Homemade Bean Sprouts are both clean and guaranteed. During social distancing days, sprouting bean sprouts at home to eat instead of vegetables saves costs and provides clean, nutritious food for the whole family.
Bean sprouting focuses on watering. Overwatering will make the sprouts moldy and rotten. Underwatering will prevent the beans from sprouting.
To solve this problem, you can try making bean sprouts like the following method. No need to bother with watering, just harvest after about 2.5-3 days. The sprouts grow with few roots, tidy, plump, and white.
To make bean sprouts, you need to prepare the following ingredients:
100 grams of green beans, choose beans that are even, tender, fresh, and not moldy.
2 large face towels, good absorbency. You can use fabric or old woolen clothes.
1 clean rectangular plastic basket.
1 large black nylon bag.
Directions:
Clean the beans, remove damaged and small beans. Soak the beans in 30-degree Celsius water for 4-5 hours.
After soaking, rinse the beans with clean water 2-3 times. Note: avoid peeling the beans.
Moisten both towels, squeeze lightly (not completely dry, the towels must have a certain level of moisture).
Spread one towel inside the plastic basket, then sprinkle the beans on top. Spread evenly, do not cluster them together so that the sprouts grow straight and evenly.
When you have arranged all the beans, use the remaining moist towel to cover them. Then, use the black nylon bag to wrap them up.
The sprouts don’t like bright light. If the sprouts are exposed to light, they will turn green or purple and taste bitter when eaten.
After wrapping the nylon bag, use a heavy object to press down. About 5kg is sufficient. By doing so, the sprouts will become plumper and the roots will be shorter.
Then, keep the sprouts in a cool, dark place.
Occasionally, you can open the bag to check, but do not open it for too long. Harvesting can be done after 2.5-3 days.
When making bean sprouts this way, they can be harvested in as quick as 2-3 days, or up to 4 days.
According to “Khoevadep” Magazine