Wednesday, November 16, 2005

How to Sprout Beans

You Need::
1/4 cup of dry beans (lentils, soybeans, mung beans, black red beans...seeds)
Filtered water

Sort and rinse the beans. Transfer the beans to a bowl and cover them with 2 cups of water, and leave them to soak at room temp for 8 hours. Drain the beans into a colander and gently rinse them with cold water. Place the colander in a dark place, such as your kitchen cabinet. Repeat "the rinsing/leaving to drain/returning to a dark place" twice a day for 3-5 days until the beans have sprouted a 1 inch tail. Place these baby sprouts in indirect sunlight for several hours, to create chlorophyll and to turn the sprouted tails green before using.

Use your sprouts within 3 days.

DO NOT use potato or tomato seeds, they are poisonous.
Sometimes this might not work due to circumstances only the bean knows....so don't give up, and try it again.

Enjoy.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice tip ... I love sprouts.

Anonymous said...

It took me like a week for my mung beans to be ready to eat. But they were delish. I also read that mung beans shouldn't be exposed to light so I kept them in the dark the whole time.