Malted cereal mix is a nutritious and healthy combination of cereals and pulses that are soaked, sprouted and dried. It’s a traditional mix staple in many homes and it’s easily digestible for babies as it’s malted.
Health Benefits of malted cereal mix to baby:
- Ragi is rich in calcium hence strengthen the bones.
- Rice is loaded with carbohydrates and provide energy.
- Green gram has proteins & minerals, easily digestible for babies.
- This nutrient rich combination of rice, ragi and green gram helps in healthy weight gaining.
Why sprouting is recommended for making this cereal :
Though soaking and sprouting takes lot of time, its highly recommended for babies and toddlers. Here is the advantage of the same: Soaking and sprouting helps to absorb iron content as the level of Vitamin C increased during the process. Also sprouted mix is easily digestible for babies and increase the nutritional values.
When to introduce this malted cereal to babies & how to use this malted cereal mix powder?
This malted cereal mix can be given to babies of eight months plus after introducing each separately. When you start begin with 1 tsp of this malted cereal powder and check whether the baby shows any allergic reaction. Check it for 3 days and if the baby is not allergic to it, you can increase the amount gradually. You could consume this malted cereal mix in below ways.
- Add a tsp of it to purees, mashed food, vegetables soups while cooking to increase the nutritional value.
- Use this powder to make a sweet or salt porridge. Check this recipe for porridge preparation. Just replace the Homemade Cerelac powder mix with this malted cereal mix.
- Add it to milk and offer as a health drink to toddlers and adults (recipe soon)
- Use this malted cereal mix powder to make instant dosa (recipe soon)
Here is how to make malted cereal mix for babies & toddlers.
Malted Cereal Mix for Baby and toddlers | Baby & Toddler Food
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Malted Cereal Mix - Healthy malted cereal mix with rice, green gram and ragi. High in nutrients and best for weight gain in babies & toddlers. Prep Time: 12hrs Soaking + 12hrs Sprouting + 12 hrs Drying
Author: Kalyani
Recipe type: Baby Food
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients
- Whole Ragi - ½ cup
- Green gram - ½ cup
- Rice - ½ cup
Instructions
Preparation
- Measure the ragi, green gram & rice using a measuring cup as mentioned in the ingredients table & keep it ready.
Method
- Take ragi in a vessel and wash it by rubbing well with your hands. It has lots of muds so repeat the process 2 to 3 times unless it is clean and get rid of all muds. Keep aside. Wash green gram well in running water twice & set aside. Then soak both ragi and green gram in clean separate vessel with water for 8 to 12 hours. Keep it covered (with provision to some air to enter) while soaking. After 8 to 12 hours, open.
- Then drain the water completely from both. Transfer the drained green gram & ragi to a clean white cloth or cheese cloth for sprouting. Place the cheese cloth with green gram & ragi in a colander.
- Tie it up with all four corners and keep it undisturbed for another 12 hours for sprouting. After 12 hours, open the cloth carefully. You could see the tiny sprouts in ragi. Green gram also gets sprouted well. Transfer the sprouted ragi & green gram to a plate and dry it under sun or shade for 8 to 12 hours.
- In the meantime, wash rice well in running water and drain the water completely. Dry the rice under sun or shade for 2 to 4 hours or until it's completely dry.
- After sun drying the ragi, dry roast the ragi in a pan in low flame for 5 minutes or until it's toasted. Remove from the pan and cool it down.
- After sun drying the green gram, dry roast the green gram in a pan in low flame for 5 minutes or until it's slightly crisp. Remove from the pan and cool it down.
- After sun drying the rice, dry roast the rice in a pan in low flame for 5 minutes or until it's little puffy. Remove from the pan and cool it down.
- Take the roasted ragi, green gram and rice to a dry mixer jar and blend it to a smooth powder. Sieve the powder well. Cool it down and store in a air tight container.
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 2 Cups
Preparation :
1. Measure the ragi, green gram & rice using a measuring cup as mentioned in the ingredients table & keep it ready.
Procedure :
1. Take ragi in a vessel and wash it by rubbing well with your hands. It has lots of mud so repeat the process 2 to 3 times unless it is clean and get rid of all mud. Keep aside. Wash green gram well in running water twice & set aside. Then soak both ragi and green gram in clean separate vessel with water for 8 to 12 hours. Keep it covered (with provision to some air to enter) while soaking. After 8 to 12 hours, open.
