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(595)Khichadi Premix

Baby food 6+ months

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Boiled Rice.
  • 1 cup Moongdal.
  • 1 cup Masoordal.

Method

  1. Mix all the ingredients.
  2. Wash twice in a mesh colander.
  3. Spread washed dal rice in the kitchen towel under the fan for 4-5 hours to dry.
  4. After 5
  5. hours dry roast till it turns golden brown colour on slow flame.
  6. Again spread over the kitchen towel and let it cool down to room temperature without a fan.
  7. Grind it into fine powder. Sieve it and add 3 tbsp Turmeric powder and mix well. Khichadi premix is ready.
  8. Store in a sterile dry glass jar.
  9. Take a required quantity of premix and cook it into 4 times water when water reduces and you will get smoothy like consistency switch off the flame. Add ¼ tsp ghee, mix well and khichadi is ready. Your 6+ months baby food is ready to serve.
  10. Serve with love and smile.
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Healthy food My recipes Postpartum food Sweets

(577)Methi Laddoo

Katlu, Postpartum sweets.

Ingredients

  • 3 cup Makhana.
  • 3 cup Ghee.
  • 2 cup rolled Oats.
  • 2 cup Kharekh powder.
  • 1 cup Date syrup.
  • 1 cup grated Coconut.
  • 1 cup Wheat coarse flour.(Optional)
  • 1 cup popped Amaranth.
  • 1 cup Almonds.
  • 1 cup Milk.
  • ½ cup Methi powder
  • ¼ cup Raisins.
  • 1  cup  or 250 g.Batrisu katlu.

Method

  1. Soak Methi powder in the milk and keep aside for at least one hour.
  2. Dry roast Makhana.Once it becomes crispy, add 2 tbsp. ghee and then again roast for one minute and keep aside.
  3. In the same pan add 1 tbsp. of ghee and roast Almonds on slow flame. Keep aside.
  4. In the same pan add Oats and dry roast on a slow flame. When crisp, add 2 tbsp.ghee and again roast for one minute and then keep aside.
  5. In the same pan add 1 tbsp. ghee and roast popped Amaranthus for one minute on a slow flame and keep aside.
  6. In the same pan heat 1 tbsp. ghee and roast grated dry coconut for one minute and keep aside.
  7. In the same pan heat ½ cup ghee and add Gond crystals. Fry  them in a slow flame. Once all the crystals are fried and look like shiny transparent small balls 
  8. Heat 1 ½ cup ghee in a non stick pan and roast wheat flour till golden brown.  At this moment ghee separates from wheat. Now in this ghee add Raisins and roast along with  wheat flour. When all Raisins pop in the ghee, transfer it in another vessel and  keep aside.
  9. Again heat ½ cup ghee in the same pan and roast soaked methi powder. Soaked methi powder is in dough form so first break the dough with the hands and then roast. It will take 15 to 20 minutes on a slow flame so do not lose patience. When it changes the colour switch off the flame and keep aside.
  10. Now in a mixture grinder, grind roasted Almonds, Oats, and Makhana into coarse powder and keep aside.
  11. With the help of  wooden press or potato masher mash all fried gond crystals into coarse powder and keep aside.
  12. Once roasted methi powder is cooled down , grind it and keep aside.
  13. In a big mixing bowl mix Makhana powder, Almond powder, Oats powder, popped Amaranthus, Roasted Coconut, Methi powder, Wheat flour, Fried Gond powder, Kharek powder and Batrisu katlu powder and remaining ghee. Mix well. Now add Date syrup and mix well. Methi laddu mix is ready.
  14. Take 1 tb.spoon mixture, bind and shape it in the form of a ball. Prepare all laddu similarly. This can be stored for 15 days at room temperature.
  15. Every day serve one laddu four times  a day to the lactating mother. Serve with love and smile.

Ghee roast Makhana
Ghee roast popped Amaranth
Ghee roast Almonds
Ghee roast Wheat fl. And Date powder.
Ghee roast Fenugreek powder

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Healthy food

(383) Oats Porridge.

Oats ni Kheer

Ingredients

  • 1 litre milk.
  • ¼ cup Oats.
  • 1 tsp. Ghee
  • 5 tsp. Sugar ( Misri powder)
  • 2 tsp. Cardamom powder.
  • 1 tsp. chopped Almonds.
  • 1 tsp. chopped Raisins( optional)
  • 1 tsp. chopped Cranberry.(optional).

Method

  1. Heat milk in a thick bottom sauce pan and boil for 5 minutes. Stir continuously.
  2. Simultaneously in a nonstick kadai, heat ghee and  roast Oats and chopped almonds till it turns aromatic.
  3. Pour boiled  milk in the kadai and mix with Oats and almonds.Mix Raisins and Cranberry.
  4. Boil it till required consistency. Stir continuously and add Sugar and Cardamom powder in it.
  5. Serve hot or chilled but serve with love and smile.
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Healthy food

(380) Puffed Amaranth Porridge

Rajgira Dhani ni kheer

Ingredients

  • 1 lit. full fat milk.
  • 1 cup puffed Amaranth.
  • ¼ cup Sugar.
  • 4  tbsp. Choco protein powder.

