To begin with, add 1 cup of ragi into a bowl. Wash nicely in water. There will be lots of dust particles, stone in ragi. So it’s better to wash ragi nicely 2-3 times, by scrubbing it with your hand, discard the water. After ragi is washed well, add 6-7 almonds, 2 cups water and soak it for 8 to 10 hours.

Drain the water and transfer the soaked ragi into a mixer jar. Add 1/4 cup fresh coconut, jaggery, 1/2tsp cardamom powder.. Add 1 cup water.Grind it really smooth. Addition of Badam is actually optional, but tastes more good when we add. Addition of coconut enhances the taste. It is added in the traditional method, if you don’t want, you can skip.

Filter the ground Ragi using a strainer. Extract the juice nicely
Transfer the leftover ragi paste collected in the sieve back to the mixer jar. Add a cup of water and blend smooth...

Like this, transfer the left over extract, add water grind smooth. Repeat the steps 2-3 times, till you try to extract almost all the juice from the ground ragi paste.. After filtering ragi milk almost 3 times, this is the ragi extract that’s leftover at last. If you observe this is mainly ragi skin. Almost all the juice from the ground ragi paste has been extracted... Finally Strain out the milk through a muslin cloth.

Adjust the consistency of ragi milk if required by adding little water. You could alter the water quantity and jaggery quantity based on your preference as in how sweet you like or how thick you want... That’s it, super healthy and very nutritious ragi milk is ready.You could serve as such or keep in fridge and serve chilled. If you wish to have it hot, transfer it to a steel glass. Heat water in a pot until it comes to a boil.

Remove the pot from the heat, place the milk glass in the pot and cover it with a lid. Let it warm up for about 2 minutes. Remove and serve...