Barley Upma Recipe

for infant elder than 1 year.

Ingredients

• 1 cup Barley whole or broken (I have used whole Barley) 
• 3 Cups water
• 1 teaspoon grated ginger
• 2 green chillies, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup of carrot,diced small
• 1/2 cup of french beans, finely chopped 
• 1 tomato, chopped
• 2 tablespoon peanuts
• 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
• 1 tablespoon half broken white urad dal(Optional)
• String of curry leaves
• salt to taste
• juice of 1 lemon
• a small bunch of chopped coriander leaves
• oil for cooking

• Process 

  1. Heat the oil in a pressure cooker or in a pan on medium heat. Add the mustard seeds and allow it to crackle. Once it crackles add in the split urad dal and peanuts. Saute for a few minutes until the dal gets roasted. 
  2. Once roasted add ginger, green chilies, curry leaves and cook for few seconds.
  3. Add carrots, beans and let it cook for a minute or two stirring in between.
  4. Now add barley. Mix well and cook for few minutes. 
  5. Pour in the 3 cups of water. Stir in the salt and tomatoes and give the mixture a good stir.
  6. Cover the pressure cooker or the pan and allow the upma cook in medium flame till 3 whistles come. If you are cooking it in a pan, then cook until all the water is absorbed stirring occasionally.  
  7. Take the pressure cooker off the heat and let the cooker rest for some time before opening the lid.
  8. Open the lid and add in lemon juice and coriander leaves. Mix well and serve hot.

Surati Locho ( Mixed Lentils savoury dish)

This recipe can be fit for toddlers elder than 1 year.

Ingredients

• 1 cup of chana daal(Split skinless Bengal Gram)
• 1/2 cup of urad daal(Split skinless Black Gram)
• 1/2 cup of poha(Beaten rice or rice flakes)
• 1 tbp green chili paste
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
• 1/2 tsp chili powder
• 2-3 drops of lemon juice
• 2 tbp oil
• 1 tbsp sev(namkin)
• 1 tsp eno
• salt to taste

Instructions

1. Soak lentils in lots of water overnight.

2. In the morning drain water and wash it well and add washed 1 cup of poha.

3. Grind it in mixture grinder and form a soft batter.

4. Add salt, green chilli paste according to taste, add pinch of turmeric powder and eno and mix it well.

5. Take a deep vessel and spread half of oil to vessel so that the batter does not stick to it. Pour the batter into the vessel and spread some black pepper.

6. In a pressure cooker add some water and boil it for 10-15 mins or till done.

7. Keep the vessel in pressure cooker and cover the cooker with the lid without whistle attached to it.

8. Steam it for 10 minutes.

9. Put a knife in the batter to check if it is baked properly by inserting clean knife. if it comes out clean,it means it is done.

10. Serve hot with adding some lemon juice, sev, half of oil and chopped coriander leaves and chilli.

Tips : can be served with green and red chatney. I had some left over tamrind chatney and it tasted nice.