Michio's porridge and Kokkoh

[Meditate]

Hello,

I’ve been searching on the net for kokkoh because I have a nine month old baby girl,
some people say that the way to make it is by roasting the ingredients
then grinding them
then we can put a spoon to every glass of water and boil for ten minuets

So I can’t make my mind which is the right way??!!




Anyway, I’ll try now to tell you what I’ve been doing, please point out where I was wrong:
1. I cooked a cup of brown rice and oats mixture (not roasted), with fifteen cups of water (1:15) for four hours, now I tried one of the following, I don’t know which is better:
A: wait until it cools down then take only the water and leave the grains at the bottom.
B: while it’s hot, grind them with a blender, then strain. But that would make the result’s consistency so light (gust like water)
C: while it’s hot, grind them with a blender, leave the mix to cool down and serve without straining ,the consistency in this case would be thick, ( but this would leave the layers of the grains not grinned ,thus I think it would be difficult for the baby to swallow or, I don’t know, maybe difficult to digest)
2. I roasted the ingredients, and grind them ,as I said in the previous message, until they become like flour,
Then I put one spoon of the flour to one cup of water and boil for 45 minuets, the result was not satisfying at all, I didn’t reach that rich thick consistency I seek.

3. What is the benefit of roasting? And should it be with the use of a little of sesame or olive oil?


4. Please tell me how to make Michio's porridge.

Thanks very much for helping

[Bruce Paine]

Meditate,

Try this recipe*:

"Whole-grain kokkoh cereal can be introduced after 8 months to 1 year as main food. It is made from four parts brown rice (short grain), 3 parts sweet brown rice, 1 part barley, always cooked with a piece of kombu, (which does not always have to be eaten). The proportion of water to grains is about 10:1, 7:1, or 3:1, depending upon the age of the baby. (Younger babies require more water.) Millet and oats can be included from time to time. Buckwheat, wheat, and rye are usually not given.

1. Soak cereals for 2–3 hours and pressure cook with five times more water for 1 hour, or

2. Soak cereals for 2–3 hours and boil with ten times more water until half the original volume of water is left. Use a low flame after rice comes to a boil. If rice boils over, turn off flame and start it again when rice stops boiling over.

This cereal should be soft and creamy. For babies less than 5 months old, kokkoh is best digested if mashed well (preferably in a suribachi or with a mortar and pestle). For babies less than 1 year old, rice syrup or barley malt may be added as a sweetener. Avoid kokkoh or other creamy grain cereals made from flour products. Kokkoh can be given as a replacement for mother’s milk if mother’s milk is not available."

* Baby Food Suggestions http://www.goodhealthinfo.net/mdr/baby_food.htm

** "A delicious morning porridge can be made by pressure cooking or boiling rice, millet, barley, or other grain using 5 cups of water to 1 cup of grain and by seasoning and cooking as" below:

"1. Soak 2 cups of washed organically grown brown rice in 3 cups of spring water for 3 to 5 hours or overnight.

2. Place in a pressure cooker with a pinch of sea salt or a 1-inch piece of kombu sea vegetable per cup of rice.

3. Bring up to pressure on a medium high flame.

4. When pressure is up, place a flame deflector underneath and lower the flame.

5. Cook for 50 minutes.

6. Turn off the flame and let the pressure reduce itself naturally.

7. Remove the rice from the pot and put in a wooden bowl.

For variety, you can combine 80 percent brown rice with 20 percent barley, or millet, or wheat berries, or corn,etc. Combinations of grains and beans: 90 percent brown rice with 10 percent azuki beans, or soybeans, or chickpeas."

** Basic Macrobiotic Recipes http://www.kushiinstitute.org/commun...c-recipes.html

Thank you, very much.

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Bruce Paine