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Independence Day 2026: Decorate children's tiffin with tricolor theme, make these 5 easy and tasty things

Samira Vishwas | August 13, 2026 8:24 PM CST

Independence Day Food Ideas: Celebrate 15th August by delivering it to children’s tiffins and giving a tricolor twist to their lunch boxes. Instead of daily parathas and sandwiches, this time keep something in the tiffin which will make even the children happy. These 5 easy dishes prepared with saffron, white and green colors will make the tiffin very attractive along with taste. The special thing is that there is no need to spend hours in the kitchen to make them.

1. Tricolor Fruit Salad
By taking orange, papaya, banana, kiwi or grapes and some lemon-black salt, you can prepare this colorful fruit salad in minutes. Cut the fruits into small pieces and arrange orange or papaya in the tiffin first, banana in the middle and kiwi or green grapes at the bottom. Add some lemon juice and black salt on top. Fresh and colorful tricolor fruit salad for children is ready.

Tricolor Fruit Salad

2. Tricolor Pulao
A delicious Tiranga Pulao can be made with cooked rice, carrots, spinach puree, green peas or paneer and mild spices. Divide the rice into three parts and add carrots to one part, plain rice to the other and spinach puree and peas to the third. Now arrange rice of all three colors together in the tiffin and prepare a special tricolor pulao for children.

Tricolor Pulao

3. Tricolor Dhokla
Prepare soft tricolor dhokla from gram flour, curd, carrot puree, spinach puree, salt and eno. Make gram flour-curd mixture and divide it into three parts. Mix carrot puree in one, plain mixture in the other and spinach puree in the third. Now make layers of all three and steam them and when they cool down, cut them into small pieces. Instant tricolor snack for children’s tiffin is ready.

4. Tricolor Pasta
Children’s favorite pasta can also be made in tricolor style with pasta, tomato sauce, cream or milk, spinach puree, salt and black pepper. Divide the boiled pasta into three parts. Add tomato sauce in one, cream sauce in the second and spinach puree in the third. Now arrange all three in different parts in the tiffin and make a fun tricolor pasta.

5. Tricolor Barfi
You can also prepare tricolor barfi for tiffin with the help of mawa, sugar, saffron and pistachio powder. Prepare the mixture by cooking mawa and sugar and divide it into three parts. Mix saffron in one part, white in another and pistachio powder in the third. Set all three layers together and cut them into small pieces. Delicious tricolor sweet for children is ready.

To make these recipes more attractive, decorate the tiffin with all three colors in different parts. If you want, you can make it more special by placing a small tricolor food pick on top. In this way, without much effort, children’s tiffin will have taste and a glimpse of Independence Day.