Simple, practical, and full of everyday flavour, Wheat Porridge (Wheat Baby Food) is a vegetarian world baby food made with simple everyday ingredients in about 12 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 2 minutes
- Cook time: 10 minutes
- Total time: 12 minutes
- Yield: 1
- Category: Baby Food
- Cuisine: world
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp Wheat flour (or atta (organic if possible))
- 200 ml water
- 1 small Apple (- low acid variety - sweet)
- 1/8 tsp ghee (homemade only (refer notes))
- 1 small Ripe banana
- 3 to 4 small Ripe chikoo (or paal sapota)
- 1 small pear
Method
- Optional step - Dry roast 1 cup of wheat flour on a medium flame until it smells good. Cool this completely. You can sieve the flour if it has bran. Transfer to a air tight jar. Use this when ever needed.
Make wheat porridge
- Add wheat flour to a pan and pour water. If you pour water to hot flour it will turn lumpy. So cool the flour first and then pour water.
- Stir well with a spoon until smooth.
- Begin to cook on a medium heat stirring often until the mixture thickens.
- Turn off the stove. Add ghee. Stir and keep covered for at least 5 mins. Cool this.
- Meanwhile wash and peel the apple or any other fruit you have already introduced.
- Cut to pieces and add it to a blender. Make a fine puree.
- Pour this to the cooled wheat porridge. Mix well. If you haven't been giving raw apple yet to your baby then, pour the pureed apple to the hot wheat porridge. Do not cook further. Just mix and keep the pot covered for a while. The apple gets cooked slightly.
- Cool the apple wheat porridge completely and then feed your baby.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.
