This Paneer Kheer Recipe is made with Cottage Cheese or Paneer, milk and dry fruits powder is a good nutritious dessert for your children.

Paneer can be given to babies above 8 months of age; to know more, check out our post on when you can introduce paneer for kids. This Paneer Kheer can be given to kids above 1 year as it uses milk in the Recipe.

Benefits of Paneer for children

1. Paneer is the richest source of proteins, with 100 g of paneer yielding about 18 g of protein.
2. Paneer is rich in calcium and helps in teeth and bone development.

Paneer Kheer Recipe for Kids

Ingredients:

• 1 cup milk
• 1/4 cup paneer ( cottage cheese), grated
• 1 tsp Dry fruits powder
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 deseeded date.
• 1/2 tsp cardamom powder

Method:

1. In a heavy bottom pan boil the milk.

2. Add finely chopped date in the milk and let it simmer for 10 minutes.

3. Add grated paneer and cook for 5 minutes.

4. In the end add dry fruit powder and sugar and mix well.

5. Serve chilled or warm.

This is a great dessert for kids who don’t like cheese. And it’s not just a healthy, protein rich recipe; it’s also a dessert with a lovely texture that is sure to be completely licked of the bowl!

Author

Kanika has a masters in computer science and now a stay at home mom to 15 month cute little boy Onish :-)She loves to cook and tries new and yummy recipes to make her fussy toddler to eat.Do you want more such healthy  cake recipes for your toddlers ? , then do follow us in Faceebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+ for regular updates.To receive the updates directly to your inbox, sign for our newsletter for free Here. We promise not to spam your inbox 🙂