Guest guest Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Hi Sharon, I make up a batch of mixed sprouts each week and this is what I do. I don't bother with the putting the seeds in a jar in a cupboard as I usually make quite a large batch and I don't have a big enough jar. I start by covering my preferred mix with water and soaking them for about 24 hours. Allow room in the soaking bowl for expansion. After soaking them, I then tip tem into a large colander and rinse them thoroughly before covering them with a towel. Each day rinse them twice and shake to ensure that there isn't too much water adhering to them as this could cause them to go mouldy. The 'crop' will be ready in about 3-4 days when the sprouts are the desired length. Tip them out onto a towel and spread out to dry them before storing them in the fridge. By drying them you prevent them from starting to smell musty or going mouldy. I put them in a colander in the fridge to allow them to 'breathe'. They keep for about a week. This week's mixture is mung beans, adzuki beans, chick peas (my favourite) and brown lentils but you can sprout virtually any whole legumes. I have never added alfalfa seeds to my mixture as I thought they would fall through the holes in my sieve but I can't see why you couldn't use them as part of a batch of mixed sprouts (or you could sprout them separately and mix them with the legumes later). Radish seeds are also nice sprouted and they give a nice 'bite' to a salad/sandwich etc. I hope this helps a bit. If you need any more information just ask and I'll see if I can help you. Cheers from Marie in Haarlem, Netherlands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 That is helpful, Marie! It's interesting that you can sprout different seeds together - it presumably works best if they are of a similar size. I do remember that adzuki was a bean that makes nice sprouts. Does anyone still have the website that sells the nice mixes? Thanks! Sharon Marie Rieuwers wrote: > Hi Sharon, > > > > I make up a batch of mixed sprouts each week and this is what I do. > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 here are several links I have found, I can not vouch for any of them, as I have never dealt with any of these. These are places I have been considering trying out, but have not as of yet. If anyone has bought from these folks (links below), I would like to hear of your experience with them. if anyone knows of any other " tried and true " place online, I would love the link! I have an hour drive to get mine " locally " . the first two links are info sites, with time tables, for those interested. the rest are sellers. http://www.allorganic.net/sproutseeds.html http://www.godsdirectcontact.com/vegetarian/sprout.html http://www.sprouthouse.com/seeds1.htm http://www.handypantry.com/c-8-packaged-organic-seeds.aspx http://www.sprouting.com/usastore/enter.html http://www.sproutpeople.com/seeds.html Thia On 9/20/06, Sharon Zakhour <sharon.zakhour wrote: > > Does anyone still have the website that sells the nice mixes? > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Hi Sharon, I have always sprouted mixes together without worrying about the legumes being the same size. I always include chickpeas because they are my favourites but they are much larger than all the others I use. I have often included the small green Puy lentils and it works fine. I imagine that if you wanted a mixture of seeds as well as legumes then it would be best to do the seeds separately as they are so much smaller. Before I started making my own sprouts I had been buying them at the health shop for Euro 1.30 ($US 1.65) for a small tray (125 gram/approx 5 oz). On average the dry legumes cost around Euro 1.80 – Euro 2.00 ($US 2.29 - $US 2.54) for a 500 gram (1.1 lb). I use the equivalent of half of a packet (i.e. 250 g/ ½ lb) of dry beans and get a yield of over 2 kg/4.4 lb. The final product costs me less than the cost of one of the small trays I used to buy and I have more than 8 times the quantity. The only other expense is the small amount of water needed for the soaking and rinsing so it really is worth the small amount of effort involved. It may well cost more if you buy specially prepared sprouting mixes but I’m sure it would still work out much more economical than buying the already sprouted mixes. Cheers from Marie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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