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Category: Traveling Food For Baby

Wheat Flour Mathri/suhali
If you are going for a holiday mathri is always a good option because it long last for more than a month. It can be given to babies as a finger food and good with tea or pickles. so I always carry it with me while travelling. It is a good option for elders as well as for kids.😀

Usually mathris are made with refined wheat flour/maida. But I wanted a healthier mathris, so I have added wheat flour to the recipe. The result was a healthy, crisp and flavorful mathri.
- It is healthy and tasty snacks for lunch box too..
- Good with tea in the evening
Ingredients
- 2 cup Wheat Flour (mainly used for making Chapatis)
- 1/2 cup maida/refined wheat flour
- 1/4 cup Sooji (optional)
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil or ghee-for softness
- Salt- 2 tsp or as per taste
- 1-2 tsp Ajwain seeds
- Dried kasury methi leaves- 2 tsp(optional)
- 3/4 cup lukewarm water (use as needed)
- Oil or Ghee-for deep frying
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Method of preparation
1. Mix all the ingredients except water. Mix the flour well with oil as shown in the images.
2. Add the water little at a time, kneading into a firm dough. Remember the dough should be rough and tight not smooth.
3. Cover the dough and set aside for 15 minutes or more.
4. Divide the dough into small equal parts.
5. Take each part of the dough and make a flat ball shape. Roll them into 2 inch circles. Don’t make it much thin.
6. Heat the oil in a frying pan on medium heat.
7. The frying pan should have atleast 1 1/2 inch of oil.To check if the oil is ready, put a small piece of dough in the oil. The dough should make the oil sizzle and come up slowly.
8. Fry a few matris at a time. Make sure to place just enough mathris to cover the frying oil.
9. Fry the mathris until both sides are a light golden-brown.
10. Don’t fry till brown as it will give over fried taste.Take out on a tissue paper and allow them to become little cool.
11. Mathris can be stored for months in airtight containers.
Note:
- Can be given to one year plus baby as a finger food.
- You can crush it and mix with curd. It will fills your babies stomach while travelling.
Hope you and your family enjoy its taste.

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July 31, 2016
suji/rava pancake – Healthy quick dish for baby/toddlers/kids
I am thinking of telling about this easy and healthy recipe from many days. Finally writing today. This recipe is very near to my heart since my childhood. And now getting a chance to share it with everyone especially with mother’s who have fussy eater at their home. My daughter is so fussy eater sometime I feel like crying.. at that time rava pancake helps me out. She at least open her mouth again and again for it. So without taking much time I am directly jumping to a very simple recipe that anyone can prepare easily.

Benefits of suji
1. Semolina is Rich in Potassium, Iron, Proteins.
2. Suji doesn’t cause constipation in babies.
3. Suji is easy to digest and non allergenic food.
4. Potassium in Suji/ rava or Semolina improves heart health.
5. Suji is a balanced food, low on cholesterol and low on sodium.
6. Suji tastes great and is acceptable to adults as well as children.
7. Suji has plenty of proteins, carbohydrates and iron as well as vitamin B & E.
Actually their are many more benefits, but I think this much benefits is enough to add it in your kitchen😂
Ingredients required
1. Sooji/rava/samolina – 3-4 tsp if preparing only for your baby. Its taste is so good while making your baby eat, half gone into your stomach. 😂
2. Curd – 1 tsp (It makes it more healthier as curd adds protein.)
3. Salt to taste – For 1 year above baby.
4. Black pepper – a pinch
5. Water – For getting the required consistency
6. Mustard seeds – a pinch(optional)
7. Oil/ghee/butter – (Depends on how much you like to use while cooking) Better prefer home made ghee while preparing it for your dear one.
8. You can add any vegetables according to your child likes, like onion, spinach, beetroot, carrot, cabbage,capsicum,coriander leafs etc. Try to add veggies in grated form. It become easy for kids to have it easily.
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Method of Preparation

