Sprouting Mung (Moong) Beans

Red and Green Organic Mung Beans

Day One - Thursday Morning

½ c organic green mung beans

½ c organic red moong beans

a large glass sprouting jar

fresh, cold, filtered water

time 

When Sprouting - Size Matters!

Think Uniformity. . .  You wouldn't want to sprout garbanzos with alfalfa seeds!  Smaller seeds such as alfalfa, broccoli and radish go well together.  Whole brown or green lentils are wonderfully rich and peppery all by themselves, but also combine well with very tiny mung beans.  The larger ones such as black beans and red aduki beans are good together.  That's usually as big as I go, but any dried bean, potentially, can be sprouted.  The small seeds sprout VERY quickly, usually in a couple days.  The larger the seed or bean, the longer it will take.  So match you seeds according to flavor and size.

Friday Morning

Baby Sprouts!!  Sunday Morning

Put the beans in a strainer and sort through them, making sure there are no small stones or bad beans.  Rinse them and put them in the sprouting jar.  Fill the jar ½ full with water.  Let stand on the countertop 24 hours.

Drain (Mix this water with your dog's food, use it to water your plants, or add it to your 'soup stock' bucket in the freezer - It's FILLED with wonderful nutrients!)

Now the waiting begins. . .After the 24 hour soak, rinse the seeds and turn the jar strainer-side-down, for an hour or so, to drain any excess water.  Roll the seeds around the jar a bit, so they're not all on top of each other, then lay the jar on its side, on the counter.  Rinse and repeat this process every day until the seeds are fully sprouted.  At that time, rinse, dry and bag the sprouts.  They'll keep a few days in the fridge.  Once you start using them, it's hard to stop!  Their unique, peppery-freshness and crunch wins you over!! 😉

Day 6 - Ready To Use - Tuesday Morning

Put them on salads, add them to tuna or egg salad, put them in chili, add them at the end of cooking time to a recipe of Rice Pilaf, chop them up and mix them with spices, egg, onion, garlic, rice or quinoa and form them into some yummy Sprout Burgers.  Fry fast in olive oil or butter and serve.  See how many other ways you can think to use them.  On a commercial level, there are companies that grind sprouted grains to make wonderful gluten-free 'flours.'  Think outside your comfort zone!

Be Bold - Be Creative, but most of all Have Fun In Your Kitchen 😀. . . Lin