Lapsi

          This is a gujarati traditional sweet dish.We always make it on festivals and auspicious days.
This is one of the old age recipes.You can call it a healthy dish because it contains loads of fibers and iron and one of the low cal dish also.

• Ingredients:

1. Coarsely ground wheat flour 1 cup
2. Jaggery 2 tbsp
3. Ghee
4. Water 3/4 cup
5. Dry fruits

• Method:

1. Heat water in a thick bottomed vessel.
2. Add jaggery and 1 tsp of ghee into water.
3. Meanwhile take wheat flour in a bowl and add 1 tbsp ghee to it.
4. Mix it well
5. Slow down the flame when jaggery melt down into the water
6. Add wheat flour to jaggery water and don't mix it now.
7. Let it cook on low flame by covering with lid.
8. After few minutes open the lid and mix it by wooden rolling pin.
9. Whisk it in one direction until flour soaks all water
10. Put a lid on the vessel and cook it on a sim.
11. Cook it for five minutes and turn of the flame.
12. Garnish it with dry fruits. 
13. Now lapsi is ready to serve.

Vegetable Vermicelli

           This recipe is a full meal. You can have it as a breakfast or light dinner .You can use any form of vermicelli like wheat , refined flour or sooji.

• Ingredients:

1. Vermicelli 1 cup
2. Finely chopped onion 1 tbsp
3. Finely chopped capsicum 1/2 tbsp
4. Finely chopped tomatoes 1 tbsp
5. Ginger and garlic paste 1 tsp
6. Pepper powder 1 tsp
7. Oil 
8. Hot water 2 1/2 cup
9. Coriender leaves

• Method:

1. Take 1 tbsp oil in a pan.
2. Roast vermicelli on medium flame.
3. Turn of the flame when vermicelli starts to change color.
4. Keep it aside.
5. Take 1 tbsp oil in another pan and add ginger garlic paste to it.
6. Cook it on medium flame until it changes the color to pink.
7. Add chopped onions and capsicums.
8. Stir fry it for few minutes.
9. Add salt and pepper powder to taste.
10. Add hot water to it.
11. Add vermicelli when water starts boiling.
12. Cook it until vermicelli absorbs all water.
13. Add finely chopped tomatoes and some coriander leaves to it and mix well.
14. Serve hot.

Sooji Kheer

        This recipe is easy to digest and quick recipe. It tastes yummy and also healthy. You can call it an instant kheer. If your kid is not having milk then you can always give this khir to your kid and lastly this is also a stomach filling recipe.

• Ingredients:

1. Sooji or Semolina 1 tbsp
2. Ghee 1 tsp
3. Milk 1 cup
4. Sugar 1/2 tbsp
5. Mixed dry fruit powder 1 tbsp
6. Saffron few strands

• Procedure:

1. Take a thick bottomed pan.
2. Add ghee and semolina to it.
3. Roast suji on medium flame until it turns out pink.
4. Add milk slowly to it.
5. Add sugar and dry fruit powder.
6. Cook it until sugar dissolves into milk.
7. Turn of the flame when kheer gets thick consistency
8. Add saffron to kheer and serve warm..

Besan Ladoo

          These ladoos are easy to make and very tasty. You can count it as one of the festival dishes. You can make these ladoos in no times.This is my first attempt to make ladoos and it came out perfectly fine. Enjoy...

• Ingredients:

1. Besan flour 1 cup
2. Ghee 1 cup
3. Sugar powder 3/4 cup
4. Cardamom powder a pinch

• Procedure:

1. Heat ghee in a nonstick thick bottom pan for 1 minute.
2. Add besan flour and mix it properly.
3. Roast besan with ghee on medium flame until it becomes pink in color.
4. Add pinch of a cardamom powder when mixture starts to leave aroma.
5. Turn of the flame and let the mixture cool down for 15 to 20 mins.
6. Add powder sugar when mix is completely cool down.
7. Divide the mixture in small portions and make round balls out of it.
8. Besan ladoos are ready to serve.

Note: you can use coarsely ground besan flour instead of fine one.

Multigrain Porridge

       This recipe is for 8+ months old babies.You can get different types of porridge in market .They are made with thousands degree of temperature, so they almost lose their nutritional values. I m going to show you homemade porridge. It's best thing for a breakfast. First introduce this porridge in small quantity . If it's ok with baby's digestive system then you can give it on daily basis.
        This breakfast is high in digestive fiber and full of carbohydrate. It also contains nuts which are rich in energy, protein, omega-3, antioxidants, minerals and vitamins.

• Ingredients:

        1 cup Rice

        1/2 cup Wheat

        1/4 cup Green gram (moong)

        1/8 cup Sago

         Fenugreek seeds

        1/2 tsp Saffron

        1/2 tsp Cardamom 

        1/4 cup Cashew nuts

        1/4 cup Almonds

        1/4 cup Pistachios 

        1/2 Nutmeg
        1 tsp Honey or jaggery 

         Milk

• Preparation:

1. Dry roast rice, wheat, green gram and sago in a heavy bottom pan separately.
2. Roast it on low flame until it leaves aroma and changes the color.

1. Dry roast cashew nuts, almonds, nutmeg and pistachio all together.
2. Roast it until it becomes golden brown.
3. Let it cool down.

1. Grind  nuts with saffron , a pinch of fenugreek seeds and cardamom.
2. Grind roasted grains and mix it with dried fruit powder.
3. Grind it in coarse powder.
4. Store and freeze this porridge in an airtight container.

• Method:

1. Take 1 tbsp of porridge.
2. Cook it with 2 tbsp water in a heavy bottom pan or pressure cooker. 
3. Cook it for 10 mins on low flame.
4. When porridge is done then add warm milk to set consistency.
5. Add honey or jaggery.
6. Porridge is ready to serve.

• Note:

         Fenugreek seeds are useful for digestion.

         Don't add nuts if baby is allergic to nuts.

Sago Delight

      This recipe is for 10+ babies. This dish is full of carbohydrate. You can enjoy this dish for a dessert . It's so easy to make and yet yummy.

• Ingredients:

          1 tbsp Sago

          1 tbsp Rice flakes 

          1 tbsp Rice

          2 cup Milk

          2 tbsp Sugar or honey

          Dried Fruit powder

          Saffron

• Method:

1. Soak sago (sabudana) and rice flakes (poha)in water for 1 hour.
2. Cook rice.
3. Boil milk in a heavy bottom pan and add sugar.
4. Add dried fruit powder and a pinch of saffron.
5. Add rice , rice flakes and sago into boiling milk.
6. Cook it for 10 mins on low flame.
7. Serve it warm or chilled.

• Note:

          Sago is good for quick boost of energy.

Wheat Khichdi

      This recipe is for 10+ months old babies. If baby doesn't eat roti or chapati then this is a best replacement. This is a heavy meal and it contains lots of digestive fibers and protein.

• Ingredients:

          Broken wheat 1 tbsp

          Split moong daal 1 tbsp

         1/2 tsp Turmeric powder

         Asafoetida

         Ghee

• Method:

1. Wash broken wheat and daal.
2. Mix and Soak them in double water for 15 mins.
3. Soak it into hot water and use the same water to cook.
4. Add pinch of  asafoetida ,turmeric powder and salt to taste. 
5. Cook it on low flame for 15 mins.
6. Add half a tsp of ghee or butter.
7. Serve warm.

• Note:

       You can add any veges of your choice.















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