Sugar free Lentil porridge(for babies/toddlers). Ragi Porridge for Babies/ How to make ragi for babies, toddlers. Ragi or Nachni or finger millet is a powerhouse of nutrition. Ragi is a rich source of calcium.
This is great porridge for weight gain, you can feed babies this for lunch.
Good amount of iron in the body.
Travel friendly no cook porridge recipes for babies: For both the recipes, we will prepare the base powder and add milk or water.
You can have Sugar free Lentil porridge(for babies/toddlers) using 6 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Sugar free Lentil porridge(for babies/toddlers)
- It's 2 of tbn lentils of your choice.
- Prepare 1 of tbn jaggery powder.
- You need 50 gm of dates.
- It's 5 of tbn plain milk.
- It's 1 of tbn ghee/1 tbn olive oil.
- It's 1-2 of almonds blanched and sliced.
In case, your baby likes sweet, you can add more sugar. To make the sweet porrigde, add in the cardamom powder and sugar to the base powder. Learn about the recommended sugar intake for kids and toddlers, and what you can to do reduce the amount to ensure that your kids are healthy as they grow. Lentils form part of sustainable diets.
Sugar free Lentil porridge(for babies/toddlers) instructions
- Soak the lentils and dates for 30 minutes in warm water.
- Strain and keep the daal and reserve the date syrup.
- In a saucepan, add milk and daal and let it come to boil.
- Once done, add the jaggery, dates and mix well..
- Let the mix simmer on Low heat for 5-10 minutes till the daal is slightly soft, stirring occasionally, not to burn the ingredients.
- Take of heat once done and let cool.
- Add the entire ingredients into a blender and blend smooth.
- Heat oil/Melt ghee in a saucepan and add the mix.
- Add the date syrup and cook until the halwa/porridge has reached a desired consistency or the syrup has completely been absorbed.
- Serve warm garnished with sliced almonds (optional).
- Tips:You may choose to cook with any lentils of your choice or a mix of lentils too..
- Tip:Add a tbn of powdered nuts before feeding babies instead of whole chopped nuts and check for allergic reactions to nuts before using powder them.
- Use breast/formula milk in case of babies under 1 year of age for this recipe.
Avoid canned lentils for babies as they have preservatives and are likely to give the baby gas. However, in terms of nutritional level, they are similar to dried varieties, as long as there is no extra salt or sugar added. This Instant Porridge Food Recipe for babies and infants is the first post of the Travel Series. Also can we add salt, sugar or jaggery to his food? I am adding banana or carrot to his rice porridge till now but i am not sure if its a gud practice to mix Download FREE Recipe Ebooks for Babies & Toddlers.
