How to make baby rice cereal at home?
I started giving store bought rice cereal (similar to cerelac that you get at India) for my daughter a month ago. However, I wasn't pleased to give her store bought food every day. But, she was too young to eat cooked and mashed rice. If you put the cooked rice in a blender, it becomes goopy. I wasn't comfortable giving that either.
So, I decided to make my own rice cereal. Got some inputs from friends and family and made very little to see if my daughter was able to digest it. Very happy that I made it. My daughter fell sick and was down with stuffy nose and fever. She refused to eat anything. During that time, she consumed very little quantities of this rice cereal.
Notes:
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Roasting Time: 3-4 mins
Makes around 1.5 cups of baby cereal
Ingredients and Method:
Any rice of your choice: 1 cup
Wash the rice thoroughly until the water runs clear. Drain the water from the rice and spread the rice on a kitchen cloth/muslin cloth.
Allow the rice to dry for an hour indoors.
Dry roast the dried rice on a low-medium heat until the rice puffs up. It will be done in 3-4 mins.
Look at the below picture to see how the roasted rice looks like.
Cool the roasted rice and once cool, powder it.
You can decide whether you want very fine powder or coarse powder. I made mine like fine rawa/semolina/corn meal.
You baby rice cereal is ready.
Cool it completely and store it in a air tight container.
I started giving store bought rice cereal (similar to cerelac that you get at India) for my daughter a month ago. However, I wasn't pleased to give her store bought food every day. But, she was too young to eat cooked and mashed rice. If you put the cooked rice in a blender, it becomes goopy. I wasn't comfortable giving that either.
So, I decided to make my own rice cereal. Got some inputs from friends and family and made very little to see if my daughter was able to digest it. Very happy that I made it. My daughter fell sick and was down with stuffy nose and fever. She refused to eat anything. During that time, she consumed very little quantities of this rice cereal.
Notes:
- You can flavor this rice cereal with cinnamon powder, dates puree/syrup, cumin powder and give it according to your baby's choice. I chose not to give my baby salt or sugar until she's at least nine months old. I'm also thinking of avoiding gluten (wheat, AP flour and all its derivatives until she's one). It's totally personal choice. But, whenever she gets a bite from her brother's food like dosa, or idly, she does get a taste of salt :) If you don't mind giving salt, season this rice cereal with salt and ghee. It tastes yum!
- You don't need fancy ingredients to make this cereal. All you need is rice, it could be organic or non organic brown/white/red rice.Again it could be long, medium or short grained rice. I suggest use the same rice that your family uses everyday to make the baby rice cereal. We use sona masoori rice (medium grain rice) and red rice (Kerala rice) often at our home. So, I have used sona masoori rice to make the rice cereal.
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Roasting Time: 3-4 mins
Makes around 1.5 cups of baby cereal
Ingredients and Method:
Any rice of your choice: 1 cup
Wash the rice thoroughly until the water runs clear. Drain the water from the rice and spread the rice on a kitchen cloth/muslin cloth.
Allow the rice to dry for an hour indoors.
Dry roast the dried rice on a low-medium heat until the rice puffs up. It will be done in 3-4 mins.
Look at the below picture to see how the roasted rice looks like.
Cool the roasted rice and once cool, powder it.
You can decide whether you want very fine powder or coarse powder. I made mine like fine rawa/semolina/corn meal.
You baby rice cereal is ready.
Cool it completely and store it in a air tight container.