Healthy Siomai

Why is it important to eat vegetables? One answer may be vegetables as part of an overall healthy diet may reduce risk for heart disease, including heart attack and stroke. For mature people eating vegetable is very essential but for children…well, I guess a big “no…no”. Letting children eat vegetables is a big problem, right? It often causes the third world war inside your house or worst.

            What’s with veggies anyway? Maybe there is just one thing that parents forgot. Children love tasty sounding food. Just a sound of “veggies” stimulates their brain that it’s not tasty. Parents should do something about it in order to maintain their child’s health and nutrition while growing. One answer to the problem may be “siomai”. Siomai is an all time favorite for children, so it will always do the trick.

            To make the healthy sioami you’ll need 1 piece of carrots
1 piece of  Singkamas, 2 pieces of garlic cloves, 1 piece of onion, 1 bundle horse radish, 1 piece whole egg, 1 piece cornstarch. You also need ½ tablespoon of salt, ½ tablespoon of pepper, ½ tablespoon of brown sugar and 2 pieces of big cabbage 1 pack of Oil, 1 pack soy sauce and 1 piece of spring onion, chili and lemon. You need all those ingredients to create the so called vegetable siomai but using chili is optional especially when it will be served for children. Make sure your veggies were from safe market. Buy those fresh vegetables and I suggest that you will be the one to put the veggies inside your basket.

            To prepare wash all the vegetables for your safety. Sanitation is very important.
You grate carrots, singkamas and garlic. Make sure that it is properly grated. Mince the onion and horse raddish. Mix into bowl, add egg and flour, salt, pepper. You can set aside it then blanch the cabbage. Use spoon for portioning the mixture into cabbage and wrap. Spring onion is use to tie and steam for about 8 to 10 minutes.

            If you like your healthy siomai with sauce, you have to mince the garlic and chili. You set aside it then heat oil and sauce the garlic, add soy sauce and chili when the garlic is already brown. Once you’re done, you can now enjoy it with special someone or your children. I am pretty sure they will love it.