Do you often feel -BLAH? Don’t have the energy? We eat a lot of dead food (processed foods, or foods that have been harvested weeks before we eat them), and it is no surprise we feel Blah! Adding sprouts which are bursting with life give us the life force and make us feel alive!
Filled with essential vitamins, proteins, and enzymes that cleanse, rejuvenate, and heal the body, sprouts just might be the perfect food that can’t be ignored. When a seed germinates it is getting ready for a new life, so it is bursting with nutrients and energy. Eating some sprouts every day gives us those nutrients and life-force to add a life to our lives!
If you are new to sprouting -follow this step by step to grow our own Mung Bean Sprouts:
- Measure out the quantity of the mung beans you would like to sprout.
- Wash, rinse and soak the Mung Beans for 8-12 hours. ( mix seeds up to assure even water contact for all the seeds)
- Drain the seeds after 8-12 hours, wrap them in a dish towel or a muslin /cheese cloth ( the drained water can be used to as a stock or water the plants- it has nutrients in it)
- For the next 24-48 hours keep the Mung beans wrapped up, moist ( if the cloth seems dry sprinkle little water)and out of direct sunlight. ( I leave them on the my counter top)
- Once you feel they are ready open the wrap and “sun them” to get a bright green color!
- The mung beans are ready to be harvested and consumed! Try this salad recipe or can store the sprouts for up to 7 days in an air tight glad container in the refrigerator.
The thick rooted Mung Bean Sprouts you see in Chinese and other Asian cuisines are commercially grown often with chemicals and gasses. You will likely never get your home grown sprouts to look like those you see at a restaurant or supermarket, but you can get some thick roots.
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