What all do you sprout? Do you eat sprouts in anything other than salad?

[Juicerguy]

Just curious about what different kinds of things people sprout here? Also am wondering what ways you eat sprouts other than in a salad? Thank you!

[delmar]

I sprout flax, millet, clover, radish and dandelion. I do mostly eat them on salads or just graze on them plain. I like millet sprouts in place of pasta. I have only used a tomato based sauce so far, but I bet you could find a raw alfredo recipe. The trick is to turn off the heat to the pasta sauce before it cooks it. Just get it warm.

[Living Food]

Lentils, mung beans, adzuki beans, peas, chickpeas, millet, quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat, wheat (grass), barley (grass), rye (grass), oats (grass), spelt (grass), kamut (grass), flax, chia seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds, chestnuts, walnuts, fenugreek, alfafa, clover, and lots of other green and weed sprouts. The variety is almost infinite.

[Traceyraw]

I just started sprouting. I have lentils (easiest) eat them in salads. Wheat berries for breads. Sunflower seeds for smoothies. I just had to throw some away I left them too long. 4 days they got some brownish red spots. Sunflower seeds I sprout and make milk but after 1-2 days.

Nori rolls with carrots avacado and alfalfa sprouts.

Enjoy your sprouts they are my new love. I am just learning how to do it.

[SunshineMN]

Lentils, alfalfa (my absolute favorite), clover, fenugreek, rye, sunflower seeds, amaranth, quinoa, oat groats. Getting radish, flax, buckwheat soon. I have chia but I don't sprout them yet, I just soak them for 30-60 minutes then drink/eat them.

Sprouting is easy and fun and really nutritious. Love your sprouts and they will love you back!

We mostly use them in green salads only because we are eating really simply. When we can afford more nuts and a dehydrator, I have plans for using them in way more things.

[walnutty]

I love the taste of sprouts and avocados together!

[Living Food]

I juice the green sprouts, microgreens and grasses, and eat the others plain (sometimes I blend them, although I'm trying to do that less).

Sunflower seeds for smoothies. I just had to throw some away I left them too long. 4 days they got some brownish red spots.

4 days is too long, you should only sprout hulled sesame seeds for 2-3 days. The whole ones can be sprouted on soil until they produce a nice green shoot about 2-4 inches tall - far superior nutritionally to the hulled seeds. I drink sunflower greens juice every day.

[Traceyraw]

I juice the green sprouts, microgreens and grasses, and eat the others plain (sometimes I blend them, although I'm trying to do that less).



4 days is too long, you should only sprout hulled sesame seeds for 2-3 days. The whole ones can be sprouted on soil until they produce a
nice green shoot about 2-4 inches tall - far superior nutritionally to the hulled seeds. I drink sunflower greens juice every day.

Thanks for the tip. I ordered sprouting trays and a manual juicer. It should be waiting for me when I get home. P.S. We bought some sunflower sprouts and my daughter eats them like candy.

[Cruditas]

I had some really cool Fennel sprouts the other day. Tasted like licorice! Just kind of ate them as a snack. I am trying to think of other foods to pair them with. Any suggestions there?

[Juicerguy]

Wow! Thank you for all of the replies! :) That gives me a better idea for what I can do when it comes to sprouting. Nice! The Fennel sprouts sound really interesting. I was also thinking about juicing some of these sprouts as well. I will have to start doing some research into the benefits of juicing different sprouts. Especially like almond sprouts or other nuts. Seems like that would be pretty interesting. I asked a question about wheat grass here the other day and then looked it up on youtube after as well. I am on the path to growing my own wheat grass! I can't wait to juice some! It is in the sprouting stage right now as I am typing this.

I can't wait to try to sprout some of what people mentioned here! Thanks for the responses and hopefully this thread will help others as well. :)

[SunshineMN]

My SO really loves the fenugreek sprouts. They smell really nice too!

I would think fennel might go well with shredded cabbage or carrots (or both), though it seems like some cultures use it in almost everything (much of which we don't eat) including on salads.

[Living Food]

Fennel and fenugreek sprouts are both great for improving digestion. I've also heard that fenugreek increases a woman's breast size...can't attest to that though, not being a woman myself :)

Of the two, fennel sprouts are the best for improving digestion (and relieving gas and cramping), but they're both very good at it.

The Fennel sprouts sound really interesting.

You can eat the sprout of any plant that you can eat the leaves from, and some that you can't. Herbs and spices make amazingly nutritional, if (generally) strong tasting, sprouts.

I was also thinking about juicing some of these sprouts as well.

Juicing green sprouts is the best way to eat them, you get the maximum amount of nutrients (and green sprouts have just about the highest concentrations of nutrients of any food).

I will have to start doing some research into the benefits of juicing different sprouts. Especially like almond sprouts or other nuts.

Generally, only green sprouts, microgreens and grasses can be juiced...the others don't have enough "juice" to work well.

I am on the path to growing my own wheat grass! I can't wait to juice some! It is in the sprouting stage right now as I am typing this.

Wheatgrass is one of the best things you can possibly do for your health. A woman named Dr. Ann Wigmore cured people of chronic ("incurable") health conditions using wheatgrass alone, and many more using wheatgrass in conjunction with a sprout-based diet. Work your way up to a big glass in the morning and another one in the afternoon and you'll start having more energy then you've ever had before. Start with just 1-2 oz/day, though, as it is very detoxifying and it would be unpleasant to have, say, an 8 oz glass right of the bat.

[SunshineMN]

I plan on growing wheatgrass soon myself. The parents of a friend gave us 700 lbs of wheat, mostly hard red winter wheat. We have 20 5-gallon pails stacked up in our living room.

Does anyone know how much juice you get from a 20 x 11 inch flat of grass? I still need to figure out how many sets of flats to buy and we need another fan before we can start.

[delmar]

I juice the green sprouts, microgreens and grasses, and eat the others plain (sometimes I blend them, although I'm trying to do that less).

Out of curiosity, why are you trying to blend them less? Is it your thinking that the fiber holds on to part of the nutrients if the juice is not separated from it?

[Juicerguy]

I have since this post started to sprout sunflower seeds(black oil kind of course), mung beans and also wheat grass. This is turning into a bigger operation in my little apartment than I was thinking of to begin with. LOL. I now have 5 seed tray flats of wheat grass rotating around, 2 and 1/2 seed tray flats of sunflower seed sprouts and 1 flat of mung beans. We had wheat grass juice home grown and squeezed for three days in a row and I just ate a load of sunflower seed sprouts. Waiting for my next wheat grass to be ready! Going to be figuring out a rotation that works in the future so we always have some ready to juice daily! Oh I also have alfalfa seeds in the wait...:) All of this should help as we are transitioning into a raw diet. Are plans are to start %100 on June the 1st. Thanks for all of your ideas on here everyone! :)