Sprouts | How to grow mixed sprouts at home
The process of growing Sprouts from scratch, with whole beans and legumes. Learn the natural germination process with stepwise pictures.
As you all know, any kind of the whole legume in its sprout form is the healthiest stage for us to consume. Sprouts have loads of nutrients compared to fully grown whole grams or seeds.
Usually, people use legumes like green moong, fenugreek seeds, chickpea, Kidney bean, soybean and horse gram to make sprouts. Today I use green moong and horse gram to make mixed sprouts.
Anything and everything will have a sprouting stage in it’s growing phase and making the sprouts at home is not a difficult task at all.
Nowadays, many supermarkets have different kinds of sprouted stuff like beans and plants for consumers. But purely homegrown is always special and healthy. Sprouts can be eaten raw or cooked. The raw ones are added to salads for maximum benefits and weight loss. However, for those who have digestion problem or with underlying health complications, it is highly recommended to cook the sprouts thoroughly before consuming. Try ‘Sprouts salad’.
Moreover, these taste best as stir-fried plain or with other simple ingredients. In some places, they use the sprouted grams in gravy also.
The budding sprouts have lots of nutrients and minerals like,
- Protein
- Dietary Fiber
- Vitamins A, C and K
- Folate
- Calcium, Magnesium, Iron and Zinc.
In turn, these nutrients help our body to,
- Better digestion
- High metabolism
- Weight loss
- Reduce anemia and many more
More details on health benefits: https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/
Follow the simple steps properly to grow your own sprouts at home in a clean environment. Moreover, light is an important source to grow the buds, be it natural daylight or electric light.
Sprouts | How to grow mixed sprouts at home
Ingredients
Needed items:
- 1 cup whole green moong (green gram)
- ½ cup Horse gram
- Water to sprinkle
- Thin cotton cloth
- Large metal strainer or filter bowl
Instructions
Method:
- Take whole green gram and horse gram in a bowl. You can use any whole legume or gram or seeds.
- Rinse the whole grams thoroughly with running water.
- Next soak them in drinking water for eight to ten hours until the seeds become soft to press. By this time the skin will come off literally as you can see.
- Soaking time varies for each gram and you should decide by touching and feeling the softness.
- Once when the seeds are soaked enough, drain the excess water completely.
- Take the soaked gram in a thin damp cotton cloth.
- Cover the cloth and make a loose knot.
- Keep these soaked grams in the cotton cloth inside a metal strainer or bowl.
- Do not close the bowl and keep in a bright spot. No need to keep under direct sunlight as the seeds will be dried out before the germination process begins.
- In hot weather places, the grams will start sprouting in one day around 20-24 hours.
- Open the knot of the cloth and check the sprouts. Sprinkle some water again knot and wet the cloth with few drops of water to keep the dampness till the next day.
- In my place, the green gram and horse gram sprouts took two days to sprout up to one inch long. Hence decide based on the weather in your place on how long you must wait to grow sprouts. In some cold places, it may take up to one week to grow the sprouts
- Use these homemade sprouts in your salads, curries and stir fry recipes.
Video
Notes
1) As different legume/seed has different soaking time, decide based on your judgment. The maximum time the legumes are soaked the maximum growth of sprouts we can get.
2) Typically a week after germination, the sprouts will have the highest concentration and bioavailability of nutrients.
Nutrition
Method:
- Take whole green gram and horse gram in a bowl. You can use any whole legume or gram or seeds.
- Rinse the whole grams thoroughly with running water.
- Next soak them in drinking water for eight to ten hours until the seeds become soft to press.
- By this time the skin will come off literally as you can see. Soaking time varies for each gram and you should decide by touching and feeling the softness.
- Once when the seeds are soaked enough, drain the excess water completely.
- Take the soaked gram in a thin damp cotton cloth.
- Cover the cloth and make a loose knot.
- Keep these soaked grams in the cotton cloth inside a metal strainer or bowl.
- Do not close the bowl and keep it in a bright spot. No need to keep it under direct sunlight as the seeds will be dried out before the germination process begins.
- In hot weather places, the grams will start sprouting in one day around 20-24 hours.
- Open the knot of the cloth and check the sprouts. Sprinkle some water again knot and wet the cloth with few drops of water to keep the dampness till the next day.
- In my place, the green gram and horse gram took two days to sprout up to one inch long. Hence decide based on the weather in your place on how long you must wait to grow the buds. In some cold places, it may take up to one week to grow the sprouts.
- Use these homemade sprouts in your salads, curries and stir fry recipes.
Tips:
- As different legume/seed has different soaking time, decide based on your judgment. The maximum time the legumes are soaked the maximum growth we can get.
- Typically a week after germination, the sprouts will have the highest concentration and bioavailability of nutrients.
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