…………………...Making the batter…………………….
1. Take a bowl and add Semolina (Suji). Add Curd and mix well.
2. Add 1/4 cup water in Semolina to make a smooth paste.
3. Add black pepper and Salt. Mix Well.
4. Suji might loose its consistency while mixing. If required, add some more water to bring to dropping consistency because suji soaks more water.
5. The paste should neither be too thick nor too liquid. Maintain a dropping consistency.
6. You can leave it for half an hour so that suji soaks some water and become soft. But its not a compulsion. Instant preparation also give nice taste and texture.
…………………………Making the pancakes………………………….
1. Take a flat base pan /tawa and heat it on high flame for 2 minutes.
2. After 2 minutes, spread 1 tsp of Oil or butter on pan surface equally.
3. At this time, the pan would be hot enough to start cooking.
4. Turn stove to low flame and spread 3 tsp of batter on pan using a spoon. Try to add 3 tsp in one shot even if you have to use a bigger sized spoon.Once you drop the paste, press it at the center with spoon and rotate in circle to form a round shaped flat-bread.Do not overstretch. The circle should have a diameter of about 4 inches.If your pan is big enough to hold more than 1 cake, you can certainly cook more simultaneously.
5. Spread few drops (4-5) of Oil on top of pan cake.
6. Use a spatula to lift the pan-cake bottom to check, if it has turned golden brown from bottom . .
7. Now turn it over (flip) and cook from other side too.
8. Once golden brown, it is ready.
9. Garnish it with coriander leaves and enjoy with Home made Tomato sauce or green coriander chutney .
Note:
- Suji pancake is good for baby above 8 month.
- Can give as a finger food to baby, but take care of the choking hazards.
- Avoid salt till one year of age, if baby don’t like its taste without salt you can add a pinch.
- This pancake is Good enough for lunch box but pack it when it get cool enough.
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June 29, 2016
Butter milk- amazing healthy drink to beat the heat
Butter milk (chaas) is a very common drink and I know it is prepared in many houses specially in summer , still I am sharing its recipe . The reason is some days before my grandmother’s friend visited my house and I served her chaas.

She told me the miraculous ingredients that earlier people used to add in chass to get awesome results and they don’t need to rush to doctors for small small problems like we do these days.😖
- Earlier I used to take tea after my meal, but when realized the good effects of chaas in my body, I replace my near to dear tea with chaas. Now the whole day I feel good after having chaas, no acidity, no indigestion, no heaviness.😃
- Now my daughter also become a big fan of butter milk. I used to give her when she is very small around 7-8 month old. when ever I see the sign of loose motion, I replace his formula or cow milk(after 1 year) with butter milk.
- It Strengthen the immune system, so very beneficial if we started giving it to our babies as a regular drink. All spices except cumin powder should be given to baby after completing one year.
- I always used to pack chill butter milk along with lunch box in a Milton bottle for my husband and father in law. 😋
So without taking much of your time, I directly jump to the healthiest, easy and very tasty recipe…here we go😀

No cooking required

serves : 3-4

Ingredients required
1. Fresh curd – 1 bowl
2. Roasted cumin seeds powder(jeera)- 1/2 tsp
3. Fenugreek seeds powder(methi) – 1/4th tsp (powder it just by putting in a grinder without roasting) *Read notes
4. Black pepper powder – 1/4 tsp
5. Dried mint powder (pudina)- 1/2 tsp
6. Black salt(kaka namak) – 1/4 tsp
7. Rock salt – 1/2 tsp (namak kam hi lo but aacha lo😉)
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Method of Preparation

Butter milk is very easy to prepare, we just need to add all the healthy spices that is mentioned above.

Add 2 glass of water . Mix well with the help of hand blender so that lumps of curd mixed well.
Chill in the refrigerator.Your butter milk us ready to serve.

Garnish it with cumin powder or can put fresh coriander or mind leaf to it.

Benefits of ingredients that we added to it…

Chaas is categorized as a sattvic food in Ayurveda
1. Curd and water
- The main ingredients of chaas is water and curd. Made with cool, watered down curd, this drink is perfect to soothe the stomach. As you drink it the cool buttermilk tends to wash down the spices and calms an irritated stomach lining.
- Since it contains electrolytes and lots of water, it is the best treat to give to your body to fight dehydration.
- Many kids are lactose intolerant actually able to digest yogurt without a problem. If you’re lactose intolerant, drinking chaas is one way to make sure you get your calcium.
2. Cumin powder and Black pepper
- This spices relieves the stomach from irritation caused due to spicy foods.
- Very helpful for those who are looking to lose weigh, cumin powder helps in loosing weight.
3. Fenugreek seeds powder(methi)
- I am talking about methi powder that my grand mother’s friend advised us.
- Methi not only add flavor to dishes and controlling diabetes to inducing labor, fenugreek seeds have had diverse benefits for your skin, hair, and health.
- Fenugreek seeds have been used by women to increase their breast milk production.
- Reduces cholesterol, reduces pain from arthritis, help in weight loss, improve kidney function, improve Kidney Function, protect liver, fight dandruff, prevent hair loss etc etc etc..Their are many other benefits but I think this much benefits are enough for everyone to include it in our diet.😉
4. Dried Mint powder
- Cures respiratory disorders like asthma, coughs, congestion, and cold
- Good for stomach problems like indigestion, acidity, worm infestation, flatulence, colic, diarrhea, etc.
- Reduces cramps – beneficial in reducing stomachache and menstrual cramps
- It has a relaxing effect – relieves headaches, migraines and reduces stress and tension
5. Black salt
- Indian black salt is considered a cooling spice in ayurvedic medicine and is recommended for many health issues such as constipation, indigestion, heartburn, bloating, flatulence, goiter, poor eyesight and hysteria.
6. Rock salt(sendha namak)
- It aids in digestion and is prescribed for laxative and digestive disorders. It improves appetite, removes gas and soothes heartburn.
- It stabilizes blood pressure, maintain the pH balance etc etc…
Note :
- You can also chill the butter milk in the refrigerator and serve later.If possible use it in the same day.
- If used after few hours, the spices settled down in the bottom and fenugreek powder become sticky. So it is my advice to blend it again before serving or serve it immediately after preparation.
- If having cold, prepare it in normal water.
- You can also add more water if required to thin the chaas.
Hope this article prove beneficial for everyone and you all started adding all these beneficial healthy spices to chaas.
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Hope I am able to explain the recipe well.😐 Feel free to ask if you have any doubt related to the recipe in comments.

