Baby Rice Cereal Recipe or Rice Porridge for Babies. As a South Indian, Rice is the staple food. Rice cereal is one of the first food that is given for a baby during annaprasana and is considered best stage one food along with ragi porridge for babies. Learn how to make baby rice cereal made 4 different ways with step by step pictures.
Rice Cereal for Babies (Rice Porridge)
Healthy and nutritious homemade rice cereal powder which makes a great lunch option for your baby. This is a carb rich cereal for your babies.
This is an amazing powder to have on hand. You can make a quick lunch for your babies. I always make sure my kids eat rice for lunch since it is rich in carb and they need carb for energy. For babies you can have this powder and make a quick rice porridge out of it. This powder is so versatile because there is so many option and so many ways you can make this.
If you are looking for more baby food recipes, check my soups, fruits and vegetable purees, baby cereal and khichdi for babies.
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About Baby Rice Cereal (Rice Porridge)
Baby rice cereal is best for babies from 6 month old. Rice is a staple food and is rich in carbohydrates which is essential for growing babies. Rice is recommended first grain for babies along with ragi.
There are so many Readymade rice cereal is available in the markets. But for babies it is best to make it at home because the readymade cereals are precooked, dehydrated and packed in boxes which has no nutrition in them. But making at home is best and fresh rice porridge all the time.
How to make rice cereal for babies better
- Cook rice porridge and add salt and ghee for savoury rice porridge. Add sweetener and cardamom powder to make sweet porridge.
- Add any veggie puree and cook to make healthy veggie rice porridge.
- Add garlic, cumin powder and asafoetida to make garlic rice porridge.
- Add any fruit puree like apple, pear, banana, mango, papaya to make fruit rice porridge.
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Rice Porridge Powder (with rice)
This is an everyday rice porridge powder recipe made with rice. Wash rice and roast them really well and powder it fine. Store this rice porridge powder in an air tight container. Add water to the powder and cook till thick.
Ingredients
- Rice (white rice or brown rice)
How to make Rice porridge powder
1)Wash rice in several changes of water. Strain it and dry spreading in a cloth or colander.
2)Add rice to a dry pan and roast on low to medium heat for 7 to 10 minutes.
3)Rice will start to pop and changes colour.
4)Take the popped rice in a blender.
5)Make rice into a fine powder. For making rice porridge. Take 2 tbsp of the rice porridge powder, add 1 cup of water and cook till thick. Serve
Instant Rice Cereal (Rice Ceralac)
This cereal is so easy to make, you need only two ingredients and it is healthy as well. I used red rice poha in this, you can use white poha as well. And I used panakarkandu as sweetener, you can use use any sweetener as you like. If you can get organic pure jaggery powder use that.
This is an instant, No cook cerelac for baby. You can prepare this cereal few different ways. Just mix hot water or milk and your rice cereal is ready.
Ingredients
For Instant Rice cereal
- 1 cup Red Rice Poha
- 2 tbsp Palm Candy (panangkarkandu)
For Making Rice Porridge
- 1 cup Instant Ceralac
- 1 cup Milk
- 2 to 3 tbsp Sugar / Jaggery
- 1 tbsp Ghee
How to Make Instant No Cook Rice Cereal
1)Dry roast poha for 3 to 4 minutes till it gets golden brown. I used red rice poha for its health benefits.
2)Now the poha is well roasted. Allow it to cool down.
3)Take roasted poha in a blender. Add in palm candy.
4)Powder till fine. Your no cook instant rice cereal mix is ready.
5)For making porridge. take 2 tbsp of rice cereal mix in a bowl.
6)Add in hot water or milk and mix well.
7)Let it sit for 2 to 3 minutes.
8)rice cereal is ready to serve.
