PineApple Pudding

PineApple Pudding :

Ingredients :
Pineapple  - 1 1/2 cup (chopped into small cubes)
Milk          -  1/2 litre
Condensed Milk - 4 tbsp
China Grass   - 1/4  strands of  china grass packet.
Custard Powder  -  1 1/2 tsp (Vanilla flavour)
Sugar  - 5 tsp
Vanilla Essense  - 1 drop
Ghee   - 1/2  tsp
Water -  1 3/4 cup

1. Heat ghee in non stick cookware,add chopped pineapple cubes with 2 tsp of sugar ,saute them very well,keep strring until sour taste of pine apple go away .The chopped pine apple turns very bright yellow colour ,make sure it gives sweet,switch off the flame.keep aside. I used fresh pineapple here .

2. Boil 1/2 litre milk with 1 cup of water.keep aside.

3. In another separate pan ,boil agar agar strands in 3/4 cup of water.Let it dissolves fully.

4. Add boiled milk,condensed milk, 3 tsp of sugar ,vanilla essense to the dissolved agar agar solution.Keep stirring. Let it comes to boil.

5.Add custard power to 2 tbsp of warmed milk,sitr well to make of liquid consistency without lumps and filter it.(Dont add hot milk to custard powder,otherwise it gives small lumps).

6.Finally,pour  liquid custard  to boiled milk,keep stirring for 2mins in medium flame .

7.Put pineapple cubes in serving dish (use wide open glassware or enamelware or stainless steelware).

8.Pour boiled mixture to serving dish.Serve cool after 6 or 7 hrs of fully set .


Thanks 2 cooking with thas of journey kitchen sharing this very yummy dessert.Of course this dessert gives most celebrity sweet of my kid birthday.More rich dessert.Whole people of my family loves it .

Coconut Milk Raita

Coconut Milk Raita :

Ingredients :
Thick coconut milk - 1 cup
Shallots (pearl onions) -15 to 20
Green Chilli - 1 (small)
Fresh Ginger - small piece
Lemon - 1/2
Coriander Leaves - few
Water
salt - as per taste



This can be served with coconut milk methi rice  accompanied by fish curry.Its mainly  yummy side dish for fish curry .Its very cool side dish (summer side dish) for fish curry lunch combo .

1 . Extract first milk from half a coconut to make 1 cup very thick milk using of very little water.

2. In a bowl,add finely chopped small onions,chopped ginger,chopped green chilli,coriander leaves,salt,
    squeeze out lemon juice,coconut milk . Mix together .

3 . Serve cool  accompanied by lunch combo coconut  milk methi rice and fish curry .

Sprouted Ragi Porridge -Baby food

Sprouted Ragi Porridge-Baby food

From 7 month onwards

Ingredients :
Ragi - 2 cups
Fried Channa Dal - 1/2 cup
Jaggery -  little
Water
Milk- 3 tsp(optional)


For Sprouting :


   1 . Soak  Ragi for 12 hours.Wash and drain water,rinse again until dust particles are fully removed .

   2. To sprout ragi, are moistened,at room temparature.You need of wide vessel with a piece of cloth(cheese cloth) for sprouting .

   3. Keep ragi in vessel and cover with cloth for 8 hours.Make sure it should be in moist.Preferably
        germination process good in night when compared from day.

4. After  8  or 10 hrs, a new growth from germinating seed.Little  white sprouts comes from millet .

5. Dry  ragi in sunlight. Add fried channa dal.Grind through mixie or food mill (use small jar of mixie for fine powder)  to fine powder.
6. Sieve flour .Store it in air tight container.Now its ready to preparing porridge.

7. Take 2 and half spoons of this powder ,dilute with water .  Make sure it  for  free of lumps.  Add a pinch of jaggery (In separate pan,boil in little water and filter it for removing dust particles) for iron content and for taste too.  keep stirring continously unless doesnot stick in bottom of the pan.Cook for 5 mins and serve it in semi solid consistency with warm .

8. If  you want to make enrich the taste ,add 3 or 4 tsp of milk as optional.

   


Note : 
   
          Ragi or finger millet should be sprouted while for preparing baby  food  for easy digestion   otherwise baby  gets constipated . 
     
         Always feed ragi  porridge in breakfast time upto 10 months .