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Is your little baby seems to have grown appetite? Usually pediatrician suggest to introduce solid food for babies between 4 to 6 month. They usually recommend using homemade porridge rather than store bought ones. So I would like to help such moms who wish to give such healthy, homemade cereals for their babies. My pediatrician guided me on quantity of grains to be chosen and the way it is to be prepared. I followed her guidance and my son loved eating this porridge. Though it takes few days of hard work to prepare cereal but trust me it is worth the pain. So here is the list of ingredients and homemade porridge recipe for all new mothers. Hope it will help you.
Homemade Baby Food Recipe/Homemade Baby Cereal-Porridge Recipe
Servings: 1 .5 kg
Ingredients
- Ragi- 1 kg
- Wheat- 250 gm
- Chickpea-100 gm
- Green gram- 100 gm
- Ground nut- 100 gm
- Almond- Few
- Cashew- Few
- Pista- Few
Instructions
Preparation
- Clean all the grains removing stones, foreign particles and other impurities if any.
Method
How to prepare baby cereal
- Wash ragi with enough water and soak it overnight.
- Next morning drain water from ragi and tie it in a clean, cotton cloth. Let it rest in dark place or within vessel for about 12 hours.
- After 12 hours you can see ragi sprouted. Pat dry ragi in shade spreading it on a clean cloth.
- Follow above three steps for the grains like wheat, chickpea and green gram. Green gram and chickpea needs less time to sprout. You can keep them tied in cotton cloth just for 4 hours.
- Once all sprouted grains are well dried in shade, roast them separately in kadai/pan. Let it cool.
- Grind them to fine powder using your mixer grinder. You can grind them in batches adding dry fruits in each batch. ( If you grind dry fruits separately, it will be sticky as nuts ooze out oil.)
- Now sieve this powder. Healthy and nutritious multi grain home made baby cereal is now ready.
- Store it in a airtight container. It lasts for a month if you give porridge 3 times a day.
How to prepare porridge
- Take two to three table spoon of porridge powder, add half to 1 cup of water and mix it well so that no lumps are formed.
- Add 1 tbsp of ghee and little jaggery.
- Cook it in low flame stirring continuously till it thickens.
- Now baby porridge is ready. Feed it to the baby after it cools a bit. Baby will surely relish this multi-grain cereal porridge.
Note:
- When preparing porridge you can replace water by equal amount of milk. I used to add water till my kid is of 1 year age, then I replaced water by milk.
- Make sure the jaggery that you are using for porridge preparation is free from impurities.
Meet you all with one more interesting Udupi recipe. Till then bye.
I m starting my baby on solids. When can i give her this??
Consult your pediatrician once. He/she will advise you on when to start with solid food for baby. I had started this food for my kids when they were in the 4th month.
Hi , Thank you so much for very useful recipe. Instead of Jaggery , can I prepare the same with salt ?
Yes Jyothi, You can use salt too.
Thank u for the post..
My son is 6 months old..hope trying this new cereal..
Hey if i add roasted badam and cashews while grinding other grains, will it not ooze out oil, as when i ground badam alone last time it was sticky. Pl help. Thank u.
Leena, it will not ooze out oil when you mix with other grains.
Followed ur recipe. My baby absolutely loves it.