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Mixed Vegetable Soup

Soup is a safe drink to keep the stomach healthy and can be given almost every day to the baby. When babies start taking in new and different types of food they sometimes get constipated. Mixed vegetable soup is a way of giving babies some relief from this problem.

Carrot gives this soup sweetness while cabbage makes it mildly saline owing to its natural salts. Pudina leaves give it a minty flavor which serves as a welcome change to the developing taste buds.

Ingredients :

• 2 teaspoons of yellow moong dal
• Few pieces of lauki, carrot, cabbage and pudina leaves

Procedure :

1. Mix moong dal with lauki, carrot, cabbage and pudina leaves.
2. Add 2 cups of water and pressure cook till dal and veggies are done.
3. Now strain this using a juice strainer. The amount of roughage to keep or leave in the strainer is upto you. You can make the soup as thick as your baby likes.

Mashed Fruits

Most babies love fruits as thats the maximum sweet they get to eat. The mix described below is also useful in relieving the baby from constipation. If baby’s stomach is fine then you can go on to strain a few pieces of mashed apple to this fruit chaat as well.

Ingredients :

• 1/2 a pomegranate
• 1/2 a sweet lime (musambi)
• 1 small banana

Procedure :

1. Take out the seeds of the pomegranate.
2. Strain it with the mashed banana.
3. Squeeze the juice of sweet lime into it.
4. If baby doesnt have constipation mash an apple into it too.

This is the age when the baby has just started having something other than mother’s milk. It’s important to give things that are light to digest as well as nutritive. Salt has not been recommended in any of these recipes. Before feeding the baby with the suggested dishes please discuss with your doctor.

Ingredients :

• 3 teaspoons of raagi powder
• 1 cup of milk
• 1/2 teaspoon Ghee

Procedure :

To make raagi powder

1. Soak raagi overnight, allow it to sprout.
2. Remove skin and dry it in the sun.
3. Roast in ghee and powder it. This powder can now be stored in an air tight container.

Cooking procedure

1. When you need to feed the baby, mix 3 teaspoons of powder in equal quantity of milk and make a paste. Ensure there are no lumps.
2. Now heat milk and slowly mix in the raagi paste stirring continuously.
3. Add ghee, Stir for a few more minutes till the mixture comes together.

Variation

In this recipe, milk is preferred though you can use water too.

Please NOTE :

You can use more raagi powder or milk to alter the consistency of the paste as you like.

Vegetable Khichdi

Ingredients :

• 1 tablespoon of yellow moong dal
• 1 tablespoon of rice
• 1/4 cup of Lauki cubes
• 1/2 carrot
• Few leaves of palak

Procedure :

1. Mix moong dal with white rice. Wash well till milkiness goes away.
2. To this add a few small pieces of lauki, palak and carrot. Add about 2 cups of water and give the cooker 4-5 whistles so that the khichdi is completely mashed.
3. Now strain this using a juice strainer (just like the one we use for tea, only bigger in size).
4. Throw away excess water and make the khichdi of desired consistency.