{"id":470,"date":"2009-05-29T16:26:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T16:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/05\/how-to-grow-sprouts.html"},"modified":"2009-05-29T16:26:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T16:26:51","slug":"how-to-grow-sprouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/05\/how-to-grow-sprouts.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Grow Sprouts!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"mungs.jpg\"<\/span>I’m a sprout farmer! What started out as a handful of mung beans are now nice, crunchy, protein- and enzyme-rich sprouts. Very exciting. And you can do it too if you haven’t before. Here are easy-peasy basic instructions for mungs and a few links in case you want to get fancier. <\/p>\n

1) Get a Mason jar (the bigger one) and fill it about a quarter full of washed and sorted mung beans. <\/p>\n

2) Cover completely with sprong, distilled, or filtered water. Cover with cheese cloth and a rubberband. Soak for 6-12 hours. <\/p>\n

3) Rinse the soaked beans well in a strainer. Put beans back in the jar. Re-cover with cheese cloth and rubberband. Set the jar at a 45-degree angle if you can, or if you don’t have something you can prop it with, simply set it on its side. Cover with a dishtowel to keep it from sunlight (or move into my apartment where there is none). <\/p>\n

4) Rinse the beans once a day through the cheese cloth. Be sure to completely pour the water out before setting it back in its angled or side resting place. <\/p>\n

5) Do this for about three days, until the sprout tails are about 1\/4-inch long. <\/p>\n

6) Eat! Put on salads or blend into smoothies for an extra enzyme kick. Congrats, you are a sprout farmer.<\/p>\n

Next, I’m onto lentils. A friend tells me the green ones work better than brown. And of course you can sprout so many different things–raw peanuts, sunflower seeds, dried whole peas, and more.<\/p>\n

Here’ s some more in-depth sprouting instructions and information<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Do you sprout? Any tips?<\/p>\n

[Image via: Me<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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