2. Then drain the water completely from both. Transfer the drained green gram & ragi to a clean white cloth or cheese cloth for sprouting. Place the cheese cloth with green gram & ragi in a colander.
3. Tie it up with all four corners and keep it undisturbed for another 12 hours for sprouting. After 12 hours, open the cloth carefully. You could see the tiny sprouts in ragi. Green gram also gets sprouted well. Transfer the sprouted ragi & green gram to a plate and dry it under sun or shade for 8 to 12 hours.
4. In the meantime, wash rice well in running water and drain the water completely. Dry the rice under sun or shade for 2 to 4 hours or until it’s completely dry.
5. After sun drying the ragi, dry roast the ragi in a pan in low flame for 5 minutes or until it’s toasted. Remove from the pan and cool it down.
6. After sun drying the green gram, dry roast the green gram in a pan in low flame for 5 minutes or until it’s slightly crisp. Remove from the pan and cool it down.
7. After sun drying the rice, dry roast the rice in a pan in low flame for 5 minutes or until it’s little puffy. Remove from the pan and cool it down.
8. Take the roasted ragi, green gram and rice to a dry mixer jar and blend it to a smooth powder. Sieve the powder well. Cool it down and store in a air tight container.
Healthy homemade malted cereal powder for babies and toddlers is ready!
Notes :
- You can store this malted cereal mix in airtight container and keep it in refrigerator. It has short life span stays well 2 weeks if handled properly.
- You can use 1/4 cup of whole wheat to make this malted cereal mix. Soak , sprout and dry in the same way as ragi & green gram.
- Sprouted ragi would have tiny sprouts. If you can’t see the tiny sprouts, sprinkle little water and sprout it for another couple of hours or more. Green gram gets sprouted easily.
- Make sure you cool down completely after roasting & blending. Otherwise it will let out moisture.
- You can also grind this powder in mill if you’re preparing larger quantities.
- If grinding at home, do it in intervals in order to avoid overheating of the blender.
- Always check with your pediatrician before introducing any new food.
s2001 says
November 28, 2015 at 5:31 amhi,
totally loving ur site. i have malted ragi but have not given to lo who is 10 month old now. Reason is that i love in Shimla which is a cold place and i have been told that ragi is cold and will not be good fr my baby wit will give him cold. can u please clear my doubt.
gkfooddiary says
November 28, 2015 at 9:47 amNot all babies catch cold because of ragi.. N some say it's a myth that ragi cause cold.. Check with yours..
Froila Regin says
June 21, 2016 at 4:41 amHow should we mix with with milk and give for 4 yr olds??
agnes says
June 13, 2017 at 5:26 pmHi my baby boy is 7 month old can i give this mix. If I give Ragi he gets allergies. Wat to do, and if I give how to Prepare it.kindly suggest me
gkfooddiary says
June 14, 2017 at 12:23 amWhat kind of allergies he gets while you give ragi?
Froila Regin says
June 21, 2016 at 4:41 amHow should we mix with with milk and give for 4 yr olds??
gkfooddiary says
June 21, 2016 at 5:01 amCheck this link for malt preparation:
https://gkfooddiary.com/badam-ragi-green-gram-malt-for-toddlers/
anjana agarwal says
August 16, 2016 at 3:56 amFor how long this mixture can be stored?
anjana agarwal says
August 16, 2016 at 3:56 amFor how long this mixture can be stored?
gkfooddiary says
August 16, 2016 at 4:37 am2 weeks max
Unknown says
December 19, 2016 at 6:10 amCan imisebtow rice for this preparation?
gkfooddiary says
December 19, 2016 at 6:49 pmWhich rice?
pampi roy says
May 5, 2017 at 7:17 pmvery nice thank u keep me update pleasr
Shikha says
December 11, 2018 at 8:05 pmHow to use this mixture, simply add in milk or is there any other way of using it. My baby is 8 months old
Kalyani says
December 11, 2018 at 11:24 pmYou can use this mixture to make a porridge. similar to this: https://gkfooddiary.com/homemade-Cerelac-porridge-for-babies/
You can also add a tsp of this to soups or other porridges to increase the nutritional value.
Sanju says
May 19, 2019 at 1:55 amCan I use boiled rice for this cereal
Kalyani says
May 19, 2019 at 5:44 amyes. raw boiled rice