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Making your own Brown Rice Cereal for your baby is easy, economical, and fun when beginning to transition your baby to solids.
Why Make Homemade Brown Rice Cereal for Your Baby
- Cost Effective: The other awesome part about the homemade version of brown rice baby cereal is that it costs a mere fraction of what you can pay for boxed rice cereal. Why spend all that money on one simple ingredient? Even if you buy the most expensive organic brown rice you can find, per serving you’ll still be paying less than the store bought version.
- Engaging Activity: Whizzing up the brown rice in the blender is a visual stimulant for little ones. I always loved making this recipe when my kids were babies because they were fascinated with watching the blender and it was a great way for them to make early connections about where their food comes from.
- Versatile: You can easily customize brown rice cereal to suit your baby’s taste preferences. Its mild flavor lends itself to be easily transformed when other ingredients are added to it.
How to Make Brown Rice Cereal
- Place the brown rice in a spice grinder or blender for 45 seconds-1 minute or until finely ground.
- To Store: Store the rice powder in a sealed container in the refrigerator or in a cool dark place.
- To prepare 1 serving for a 4-6 month old baby: bring 1/2 cup of water to a boil and sprinkle in 2 tablespoons of the ground brown rice.
- Whisk continuously for 30 seconds, reduce to a simmer and stir occasionally for 4-5 minutes or until the mixture is thick and creamy to prevent any lumps from forming.
- Serve as is or with one of the additions below.
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Brown Rice Cereal Additions
Brown rice cereal is a great base for many flavors. Here are some ideas for ingredients to add to your baby’s brown rice cereal recipe:
- Molasses
- Mashed banana
- Mashed raspberries
- Puréed pears, peaches or apricots
- Mashed avocado
- Apple sauce
- Breast milk or formula
With its simple preparation and low cost, it’s no surprise that many parents turn to homemade brown rice cereal when transitioning to solids. Let me know if you have any questions in the comments and tag me on social media if you make this or any weelicious baby foods!
Homemade Brown Rice Cereal
This homemade brown rice cereal is one of the simplest first foods you can make. Just grind, cook, and serve.
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup short grain brown rice (I like to use organic brown rice)
Instructions
- Place the brown rice in a spice grinder or blender for 45 seconds-1 minute or until finely ground.
- To Store: Store the rice powder in a sealed container in the refrigerator or in a cool dark place.
- To prepare 1 serving for a 4-6 month old baby: bring 1/2 cup of water to a boil and sprinkle in 2 tablespoons of the ground brown rice.
- Whisk continuously for 30 seconds, reduce to a simmer and stir occasionally for 4-5 minutes or until the mixture is thick and creamy to prevent any lumps from forming.
- Serve as is or with one of the additions below.
Video
Notes
To Store: Store the rice powder in a sealed container in the refrigerator or in a cool dark place.
Nutrition
Calories: 54kcal | Carbohydrates: 11g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 0.4g | Saturated Fat: 0.1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 1mg | Potassium: 40mg | Fiber: 1g | Calcium: 5mg | Iron: 0.3mg
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Yes you can! That is actually a recommendation in the recipe!
Wonderful recipie, but instead of cooking it with water, could I cook the powder with some breast milk? ( I was thinking I can make porridge for adults w/ cows milk, so why not brown rice cereal with breast milk for baby?)
Yes, you can use long grain rice! Short grain rice is ideal because it cooks up softer than other types of rice. 🙂
Loving the site.
Have a quick question, can long grain brown rice be used instead of the short grain?
It does! It has all the nutrients of brown rice plus all the nutrients of the milk or formula you use to cook it!
this cereal has all the nutrients that store bought does?
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You can! It will cook much faster!
I milled minute brown rice, can I turn that into cereal for my baby?
Thanks so much for this. I needed a diary and gluten free cereal for my daughter and this is so easy to do. She loves it!
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No, it needs to be uncooked rice so that you can grind it!
Can I use pre cooked brown rice?
Candace,I am totally with you on this oh my gnosoeds! My children do the same thing! My husband, not so much, but it drives me mad, and I keep telling them over and over and they just don’t get it what in the world?Tuesdae