INDIAN BABY FOOD

INDIAN BABY FOOD
Showing posts with label Porridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Porridge. Show all posts

Fruits and oats porridge

you will need :-

2 tbsp of rolled oats
150 ml milk
1 banana
1 apple
1tsp honey/ jaggary

method:-

cook 2 tbsp of rolled oats in150 ml milk in a microwavepeel n core an apple and microwave it on high for 1 minchop 1 banana ann add to the cooked oats along with the cooked apple
mix it and make it to a smooth paste according to your childs need ( as per age) adjust consistency by adding more milk according to the child's needadd 1tsp honey to sweeten or jaggary

Health mix

Kanji / health mix … it’s a mixed grain porridge high in nutrition for your kids .. it can be started as early as 8 months and be given to older kids or even adults. Its called a health mix as it has all the essential components for good health and overall child development.
The different porridges I have in my blog are
http://indianbabyfood.blogspot.com/search/label/Porridge

I already have a kanji mix recipe in the blog
http://indianbabyfood.blogspot.com/2008/02/kanji-mix.html#links
but this one has more added ingredients
Both of them are good and can be given at different stages of child development. If you are in the USA you can get most of the ingredients in whole foods or sprouts where you get bulk grains and you can buy in little quantities. As we are using lot of ingredients we need only need 100 gms each.

1. Ragi … you can use ragi powder if you don’t get the whole ragi
2. Bajra
3. Maize
4. Jowar
5. Wheat
6. Fried gram
7. Brown rice.. I preffer brown rice you can use the normal ones
8. Green gram
9. Soya beans
10. corn

all in equal quantities say 100 gms then the below items you need in less quanties say 50gms
11. Sago
12. Barley
13. almond / badam
14. pistachios
15. cashew / kaju
16. peanuts
17. cardamom for flavor just a few. Its optional and can be avoided.
Dry fry the above all the items and grind them fine and store it in an air tight container.

sweet Kanji

Take 1 Spoon Of This Powder And Add 1 - Cup Of Boiled And Cooled Water To It. Dissolve It Without any Lumps . Keep This On The Stove And Stir Continusly Till U Get A Shining Coat On Top it Will Become Pasty Add Sugar And Milk To It . Cool To Room Temp And Feed Ur Baby.

Salt Kanji

Do The Same Procedure Instead Of Sugar And Milk U Can Add Salt And Curds And Feed Ur Baby. you Can Make The Consistancy Thick And Feed The Baby In A Spoon (Will Last For 3 - 4 Hrs


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APPLE PORRIDGE

Ingredients
3 tablespoons quick cooking rolled oats
1/2 cup milk
1 tablespoon jaggery,
grated1/4 apple,
1 teaspoon butter

Method
1. Heat the butter in a pressure cooker and saute the oats for 2 minutes.
2. Add the milk and 1/2 cup of water and pressure cook for 2 whistles.
3. Add the jaggery and apple pieces while the porridge is hot and mix well, using a whisk. Serve lukewarm.

Ragi / Raagi Porridge

Ingredients;-
Ragi
Ghee
Jaggery
Milk
Method:-
You can soak it for 12 hours, then drain and put it in a cloth. Keep it moist so that it gets sprouts. This will take another 12 hours. Then dry roast it or dry in the shade in a hot place. Then powder it finely, sieve well.
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If you get fine quality powder, that is best.
Take 2 or 3 spoons of powder, add water and make a smooth, watery paste. Then keep over slow flame and keep on stirring. This will start to cook and solidify. The color will change, you will know. A nice aroma will come. Take off from fire. Add a little ghee, jaggary taste. If you are feeding him semi solids you can add milk to it. Feed when warm to the baby. You can add a little boliled and mashed potato, carrot and other veggies the same way or with a little salt instead of jaggery
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Oats Porridge

2 heaped tbsps of Oats
2 badam pieces and
1 cashew piece ground to smooth paste (Note : These Nuts Only for 1 yr plus)
1 cup milk1 spoon sugar or
2 spoons honey (Please dont use honey for 1 yr below babies)

Cook the oats in low flame in milk for 4 minutes & when the milk is heated put the finely ground smooth paste of the nuts & sugar or honey and let it be in the low flame for 1 more minute.Let it cool to room temperature.
Ready to feed !

For those using formula milk :

You can cook the oats in water & then once 4 minutes cooking is over , you can add the nuts paste , flavouring sugar & the formula milk and switch off. After it comes down to room temperature its ready to feed.This oatmeal is very tasty and healthy not only for babies , but for elders too. Its very rich in fibre content also.

