Babies above 5months.
Ragi malt powder.
U need :
1 kg Ragi,
Method :
Wash and soak ragi for 6 hours. After 6 hours drain the excess water and spread it evenly on a old cotton saree. It will take 1 day to dry in summer. Allow it dry inside the house. If there are small crawling kids at home better be careful they can go and play with it and mess everything before the malt powder is done. Once it is dry u need to go to the atta flour mill. Ask that person to break the ragi into two halves. If u tell it is for small babies he will surely understand and will just do the needful. So once u come back immediately spread it on a paper and allow it dry and later u can use cotton cloth to sieve the powder or the finest atta siever to sieve it. u really get the best malt powder. powder will be brownish white. If there are strong grandmother's to do this better sieve it in cotton cloth. But it is heavily time consuming and body aching activity . So I being a smart mom I just used the sieving method. So if u prepare this powder in large quantity u need to be careful and every week u need to spread and keep it for drying because we would have soaked ragi in water.
The powder should be stored in air tight container. For 1 kg ragi u just might get 1/2 kg of malt powder.
Ragi Malt
u need:
2 spoons of ragi malt powder,
Pinch of salt ,
Pinch of sugar or jaggery,
2 tbsp of ghee,
1/2 cup water,
5 tbsp milk (optional).
Method:
Take a small cup put the malt powder and add just 2 tbsp water and mix it and keep it aside.
In another small vessel keep little water for boiling when water starts boiling add pinch of salt. Now add the malt powder mixed in water to it and immediately keep stirring it with no break until the malt has no lumps in it and if required add little water. Now add little sugar or jaggery just for taste. And at last add ghee and mix it. Now the delicious baby ragi malt is ready. It has to be given hot to the baby and baby should be hungry. If the baby likes to sit and eat u can feed it with a spoon of with ur fore finger. Make this in small quantity and day by day u can increase the quantity according to ur choice.
This is the best food to start for 5 months baby. u can make this with milk also instead of water just replace it with milk.
One more fact I should share with u all is I have made both my kids eat this. But I never tasted or I never liked it. I as a kid never ate it is what my mom and aunt keep saying. Ragi is rich in calcium so we should give it for children and we also should try new variety in it.
My grandmother used to make papad with this powder. She is above 95. Very strong lady. She has 8 children. Oh my god imagining it only is so scary and god only know how they managed so many kids. Now for only one or two kids we go crazy and we feel like life is so hectic.
This blog is dedicated to my lovely grandmother and I have so many unique recipes from her to be uploaded she cannot read my blog today but she has been my biggest support and inspiration .
The best advice I have got in life from her during my marriage is "you are a kid you just be like that only ,never change. Whatever may happen never step back, never loose your selfconfidence and self respect. Never say anything against anybody and you are the youngest in the family so u need to manage everything and balance it. If somebody is happy the reason behind it is you and if somebody is sad the reason is you have done something wrong. So try to correct yourself before correcting others. This was the blessings I got from her and I'm always the same I have never changed.
Ragi malt powder.
U need :
1 kg Ragi,
Method :
Wash and soak ragi for 6 hours. After 6 hours drain the excess water and spread it evenly on a old cotton saree. It will take 1 day to dry in summer. Allow it dry inside the house. If there are small crawling kids at home better be careful they can go and play with it and mess everything before the malt powder is done. Once it is dry u need to go to the atta flour mill. Ask that person to break the ragi into two halves. If u tell it is for small babies he will surely understand and will just do the needful. So once u come back immediately spread it on a paper and allow it dry and later u can use cotton cloth to sieve the powder or the finest atta siever to sieve it. u really get the best malt powder. powder will be brownish white. If there are strong grandmother's to do this better sieve it in cotton cloth. But it is heavily time consuming and body aching activity . So I being a smart mom I just used the sieving method. So if u prepare this powder in large quantity u need to be careful and every week u need to spread and keep it for drying because we would have soaked ragi in water.
The powder should be stored in air tight container. For 1 kg ragi u just might get 1/2 kg of malt powder.
Ragi Malt
u need:
2 spoons of ragi malt powder,
Pinch of salt ,
Pinch of sugar or jaggery,
2 tbsp of ghee,
1/2 cup water,
5 tbsp milk (optional).
Method:
Take a small cup put the malt powder and add just 2 tbsp water and mix it and keep it aside.
In another small vessel keep little water for boiling when water starts boiling add pinch of salt. Now add the malt powder mixed in water to it and immediately keep stirring it with no break until the malt has no lumps in it and if required add little water. Now add little sugar or jaggery just for taste. And at last add ghee and mix it. Now the delicious baby ragi malt is ready. It has to be given hot to the baby and baby should be hungry. If the baby likes to sit and eat u can feed it with a spoon of with ur fore finger. Make this in small quantity and day by day u can increase the quantity according to ur choice.
This is the best food to start for 5 months baby. u can make this with milk also instead of water just replace it with milk.
One more fact I should share with u all is I have made both my kids eat this. But I never tasted or I never liked it. I as a kid never ate it is what my mom and aunt keep saying. Ragi is rich in calcium so we should give it for children and we also should try new variety in it.
My grandmother used to make papad with this powder. She is above 95. Very strong lady. She has 8 children. Oh my god imagining it only is so scary and god only know how they managed so many kids. Now for only one or two kids we go crazy and we feel like life is so hectic.
This blog is dedicated to my lovely grandmother and I have so many unique recipes from her to be uploaded she cannot read my blog today but she has been my biggest support and inspiration .
The best advice I have got in life from her during my marriage is "you are a kid you just be like that only ,never change. Whatever may happen never step back, never loose your selfconfidence and self respect. Never say anything against anybody and you are the youngest in the family so u need to manage everything and balance it. If somebody is happy the reason behind it is you and if somebody is sad the reason is you have done something wrong. So try to correct yourself before correcting others. This was the blessings I got from her and I'm always the same I have never changed.
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