WHEAT PORRIDGE RECIPE FOR BABIES - BABY FOOD

 Healthy wheat porridge for babies with wheat flour, moong dal and almonds.

INGREDIENTS

Wheat flour mix powder - 2 tbsp

Powdered jaggery - 1.5 tbsp (optional)

Water - ¼ cup + ¼ cup

Cows milk - ¾ cup ( don't add for babies under one year )

For making wheat flour mix powder

Wheat flour - 1 cup

Moong dal - ½ cup

Almonds - ¼ cup

INSTRUCTIONS

• Sterilise the bowls and spoons used for feeding your baby in a vessel with hot water for five minutes and keep it immersed in the same vessel until use.
• Boil cows milk (if using) in a sauce pan and keep it ready.

Method : 

Firstly, we need to prepare the wheat mix powder to make the porridge. 

• Measure wheat flour, moong dal and almonds in a measuring cup and keep everything ready. 
• Then heat a pan and dry roast the almonds for five minutes in low medium flame or until it changes its colour here and there.
• Remove roasted almonds from the pan and transfer to a blender. Let it cool down for sometime.
• Then wash the moong dal well in running water and dry it under sun for 30 minutes or you can directly start roasting in a pan. 
• Add moong dal in the same pan and dry roast it until it changed to golden brown.
• It may take five minutes. 
• Remove the roasted moong dal from the pan and add it to the blender.
• Once almonds and moong dal are cooled down, grind it together in the blender to a smooth powder.
•  Then sieve it with a siever and collect the sieved powder in a wide plate.
• Now Dry roast the wheat flour for five minutes in low medium flame for 5 minutes or until nice aroma comes. 
• Then switch off the flame and add the ground moong dal almond powder to the roasted wheat flour and mix it well. 
• Once done, cool it down and store it in a airtight container.
• Next step is to make porridge with the wheat mix powder. 
• Take 2 tbsp of wheat mix powder in a sauce pan.
•  Add ¼ cup of water to the powdered jaggery and boil it in a separate vessel until it melts completely. 
• Then filter out the jaggery water using a strainer in the sauce pan with wheat flour mix added.
• Add ¼ cup of water to the wheat flour with jaggery and mix everything slowly with a whisk. 
• Make sure that there are no lumps formed. 
• Cook the wheat flour in medium flame until everything cooked completely. 
• Stir it continuously while cooking otherwise porridge may stick to the vessel.
•  Add milk now to the cooked porridge. (Skip adding milk if you are preparing this porridge for a baby under one year ).
•  Boil the porridge until it becomes thick. Remove from flame once done and cool it down. 
• The porridge becomes thick after cooling down. 
• So switch off the flame accordingly.