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Grow Your Own Sprouts

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Today, Amber in marketing shares a favorite recipe and technique – enjoy!

While doing the Crazy Sexy Adventure Cleanse, I had a great time re-discovering my love of making salads. Which involved finding good stuff to put in my salad, like bean sprouts!

Prodession of Mung bean sprouts grown in a simple canning jar with cheesecloth screen for rinsing.

Making your own sprouts at home is so easy and doesn’t take any special equipment (although there are really cool sprouting rigs you can buy) and you can sprout all sorts of seeds, beans, nuts and grains. Eating sprouts is an incredibly nutritious way to get Vitamin A, Vitamin C and B-Complex as well as protein.

Today I’ll show you how I sprouted mung beans that I bought in the bulk section at my grocery store. Or course, you can buy special sprouting seeds and beans, but you can find so much at your local store to get you started.

To sprout you will need:

  • Quart Size Canning Jar
  • Ring to fit the jar
  • Cheese Cloth
  • Beans or Seeds

Instructions

ONE: Rinse the beans and discard any that look weird or discolored.

TWO: Place about 1/4 cup of beans in the jar and fill with water. Place a double square of cheese cloth over the top of the jar and use the ring to secure it on. Allow the beans to soak for about 1 day. Smaller beans and seeds don’t need as long.

Rinse your sprouts 2-4 times a day. Once they are ready you can easily remove the skins by putting them into a big bowl of water.

THREE: Pour out the water through the cheesecloth and rinse the beans just by filling the jar through the cheese cloth and draining out the water. Rinse a few times and be sure to get as much water out as you can. You don’t want the beans sitting in a puddle, which can lead to mold and rot.

FOUR: Rinse 2-4 times a day until you get sprouts. It usually takes about 8 days for me to get good mung bean sprouts.

FIVE: This step is optional. You may want to remove the skins or hulls of your sprouts. The easiest way is to put the sprouts in a big bowl of water and skim off the skins that float to the top. I find this gets most of the skins and doesn’t take too much time.

SIX: Eat them up! Here’s one of my favorite salads. It has marinated artichokes, grated carrot, lentils, and sprouts on top of fresh, crispy lettuce.

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16 Comments

  1. Awesome! I was just thinking I would like to try sprouting my own stuff again (had one failed attempt)and then decided it was too much trouble, but you make it look so easy. Sprouts here I come! Thank you.

  2. I love sprouted lentils. I made a tofu and sprouted lentil taco for dinner one night… my friends gave me a weird look, but it was good.

  3. Success! I just wanted to update how this has gone for me. I bought three different types of beans. Mung, alfalfa, and red clover (my fav). It is now day 5 and the beans are already growing like crazy! My husband jokes that they grow so fast that he wouldn’t be surprised if you actually sat and watched them you would see them get bigger! LOL! Can’t wait to eat them. This is so simple and cheaper to do at home. Thank you again!

  4. Thank you so much for sharing this! I was just talking about wanting to grow my own sprouts. We eat them in everything! Wraps, salads, sandwiches, veggie burgers, even hot dogs! Top with fresh guacamole and it’s the best hot dog EVER!

  5. Love it, love it, love it!!!! Where do you get your beans? Any beans you suggest as being better than others? I can’t wait to try this!

    • I get most of my sprouting beans and grains in the bulk section of the Bellingham Co-Op grocery. They are organic and they have a great selection – all sorts of fun things to try.
      You can also get seeds and bean specially prepared for sprouting from online sources.

  7. There is another step you should always add. All seed has the possibility of carrying E-coli bacteria. You should always disinfect the seed before sprouting. The directions can be found at the Territorial Seed Co website http://www.territorialseed.com . Wouldn’t want anyone to get sick.

    • Thanks so much for your note.
      In my research while writing this post I found this link which I found very informative http://sproutpeople.org/sprouts/safe.html I prefer to not wash my foods with a bleach solution, however it is definitely a personal preference. I always rinse all of my foods – from sprouting beans to Spinach (yes, I even rinse the stuff that claims to be pre-washed) and of course I wash my hands before preparing any food. Do you know if there is an alternative to bleach? I wonder if Vinegar would be a more natural substitute? Thanks again for bringing this important aspect of home sprouting to our attention. ~ Amber

      • The territorial instructions I received when I bought seeds included a heat (warm water) method which is what I used. I also think you could possibly use lemon juice. Vinegar might work but I don’t know what strength.