Rice Porridge powder can be given from 7 months and it is an ideal travel food for babies.
How to make Instant Rice Porridge Powder at home?
Rice Porridge Powder
Ingredients :
Raw Rice powder 150 g.
Roasted Bengal gram Dal 50 g.
Method of preparation :
1. Wash & soak raw rice in water.
2. Remove water, dry under sun, grind it. Grind roasted
Bengal gram dal.
3. Mix the two powdered ingredients.
4. Store in a dry airtight container.
Add hot water to a tablespoon of the powder when needed.
Nutritive value per 100 gms :
Calories 351
Protein 10 .3 g.
Iron 1 .85 mg.
Carotene 32 .25 μg
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Hi mam, kudos for your great work in helping out all the moms.
Can i add roasted bengal gram powder to porridge of my 6.5month old baby?
Is it nothing but pottukadalai?
Should it be sieved?
Hi Madhavi,
Thank you for the appreciation dear. Yes you can add pottukadalai, It’s better if you can sieve the end product, so that it would become easy for the mix to get cooked just by adding piping hot water.
Hi,
Can you please confirm the difference between the homemade brown rice cereal and the instant rice porridge powder is that in the former we roast the rice after sun drying it and in latter we roast the rice powder after grinding it?
And also this is the reason that the homemade brown rice cereal needs to be cooked on the stove and for instant rice porridge powder we just need to add boiling water?
Thank you for your help.
Your blog is very helpful, I just started solids for my 6 month old baby and your blog is helping me a lot. Thank you 🙂
Hi Zainab,
Thank you for your feedback dear. The rice variety used in both the mixes are different. White rice gets cooked easily and that is used in instant mix. Brown rice takes time to get cooked so it has to be cooked well before feeding (brown rice cereal). Rice is washed, dried, dry roasted and then powdered.
Great information Ma. You didn’t roast the raw rice after drying. I thought it should be roasted. Thanks
Hi Robina,
Thank you dear. It can also be roasted if required. Fine rice powder will get cooked by just adding piping hot water itself, so roasting is not done.
Hi hema.. why have you used Bengal gram in almost all porridge? Does it as to the flavour or helps in consistency? Can it be replaced?
Hi Soumya,
It gives good flavor as well as taste and it’s easily cookable too. It can be skipped instead of replacing.
But no need to boil?
Hi Rama,
The water should be piping hot, which means that the water should be boiling. And the hot boiling water needs to be added with rice porridge powder and stirred for a minutes and then close the lids for the porridge to cook through.
Dear Dr. Hema,
When we prepared, we couldn’t grind to powdery texture, it’s slightly raw kind, is it the correct form of mix? I’m doubtful if it didn’t get cooked with Hot Water?
Please clarify
Hi Akhila, yes you can grind to a powdery texture if you find it okay for your baby. It is better to stick to a fine powder so that it gets easily cooked with hot water.
Hi Iam going to three days trip with my 8 months old girl. Rice porridge which u posted i have to roast tat rice n dal n grind in to coarse powder if water is added it’s ready. N for ragi porridge i can sprout in home n roast if hot water added is it ready. Pls reply
Hello Selvi, for rice porridge you have to soak the rice and dal in water and dry it in under the sun. Then you can roast both the ingredients and grind them. Yes adding hot water is enough. For ragi porridge powder sprouting is not necessary, roast and grind them, adding hot water is enough for this as well.
Does Bengal gram mean udacha kadalai which we generally use to make chutney
My baby is 1yr n 15 days old .his weight was 7.8 .he is not taking any food insolid form likes all in pureed. He has 2 bootom teeth. Pls guide with food chart . I am giving sugar in every sweet recipe i prepare is it harmful
Hi hema,
I m going for a 3 day trip with my 15 months old son, is it fine to give these instant porridges 3 times a day I mean every meal different porridge and can I add pan roasted tuvar dal instead of Bengal gram in rice porridge!!!
Pls reply me as early as possible
yes you can add Kinjal
Can these instant porridge recipes be given twice or thrice a week regularly for my 11 month old?
Also let me know if soaking and drying out in the sun is a mandatory step?
Can I directly soak and then pan roast them instead?
Dear Usha,
Yes you cna give 2 or 3 times a week, if they are from a good brand, you can directly pan roast them
hi hema
how long should I soak this rice?
Is roasted rice powder ready to eat when mixed with hot water?
Hi Srija,
You can soak the rice for 3 hours, yes it is ready when mixed with water
Hello Doctor,
1. Can I use this poha, Rice and other instant porridge in regular diet for 6 month baby.
2. My baby stay in day care from 10 am to 6 pm. how and what diet should I set for har.
Hi Varsha,
You can use them when you are travelling or times when you can’t feed a complete meal, please follow the 6 month diet chart
Can I use moong dal instead of Bengal gram?
Also can you let me know if instant khichri is possible?
Very useful post. Thanks.
Hi Nidhi,
yes you can use moong dal too, if you use moong dal then it becomes instant khichdi 🙂
I have 6 month old baby… What kind of solid foods i introduce to my daughter ?
Hi, you can start with dal k paani, then rice soup and then puree, please check this post as how to start solids http://www.mylittlemoppet.com/diet-chart-5th-month/
I am traveling for a month trip 14 months baby boy. Can u please let me know best travel food or instants food which can be taken with recipe. Could be of g8 help. Thanks in advance.
You can check this link for Recipes http://www.mylittlemoppet.com/15-instant-porridge-recipes-for-babies/