sprouts - urgesunder rejuvenator in the spring helps counter the spring fatigue invigorating, fresh and tasty vegetables that you can always pull yourself: sprouts.
The seedlings are the main reason so healthy, because the plants are particularly rich in the germination phase of vitamins, minerals and essential trace elements. Vitamin C is, for example. be increased in some nuclei (in comparison to the finished plant) up to 3000 percent! To get a good shoot quality, it is appropriate to draw them themselves, for the seeds from the health food store.
suitable for the kitchen extension to legumes (chick peas, mung beans, lentils ...), cereals (oats, rye, corn ...), but also seeds of cress, radish, mustard and so on. Commercially, there are different containers for shoot production from plastic or clay, but I would imagine a very simple method: You need to
seeds.
I currently prefer a mixture of mung beans, lentils and mustard seeds. It tastes fresh and pleasantly spicy mustard by the sharp, and besides strengthening the mustard oils contained the resistance!
In a glass, for example. a conventional 500g jar of honey or a glass of similar size with screw caps, are now depending a brief tablespoons Seeds, filled with water. This is best to soak it overnight, large soft pulses can be longer.
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| left: freshly soaked in water, seeds, middle: after three days |
After 12 to 24 hours, all poured through a sieve, the seeds are rinsed off and get wet back into the glass. I let it stand another day screwed, preferably at room temperature not too cold. Now the seeds are rinsed off, now every day. I'm not sure if this is really necessary or appropriate, but this act is my ritual, my care, so they grow really good. The lid is now screwed no longer, but remains loose enough on the glass, so it is ventilated, but not dry. You can now watch every day while growing, and wonder how powerful life evolves, just wonderful!
Once the first small green leaves show, I put the glass stem on the windowsill. There it is cooler and there is light. After 6 days it can even look like this so ...
... with one half of the originally scheduled shoots from the glass was already harvested! They taste the way, not only in Asian dishes, but also on a fresh cheese bread, fried potatoes, or over in the soup (sprouts are large legumes more digestible if they are blanched briefly, eg. in the soup or sauce is). Unbeatable
I do think, though this preparation:
sprinkle a handful of sprouts (my mix) with pepper and salt darübergben half a tablespoon of pumpkin seed oil.
A small, very fine appetizer! And ever so healthy!
