Making Sprouts at Home
This section shows how to prepare sprouts from various grains and legumes. Sprouting jars, nut milk bags or plain cloth can be used for sprouting at home. The procedures involves soaking legumes / grains and then letting them sprout. Some sprout in one day, some sprout in 2 days and some need longer time.
Here is a link giving details of the health benefits of sprouted grains.
Health Benefits of Sprouted Grains | The Whole Grains Council
Making Urad Dal Sprouts at Home
This recipe shows how to prepare black mung bean (also known as black matpe beans, black gram, urad dal, minuvulu) sprouts at home.
Making Chana Dal (Garbanzo) Sprouts at Home
This recipe shows how to sprout chickpeas or garbanzo beans (chana dal in Hindi and senaga pappu in Telugu) at home.
Making Toor Dal Sprouts at Home
This recipe shows how to sprout pigeon peas (arhar dal or toor dal or tuvar dal in Hindi) (kandi pappu in Telugu) at home using a nut bag or cheesecloth. These sprouts can be used in cooking various dishes.
Making Moong Dal Sprouts at Home
This recipe shows how to made mung bean sprouts at home. 1 cup of dry mung beans provide 2 cups of sprouted mung beans. Mung beans are called moong dal in Hindi and pesara pappu in Telugu)
Making Sprouts at home using Sprouting Jars
This recipe shows how to make sprouts at home using sprouting jars. This is an alternate method to make sprouts without using nut bag or cheesecloth. These sprouts can be used in various recipes that have been provided in the Cooking recipes section.
Making Sorghum Sprouts - Jowar Sprouts
This recipe shows how to make sorghum sprouts (jowar sprouts) at home using two methods - nut bag method and sprouting jar method.
Making Brown Rice Sprouts at Home
This video shows how to sprout brown jasmine rice at home. Store-bought jasmine rice have been used in the recipe. The video also shows how to cook sprouted brown rice. This rice can be served with any side dish.
Sprouting Hard Red Winter Wheat at Home
This video shows two methods of sprouting wheat at home. One method uses sprouting jars. Another method uses mesh strainer. Both methods allow for frequent washing of the wheat while sprouting. Hard Red Winter Wheat has been used in this recipe.
Making Amaranth Sprouts at Home
This video shows how to make amaranth sprouts at home. Amaranth is called Rajgira in Hindi.