How to make sprouts at home without a sprout maker. Sharing a detailed step by step photo tutorial to make sprouts at home with mixed beans. This is a very basic for making sprouts that you can try with any beans like moong beans or mixed beans as done here. These homemade sprouts are so easy, delicious, healthy & hygenic. These bean sprouts com very handy in daily cooking and a healthy vegetarian protein option.
Sprouting Beans At Home
Sprouting beans at home is really easy and quick. The process is very simple and you definitely don’t need a sprout maker.
It is highly advisable to make sprouts at home as the ones sold in markets are chemically treated and uses substandard water. Also if not done carefully, sprouts carry the risk of contamination and bacteria.
So it is better for us to carefully pick the beans, use good water and sprout them in clean environment.
All of us know the goodness of sprouted beans,sprouted beans have twice the nutrition of normal beans and easy to digest too.
If you are a beginner, I would suggest you start by sprouting green gram/moong/pasi payaru as they sprout very easily within a day and easy to do. Here I am showing how make sprouts with mixed beans at home.
It takes around 2 1/2 days to get mixed beans sprouts. I usually don’t wait for lengthy sprouts so just use after two days.
There are two ways to make sprouts at home. One is using a clean cloth and other method is just using a box with tight lid. I usually follow the second method but here I am sharing instructions for both ways.
How To Make Sprouts At Home-Using Cloth
step by step tutorial on how to make sprouts:
Here I have used green gram, red kidney beans,dry peas and black chickpeas.
1. Pick the beans leaving out split beans as they will rot the whole batch.
2. Wash the beans thoroughly 2-3 times under running water.
3. Take the beans in a large deep bowl and add enough water to it,the water level should be 2-3″ above the beans. Cover and soak the beans over night or 7-8 hours.
4. The beans will be plump and soft after 7-8 hours. Now drain the beans thoroughly using a colander. Let it rest for 15 minutes so that all the water is drained. The beans should be damp.
5. Take a clean dry hot box/casserole and transfer the damp beans to it. Cover and keep it undisturbed in a clean cool place (do not refrigerate) for 18-20 hours.
6. 2nd day you will see small shoots in the beans. Moong would have already sprouted well. There will be a pungent smell and that is common with sprouts,but if you feel the smell is strong,rinse the beans once and drain thoroughly and again transfer to the hot box and keep it undisturbed for 10 hours.
7. Now after 10 hours the shoots would have been grown more. Take the sprouted beans and rinse well,refrigerate till use.
Now you know how to make sprouts at home easily do try healthy sprouts sandwich,sprouts pulao, sprouts masala curry recipe you can even add sprouted beans in this salad.
How to make sprouts
How to sprout mixed beans at home | Easy way to sprout mixed beans
1 CUP = 250 ml
Ingredients
- Mixed beans
- Water
- Hot box/casserole
Instructions
- Pick the beans leaving out split beans as they will rot the whole batch.
- Wash the beans thoroughly 2-3 times under running water.
- Take the beans in a large deep bowl and add enough water to it,the water level should be 2-3" above the beans. Cover and soak the beans over night or 7-8 hours.
- The beans will be plump and soft after 7-8 hours. Now drain the beans thoroughly using a colander. Let it rest for 15 minutes so that all the water is drained. The beans should be damp.
- Take a clean dry hot box/casserole and transfer the damp beans to it. Cover and keep it undisturbed in a clean cool place (do not refrigerate) for 18-20 hours.
- nd day you will see small shoots in the beans. Moong would have already sprouted well. There will be a pungent smell and that is common with sprouts,but if you feel the smell is strong,rinse the beans once and drain thoroughly and again transfer to the hot box and keep it undisturbed for 10 hours.
- Now after 10 hours the shoots would have been grown more. Take the sprouted beans and rinse well,refrigerate till use.
- you can make sprouts sandwich,pulao,salad and many more.
Notes
2. Keep the sprouted beans in fridge and use within a week
Nutrition
Nicole says
I love sprouting beans but have never done it with just a regular bag of dried beans from the grocery store- do you buy a bag of dried beans? Or do you go to the bulk section at a natural food store? Does any dried bean work? Thanks!
Harini says
any dried bean works