Ragi Porridge

Recipe Courtesy - Pavithra Reddy

Age -  6 months+

Ingredients

•  2 cups Ragi (washed well, drained and dried)
• a little ghee
• 5-6 black pepper
• 1 clove
• 1tsp jeera
•  1 cardamom
• 1 1/2 cup of water

 To make powder (you can also get ragi powder in the market):

1. Put the dried and cleaned Ragi in a kadai, add very little ghee and saute the grains. Cool and keep aside.
2. Add 4-5 drops of ghee, black pepper, clove, tsp jeera, cardamom. Saute all these together for 1-2 min in low flame. Cool it.
3. Make fine powder of ragi and all ingredients above
4. Seive the powdered mixture using a thin cotton cloth. Take only the fine powder.
5. Powder is ready to be used. 

Preparing Porridge:

1. Separately mix 1-2tsp of ragi powder in water (pancake batter consistency).
2. Boil 1 cup of water and add the mixture in step 1 to it. Keep stirring while u add. Let the mixture boil for 3-4 min, keep stirring as the mixture thickens. (consistency is same as that of Cerelac).
3. Allow it to cool to room temperature, add 2 drops of ghee and feed your child. If your kid likes this, then just add below ingredients to ragi along with blackpeppers, jeera and cardamom. This is similar to stage2. U may add clove if u want to.

Pavithra J is was associated with the IT industry before becoming a mom. Now a housewife and fulltime mommy to a 2yr old daughter.  Pavithra loves sketching, experimenting with food and driving.