Sprouts salad – a nutrient-filled healthy salad using sprouts, veggies and a basic dressing mix. Learn with pictures and a video.
Making a salad is always an interesting act to me. I try to incorporate all possible combinations with available vegetables and meat from my pantry.
In this post let us see another interesting salad from my kitchen. Sprouts salad, made with fresh homemade green moong and horse gram sprouts.
To know how to grow sprouts at home please check my previous post. I used the same green gram and horse gram sprouts to make this salad.
You can replace them with your own choice of sprouts like chickpeas, cowpeas and fenugreek seeds sprouts. While using fenugreek sprouts use only less quantity of them as they taste slightly bitter in a salad.
Moreover, I used carrot, onion and tomato along with the green moong and horse gram sprouts. You can use your choice of salad vegetables like cucumber, boiled corn or peas, cabbage and etc.
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Sprouts salad | Healthy salad with sprouts
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 1 ½ cup mixed sprouts
- 1 cup water to blanch
- ¼ cup onion chopped
- ¼ cup carrot chopped or grated
- ¼ cup tomato chopped
- Few mint leaves
For salad dressing:
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp oil
- ½ tsp pepper powder
- ½ tsp chat masala
- ½ tsp salt as per taste
Instructions
Preparation:
- Use homemade sprouts for making this healthy salad.
- If you are using store-bought sprouts I highly recommend blanching them before using in the salad. I always do blanching to get the extra softness from the sprouts.
- Chop onion and carrot. You can also use grated carrot.
- Deseed a tomato and chop it finely.
Method:
- Heat a cup of water in a pan.
- When the water is boiling switch off and add the sprouts.
- Cover and keep it for five minutes.
- After 5 minutes drain the water and take the sprouts in a mixing bowl.
- Add chopped onions and carrots.
- Also, add tomato. You can also add a fine chopped cucumber.
- How to make the salad dressing:
- Take lemon juice in another small cup and add a tsp of oil.
- Add pepper powder and chaat masala powder.
- Put some salt and mix everything together. Our salad dressing is ready.
Mixed sprouts salad:
- Add this dressing mix into the salad bowl and toss well.
- Combine the spices well with the salad ingredients.
- Serve a bowl of this healthy sprouts salad for nutrients filled kick-start breakfast.
Video
Notes
1) Please check out my previous post on how to grow sprouts at home.
2) Too less moisture makes the sprouts dried out before germination and too much moisture makes them spoil. Similarly based on the light source of the place the growth speed of the sprouts varies. Based on the size and light and moisture some seed grows faster and some slower than others.
Nutrition
Preparation:
- Use homemade sprouts for making this healthy salad.
- If you are using store-bought sprouts I highly recommend blanching them before using in the salad. I always do blanching to get the extra softness from the sprouts.
- Chop onion and carrot. You can also use grated carrots.
- Deseed a tomato and chop it finely.
Method:
- Heat a cup of water in a pan.
- When the water is boiling switch off and add the sprouts.
- Cover and keep it for five minutes.
- After 5 minutes drain the water and take the sprouts in a mixing bowl.
- Add chopped onions and carrots.
- Also, add tomato. You can also add a fine chopped cucumber.
How to make the salad dressing:
- Take lemon juice in another small cup and add a tsp of oil.
- Add pepper powder and chaat masala powder.
- Put some salt and mix everything together. Our salad dressing is ready.
Mixed sprouts salad:
- Add this dressing mix into the salad bowl and toss well.
- Combine the spices well with the salad ingredients.
- Add few chopped coriander leaves or mint leaves.
- Serve a bowl of this healthy salad for nutrients filled kick-start breakfast.
Tips:
1) Please check out my previous post on how to grow sprouts at home.
2) Too less moisture makes the sprouts dried out before germination and too much moisture makes them spoil. Similarly based on the light source of the place the growth speed of the sprouts varies. Based on the size and light and moisture some seed grows faster and some slower than others.
