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minute Breakfast For Kids

You don’t have to let busy schedules stop your family from eating the most important meal of the day. Breakfast can still be an option with 8-Minute Breakfast Ideas for Kids.

There may only be 24 hours in a day, but with Egglands Best (EB), timing no longer has to be the enemy when it comes to a healthier breakfast for your children.

Breakfast meals using eggs are easy to prepare and help provide the much-needed nutritional benefits your family needs. Eggs are already a popular breakfast ingredient with kids, and using better-tasting, more nutritious Eggland’s Best eggs can make even the quickest meal enjoyable. Try this fun and tasty recipe with your family:

Eggland’s Best Cracked Humpty Dumpty

Prep Time: 8 Minutes

Ingredients:

2 Eggland’s Best eggs

2 teaspoons skim milk

Nonstick spray

1/4 cup low-fat cheese

1/8 cup diced veggies of choice

For each egg add 1 tsp. skim milk. Beat eggs and milk lightly with a wire whisk or fork.

Spray a 7-9-inch skillet with a nonstick spray. When heated, add eggs. Let them heat through, and as they do, increase the heat slightly. Using a wooden spatula or spoon, push the eggs from the bottom of the pan in long strokes to form long curds. Continue this with increasing speed as the pan grows hotter. Add cheese and veggies. The eggs should be loose, creamy and not overcooked.

To save even more time, whip eggs and skim milk in a microwave bowl. Heat covered for 45 seconds. Open and stir eggs. Add cheese and veggies and heat for an additional 15-25 seconds. (Time may vary based on microwave).

Robin Foroutan, R.D., states, “Putting the focus on whole and natural foods provides a strong nutritional advantage for children and enables meals to be more nutrient enriched and not calorically dense.”

Having trouble getting your kids to eat healthy? Try these quick tips from Foroutan:

Customization is a great way to get kids to eat better. Using different vegetable combinations in your egg dishes provides a variety of ethnic flavors your kids will enjoy. For example, use peppers, onion and low-fat Jack cheese for a Mexican twist, or try spinach, tomato and light feta for a Greek taste.

Asking your children to participate in the fun not only builds a stronger bond between parent and child, but also encourages them to eat what they’ve made.

Use spare minutes at night or over the weekend to slice/dice veggies. Cut-up peppers are a quick fix for your morning egg breakfast and great for an after-school or lunchbox snack.

Compared to an ordinary egg, EB eggs contain 25 percent less saturated fat, 200 mcg of lutein for eye health, provide 10 times more vitamin E, 175 mg of cholesterol (compared to 215 mg in ordinary eggs), plus 40 percent of a person’s daily requirement of iodine, and are an excellent way to include omega-3 in one’s diet.

Stamped with a distinctive “EB” mark, the award-winning eggs have received the Best Tasting Egg Award from the American Culinary ChefsBest, the Men’s Health Top Pick as the Best Eggs, the Crystal Egg Award from the International Egg Commission and the National Health & Wellness Club Stamp of Approval for flavor, quality and nutrition.

EB eggs are also available in cage-free and organic, and all are kosher certified. The hens that lay these eggs are fed a strictly controlled, high-quality, all-natural, all-vegetarian diet without added hormones, antibiotics or steroids of any kind.

Smothered Pork Chops Recipe

So you think that you have made enough dishes that involve the pork chops but if you have not tried smothered pork chops then you still miss out. It is one of the best tasting pork chop dishes out there that you simply cannot resist trying out this recipe. This dish is best served during celebrations with family or friends or both. Even with just a simple occasion to gather loved ones, this meal is a great way to spice up the party. You have to remember that when it comes to parties, its not about the guests but also about the food.

Now, read on to know how to cook smothered pork chops:

Total Time : 31 minutes

Prep Time : 15 minutes

Cook Time : 16 minutes

Servings : 4

Cooking Level : Easy

Ingredients :

1 Cup All Purpose Flour

2 Tablespoons onion powder

2 Tablespoons garlic powder

1 Teaspoon cayenne

1 Teaspoon salt

Teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

4 pork chops bone-in, inch thick

Cup olive oil

1 Cup chicken broth

Cup buttermilk

Chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, for garnishing

Procedure :

Pour the all purpose flour in a shallow dish.
Add the onion powder, garlic powder, cayenne, salt and pepper. Carefully mix all the ingredients together and mix all well.
Pat dry the pork chops with the use of paper towels to get rid of moisture. Then smother the pork chops with the flavored flour, shake off the excess flour.
Place a large pan or cast iron skillet with olive oil over medium heat. Make sure that the oil is hot enough.
When the oil is hot, lay the pork chops on the pan and fry each side for 3 minutes or until golden brown.
Take out the pork chops from the pan. Sprinkle a little of the flavored flour onto the pan where the pork chops were cooked and mix.
Pour in the chicken broth and let the mixture cook for 5 minutes which will reduce and thicken the sauce slightly.
Add in the buttermilk and blend all the ingredients well together. This will serve as your gravy sauce for the pork chops.
Return then the pork chops and spread the gravy over them. Cook in low heat for another 5 minutes more or until the pork chops are cooked through. Just let the sauce simmer and not boil.
Serve the meal in your favorite serving dish and season more with salt, pepper and chopped parsley.

Tips

– In mixing the all purpose flour with the seasonings, use fork to even out the distribution of ingredients.

– You can double up the sauce if you like a saucy dish

So there you go, another successful pork chop dish under your belt. It may be a simple Southern dish but is so tasty you would think that its a fine dining experience. Next time you crave for that yummy pork chop dish, Smothered Pork Chops is number one in your list.

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