Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Homemade Baby Food - Recipes common for infant and parents

1. Mung Daal Khichadi cooked in Mudpot

Really quick and full of nutrition mung daal khichadi can be honored by baby as well as parents.
I specially like it with added drops of ghee in it. Earlier I used to enjoy it with curd as well but I recently came to know that according to Ayurveda curd and daal are opposite foods hence I stopped eating curd with khichadi.

Whenever I cook Mungdaal I use my mud pot which I have brought from India (without breaking it in flight in cabin baggage. Also brought mud tava...yet to try..)

My son likes this khichadi a lot. today  I have added sweet potato in it.

 








Ingredients

1 c mung daal
1 c rice
1/4 tsp jeera
1 tsp ghee
1 c diced vegetables ( optional)
salt to taste

Preparation Time : 5 mins
Cooking Time : 20 mins
Serves  : 2

1. Wash and sock mund daal and rice in water for half an hour.
2.  Boil 4 cups water in metal container.
3. Cut vegetables in small cubes. You may take whatever vegetables are available in stock.
4. Heat ghee in mud pot. Add jeera in it. When jeera starts crackling add vegetables in it.
5. Fry vegetables for 2 mins. Now add mung daal and rice in it. Mix all ingredients nicely.
6. Add boiled water in mud pot and cover it. Allow to cook for 20  mins.
7. Mungdaal khichdi is ready. Serve it hot with drop of ghee on it.
8. Give warm khichadi to baby.

Tips :

1. You may use normal steel vessel or pressure cooker for cooking.


2. Pumpkin Soup 

Pumpkin Soup is very delicious and creamy soup. Its very easy to prepare. 

Boil pumpkin and peel it. Pumpkin does not take much time to boil. Whenever I boil pumpkin I just put in heavy bottom pan. I hardly use pressure  cooker to boil pumpkin.

Once pumpkin is boiled, cool it and peel it. Smash the boiled pumpkin using hand blender, now boil the soup. Add Black pepper and salt to taste. Give Tadka with ghee and Jeera.

For nice creamy pumpkin soup, you may add some cream to it. If you do not have cream then can add some milk to it. The proposition for milk is  1/5 of total soup. 

For more creamy soup, prepare white sauce and  add it to soup and boil it. This tastes just heavenly.

3. Creamy Potato

Boil potato and peel it. Cut potato in small small cubes. Now in pan, take some ghee and heat it. 
Once ghee is heated, add jeera to ghee, add potatoes. Cook for two to three minutes. Now add cream to potatoes. If cream is not available then milk can be added. Add black pepper to potatoes. Cook for 3 to 4 mins. Its ready to serve. Potato can cause gas hence give this baby after 8 to 9 months.


4. Whole Mung Chila

This is very healthy recipe for kids. 
Sock whole moong in water for overnight or at least for 6 to 7 hours. After that remove the water from moong. Keep it aside for another 10 to 12 hours. Moong will get sprouted.

Grind the moong in mixer grinder and make nice smooth paste.
Add green chilli and ginger paste to it.
Add Salt to taste.
Add coriander to the paste.

Now take non stick pan and spread little oil on it.
Now take some amount of moong paste and spread it on tava. cover the tava.
Allow it to cook for 2 to 3 mins.
Flip the side of the chilla and allow it to cook another side as well.
Serve with green chutney or Methi Masala.





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