Tell mom how to make cereal flour at home to breastfeed your baby

How to make dairy cereal flour is not difficult but requires your meticulousness from the selection of ingredients, preliminary processing, soaking to the roasting and grinding process. 

The breastfeeding mother does not just help her enjoy your food supply but also help mount emotionally, saving costs of children. In case mothers do not have enough milk, you can learn how to make milk-healthy cereals to increase lactation to have enough milk for your baby to suckle. How to make fortified cereal flour or nutritious cereal powder is not too difficult, you can refer to the following article of aFamilyToday Health.

Tell mom how to make delicious cereal flour

In this article, aFamilyToday Health introduces you to 2 healthy cereal flour recipes that give you more than one taste option.

1. Raw materials 

Formula 1:

Green beans: 200g

Red beans : 200g
Soybeans (soybeans): 100g

Black beans: 100g

Intent : 100g

Walnuts: 100g

Millet: 50g

Lotus seeds: 50g

Sesame: 50g

Oats: 50g.

Formula 2:

Green beans: 100g

Red beans: 100g

Black beans: 100g

Intent: 100g

Oats: 100g

Almonds: 100g

Walnuts : 100g

Chia seeds: 100g

Soybeans ( soybeans ): 50g

Millet: 50g

Sesame: 50g

Lotus seeds: 50g

2. Preliminary processing

Nuts after buying, you need to remove impurities, deep seeds, mold, flat seeds (if any).

With lotus seeds, you need to remove the lotus heart.

Willow seeds: remove the remaining hard shell fragments.

After that, you proceed to clean each seed, except chia seeds. For small seeds like sesame seeds, use a sieve to treat.

3. Soak nuts

According to many people who are often experienced in making wholegrain flour at home, depending on the nature of the nuts, you should soak them separately for 8–24 hours. The reason for the need to soak these seeds, many people believe that:

Soaking seeds helps to remove acids such as phytic acid. Phytic acid is a natural substance found in the bran of grains and grains such as brown rice , legumes ... The consumption of this substance reduces the absorption of minerals such as iron, zinc, and calcium. A deficiency of these essential minerals may increase the risk of iron deficiency anemia .

Helps to remove tannins, a substance abundant in plants, has an acrid taste, is used as a pesticide, and regulates plant growth to protect plants from attack by some species

To neutralize enzyme inhibitors: Enzyme inhibitors (enzyme inhibitors) that decrease enzyme activity can cause digestive imbalances.

Promotes the production of beneficial enzymes.

To increase vitamin intake, especially B vitamins .

Help break down gluten, digestion is easier ...

4. Incubate seeds to sprout and steam cooked

According to those experienced in making cereal flour, the germination process for seeds will help increase the nutritional content of legumes, helping to smooth digestion.

Note that after soaking beans and seeds, you need to treat them well, let them drain, then put them in a closed pot. You incubate it for about 8–12 hours, the seeds will germinate. You pour the seeds into the basket, rinse it under running water until it is clean, then steam it.

5. Roasting

After steaming the seeds, you scoop out the tray to dry seeds quickly. When the seeds are dry, put the seeds in a cast iron pan or a thick bottom pan, put on the roasting stove with high heat, stirring your hands to quickly tighten the seeds, then reduce the heat and stir evenly so that the beans do not burn.

You roast for about 1 hour, the beans will be dry, crispy. You check by taking a few seeds to try, roasted beans will see when they are eaten, they will be crunchy, slightly sweet, and pressed hard, the beans dissolve into powder.

Yeast, soybean, sesame, millet after soaking, you bring it to clean, drain and then roast. Note that during roasting, you need to roast seeds separately to ensure no ripe seeds, raw seeds.

6. Grind the flour

If you do not have a mill for fine grains, you should look for a facility that accepts flour. Note, you need to choose a clean grinding place, when grinding, you should stand observing to ensure hygiene, not mixing other nuts.

7. Mix the flour

After you grind, the dough will be slightly hot, so you need to pour the dough into a tray for the dough to cool quickly. In this step, many people experienced in making cereal flour share the secret instead of spreading the flour on the tray to cool it down, they apply the method of lowering earth in Oriental medicine.

To lower the dough, use a clean, thick cloth, spread it on the cleaned floor, pour the powder over the fabric and let it sit for about 30 minutes for the dough to cool completely. The purpose of this is to detoxify, to help regulate yin and yang.

After the dough has cooled, mix the dough well, put it in a glass jar to use gradually.

Tell your mother how to use cereals effectively

You need to mix the powder with hot water, drink about 1-2 times a day depending on needs and preferences. However, there is one thing that you need to keep in mind is that you should not drink too much or too often during the day to avoid bloating , your stomach always feels that your back is not hungry, eating less food at main meals. lack of essential nutrients.

This condition can seriously affect the quality of the breast milk supply, slowing the speed of the postnatal recovery process.

The use of cereal flour not only helps to benefit milk, but also is an additional source of protein from starch, good fats, digestive vitamins and fiber, good for vegetarians. In addition, there are many opinions that this powder also works to beautify the skin, black hair, anti-aging , heat, detoxify, enhance bone health.

On busy days, when not preparing breakfast for your child to go to school , you can let your baby use cereal and milk instead. For the elderly, the use of cereal flour as a supplemental meal helps in essential nutrients.

Tell you how to choose ingredients for dairy cereals, nutritious cereals

With this way of making whey, you need to find ingredients that are grown according to clean agricultural standards so that the product does not contain residues of plant protection drugs.

With legumes, you should choose beans with small, even, firm seeds, bright colors, and no pests.

Black beans: priority should be given to black green beans, glossy black skin.

Red beans choose beans with uniform dark red skin, bright colors, and avoid beans that appear dull. Dull beans are usually poor quality, old beans.

Soybeans (soybeans): Prefer to choose small seeds, the color of the shell is slightly green.

Black sesame: choose seeds evenly, sprinkle, soak with water, do not see discoloration.

Lotus seeds: You should choose lotus seeds from Hue or Northern lotus seeds, because these two seeds will be more fragrant and delicious than lotus seeds in other regions.

Note that the ingredients for making whey powder are not necessarily all the nuts mentioned above, you can reduce the amount depending on the nuts you have or your own taste.