sprouting seeds**to eat**

FrugalLina

This is a nice reminder - I have washed up my sprouting trays and got some green lentils and linseeds in soak. Will buy some mung beans when I go shopping in a day or two. I LOVE sprouts and haven't grown any for well over a year!

Primrose

gayley goo Marrow fat peas will produce wonderful pea shoots which are delicious in salads and as they are cheap, you can produce a lot of them. The best way is to have a big shallow tray with about an inch of compost. (You don't need much). Just scatter the peas generally over the compost and keep it moist. You will obviously need to keep the tray indoors at this time of year in a reasonably warm place. The peas will start sprouting in a couple of days and you can individually harvest the shoots when they're about 6 - 8 inches high.

FrugalLina

My local MrT didn't have any mung or aduki beans which I usually use, so I bought some black-eyed beans (not peas, although I am not sure if they aren't in fact, the same). Are they OK to eat once sprouted, does anyone know?

If not, I will be looking for some recipes to use them up!

ginnyknit

My sprouter is full now, salad rape, mustard seeds and beetroot red - dont know what colour they would be other wise I had the first 2 in the drawer but bought the beetroot for 69p I think off fleabay but picked the free postage one, much cheaper. I soaked them in warm water overnight to give them a start. Am looking forward to adding them to my salads.

FrugalLina

They sound delicious! I am dying to get some different seeds like those - will have to take a walk to the garden centre at the weekend for a look-see.

Already, my green lentils and linseeds are just beginning to sprout tiny tails, so excited!

ginnyknit

The thing is even at garden centre prices the seeds go such a long way it works out really cheap if you sprout a spoonful at a time. I got most of mine off fleabay free post so very cheap. Must try lentils - very cheap and cheerful.

FrugalLina

Here are my sprouted seeds, the first picture is of my green lentils, they are 6 days old and look ready to eat (I already had a pinch on a sandwich, lovely to eat).


and here are the linseeds, much smaller:


I found a load of seeds I bought last year, but never got round to using, alfalfa, beetroot, onion etc, so I will do some of those next. Oh, and I found my sprouting jar which is great for mung beans!

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I am just catching up with you. I sprout lots at this time of year especially and have a few on the go at the moment, lentils, broccoli, alfalfa, quinoa and almonds

I have changed my methods a touch ie the glass jar sprouters are now in a high cupboard. I am using the geo sprouter and a new fantastic find called `easy sprouter` this is the best method I have ever used and I have 4 of these now, either in use or in the fridge storing sprouts. You can get them in the uk. The link is US but there are also lots of recipes

https://sproutpeople.org/easy-sprout-sprouter/

The almonds are superb and I freeze the excess, ready for making almond milk or nibbling

The jars are great, no doubt about that at all but need regular rinsing, which I was meticulous about but small seeds accumulated in denser blocks so did not sprout and had to be washed away. The geo sprouter is very easy as I keep it on my draining board and have a cheap sprinkler on my tap, either sprinkle or full and I just swivel the tap and run the sprinkler over the top tray. The easy sprouter is easier again

Starting from scratch and if never having done it before then I would go the same way, beginning with a kilner jar and a piece of tights to see if I liked and could do it, then getting the special glass jar and inverted rack so that the jars could drain freely, then the geo sprouter and lately the easy sprouter. If I were starting now, knowing what I know, then I would get the geo sprouter first, it is so well designed for rinsing, the easy sprouter is more expensive so I would advise being sure that you want to be a sprouter

Btw, some seeds are mucilaginous and get very sticky so are more difficult and need lots more rinsing. eg linseed, buckwheat, chia, cress, radish. They also need more ventilation and are challenging so not really for a beginner, if you don`t want to lose heart that is

Austin_Allegro

Apologies if it's already been mentioned, but I found out yesterday that you can eat onion sprouts. I'd always assumed they were poisonous or something. Apparently they're like chives and you can just keep on growing them. You just put an onion in a bulb jar and wait for the shoots to grow.

Swan_2

Austin_Allegro wrote: »

Apologies if it's already been mentioned, but I found out yesterday that you can eat onion sprouts. I'd always assumed they were poisonous or something. Apparently they're like chives and you can just keep on growing them. You just put an onion in a bulb jar and wait for the shoots to grow.

You can eat garlic sprouts too, just the accidental or put cloves into a pot of compost & let them grow

Has anyone tried weighting their mung bean sprouts? It's supposed to produce fatter, crispier sprouts.