Method

  1. In a thick bottom sauce pan boil milk for 10 minutes.
  2. Add puff of Amaranth and again boil till your desired consistency on slow flame.
  3. Now add sugar and Choco protein powder and mix it thoroughly.
  4. Boil it for 1 minute and switch off the flame.
  5. Serve it hot or chilled but serve with love and smile.
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Healthy food

(378) Tapioca Porridge

Sabudana ni Kheer

Ingredients

  • 1 litre full fat milk.
  • ¼ cup Tapioca(Sabudana)
  • ⅓ cup Sugar.
  • ⅛ tsp. Cardamom powder.
  • Pinch of Saffron.
  • 6 pieces of each Almonds Cashews and Pistachios.

Method

  1. In a thick sauce pan boil milk and Sabudana together.
  2. Simultaneously grate dryfruits and keep aside.
  3. Crush and blend a few Saffron strands with a few drops of milk in the motor and pastel and keep aside.
  4. Simultaneously stir the milk so that sabudana or milk could not stick to the bottom of the pan.
  5. When each grain of sabudana turns transperant, it means sabudana is properly cooked.
  6. If you wants thick porridge then continue boiling milk at fast flame  and stir continuously till your desired consistency.
  7. Add sugar, dryfruits and saffron milk and mix thoroughly.
  8. Switch off the flame and serve hot or chilled but serve it with love and smile.
Cooked sabudana
Sabudana Kheer
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Healthy food

(377) Morning Delight

Ingredients

Method

  1. Either buy pop of Amaranth (Rajgira dhani) from the grocery store or make at home with the help of Amaranths grains.
  2. Mix all the ingredients and enjoy every morning as well as during your religious fasting.
  3. Amaranth is known as super food due to its nutritive value.
  4. Amaranth are high in fibre, gluten free and protein power house.
  5. One cup of cooked Amaranth provides 9 g.of proteins and 5.17 mg. of iron.
Amaranth grains
Roasted puffed Amaranth
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Healthy food

(376)Roasted puffed Amaranth

Rajgira Dhani

Ingredients

  • Amaranth grains
  • Heavy bottom kadhai.
  • Rolling pin or long handle spatula or thick cloth.

Method

  1. Heat heavy bottom kadhai.
  2. Add 1 tbsp of Amaranth grains in hot kadhai and stir vigorously so that grains will not burn.
  3. And you will see the grains of Amaranth puffed immediately. The whole process is done under a fast  flame.
  4. As soon as all grains are puffed, transfer to the plate.(Ideally transfer to the sieve,not in the plate because the meshed bottom of the sieve doesn’t allow water vapour to settle on its bottom.).
  5. Store puffed Amaranth in an air tight container up to 3 months.
Rajgira Dhani

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Healthy food

(375)Moongdal + Rice Soup

Dal and rice liquid

Ingredients

  • ⅛ cup cooked Moong Dal ( you can also use Tur dal or Masoor dal)
  • ⅛ cup cooked Rice.
  • 250 ml. Water.
  • 1 tsp. Salt.
  • 1 tsp. Lemon juice.
  • 1 tsp. finely chopped Coriander leaves.
  • Tempering Ingredients
  • 1 tsp. Ghee.
  • ½ tsp. Cumin seeds.
  • ⅒ tsp. Asafoetida powder.
  • 1 Garlic clove paste.( optional).
  • 1 inch Ginger piece paste
  • 8-10 Curry leaves.

Method

  1. In a mixture grinder add cooked moong dal and rice and make a fine paste.
  2. Add the required quantity of water and make a soup consistency.
  3. Heat ghee in a tadka pan. Add cumin seeds. wait for a crackling sound. Add Asafoetida powder, Curry leaves and Ginger Garlic paste and pour into the rice dal liquid.
  4. Boil for two minutes. Now sprinkle coriander leaves and lemon juice. Serve hot with love and smile.
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Healthy food

(374) Kolu Sharagva no soup

Pumpkin and Drumstick soup

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Pumpkin pieces.
  • 2 whole drumsticks cut into small pieces.
  • 350 ml. water.
  • 1 tsp. Salt.
  • ½ tsp Black pepper powder.
  • 1 tsp. finely chopped Coriander leaves.
  • Tempering Ingredients
  • 1 tsp. Ghee.
  • ½ tsp. Cumin seeds.
  • 1 Garlic clove.

Method

  1. Wash and peel the Pumpkin and cut it into small dice.
  2. Wash and cut Drumsticks into finger size pieces.
  3. Pressure cook both up to 2 whistles.
  4. When the pressure is released, open the lid and blend it into smooth paste.
  5. Add the water in the paste and boil it for 5 minutes after adding salt, black pepper powder and tadka.
  6. Garlic paste is optional if you like it then add. It will enhance the flavour of the soup.
  7. Sprinkle the coriander leaves and serve it hot with love and smile.
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Healthy food

(373) Beetroot Carrot Soup

2 persons

Ingredients

  • One medium size Beetroot.
  • one medium size Carrot
  • ½ Onion (optional)
  • 1 tsp Salt.
  • ½ tsp Black pepper powder.
  • Tempering Ingredients
  • 1 tsp. Ghee.
  • ¼ tsp. Cumin seeds
  • 2 Cloves.

Method

  1. Peel and wash the Carrot , Beetroot and Onion ( if you are using).
  2. Pressure cook up to 2 whistles.
  3. When pressure is released, open the lid and blend into smooth paste.
  4. Strain the paste and add 300 ml. water to it. Boil for 5 minutes.
  5. Add salt, pepper and tadka in it.
  6. Serve hot with love and smile.
Boiled Beetroot and carrot
Beetroot Carrot Soup