How to make Cerelac at home?
Homemade cerelac for babies traditionally known as sathu maavu is one of the most nutritious and healthy weight gaining foods for your child. While the recipe given below gives you suitable quantities of all the ingredients, you can customize this cerelac recipe by changing these amounts depending on your baby’s need and her body’s requirement.
Baby having a meal
Ingredients for Homemade Cerelac:
1. One and half a cup white/brown rice.
2. One cup urad dal (split black gram)
3. One cup hara chana (green gram)
4. One cup moong dal (split green gram)
5. One cup bhuna chana (roasted gram)
6. One cup masoor dal (split red lentils)
7. One cup dalia(broken wheat)
8. Half a cup sabudana (sago)
9. Half a cup chana dal (horse gram)
10. Half a cup corn
11. Half a cup almonds
12. Half a cup cashew
13. 8-10 pods elaichi (cardamom)
Homemade Cerelac Recipe for 8 months baby:
Watch this Do It Yourself video. It contains the whole process of the recipe. Then read the steps below to learn and understand the recipe better. Make sure you watch it in full screen for the best experience.
Step by Step Recipe for Home made Cerelac
1. Soak all the ingredients except for almonds, cashews, and cardamom in water overnight. Rinse and dry them properly the next day.
Soaked ingredients except for nuts
2. After this, dry roast all the ingredients as follows
~Rice: Roast the rice grains till they become puffed and grow in size.
~Pulses and Dalia: Roast them till they turn golden brown and a little crispy. For hara chana, roast till its color changes from green to mild brown.
~Sabudana: Roast till it becomes crispy and a little dry.
~Bhuna chana: It will require a little roasting so that it becomes dry and relatively more crispy.
~Corn: Dry roast till it becomes crispy or starts crackling.
~Almond and Cardamom: Roast till their aroma starts rising.
~Cashew: Roast till it turns golden-brown.
Dry roasting the ingredients
3. Allow all the constituents to cool down for some time.
4. Now, powder all the roasted ingredients in a mixer or blender.
Putting roasted ingredients in mixture to grind
5. Sift the ground flour to make it finer.
6. Store the sifted fine flour in an airtight container. It can be stored and used safely for 4-6 months.
Cerelac powder for babies
Before Serving the Homemade Cerelac to your baby keep these in mind:
1. Take a cup of milk and let it boil.
2. Add two tablespoons of the homemade cerelac to the boiled milk and stir to remove the lumps. This way the mixture would form a paste, add some more milk if needed.
3. Once done, put off the flame.
4. Serve warm.
Handy Tips:
1. You can add mashed fruits like bananas, apples or chikoo (sapota) to enhance the taste and nutritional content of the dish.
Fruits for babies
2. You can add jaggery to sweeten the cerelac. Avoid using sugar as much as possible.
NOTE:
1) Nuts should not be given to babies below 1 year.
2) Daal can be given to babies to older than 8 months but it should be really soft for baby to digest.
Write to us in the comments section below about your queries regarding the recipe. And if you like the recipe, do share it with other fellow moms searching for nutritious recipes for their little bundle of joy.
Happy Parenting! 🙂
Nice one , very useful
Happy to be of any kind of help.
Which milk(cow milk or expressed mother milk) is used to boil and mix the cereal? Can we boil breastmilk ?
I heard baby cannot digest cow milk before 1 year.
You can mix this cerelac powder in formula milk. Avoid mixing the powder in breast milk as you cannot boil it. And yes, you heard it right. Cow milk is to be given only after the baby turns one year of age.
Which milk(cow milk or expressed mother milk) is used to boil and mix the cerlac? Can we boil breastmilk ?
I heard baby cannot digest cow milk before 1 year.
Hi Sailaja,
Yes, Cow milk is difficult to digest for babies. Breastmilk can not be boiled. Formula Milk can be used. But no other milk except Breastmilk must be given before the child reaches 6 months of age. We encourage you to ask questions. If you have more questions, feel free to ask them.
Happy Parenting 😀
I loved this article. I want to ask that may baby has now entered 7 month . Which of the pulses to be given and which not.
Like in this article nuts and dals not to be given now. So is this ceralac to be started at the age of 8 month. Pl reply
Hey Sheetal. Avoid adding nuts to the recipe until your baby turns 1 year old. And as your baby is 7 months of age, I would recommend you to wait for one more month. And at the 8 month, you can introduce the pulses. Just make sure they are well soaked and soft. Would help the baby in digestion.
This is awesome way to give our babies more nutrition at a time with milk…thanks for sharing… My baby is 4 months old but I am happy for this article.
Thanks for the lovely words Urvashi. Glad to hear that you liked the article. Do try the recipe when your baby turns 8 months old. Happy Parenting! 🙂
Hi my baby is 6mnths now can we give Ragi sari if so what are the pulses shud be given n also can we give carrot puree pls reply
Now my baby 2 years old . Can I give him without cook. Direct mix i warm milk without boil.
Yes and It’s better to Boil Milk before giving to the baby.
Hi i am really tempted to try this recipe for my fifteen month old baby. I have a query. In the video. We do not dalia/broken wheat soaked or used in the recipe. Is it not really important. Should i soak dalia as well with the other stuff. Thanks a lot
Hi Priya,
Thank you for asking. I am sure your baby would really like the taste of this recipe. Yes, it is important to soak Dalia/Broken Wheat.
cow milk can b digested by babies easily if u add 3 forth of water in 1 forth of milk and boil adding ilaichi in it can b given to.babies till 7-8 months aftee that half water n half milk equally boiled n given to baby is useful.. cow of bufallo milk is very nutritious n healthy fr babies rather then formula milk
Very nice article. What are other varieties of cerelac that can be made at home ?