Bean Sprouts
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- mistakened
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Bean Sprouts
Last summer I made a lot of Oriental Style shredded salads. This year I decided to include bean sprouts in the mix, I have grown them before. Despite combing through the shelves of the appropriate shops I cannot find Mung Beans or Alfalfa.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I might grow instead?
Thanks, moira
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I might grow instead?
Thanks, moira
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Re: Bean Sprouts
Can you get whole lentils?
My attempts at sprouting have not been roaring successes but I’ve heard they are good
In fact sprouting might be a good way of using up the last handfuls of some pulses before I refill the jar
My attempts at sprouting have not been roaring successes but I’ve heard they are good
In fact sprouting might be a good way of using up the last handfuls of some pulses before I refill the jar
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Re: Bean Sprouts
I've been ploughing my way through several old packets of seeds designed for sprouting since we've been in the current situation.
Mixed packs include: Alfalfa, red cabbage, white radish and mung which isn't helpful for you! Most small beans work, can you get aduki beans?. I've sprouted lentils in the past too, but as Sue says, it might be hard to get whole ones unless you can buy as seeds. Haricots might work too if you remove the bean from the sprout before serving.
The red cabbage sprouts are quite robust and nice but I don't think anything is a real substitute for the kind of sprout you get from mung beans.
Mixed packs include: Alfalfa, red cabbage, white radish and mung which isn't helpful for you! Most small beans work, can you get aduki beans?. I've sprouted lentils in the past too, but as Sue says, it might be hard to get whole ones unless you can buy as seeds. Haricots might work too if you remove the bean from the sprout before serving.
The red cabbage sprouts are quite robust and nice but I don't think anything is a real substitute for the kind of sprout you get from mung beans.
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Re: Bean Sprouts
I don’t think it’s hard to get whole lentils here - lots of varieties of whole green and brown lentils but I’ve no idea in Cyprus
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Re: Bean Sprouts
Probably, but postage costs will be silly. There are several Health Food shops in the area, I will pay them a visit.Pampy wrote:Can you source them from Amazon?
I looked Bean Sprouting jars on Lakeland, £24 99 is a bit steep
Moira
Re: Bean Sprouts
£24.99? I soak mung beans in an ex-coffee jar (200g size) - replacing water as advised - then into a colander to sprout. No special jar needed. Sorry, I haven't a clue where I bought my mung beans from TBH.
If you can get old fashioned Batchelors dried peas in packets, they make good pea shoots by planting them just under the soil surface (plenty on the Net about How to.)
If you can get old fashioned Batchelors dried peas in packets, they make good pea shoots by planting them just under the soil surface (plenty on the Net about How to.)
Re: Bean Sprouts
I use a coffee jar for the whole process - put the beans in, stretch a piece cut from a pair of tights (clean!) over the top and secure with an elastic band. Pour enough water through the tights to soak the beans and once soaked for the required time, drain it out. Rinse the beans/sprouts once or twice a day in the same way (water in/drain through the top) until they've grown to the size you want.
Re: Bean Sprouts
I’ve sprouted mung beans in an old pickle jar with a j cloth and elastic band since before DD was born in 1976 ... I don’t think patent bean sprouters existed back then.
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Re: Bean Sprouts
I've got half a packet of Carlin peas, which I don't really like very much
I'll try sprouting some of them
I'll try sprouting some of them
Re: Bean Sprouts
As any type of bean or legume will produce a good sprout, larger beans like borlotti, white beans, black beans - absolutely any whole dried legume seeds you can get your hands on will make good sprouts . Chickpeas make really great sprouts as do small broad beans, dried peas. Just thinking what might be commonly available in Cyprus.
Never have used a bought sprouter either. Ditto large glass jar with porous material or mesh placed over opening.
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Never have used a bought sprouter either. Ditto large glass jar with porous material or mesh placed over opening.
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Re: Bean Sprouts
I sometimes sprout chickpeas and serve them as a veg. when the sprouts are still quite small.
Re: Bean Sprouts
Suffs wrote:I’ve sprouted mung beans in an old pickle jar with a j cloth and elastic band since before DD was born in 1976 ... I don’t think patent bean sprouters existed back then.
Same here, Suffs. More recently we have tried a 'bean sprouter' but I don't think it was any better!!
Our last attempts weren't much good but it may have been due to the heat and humidity in summer.
Maybe we should try again now it's much cooler. It's only about 13º outside and it's 10am Inside it's about 17º and so I've put a heater on and I'm wearing
tracksuits and Ugg boots!!!
Everyone around here is complaining about the cold - it should be about 24º, I think!
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Re: Bean Sprouts
Thanks for the suggestions, I shall check the store cupboard for suitable seeds
Moira
Moira
Re: Bean Sprouts
Rainbow wrote:Maybe we should try again now it's much cooler. It's only about 13º outside and it's 10am Inside it's about 17º and so I've put a heater on and I'm wearing
tracksuits and Ugg boots!!!
Sounds like a normal UK summer's day!
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Re: Bean Sprouts
scullion wrote:not really any bean, i would avoid the kidney bean family.
I wondered about that - they can be quite toxic, and it’s worth bearing in mind that because the toxin is a haemagglutinin individual susceptibility varies a lot
My Carlin peas have plumped up nicely so we’ll see if they sprout well
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Re: Bean Sprouts
not really any bean, i would avoid the kidney bean family.
Absolutely agree, scullion.
In Indian groceries you can find all manner of mung beans, lentils, etc. Stick to those and avoid beans as such.
Re: Bean Sprouts
ZeroCook wrote:Rainbow wrote:Maybe we should try again now it's much cooler. It's only about 13º outside and it's 10am Inside it's about 17º and so I've put a heater on and I'm wearing
tracksuits and Ugg boots!!!
Sounds like a normal UK summer's day!
I was thinking that as I typed, ZeroCook
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