SATHTHU MAAVU

SATHTHU MAAVU:

Ingredients:

Brown chick peas-100 gms
Ragi- 100gms
Gram dal [pottukkadalai]- 100gms
Sago-100gms
Whole green gram-100gms
Soya beans-100gms
Wheat-100gms
Maize [makka cholam]-100gms

Procedure:

Keep all the ingredients in separate plates under the heat of the sun for a whole day. Then fry each ingredient in a dry pan for a few minutes. There is no need to brown them. When cooled, pound them to a fine powder. If they are sprouted and then fried, then a most nutritious saththu maavu can be obtained.

For sprouting-

Ragi must be soaked in lots of water for 8 hours and then must be sprouted for 2 days.
Soya beans must be soaked for 30 hours and then sprouted for 3 days.
Chick peas must be soaked for 12 hours and sprouted for 2 days.
All these sprouts must be sun-dried well and then fried before pounding to a fine powder.

For children, mix 1 tsp of this saththu maavu with 1 tsp of almond powder. Mix this with a cup of hot milk with enough sugar.

SATHTHU MAAVU [FOR CHILDREN]

Ingredients:

Fried maize flour-30gms
Green gram flour-20gms
Fried groundnuts powder- 10gms
Gram dal powder-10gms
Fried wheat flour-50gms
Jaggery to taste

Mix all these powders and add jaggery according to the taste. This can be given to children directly or make small flat vadais with the help of little water. Then roast them on a hot tawa with enough ghee.

Baby Food

For one year old baby, you can give the following food varieties. If I can find more, I will again post them for you!!

1. Take a small cube of potato, 1 tsp of shredded carrot, a pea sized beetroot, 1 tsp of chopped keerai, a small piece of chow chow, a small garlic[ to wipe out the gas produced by the food], 1 tsp of green gram, 1 small beans, a small tomato, little coriander leaves and 2tbsp of raw rice or boiled rice in a bowl. Pressure cook them with enough water. Mash them finely with salt and fill in the feeding bottle. You can add the vegetables according to their availability. A very small piece of pumpkin can also be added. But always make it certain to add tomato, potato and carrot in various measurements. These will enhance the taste and the child will like it.

2. There are so many types of sathu maavu varieties. I think you know about it. You can find the recipes in this same mayyam. I think you can find it in an old thread of Kugans. Make the sathu maavu. Pour 1 ½ cups of milk in a pan and add 1 tsp of this powder with enough sugar. Boil well until the maavu is combined with the milk thoroughly and nicely cooked. Pour this in a feeding bottle and give it to the baby.

3. The food must be always warm.

4. Soak 1 tbsp of wheat in a cup of water overnight. In the morning grind the wheat well and squeeze out the milk from it. Boil the milk with jaggery. When it is thickened, put off the fire. It will be like loosened halwa. You can add a pinch of cardamom powder in it when you are cooking. Add few drops of ghee to it. This is a healthiest food for the child. A doctor prescribed this food.

5. Boil an apple and mash it with enough sugar. You can add small pieces of papaya and pear when mashing the fruit. This is a nutritious food for the child.

6. Pressure cook a small potato with a few frozen peas and a small piece of carrot. Mash it finely with a pinch of salt. This you can give twice a week.

About Alpakoda pazham

Its texture is like dates and tastes very sour and really better during morning sickness. I'm not sure if it is available in US. The best alternative is imli goli which is availabe in India stores.