakfast, lunch or dinner, this cabbage & kimchi pancake from Shivi Ramoutar is always cheap, tasty and packed with veg!
Method:
Mix the flour, cornflour and baking powder together, along with a pinch of sea salt. Add the egg, oil, 4 tbsp of cold water and the kimchi juice and whisk to make a thick batter.
Fold in the cabbage and kimchi. Heat a little butter in a frying pan on a medium heat. Add the spring onion and cook for a minute or so, then pour over the pancake batter, swirling it round so it touches the edge of the pan. Cook until the base is golden brown, the top looks just set then carefully flip over and cook on the other side.
Mix together the ingredients for the dipping sauce and pop into a small bowl.
Once the pancake has cooked. Slice into bite-sized strips and serve with the dipping sauce.
Engaging Kids
Kids who engage regularly with veg through veg-themed activities, such as arts and crafts, sensory experiences, growing and cooking are shown to be more likely to eat the veg they engage with. Encouraging kids to engage and play with veg is the handy first step to them developing a good relationship with veg and life-long healthy eating.
Kids in the kitchen
The eventual aim, if possible, is to get kids in the kitchen. Don’t worry, this doesn’t have to mean they are with you from start-to-end creating mess and rising stress levels! It can be as simple as giving them one small job (stirring, measuring, pouring, grating, chopping…) ideally involving veg. They can come in to do their little bit, and have fun with you for a few minutes. Getting them involved, making it playful and praising them plenty for their involvement, perhaps even serving it as dinner they “made”, makes it much more likely they will eat the food offered, not to mention teaching them important life skills. Find ideas, safety tips, videos and even a free chart in our Kids in the Kitchen section here.
Activities
While getting kids to interact with veggies for real and using their senses to explore them is best, encouraging hands off activities like arts & crafts, puzzles & games or at-home science experiments can be a great start, particularly for those who are fussier eaters or struggle with anything too sensory. Use these veg-themed activities as a stepping stone to interacting with the veg themselves. We have loads of crafty downloads here, puzzles here, and quirky science with veg here.
Sensory
Once you feel your child is ready to engage a little more, you can show them how to explore the veg you have on hand with their senses, coming up with playful silly descriptions of how a veg smells, feels, looks, sounds and perhaps even tastes. Find ideas, videos and some simple sensory education session ideas to get you started here.
Serving
The moments before food is offered can be a perfect opportunity for engagement that can help make it more likely a child will eat it! Giving children a sense of ownership in the meal can make a big difference to their feelings going into it and the pride they take in it. You know your child best, but if you aren’t sure where to start, we have some fun and simple ideas for easy roles you can give them in the serving process over here.
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