The broken wheat porridge powder can be given from 8 months onwards and is an ideal travel food for babies.
How to make Broken Wheat Porridge Powder at Home?
Ingredients :
Broken Wheat 40 g.
Moong dal 20 g. (I used greengram)
Groundnut 10 g.
Method of preparation :
1. Roast broken wheat, green gram dal and groundnuts
2. Powder these roasted ingredients separately.
3. Mix all the dry ingredients.
4. Store in dry and airtight container.
Add hot water to a tablespoon of the powder when needed.
Nutritive value per 100 gms :
Calories 385
Protein 12 .24 g.
Iron 3 .21 mg.
Carotene 35 .6 μg.
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- Broken Wheat 40 g.
- Moong dal 20 g. (I used greengram)
- Groundnut 10 g.
- Roast broken wheat, green gram dal and groundnuts
- Powder these roasted ingredients separately.
- Mix all the dry ingredients.
- Store in dry and airtight container.
- Add hot water to a tablespoon of the powder when needed.
Hai, I have A doubt, doesn’t this porridge have to be cooked. Can I give my 5.5 month old daughter this wheat porridge just by adding hot water and not cooking it. Also is it OK to introduce ground nuts. She’s completing 6 months In 10 days. Will this porridge help in weight gain. She’s actually underweight
Hi Joncy,
This porridge can be made just by adding piping hot water. It will get boiled as it’s already roasted well. This can also be cooked like porridge. It can be given for 6 months babies. Wheat porridge is not a weight gaining mix but it’s filled with energy-giving carbs and muscle building proteins. Please find weight gaining mix details in link below. Link – https://goo.gl/4mhX3Q
can we use fine samba rava we use for upma in this recipe. how to introduce wheat for 7.5 months baby
Hello Purni,
Yes you can use Samba rava for making porridge. Just replace the broken wheat to samba rava and the rest of the process will be the same. Do cook it before feeding it to your child.
Can we grind the ingredients together?
Can the powder be put in air tight and refrigerated?
Hi,
All the three ingredients takes different duration to become powder, so it needs to be powdered separately. The powder can be stored in an airtight container for 2-3 months.
Hi hema,
Your recepies are really very helpful. Can i add sprouted green gram in this
Hi Priyanka,
Yes, sprouted green gram can also be used in this recipe.
Hello dr,
Can i feed my 6 months old baby this samba kodumai kanchi
Hi Shanthi, you can feed to your 6 month old baby but give in small portions and check.
Hi Hema… you are just awesome. I love and try many of your recipes. Have also bought the powders. My daughter loves them. She is 2 years now. Can I mix some milk and dry fruits powder to this?
Thanks.
Yes you can try that dear. Thanks a bunch for your kind words.
Hi, my baby is 1 yr.. she is not taking any liquid food can u suggest me how to give liquid food
Please do check our food chart for babies of 1 year, that has many options that can be served. You can try khichdi, porridge, soups etc according to baby’s likes.
Hai Hema..
First of all.thank you for this my little moppet. I have bought some powder for my baby.she loves it.i have a doubt regarding this porridge.
Can i give porridge by making without groundnuts? How many months this can be stored in airtight container?
Hi Nusfa, You can try without ground nuts and it can be stored in an airtight container for 2-3 months.
I hav a doubt. ..do we need to soak both dalia and green gram before dry roasting them..pls reply me as soon as possible. ..i m.planning to make it for my 5 day trip in a week for my 1 and half year old baby
YOu need not soak them before dryroasting
Hi Hema,
Which brand of broken wheat is good for kids? Am really confused…
Any organic one is good 🙂
I have made saathu maavu powder at home. I don’t get corn in my place. So I made without it. I want to know that how mant times I can feed this ti my 11 month old baby in a day
hi ,,
have a doubt, green gram, can be used directly? because my mom says, we can use moong dal instead?
Dear Gopu,
We are dry roasting all the ingredients so they get cooked and there will not be any indigestion
Do we have to wash the rice or wheat before grinding
Not required if you have bought in packet (branded products are already cleaned and packed)
Hi hema,
I have a doubt instead of water can i use formula?
Dear Karthika,
Formula should not be cooked, it should be added only after the porridge is cooked
Do we need to wash broken wheat before roasting ?
Hi Vandana,
No need to was the dalia if you have procured from a reputed brand.
hope this helps
Hi hema, how are you?
I want to ask you that is can i give this to my 6 month old son excluding the peanut coz i will be travelling for a week
Yes you can give Subha. Happy Journey !!
Hi hema
You doing a good job nd i need somemore recipes for my 1 nd a half baby. Tell some healthy recipes to gain wait for him.
Tia
Hi Srudy,
There are many recipes in this Link you can check them out
for how many days we can store broken wheat porridge powder. As it is having groundnut powder it may having oily smell after keeping in air tight container.
Hi Varsha,
You can store in the refergeriator
You can store in refrigerator
Hema u r really like a best friend to me bocoz there is no one to guide me to provide food to my 13 mth son u r really great thanks a lot
Hi hemali, so happy that you consider me a friend, same here too, email me at hema@mylittlemoppet.com for any queries or doubts, will gladly help you out 🙂
Your info is simply superb…really want to appreciate you..
Thank you 🙂
Hi hema..I hav a doubt..wat is mishri sugar..is that normal white kalkandu in powdered form
Yes Vadani, it powdered white kalkandu
Hi Hema,
I have heard that peanuts should not be given to kids till 1year. So is it ok to have them in porridge mix?
Peanuts can be given after 8 months shilpa, not as whole but in powdered form
Hey I have a doubt about this recipe as when I feed my lo (9.5 months old) daliya (broken wheat), I always roast it first and then cook it in the cooker for it to become soft and easy to eat. With your recipe, we are not really using a cooker but only adding hot water to it. Won’t it remain crunchy and not really soft for the baby to eat?
Hi Tripti,
Even I had the doubt before doing it, but when you roast it in low to medium flame till nice aroma arises and till it is roasted to golden brown, half cooking is done in this method itself and then powder it nicely to a fine powder. When you add hot water, it gets cooked
hi hema,
i have a doubt. you didn’t mention of adding sugar or salt while making porridge. Is that not required for my 13 months old daughter ?
Dear Priya,
I don’t recommend adding sugar or salt o baby food, read Why I don’t recommend sugar and salt for babies below 1 year?