Panner-Aloo Paratha

After some baby food recipes, I am back to parathas. This is a small variation to the popular Aloo Paratha. Adding panner to it just makes it amazing. Try it out to taste this lovely parathas and also serve your loved ones!!

Ingriedients:
Boiled and mashed potatoes - 4
Grated Paneer - 2 tablespoon
Green chillies - 3
Ginger - small piece
Garlic - 10 petals
Chat masala - 1 tea spoon
Corainder leaves - finely chopped
Salt
Wheat flour - 4 cups
Water

Procedure:
1. Add water and pinch of salt to wheat flour to mould it into a dough. And also some oil while preparing the dough.
2. Next grind green chllies, ginger and garlic to a paste.
3. Take the mashed potatoes in a bowl. Add the ground paste and mix well.
4. Next add the grated paneer, chat masala, chopped corainder leaves and salt.
5. Mix well and prepare small round balls. This will be used for the stuffing.

6. Prepare small round balls of the prepared dough.
7. Take one ball of the dough, and roll it to form a small circle. Stuff it will the prepared stuffing and roll it to form a round paratha.
8. Put it on a hot tava and apply oil and fry it for some time. Turn it over and apply oil on the other side.

Serve hot Panner Aloo Paratha with curd and pickle.
While Serving, add a blob of butter on the paratha to enhance its taste.

Note: You can have another variation of this by adding grated cheese instead of paneer.

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

Instant Wheat Dosa

I was away from blogging recipes for almost 2 years. Reason - was too busy running behind my little daughter.
Now, back to blogging recipes, the first one with my daughter's favourite - Instant Wheat Dosa.
As the name suggests, it is very easy to prepare and also very healthy.
Ideal breakfast for kids.

Ingriedients:
Wheat flour - 2 cups
Rice flour - 2 table spoon
Green chillies - 2
Oil - 1 table spoon
Chilli powder - half tea spoon
Hing
Karipatta Leaves
Water
Mustard seeds - 1 teaspoon
Cumin seeds (Jeera) - 1 teaspoon
Salt

Procedure:
1.Take 2 cups of wheat flour, add pinch of salt and then add water and mix well till it gets a batter consistency. Add more water if needed.
2. Next add 2 table spoon rice flour and mix well. Add salt if needed.
3. To prepare the seasoning, take a tadka pan, add oil, add mustard and wait till it splutters. Next add pinch of hing, chopped green chillies, karipatta leaves and pinch of chilli powder. Next add this to the dosa batter and mix well. The Dosa batter looks as shown in pic below.

4. Take a non stick pan and sprinkle some oil, and pour the batter.
5. Once done, flip to the other side.

Serve it hot with tomato or coconut chutney