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Wondering what to start your baby on as the first food? Try these khichdi recipes, which promise soft, easily digestible, nutritious, and yummy baby foods.
We all wait for the moment when our little babies start having their first food. Definitely we have to struggle a lot with the consistency, taste and sometimes the presentation too, so that the baby gets tempted to eat it.
Well, we have lots of varieties in baby food but there is one food which is accepted easily by all the babies in their weaning phase and that food is ‘Khichdi’. It’s a blend of dal and rice, which can be given to babies by 7th month. It’s such a super food which can also be mixed with many veggies and thus can be a dish full of nutrients. It’s not only yummy in taste but also easily digested.
I always love to do lot of experiments with khichdi as my 21 months old girl loves to have different taste with colourful ingredients. I usually make a few easy & quick recipes for her which are as follows-
Ingredients – 1/2 cup moong dal, 1/4 cup rice, a pinch of hing, 1/2 tsp cumin seed, a pinch of salt, pinch of turmeric powder, 1/4 tsp ghee, 1-2 cup water.
Method – Wash and soak dal & rice for half an hour. Heat ghee in pressure cooker and add hing and cumin seed. When it crackles add moong dal, rice and water. Now add turmeric powder, salt and pressure cook for 4 whistles. Add ghee while serving.
Ingredients – 1/4 tsp Ghee, 1/4 tsp cumin seed, 1 clove, 1 small cinnamon stick, 1 small bay leaf, pinch of salt and turmeric powder, 1-2 garlic , small onion, 1/2 cup rice, 1/2 cup moong dal, 2 cups water, coriander leaves.
Method – Wash and soak dal & rice for half an hour. Heat ghee in pressure cooker and add cumin seed, clove, cinnamon stick. When it crackles add onion and garlic. Now add moong dal, rice and water. Add turmeric powder, salt and coriander leaves & pressure cook for 4 whistles. Add ghee while serving.
Ingredients – 1/2 cup moong dal, 1/4 cup rice, a pinch of hing, 1/2 tsp cumin seed, a pinch of salt, pinch of turmeric powder, half cut tomato, half cut onion, 1/4 tsp ghee, 1-2 cup water, coriander leaves.
Method – Wash and soak dal & rice for half an hour. Heat ghee in pressure cooker and add hing and cumin seed. When it crackles add onion fry it a little and add tomatoes and fry till they get soft. Now add moong dal, rice and water. Now add turmeric powder, salt, coriander leaves and pressure cook for 4 whistles. Add ghee while serving.
Ingredients – 1/2 cup moong dal, 1/4 cup rice, a pinch of hing, 1/2 tsp cumin seeds, a pinch of salt, pinch of turmeric powder, spinach leaves, half cut onion, 1/4 tsp ghee, 1-2 cup water.
Method – Wash and soak dal & rice for half an hour. Heat ghee in pressure cooker and add hing and cumin seed. When it crackles add onion fry it a little and add spinach and fry till they get soft. Now add moong dal, rice and water. Now add turmeric powder, salt and pressure cook for 4 whistles. Add ghee while serving.
Ingredients– 1/2 cup moong dal, 1/4 cup rice, a pinch of hing, 1/2 tsp cumin seeds, a pinch of salt, pinch of turmeric powder, small tomato, potato, carrot, peas, French beans, bottle gourd, half cut onion, 1/4 tsp ghee, 1-2 cup water, coriander leaves.
Method – Wash and soak dal & rice for half an hour. Heat ghee in pressure cooker and add hing and cumin seed. When it crackles add onion fry it a little and add all vegetables and fry till they get soft. Now add moong dal, rice and water. Now add turmeric powder, salt, coriander leaves and pressure cook for 4 whistles. Add ghee while serving.
Ingredients – 1/2 cup oats, a pinch of hing, 1/2 tsp cumin seed, a pinch of salt, pinch of turmeric powder, half cut tomato, half cut onion, 1/4 tsp ghee, 1-2 cup water, coriander leaves.
Method – Heat ghee in frying pan and add hing and cumin seed. When it crackles add onion fry it a little and add tomatoes and fry till they get soft. Now add water, turmeric powder and salt. When water starts boiling add oats and coriander leaves. Cook it for 2-3 minutes.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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