Editor’s Note: It is always better to make homemade malt drinks for your child than buy any packaged one from the market because the former is so much more healthy and fresh. Some of our IL members have shared their recipes with us. Join in and share your malt recipe for kids with us here.
Mixed Grain Nutritious Malt
Ingredients:
- 1 cup Ragi
- 1 cup Wheat
- 1 cup Jowar (Sorghum)
- 1 cup Tuvar dal (split yellow pigeon peas)
- 1 cup green gram dal
- 1 cup peanut
Method
- Roast one by one on low flame till it nice aroma emanates.
- Cool it and powder it to fine powder and store in airtight bottles.
- When needed add water/milk and jaggery and prepare porridge(kanji)
- Give this twice a day.
For a 6 months baby use 1 tsp only and prepare it to watery consistency. Gradually increase it depending on babies appetite.
For a 8 month baby the porridge should be of thick consistency 6 to 8 tsp can be needed depending on baby’s appetite.
For babies with gluten allergy omit wheat.
Ragi Malt
Ingredient: 1 kg Ragi
Method
- Wash Ragi and soak it in water for 24 hours
- Next day drain the water and wash again
- Drain the water completely.
- Make a bundle of this ragi in a clean muslin cloth and keep it inclean dark warm place.
- Next day ragi would have sprouted.
- Dry this sprouted ragi in Sun
- When completely dry roast on low flame and powder this and store in air tight bottle.
This malt is given to a baby when she turns 7 months. It can be given to older babies too.
Ragi and Pulse Malt
Ingredients:
- Ragi 900gm
- Groundnut 200gm
- Green gram dal 400gm
- Sesame seeds(yellu/til) 100gm
Method:
- Roast separately till a nice aroma emanates
- Cool it down and then powder it
- Store in air tight containers.
Wheat Green Gram Malt
Ingredients:
- Wheat – 1 kg
- Green Gram gal – 600gm
- Groundnut 250gm
Method
- Roast separately till a nice aroma emanates
- Cool it down and then powder it
- Store in air tight containers.
Pearl Millet Malt
Ingredients
- Pearl millet (Bajra/ sajje/ kambu) – 4 cups
- Green gram dal – 7 cups
Method:
- Roast separately till a nice aroma emanates
- Cool it down and then powder it
- Store in air tight containers.
Rice and Almonds
Ingredients:
- 1 cup boiled rice
- 1/4 cup roasted chana dal
- Few almonds (for older babies)
Method:
- Roast the rice slowly till it begins to pop and the flavours emanate.
- Roast the dal and the almonds.
- Cool and blend altogether in a blender.
- You can choose between coarse/fine powder.
- Cook 1/2 spoon of the mixture in water.
- You can add soup to it and give it or you can add milk and give.
Sathu Maavu (Nutritious Flour)
Ingredients:
- Ragi (Finger millet) 250 gms
- Puzhungal arisi (Par boiled rice or idli rice) 100 gms
- Patchai payaru (whole green gram) 100 gms
- Makkah cholam (Dry corn. This is not American corn) 100gms
- Pottukadalai (Fried gram dhal)100 gms
- Badam 10 pieces
- Cashew nut 10 pieces
- Elachi 2-3
- Clove 2
Method:
- Dry roast everything separately. Grind in mill.
Do Remember
- Initially use 2 teaspoons of the malt to prepare the drink. Gradually increase as required. More than 6 to 8 teaspoons is not advisable
- While preparing broth first boil water/milk add sugar or jaggery sieve to remove any dirt then put again for boiling once it starts boiling add powder slowly while stirring continuously.
- While feeding add a little homemade ghee this ensure proper digestion
- 6 to 8 tsp is approximately equals to 30 to 40 gm
- For babies with gluten allergy please omit wheat
- When the baby is 1year and above, can make the porridge to a thicker consistency ( like gruel ) and add a few drops of ghee.
- And the rice porridge recipe, can replace channa dal with moong dal as a varient and little spoon of ‘jeera’ and 1 black pepper corn can also be added ( for babies above 1 year ) while dry roasting and ground. I used to add 1/2 a blanched tomato ( finely chopped ) and grated carrot to the mixture while cooking, with a tiny amount of hing.
Thank you vjbunny,Shanvy, ramyaramani and knbg for your contributions.