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April 18, 2016
Stuffed Idli – Just Wow

I just love to twist the regular food that we prepare at home. “Bache bhi khush aur bade bhi”😜

Yes you read it correct, its stuffed idlli not stuffed paratha. Tried something new in my kitchen and luckly its appreciated by all and even by my choosy daughter too.. She said mumma, next time please stuffed maggie in it.

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April 8, 2016
Eggless Chocolate Wheat Cake
When I prepared beetroot wheat cake , my daughter become so happy and eats it well. But within a week she started demanding for chocolate cake. 😫 “chalo bhai lag jao phir se kaam pe”. 😜

But the best part is she enjoyed it and take it in her lunch box. I used little of my kalakari😜 to make her happy by making eyes , nose and mouth with the muffins(Prepared from the remaining batter).

This cake help me to gain lots of appreciation from relatives and friends who come in my place after holi.☺️ I just warm the cake in micro wave and add ice-cream as a topping.

So one cake with lots of possibilities….😀

So here I am again in front of you with a healthy recipe..

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Ingredients required
- 1 cup wheat flour
- 1 cup sugar powder(can also use palm sugar powder)
- 1/2 cup malai – That is always available in my refrigerator for preparing home made ghee. (If malai is not available 1/2 cup olive or any unflavored cooking oil can be used)
- 1 cup milk
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- Chocolate essence ( 1/2 tsp)
- Coco Powder – 1 tbsp
Method of preparation
- Mix all dry ingredients well(wheat flour, soda,sugar,coco powder) together.
- Take a big bowl, pour milk, malai /oil and mix them well in one direction until it desolve properly.
- You can use beater to mix the batter.
- Add all the dry ingredients and mix well, you can add some more milk if batter is thick.
- Now add essence and mix well, always mix the cake in one direction.
- Grease the mould, by applying butter to its surface and spreading some flour. The cake will come out easily if we grease the tin properly. See beat root wheat cake for greasing images.
- Pour the batter in the tin. Tap it two times to level the batter.
- Take some chocolate chips(optional), spread some wheat flour over it and mix well.
- Adding flour makes the chocolate chips to be stable in the upper portion.
- Spread it over the batter.
- I prepared it in bati over, preheat the oven and put the tin over it for 55 minutes in low flame.
- You can bake it in oven for 30 min in 160° after preheating it.
- Let it be cool in the oven itself to maintain its fluffiness.
- Take it out from the tin carefully and enjoyed it with your family.😋
- I didn’t pour all the batter in the tin, and put the remaining batter in muffins tray to make eyes, and mouth of the cake😛 and insert half chotu munch in the middle to make nose.
- My daughter loves this idea and enjoyed it by clapping.
- I never forget to prepare cake while traveling.
Note:
- This cake can be given to toddlers above 2 years old.
- See the images for better preparation.
- Can be given as a side dish in lunch box, can be served as a brownie by heating it and adding ice-cream or hot chocolate to it.
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March 28, 2016
Churma – Prefect instant food for baby while traveling.

Churma is made using wheat flour, sugar, home made ghee and water.

Food is a big issue while traveling with baby.I remember when my daughter was just 9 month old, we went to Thailand. At that time my expert mother-in-law prepared churma for her because it long last for more than a week. It helped me a lot and my daughter took it easily because of its taste. When I reaches the hotel, I kept it in the refrigerator so that it last long. (more…)

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