How to make sprouts at home | How to make green gram sprouts | How to make mung sprouts
By Latha on March 4th, 2016
Learn how to make sprouts at home. Making green gram or mung sprouts explained here with step by step pictures. It is very easy and healthy to make sprouts at home.
Sprouts have numerous health benefits. Sprouts helps in weight loss, increases appetite, improves digestion, maintains healthy and beautiful skin, reduces cholesterol and heart diseases, controls hypertension and boosts immune system. So please don't forget to include sprouts in your regular diet.
Sprouts are tasty and healthy but like any other raw food, safety precautions should be taken while making and using them. Use clean drinking water to rinse, rinse before soaking, after soaking and before using the sprouts. Also follow the instructions carefully.
Instructions for making sprouts at home:
- Rinse the green gram well using clean water. Soak it for 5 - 6 hours. I generally soak it from morning to evening.
- After soaking drain the water, rinse it again using clean water and drain the water completely.
- Now take a clean, damp muslin cloth or kitchen cloth. Pour the soaked green gram over the cloth.
- Tie it and keep it in a clean and dry bowl or vessel.
- Over that keep a heavy object like a stone or a mortar of the mortar-pestle. This is to create pressure, which helps in good sprouting. And keep it in room temperature for 12 - 24 hours. Time depends on the length of the sprouts required.
- I generally keep it for 12 - 14 hours. The sprouting time might vary depending on the weather conditions. Use the sprouts in salads or curries or gravies.
- Now lets make a quick salad. Grate one cucumber and one carrot. Finely chop one big tomato. Take little pepper powder, little salt and little lemon juice.
- Mix everything with a cup of green gram sprouts. Enjoy this tasty and healthy snacks, atleast once in a week.
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