Meals to cook with my 6yo

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I enjoy baking with my 6yo, but we only make sweet treats -cakes and biscuits etc.
I would like to try making some savoury dishes with him, but am stuck for ideas.
At the moment, I am only happy to let him prepare cold ingredients, and I'm not good at multitasking, so I'd rather that all the preparation is done before I start using the hob/oven.

We do homemade pizza, any other ideas?

My son loves to help with making a salad, the dressing or marinade (eg squeezing lemon... Teaspoon of herb peel garlic etc)

Of doing eg a chilli con carbe helping with the chopping or whatever as the cooking just involves chucking things in etc

Frittata https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/kidscheeseeand79582

My dd likes mixing the ingredients, shaping the fishcakes and coating them in breadcrumbs https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/sweet-potato-salmon-fishcakes.html

Dd makes the dumplings for this: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chipotle-sweet-potato-black-bean-stew-cheddar-dumplings

Quesadillas https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/cheesy-black-bean-quesadillas

We also make Cornish pasties and do tuna, mayo, herb and sweetcorn pasta salad.

My kids liked to flip pancakes at that age (crepe or classic thick), scrambled eggs with add ons and chopped almost everything. Breads, rolls are fun with hand kneading (we used mixer though) and salads. In general had my kids help me cook as I cook for an army so anything within their skill range when I was busy and if I had time I could push their skill and teach/watch over something new.

Cheese scones
Cheese straws
Threading veg on skewers for vegetable kebabs
Mashing avocado for guacamole
Puff pastry pin rolls
Mashing eggs for egg mayo sandwiches

I started with adding toppings to a ready-made pizza base when DS was c.3.

It helped enormously with his aversion to veg !

Thanks, there are some good ideas here for us to try.

Shrove Tuesday is just a few days away, so you can do lots of beating, whisking and pouring! 🥞 🥞 🥞 🥞

Snipping herbs is a good task for little ones, making mint sauce was a childhood job I loved. Also peeling apples for apple sauce, chopping watercress ready to go into yoghurt to accompany salmon.

Dicing vegetables for soup is helpful, but making spring onion tassels or radish flowers using iced water is more fun! Shelling peas, stringing beans, peeling hard boiled eggs, topping and tailing gooseberries are all useful tasks for a helper.

At about that age I got my DS this book and we looked through it and he decided what he'd like to try. He seemed to particularly enjoy the burgers.

You could always try your local library, they usually have a selection of children's cookbooks

Thanks, I'd never heard of radish flowers, so we can learn together.

@TinyMouseTheatre that looks like a great book, thanks.

He liked and it's good as it has food that on the whole they want to eat.

He's at Uni now and seems to feed himself very well

If he has any favourite fictional characters, they might have a cook book. I'm sure I've seen a Paddington Bear cookery book.