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Healthy Ragi Soup for Babies

Ragi is Finger Millet

Ragi can be given to babies as young as 3 months old. In addition to mother's milk they can be fed a diluted Ragi Soup. Babies become healthy and chubby by drinking Ragi soup.

Ingredients for Ragi Soup

Ragi Powder 1 tbs
water / milk 1 cup
sugar 1 tbs

Procedure for Ragi Soup

Wash Ragi seven times. For babies' food it is absolutely necessary to wash it seven times.

Dry it in the shade.

Powder it in a mixer grinder.

Make a fine powder.

Sieve it through a muslin cloth.

[Tie a muslin cloth to a container, not too tightly, pour the powder on it little by little. Collect the powder in the container that has passed through the cloth. It will be finer than the powder that remains on the cloth. The powder that remains on the cloth cannot be used for babies. It can be used for adults.]

Take a table spoon of this powder in a glass, add a little water to make a paste without lumps. Then add a glass of water or milk and make a thin solution.

Heat this solution on low fire. Bring it to a boil. Keep stirring. As you keep boiling and stirring, the colour of the solution will change slightly. That is the indication, it is done. 

Add a spoonful of sugar and keep it aside for cooling. Feed the baby when the soluton is lukewarm and just right for the baby to drink. You can test how hot the soup is by pouring a drop on the back of your hand.

When to Feed the Babies Ragi Soup?

This can be given to the baby 4 times a day.  Initially you can begin with a thin solution and slowly increase the thickness fo the soup as the baby grows up and gets used to it.

When the baby is about 10 months old, broken rice can be added to this (two spoons ragi and one spoon rice) and the solution can be boiled and stirred till it turns semi solid. 

You can add Rasam to this and feed the child. To begin with just take a tiny bit of the Ragi delicacy with your forefinger and let the child taste it with the tip of its tongue.

Gradually increase the amount you pick up and feed the baby small pellets. But remember that this SHOULD NOT be given more than once a day. Feed the baby only once a day with this Ragi Delicacy.

Ragi Soup will make your baby grow chubby and healthy .