Healthy Nutritious Drink for your family (Specially kids) - Kanji Mix

One of the biggest challenges I face as a mom is to make sure that my daughter gets a well balanced diet, which has all the nutrients and minerals that are required for kids.  While there are many energy and health drinks now in the market, they are expensive and not natural.  Kids tend to make their eating decisions based on taste and that makes it harder to get them to eat healthy snacks which may not be tasty.
Do not worry ladies.  I have got this wonderful recipe for a natural, health and nutritious drink which can work wonders for not only your kids but for the entire family.  The biggest advantage is that  it's very easy to prepare and has long storage life.  Also, it hardly takes any time to prepare the drink in the morning and this works out great for working moms who want to prepare something nutritious to their kids but do not find time.

Ingredients 1:

Ragi  flour                                               -200gms

Bajra flour                                               -100gms

Jower flour                                              -100gms

Wheat flour                                             -100gms

Roasted gram flour(pottukadalai)               -100gms

Green Gram or Moong dal flour                  -100gms

Sago (Sabu dana) flour                             -100gms

Cashew nut powder                                  -50gms

Badam powder(Almonds)                          -50gms

Cardamom                                              - 1 teaspoon

Ingredients 2:

Milk     -1 cup

Water -1/2 cup

Method to prepare the powder:

Let us start with the powder preparation .  First switch on the stove and place a wide nonstick pan .  Measure each flour and add it to the pan.For some grains we don't get the ready made flour .  So, what I generally do is to grind it and mix to the other flour in the pan.Start adding it one by one and mix it thoroughly.  Keep the stove in a very low flame.  Do not forget to keep stirring  it for every 5 minutes. After sometime, you could smell the nice aroma of the flour(may be after 30 minutes).  It is the sign that we are done with the health mix. Switch of the stove.  Let it cool down.Once it is completely cool,  store it in an air tight container. You can plan this in the weekends or at a time where you can spend sometime in the kitchen.

Method to prepare the health drink:

Boil 1 cup of milk . Mix 2 table spoon of health mix flour in 1/2 cup of water (you can add more water, if you like your drink to be watery).  Mix it thoroughly so that there are no lumps.  Now add this mixture to the boiled milk and switch on the stove and keep stirring till it becomes slightly thick.  Switch off the stove.  Now add sugar or honey as per your taste. Kids like it tasting sweet.  You can also add salt instead of sugar or honey, if you you do not like sweet taste.  Your Healthy nutritious drink is  ready to serve.  A very good alternative to our usual breakfast.

Nutrition Facts: 

• Ragi,Bajra - Rich in Calcium and Iron .
• Jowar - Rich in Potassium and Phosphorus.
• Wheat - Rich in B Vitamins,Vitamin E and Protein.
• Roasted chickpea - Excellent source of Protein.
• Badam - Rich in Protein,Calcium and Magnesium.
• Cashews - Rich in protein and Magnesium.