Nachni Satva\ Ragi Sattu

This time its again some baby food...the very popular Ragi Sattu. It is also called as Nachni Satva, Nachni stands for ragi in Konkani or Marathi and Satva meaning Sattu.

It is a very healthy and nutricious drink, rich in iron and your baby will just love this. I had started this for my baby at the age of 5 months. Only difference was that I prepared it without milk and I added pinch of salt instead of jaggery. After the age of one, I started adding milk, and my daughter loves this much more than before.

Ingriedients:
Ragi - 1 table spoon
Jaggery - 1 tablespoon
Boiled milk - 1 cup

Procedure:
Procedure to extract ragi milk:
Method 1: Soak 1 table spoon ragi overnight and next day grind in the mixer. Using a tea strainer, strain the milk. Next add again 1 tablespoon water and extract the milk by grinding in the mixer. Repeat the same for 4-5 times.

Method 2: Wash 1 kg ragi and dry it in the hot sun for 2 days. Once it is completely dried, grind it to fine powder and store it in a cool dry place. To extract milk, soak 1 tablespoon of this powder for 3-4 hours and mash it with your hands and extract milk using teas strainer. Again add little water and mash the ragi powder with your hands and again extract milk. Repeat the same 4-5 times.

Procedure to prepare Satva:1. Take the ragi milk in a small conatiner and keep it for boiling. Add jaggery and keep stirring so that it does not stick to the conatiner.
2. Once it starts boiling, add the boiled milk and keep stirring over a low flame for about 5 minutes.

Ragi Sattu is ready for your baby.

Tips:
1. My mom has given me the ragi flour and I usually go for Method 2 for extracting the milk from ragi as it is faster and simpler. But the best for your baby would be Method 1. If you have the time, then please go for the first method for milk extraction from ragi