Baby Cereal for 6-9 month-olds
This is a special way for you to cut through the crowd of commercial baby products and make a basic cereal for your child right at home—with almost no fuss, and good, healthy, trusted ingredients> Easy to prep, easy to store, easy to use in a pinch. So good for your baby. Plus the first scents and tastes of Indian spices! All every desi mother could ever want! Native rices to use for this: jeeraga samba, gandasale, krishna kamod, ambamor, or any other rice that comes as kanki (broken bits)
Ingredients
- 1 cup yellow moong dal
- 1/2 cup small grained or broken rice
- 1/4 cup oat meal
- 2 tablespoons ragi flour
- 1 teaspoon ajwain/carom seeds
- 1 teaspoon jeera/cumin seeds
- 1 pea sized piece of nutmeg
- 2 almonds
Instructions
- Wash the moong dal and rice separately and sun dry them.
- After the grains have dried well, roast them separately.
- Roast until they release pleasant aroma.
- Cool the completely.
- Dry roast the oats and cool completely.
- Also dry roast the ajwain and jeera seeds and almonds. Chop the almonds.
- Grind each grain separately. The moong dal, the rice and the oats.
- You may choose to grind the cumin, carom, almonds and nutmeg along with the rice.
- Grind to a coarse powder.
- Mix everything together.
- Store in an airtight container.
- To prepare the porridge using this cereal mix you will need to mix 1 tablespoon of cereal powder with 1/2 cup of water or toned milk.
- Cook until it thickens like a halwa.
Notes
- Take care of the cleanliness and hygiene while making this food.
- To wash the grains well and sun dry them covered with a cheese cloth/thin mulmul cloth is advised.
- Store in a sterilised air tight container.
- You don't use milk for this porridge as it is quite heavy and filling. Making the porridge in water works best.
- I would recommend you to take your pediatrician’s advice before commencing to feed this recipe to your baby.