Ragi Porridge is an excellent health food for babies and toddlers. Its quite simple to make too. You can adjust the consistency and give it with a spoon or through a baby bottle.
Ingredients
Ragi : ¼ cup
Jaggery : 2 tsp
Water : 2 cups
Instructions
Wash ragi and soak in water for at least 5-6 hours.
Grind the ragi using a mixer, adding water(around ¾th cup) as required.
Using a sieve, filter this to collect the extract. You can press the contents with the back of a spoon or with your hand to collect the ragi extract.
Add this back to the mixer, add half cup water and repeat till the you have extracted the ragi juice completely. The remains left on the sieve should be brown only consisting of the cover of the ragi grains.
This extract can be stored in the fridge and the final porridge can be made at the time of serving.
Take one cup of ragi extract in a thick bottomed pan. Add jaggery, ¾th cup water and and keep on low flame.
Keep stirring continuously as it tends to form lumps if left unattended. Gradually it will start thickening. Remove from flame once the desired consistency is reached. Keep stirring for 1 more min.
You can directly use the thick porridge or thin it down with ½ cup milk and give it in a baby bottle or glass (makes around 300 ml).
I think the ragi extract can be safely stored in the fridge for upto 1 week. I typically make the extract using one cup of ragi- which makes approximately 4 cups of extract. So i store it in an airtight container in the fridge and use it for the next 3 days.
So the wonder millet ragi is a part of my little ones breakfast almost everyday :)
Recipe by YourHungerStop at https://www.yourhungerstop.com/ragi-porridge/