With summer, seasonal ingredients take on color, variety becomes richer and scents intensify so it can become easier to Make vegetable dishes more appetizing by winning over even the youngest children. How? We at Bontà di Stagione suggest. five practical moves to convince children to approach the world of vegetables at the table with simple tricks and some colorful and fun recipes!

Here are our recommendations:

• Give space to your imagination and Imagine the plate as a canvas to be painted! Create pictures, compose designs and fun elements with ingredients. From the most mundane shape of a funny animal face to his favorite objects. He will be fascinated by the dish and intrigued to taste the individual pieces that make up the puzzle! You can use stencils in the shape of stars, hearts, flowers or small animals to make the shapes!
• Involve children in the preparation of the dish o in choosing a recipe is a step not to be underestimated. Little ones love to create and give room for imagination, two ingredients that go together perfectly in the kitchen. You will see that by making them participate, they will be more willing to taste because they will be satisfied to test what they have created. All it takes is a little motivation, a pinch of imagination and the result will be great.
• Prepare dishes with small portions, it will be easier not only to persuade them to eat but more importantly they will be more enticed to finish the dishes that look more appetizing.
• Present the vegetable as if it were an appetizer. Dishes filled with vegetables, unless presented in a sublime way or seasoned with extraordinary ingredients, are indeed not always so inviting. Let alone for young children. So presenting raw produce as simple snacks or appetizers, perhaps paired with dips or in dips ... will make them feel older! Another way to present vegetables as appetizers is skewering by alternating vegetables with other ingredients!
• Camouflaging vegetables on the plate is the most valuable advice. The easiest way is to serve it together with other ingredients by cooking meatballs, mousses, omelettes, meatloaf... To convince the most reluctant, on the other hand, all that remains is to hide it! How? Zucchini pesto or cream soups poured into glasses and presented as drinks, for example, are an extraordinary expedient! Finally, remember that children are crazy about potatoes so work them together with vegetables making mashed potatoes for example. Have you ever tried our mashed potato of Bontà di Stagione In which fresh potatoes are whipped with broccoli?