Rice Cereal using Puffed Rice
Puffed Rice Instant Cereal for Babies. Highly Nutritious & Protein rich porridge mix for babies. This is an instant cereal recipe which is great for travel too. Healthy protein cereal mix for baby. It has puffed rice and roasted gram dal which helps in weight gaining in babies. Puffed rice cereal is rich in protein and carb. You can feed this to babies above 6 months.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cup Puffed rice
- ½ cup roasted gram dal (pottu kadalai)
For making porridge
- ¼ cupPuffed Rice Cereal Mix
- ¼ cup Hot Water
- Roasted cumin powder, ghee & salt to taste
- Jaggery Syrup or any sweetener to taste
How to Make Puffed Rice Cereal
1)take roasted gram dal in a blender.
2)Add puffed rice to it.
3)Powder till fine.
4)For making porridge. Mix hot water over powdered cereal and mix well. Let it sit for 2 minutes.
5)Serve
Rice Cereal using Poha
This recipe for rice cereal is similar to my first version. This has added protein in the form of roasted gram dal. I have made several batches of this recipe for my daughters when they were a baby. It taste delicious too.
Ingredients
For Poha Cereal Powder
- 1 cup Red Rice Poha / Aval - 1 cup
- ½ cup Roasted Gram Dal / Pottu Kadalai
For Making Porridge
How to Make Rice Cereal with poha
1) you need poha and roasted gram dal. I used red rice poha.
2)Take poha in a dry pan and roast till golden. Take it in a blender.
3)Roast gram dal till golden.
4)take poha and roasted gram dal in a blender.
5)Powder this till fine. You can store this in an air tight container.
6)Now make the porridge, take some powder in a sauce pan, add water and cook till it thickens. Add salt and ghee and mix well.
7)For making sweet porridge, add some jaggery syrup to it instead of salt and ghee.
8)Serve.
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Rice Cereal for Babies | How to Make Baby Rice Cereal
Ingredients
Rice cereal (Rice Ceralac)
- 1 cup Red Rice Poha
- 2 tbsp Palm Candy panangkarkandu
Rice cereal with puffed rice
- 1 ½ cup Puffed Rice
- ½ cup Roasted Gram Dal Pori Kadalai
Rice Cereal with Poha
- 1 cup Red Rice Poha / Aval
- ½ cup Roasted Gram Dal / Pottu Kadalai
- For Making Rice Cereal Porridge sweet or salty
- 2 to 3 tbsp Any Cereal Mix
- ½ cup Hot Milk or Water
- 1 tsp Ghee
- ½ tsp cumin powder optional
- Salt to taste
- Jaggery to taste
Instructions
Rice cereal (Rice Ceralac)
- Dry roast poha till nutty. Take it in a blender and powder with palm candy. Store in an air tight container.
- For making porridge, take the mix in a bowl, add hot water, cumin powder and salt and mix well. You can add sweetener to make a sweet porridge.
Rice cereal with puffed rice
- Take puffed rice and roasted gram dal in a blender and powder fine. Store in a container. For making porridge, take the mix in a bowl, add hot water, cumin powder and salt and mix well. You can add sweetener to make a sweet porridge.
Rice Cereal with Poha
- Take poha in a dry pan and roast till golden. Take it in a blender. Roast gram dal till golden. Add it to blender and grind to a fine powder. Store in an air tight container.
- For making porridge, take the mix in a bowl, add hot water, cumin powder and salt and mix well. You can add sweetener to make a sweet porridge.
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Nandhini
Hi aarthi,wanna let you know that i got admired by all ur posts 🙂 Now, here is my doubt. I tried preparing rice porridge to give it to my 1 yr daughter. But failing in very first step. Rice is not puffed instead its being roasted and changes its color to brown. Rice is well dried. Don't know what mistake is there. Please help me.
Aarthi
You have to roast it on a low heat. It wont get super puffed. it will get crispy and little bigger in size.
Poorna
How long I can store this dry cereal powder?
Aarthi
It keeps well for over a month
nafiz
Hi aarthi,wanna let you know that i got admired by all ur posts 🙂 Now, here is my doubt. I tried preparing rice porridge to give it to my 1 yr daughter. But failing in very first step. Rice is not puffed instead its being roasted and changes its color to brown. Rice is well dried. Don't know what mistake is there. Please help me.
Aarthi
You have to roast on low to medium heat.