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 .
         

Drumstickleaves upma

DrumStickLeaves Upma:(murungakeerai upma)


Ingredients:

Drumstick leaves - 11/2 cups

Rava  -  2 cups

Shallots(pearl onion)  - 6  or 8

Tomato  -  1(small)

Ginger - small piece

Green chilli  - 1(small)

salt   -as per taste
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Water - 3cups

Ghee- 1/2 tsp(optional)

For Seasoning:

Mustard  -  3/4 tsp

curry Leaves  - few

dried red chilli       -1

oil     -   limit to ur own

                        1. Dry roast rava for few seconds. when it gives light aroma,taken from flame.keep it aside.

                        2. Heat oil in pan,add pieces of dried red chilli,mustard  when splutters add curry leaves ( if u like  to add bengal gram dal ,add 1/2 tsp of  bengal gram dal- My kid doesnt like bengal gram dal as a whole so we are not  interested to add bengal gram dal in our dishes).

                         3. Add  chopped small onions,chopped tomato and chopped ginger,everything should be finely chopped.saute well.Add halved grrn chilli.

                         4. Add turmeric powder,drumstick leaves,salt and cook for 2 minutes. Add water and when it turn boils,keep flame in slow,add roasted rava.Add ghee for enhance the flavour atlast.When rava fully absorbs water ,close the lid.Keep simmer for  few minutes.   Serve  hot with coconut chutney or  curry leaves idli podi.      
                         
                       
                     It is quite easy  receipe to prepare for breakfast tiffin and slight different to make from normal upma. Its one of my kid favourite dish .I saw this receipe in TV show. This receipe is most  useful for working peoples who  want the dish healthy one.

  Benefits of Drumstick leaves::
                                                                            7 times of  Vitamin C of oranges
                                                     
                                                                            4 times of Vitamin A  of  Carrot
              Very tiny leaves      =====>>                      
                                                                            4 times of calcium of milk
                        
                                                                            3 times  of  potassium of bananas


                                                                            2 times  of protein of yogurt









                      

           

Black Rice Payasam

Black Rice Payasam


Ingredients:


Black Rice - 1 cup
Salt - a pinch
Sugar - as per taste
Cinnamon - a small stick
Cloves - 2 pods
Cardamom - 4 pods
Water - 2 1/2 cup
Milk - 1 1/2 cup
Cashewnuts - 8
Raisins - 5

Oil / Ghee - 2 tsp

Black Rice’ is actually more purplish in colour than black; although when uncooked it is very dark in appearance.Its healthy breakfast and low calorie food.

1. Split the 'Black rice' using  mixie in one step Pulse mode.   
2. Put cloves ,cinnamon and cardamom in oil or ghee in pressure cooker,when it splutter add water, black rice and a pinch of salt.Pressure cook ' black rice 'for 3 whistle in medium flame.
3. In another separate pan,add little ghee, fry the cashewnuts and raisins.keep it aside.
4. Add sugar,milk ,cardamom powder to cooked black rice to make them in semi solid consistency 
5. Boil for few minutes
6. Decorate with cashew-nuts and raisins when serving.
7. Serve it Cool