Ingredients:

1.  Mixed vegetables (potato, carrot, beans) – 1/2 cup chopped

2. small onion – 1

3. Salt as reqd

4. oil – 1/2 tsp

5. Ghee – 1/2 tsp

6. Mustard seeds – 1/6 tsp

7. Pepper pwdr – 1 pinch

8. Turmeric pwdr – 1/4 tsp

9. curry leaves – few

10. Garlic  – 1 pod

11. Moong dal or toor dal – 1 tbsp

Method:

1. Pressure cook vegetables with salt, garlic n turmeric pwdr, and moong dal or toor dal separately

2. Pour oil in a pan n splutter mustard seeds, curry leaves.  Then, toss the small onions n saute until it turns pink.

3. Coarse grind the vegetables or mash to a coarse paste and add into the oil n saute for a while.

4. Sprinkle pepper pwdr n saute well.

5. Then add the dal n some water n allow it to boil.

6. When it boils, pour 1/2 tsp ghee n turn off the fire.

7. Mix it with mashed rice n serve it.

Ingredients:

1. Toor dal – 2 tbsp

2. Salt as reqd

3. oil -1 tsp

4. Ghee – 1/2 sp

5. Mustard seeds – 1/5 tsp

6. Curry leaves

7. Garlic – 1 pod

Method:

1. Pressure cook toor dal with salt, 1/2 tsp oil, garlic and a pinch of turmeric pwdr.

2. Pour oil in a pan n splutter mustard seeds n curry leaves.

3. Drain water from toor dal (if any) n smash it.

4. Add the toor dal n allow it to boil until it becomes a thick consistency.

5. Smash the rice n add the toor dal gravy with ghee n serve it.

Hint:

Moong dal (pasi parupu) rice can also be done in the same way.

Ingredients:

1. Tomato – 1 small

2. Rice – 1/4 cup

3. salt as reqd

4. turmeric pwdr- 1/6 tsp

5.  mustard seeds – 1/4 tsp

6. oil – 1/2 tsp

7. Ghee – 1/2 tsp

8. Garlic – 1 pod

Method: 1

1. Boil tomatoes n garlic together. Remove the skin n grind it to a fine paste.

2. Pour oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds, turmeric pwdr n curry leaves.

3. Now add the ground paste, little water n salt, and allow it boil until it becomes a thick consistency.

4. Smash the rice n add the tomato gravy along with ghee n serve it.

Method : 2

1. Peel the skin of the tomatoes n de-seed it. finely chop or smash or grind the garlic.

2. Cut into small pieces.

3. Pour oil in a pan, n splutter mustard seeds.

4. Now, add the tomatoes, ground garlic, salt n turmeric pwdr n cook with closed lid in a low flame.

5. When the tomatoes are smashed well n becomes a thick gravy, remove from fire.

6. Mix it with rice n ghee n serve it.

Ingredients:

1. Egg – 1

2. Rice – 1/4 cup

3. Salt as reqd

4. Ghee – 1/2 tsp

Method:

1. Boil the egg n seperate the yellow yolk.

2. Break the yellow yolk into fine pieces with a spoon.

3. In a bowl, smash the rice n add salt n ghee to it.

4. Then add the smashed yellow yolk n blend it together with the rice.

5. Serve it with or without seasoning.

Ingredients:

1. Any keerai – 1/4 of the bunch, cleaned n chopped finely.

2. rice – 1/4 cup

3. Moong dhall – 1 tbsp

4. Salt as reqd

5. Ghee – 1/2 sp

6. turmeric pwdr – 1/5 tsp

7. Garlic – 1 pod

Method:

1. Clean n boil moong dhall in water with salt, garlic n turmeric pwdr, until it is semi cooked.

2. Then add the keerai n mix well.

3. When the keerai is cooked well n becomes a thick gravy, bring it out of fire n allow it to cool.

4. Grind to a coarse paste along with rice n ghee, n serve it.

5. Season it with mustard seeds ( optional)

Nutritious dish to ur baby.

Ingredients:

1. Rice ( cooked) – 1/4 cup

2. Chicken – 1 piece (2 inches)

3. Small onion (shallots) – 2

4. Pepper pwdr – 1 pinch

5. salt as reqd

6. Turmeric pwdr – 2 pinch

7. Ghee – 1/2 tsp

8. Garlic – 1 pod

9. Ginger – 1 cm piece

10. Fennel or mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp (optional)

11. oil – 1/2 tsp

Method:

1. Grind together shallots, ginger garlic n keep aside.

2. Heat the pan n pour oil n splutter the mustard or fennel seeds.

3. Add the ground paste n saute for a while.

4. Then add the chicken, salt, turmeric pwdr n pepper pwdr along with 1/2 cup water.

5. Allow it to boil until it becomes a thick gravy.

6. Mix together with the rice n ghee n serve it.

Note:

Make sure that the fennel seeds does not infringe babyz normal eating. In that case use fennel pwdr.

Also, while feeding any non – vegetarian food for the first time, never attempt to try any other new foods. This is in case if a baby gets allergic to a new food, it is easy to discriminate the cause of allergies. Take atleast 1 week as allergic phase for new foods. ( Itz not sure that all babies are allergic to new food..its better to be cautious).

This is SAMz favourite !!!

Ingredients:

1. Rice (cooked) – 1/4 cup

2. Carrot – 1 small

3. Garlic – 1 pod

4. Ghee – 1/2 tsp

5. Turmeric pwdr – 2 pinch

6. Salt as reqd.

Method:

1. Peel the skin n cut the carrot into small pieces.

2. Add salt, 1 cup water, turmeric pwdr, carrot in a pan (or pressure cook) until the carrot is done.

3. Coarse grind the rice, carrot, ghee, salt  n 2 tsps of remaining water.

4. Optional : season it with mustard seeds n curry leaves before u serve. Add a pinch of asofetida while seasoning.