Thursday, March 6, 2008

Sprouts

Try this Indoor Jar Garden for some Fresh Living Food

You will need a jar and a lid with drain holes and seeds which you can buy at a Health Food Store. My seed mix is cabbage, radish, and alfalfa.

My Book (The Sprounting Book by Ann Wigmore) gives me good directions about sprouting all different kinds of seeds and nuts. So for alfalfa multi-sprout mix I need about 3 tablespoons of seeds. I place them in the jar, fill the jar about half full of water and screw on my yellow lid with the small drain holes.
Let sit for six hours.
Pour our water, turn upside down and let sit near sunny window but not in direct sunlight.
Rinse seeds and pour off water at least once a day. You can see the seeds are beginning to sprout.
About a day later.

Now I change to my green lid with bigger holes and run water in until it overflows and spills out some of the seed hulls.
Turn over and let sit for more time.
I change the lid again to the biggest holes to rinse and drain sprouts and turn upside down until they look just right. (This whole process takes about 7 days!)
When they look just right I rinse them again and put in a ziplock bag to store in the fridge.

Now you can add them to salad, sandwiches, or eat them alone with this....YUM!
Eat your food while it is still living!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Alison -
This looks so beautiful, fun and rewarding all at once. My mom used to grow sprouts but I've never tried it. I do love them on a salad.

Anonymous said...

Looks super... I'm getting hungry...again... ann

Anonymous said...

Hi Alison...found your blog from my cousin's Amy B's. Are you into raw food at all? I'm "trying" to... anyway, want to start sprouts (the are super healthy)and have the book but dont want to invest in a auto sprouter just yet...where did you get the jar lids? great pix by the way. my site is www.stillinstilwell.blogspot.com
thanks! vinda