The oats porridge recipe, you can mix cooked mashed apple, pureed/mashed banana pieces also while feeding the kid. It gives variety tasty flavour to break the monotonous taste everytime.

Sweet potato kheer

Ingredients:

Sweat potato
Jaggery
Elaichi Powder
Milk
Ghee

Preparation:-

- Peel sweet potato-cook in pressure cooker
- add jaggery and mash them- add elaichi
-while serving add milk till it becomes a paste.
-add ghee if you want.

Kanji Mix

Ingredients:

Fried Gram - 3 Cups
Boiled Rice - 1 Cup
Wheat - 1 Cup
Raagi / ragi - 1 Cup
Sabudhana - 1/2 Cup
Cashew Nuts - 15- 20

Badam - 15- 20

Dry Roast All The Above Seperately In A Kadai Till U Get The Smell . Let It Cool Down To Room Temp And Grind It Ito Fine Powder( Or Use Mixie And Seive It ) U Can Store This Powder For 2 - 3 Months Also

sweet Kanji

Take 1 Spoon Of This Powder And Add 1 - Cup Of Boiled And Cooled Water To It. Dissolve It Without Sny Lumps . Keep This On The Stove And Stir Continusly Till U Get A Shining Coat On Top it Will Become Pasty Add Sugar And Milk To It . Cool To Room Temp And Feed Ur Baby

Salt Kanji

Do The Same Procedure Instead Of Sugar And Milk U Can Add Salt And Curds And Feed Ur Baby.U Can Make The Consistancy Thick And Feed The Baby In A Spoon (Will Last For 3 - 4 Hrs) Or Add More Milk And Put It In A Feeder (Will Last For 2- 3 Hrs) When The Baby Is > 1 Yr U Can Start Adding Grouind Nutsgreen Gram Etc.. To The Mix.

Poha Kheer

Ingredients:-
½ Cup Poha (Flaked rice)
• ½ Cup Sugar
• 4 tbsps Ghee
• 1½ Cup Milk
• Cardamom Powder

Preparation:-
• Fry the aval in ¼ cup ghee till it changes color.
• Later boil the same in 1½ cup milk.
• Add sugar.
• Add cardamom powder and stir well and boil for 10 mins.

You can add raisins and powdered badam for flavour. But take care that you dont feed your baby nuts or raisins as they have choking hazard.

carrot kheer

Ingredients :-

1tbsp ghee

1cup grated carrot

2cups milk

2spoons sugar

pinch of elichi powder

Preparation :

Heat ghee in a pressure cooker add carrot to it andlet it cook for some time and then add the milk suger and elichi powder and pressure cook for 2 whisles. Let it cool and serve.

Rava Kheer

Ingredients :
½ cup of Rava (suji)
4 tablespoons of sugar
3 cups of milk

Preparation:-
First boil the milk and then add suji. Cook it in simmered flame, and keep stirring on to make sure rava doesnt form lumps.It should be uniform mixture. Cook until the consistency is semi-solid. Now,put the sugar sugar to the rava and sprinkle a pinch of powdered badaam(avoid badam if kid is below 9 months old) or elaichi. Let it cool to temperature acceptable by your baby and serve while mild warm.

Moong Kheer

Ingredients :

4 tbsp Moong dhal (Husk removed)
1.5 tbsp finely powdered Jaggery
1 tbsp finely grated coconut
1 tbsp ghee
1/4 tbsp elachi powder


Preparation :

Switch on the stove & place the cooking container. Add a cup of water & add the jaggery to it and let it mix uniformly.Once it is mixed, add the moong dhal & grated coconut and let it boil until very soft. Add elachi powder 2 mins before switching off. Add ghee on top after its cooked.

Serve after the temperature is correct for your baby to consume.

Jaggery is rich is iron & moong in proteins. Very Healthy for babies.

Dhood Kheer

Ingredients :
1 cup of softly cooked rice
1.5 cup of milk
3 tbsps sugar
Elachi/Custard powder for flavour (you get baby custard powder)

Preparation :

If it is formula that you are using :-
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Mix the softly cooked rice & formula milk sweetened with sugar and add just a little quantity of elachi powder for flavour.If you use custard powder be sure to add a little more qty. of water to the formula milk as custard powder will have a thickening effect.

If it is cow's milk that you are using :-
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Boil the sofly cooked rice & milk+sugar together under sim for 8-10 mins on the stove. 2 mins before you switch off , add the cardamom (elachi) flavour. If it is custard you are using for flavour, mix 1/2 tbsp of custard powder to 1/4th cup of milk & make a smooth mixture and then add this mixture to the rest of the milk + sugar and do the cooking.