This is a super-duper healthy mix for your baby. You could buy a decent health powder mix from shops. But I love to make it myself for my baby because you get to know what goes into them and you can customize it as per your baby needs.
I added rice and pulses in my health mix. So I feed this porridge for my baby for lunch instead of giving rice khichdi. I made two versions of this powder, one savory and one sweet.
For making porridge out of it:
you can mix a couple of tablespoons of this powder with some water and cook it for 10 mins on a very low flame till the rice and dal are cooked. Then you can add some sweetener to sweet one and salt in the savory one. It is that simple.
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 1 hour
Ingredients:
Rice – 1.5 cup ( I used cooking rice, ponni brand)
Barley – 1 cup
Roasted Gram Dal / Pori Kadalai / Pottu Kadalai – 1 cup
Whole Black Urad Dal – 1 cup
Green Gram Dal – 1 cup
Yellow Moong Dal / Pasi Paruppu – 1/2 cup
Masoor Dal – 1/2 cup
Broken Wheat / Cracked Wheat / Dalia – 1 cup
Cashew – 1/2 cup
Badam / Almond – 1/2 cup
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1 teaspoon
Ajwain Seeds / Omam – 1/2 teaspoon
Cardamom / Yelakai – 10 pods (If using this, leave ajwain and cumin)
Method:
Take urad dal and green gram in a bowl and wash them well, drain and add to a dry pan and roast till it turns golden brown and dry. Remove to a plate.
Take masoor dal and yellow moong dal in a bowl and wash them well, drain and add to a
dry pan and roast till it turns golden brown and dry. Remove to the same plate.
Take rice and barley in a bowl and wash them well, drain and add to a
dry pan and roast till it turns golden brown and dry. Remove to the same
plate.
Roast roasted gram dal till golden and remove to the same plate.
Roast Dalia till golden and remove to the same plate.
Roast cashews and almonds till golden and remove to the same plate.
Roast cumin and ajwain till golden and remove to the same plate. If you are making a sweet one, leave ajwain and cumin and add cardamom to it.
I made two versions, so I took half of the mix and added cardamom to one and roasted cumin and ajwain in another. Now grind them in a mixer and sieve it.
Store in an airtight container.
