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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)
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Ingredients Method Notes

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

Method
 

  1. Wash the moong dal and rice separately and sun dry them.
  2. After the grains have dried well, roast them separately.
  3. Roast until they release pleasant aroma.
  4. Cool the completely.
  5. Dry roast the oats and cool completely.
  6. Also dry roast the ajwain and jeera seeds and almonds. Chop the almonds.
  7. Grind each grain separately. The moong dal, the rice and the oats.
  8. You may choose to grind the cumin, carom, almonds and nutmeg along with the rice.
  9. Grind to a coarse powder.
  10. Mix everything together.
  11. Store in an airtight container.
  12. 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.
  13. Cook until it thickens like a halwa.

Notes

  1. Take care of the cleanliness and hygiene while making this food.
  2. To wash the grains well and sun dry them covered with a cheese cloth/thin mulmul cloth is advised.
  3. Store in a sterilised air tight container.
  4. You don't use milk for this porridge as it is quite heavy and filling. Making the porridge in water works best.
  5. I would recommend you to take your pediatrician’s advice before commencing to feed this recipe to your baby.