Introducing healthy food to a child is important for the growth of the child. Processed foods aren't great for kids, store purchased organic cereals can be trusted to some extent but they are highly expensive.
Home made multi-grain cereal is the answer!!!
Disclaimer - Consider food allergies your child may have before choosing the ingredients that mentioned in the video. The intention of the video is to encourage home made food for kids versus processed food. Please consult your doctor if some of the ingredients in the video isn't suitable for your child.
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Ingredients
- Finger Millet (Ragi) - 500g
- Brown Rice - 100g
- Wheat - 100g
- Soya (Soy) - 100g
- Split Red gram (Toor Dal) - 100g
- Green Gram- 100g
- Rajma (Kidney Beans) - 100g
- Bengal Grams (Whole Chana) - 100g
- Ground nuts - 100g
- Barley (Pearl Millet) - 100g
- Oats - 100g
- Dry Dates - 100g
- Almonds (Badam) - 50g
- Pista - 50g
- Walnuts -50g
- Cashew Nuts -50g
- Cumin Seeds - 2 Teaspoons
- Pepper Corns - 1 Teaspoons
- Salt as required
- Water as required
- Jaggery / Sugar / Honey
- Boiled Milk - 1/2 Cup
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Directions
- To make this porridge, ragi, groundnuts, brown rice, green gram, toor dal, whole channa, barley, soya bean, wheat, and rajma are the cereals to be used.
- Wash and clean all these ingredients.
- Sun dry these ingredients for at least 8 hours.
- Dry roast all the ingredients one by one and ensure that they are not over-burnt.
- First, roast ragi (finger millet). Add them into the pan and roast them until the color changes which takes about two to three minutes on a medium flame.
- When done, transfer them into a big plate and spread them across.
- In the same pan, add brown rice and roast them until the color changes which takes about two minutes.
- When done, transfer them into the same plate and spread them across.
- All the ingredients that are going to be roasted, transfer into the same plate and spread them.
- Next, add wheat and roast them for about a minute or two until the color changes.
- Next is soya, add them into the pan and roast it for about two minutes until the color changes.
- Next is toor dal (Split Red gram), add them into the pan and roast for a minute or two until the color changes.
- Next goes green gram, roast them for two minutes..
- Now add Rajma (Kidney Beans) and roast them for two to three minutes.
- Next is whole chana. Roast them for about three minutes until the color changes.
- Now roast the ground nuts for about a minute or two until color change.
- Next is Barley. Roast them for about two minutes.
- Next is Oats. Roast them for a minute until the color change..
- Next is dry Dates. Roast them for a minute.
- Now add Almonds, Pista, Walnuts and Cashew Nuts all together. Roast them for a minute.
- Add pepper corns and cumin seeds, roast these all ingredients for a minute. When done, transfer them into the plate.
After roasting all the ingredients, grind them little by little in a blender or in a local flour mill around you.
After grinding these ingredients into a fine powder, strain it using a strainer.
Keep this multigrain cereal powder in air-tight container and it can be stored up to 2 to 3 months.
Let’s make the porridge or cereal drink.
- In a pan, add 2 tablespoons of multigrain cereal powder.
- Add water little by little and mix it well.
- Switch on the flame and boil this on a medium flame.
- Adjust the consistency by adding water little by little because boiling can make it from thin to thick consistency. Also. ensure that there are no lumps.
- Stir continuously to ensure that it doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pan.
- When it is boiled, add little bit of salt, if you wish to.
- Add some jaggery instead of sugar or honey.
- Keep mixing it until the jaggery melts into this mix.
- Switch off the flame. Add boiled milk or else directly drink this porridge drink.
- I’m adding some milk.
Healthy porridge drink is ready, it can be served in a bowl or glass. From kids to older people, it is a good healthy drink for everyone.
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