Bajra raab or bajra ni raab is a traditional warm healthy soup prepared from bajra (pearl millet) & ajwain / carom seeds infused with dry ginger powder. This soup dish is considered very healthy due to the ingredients used and is recommended to nursing mom.
Bajra raab is an effective drink recommended to cure cold and cough. The drink helps in improving immune system and is given to person who feel lost of appetite. Bajra or pearl millet is rich in iron, magnesium, phosphorous and other minerals. Hence this raab drink provides missing nutrition to our body.
This is a healthy raab recipe for new or nursing mothers. After delivery this raab is given to new moms in states of Gujarat and Rajasthan.
Related: Also check Bajra wada recipe.
Let us now check the simple recipe of raab made from pearl millet / bajra.
Step by step recipe of Bajra Raab
To prepare this healthy raab we will use handful of ingredients. Bajra flour (black millet flour), jaggery, ajwain (carom seeds) and dry ginger powder (sooth).
- Pearl millet flour (bajra): 1 1/2 tbsp
- Carom seeds (ajwain): 1/2 tsp
- Dry ginger powder (soonth): 1/2 tsp
- Jaggery: 1 1/2 tbsp
- Clarified butter (ghee): 1 tsp
- Water: 1 1/2 cup
- In a deep bottom pan take Jaggery (gud) and add water. Heat jaggery until it dissolves completely in water.
- Heat some clarified butter (ghee) in a kadhai.
- Once ghee melts add bajra (pearl millet) and ajwain.
- Let the bajra gets cooked in ghee for sometime.
- Now pour the jaggery syrup on bajra and mix it well.
- Add some dry ginger powder (sooth). Sooth gives really nice flavor to raab.
- Let the bajra raab gets cooked for 2 to 3 minutes.
- Bajra raab is ready. Serve it hot or lukewarm.