Fruit & Veggie Chicken Cake, Gluten Free, Casein Free,Grain Free.

This recipe is dedicated to Kids! My daughter, like most kids hates veggies and fruits(not all but Avocado for sure), but loves chicken and eggs. I can not give her meat and eggs all the time. Veggies and fruits are very important in a growing child's diet, and we moms have to strike a balance. So after several failed attempts of cooking/baking veggies and fruits with chicken, I finally came up with this recipe which is a super hit with my daughter and I am so excited to share it! P.S. I love it too :)

Ingredients:

1. 1 pound ground chicken.
2. 1 whole Avocado.
3. 1 cup homemade apple sauce (you can get one from the store but it might make the cakes too sweet  because of the sugar added in commercial apple sauces.)
4. 1/2 large sized carrot peeled and steamed.
5. 1/2 cup steamed butternut squash finely mashed with a fork.
6. 1/4 Tsp Cinnamon Powder.
7. 1/2 Tsp Nutmeg.
8. 1 Tsp salt or according to taste.

Process:

• In a food processor blend together avocado, applesauce, carrot, butternut squash, cinnamon powder, nutmeg and salt.
• Do Not add water while blending, you can add a few more spoons of apple sauce if fluid is required, best thing to do is to take out the fruits/veggies that are not blending and mash them using a fork.
• Now add the above mixture to the minced chicken, making sure that the ratio is equal, i.e 50% chicken and 50% fruit and veggie mixture.
• Using a fork mix thoroughly. 
• If time permits refrigerate the mixture for 1 hour (that will help in dropping equal amounts on the baking tray later).
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Using a spoon scoop out equal amounts of the mixture and drop evenly on a stoneware baking tray.
• Bake for 45 min or until done.If the cakes are larger in size it might take over an hour to get done.
• Serve with some ketchup.

Generally the previous day's baked and refrigerated, and then reheated the next day tastes best and has good consistency, if you want to eat it right away, consider changing the ratio to 60% chicken-40% Veggie/fruit.

You can add any vegetable to the above preparation, just make sure that the veggies are steamed and pureed.
If some of the veggie-fruit mixture is not used, I make pancakes out of them.

Now no more fussing over vegetables :)

You can also use cooked chicken for the same recipe.Just blend it with other ingredients in the blender. It would be a much more drier version and tastes better.