Sprouting - Nutrient Dense Super Foods, Homegrown in your Kitchen
Sprouting… 🌱🌱🌱
Is a great, cost effective, space saving way to grow your own FRESH, organic FOOD, especially if you are limited on outside space. Sprouts have a much higher nutrient content than the fully grown plant and you don't even need a garden!!!
Sprouts have a high content of living enzymes and SPROUTING improves certain amino acids and B group vitamins AND decreases starches and anti-nutrients, triples soluble fibre and decreases insoluble fibre by half, making them easier to digest too!
Broccoli sprouts are the star of the show in my eyes, they provide an abundance of "Sulforaphane" a group of phytochemicals with a HUGE list of benefits and are believed to be anti-carcinogenic, improve cognitive function including motivation, creativity and memory, boost immune response, detoxify and are a great antioxidant.
We our fortunate enough to have an abundance of fresh greens on hand pretty much all year round now, and i've kept telling myself I'd get the sprouter out in the depths of winter when the greens finish .. the things is they never finished... But I have reminded myself that FOOD DIVERSIFICATION is a major key to optimum health, and to get as many nutrients from food, rather than supplements as possible!!! So I have just cracked out the sprouter to super charge our salads even more!!!
This is a great way to grow you own goodness, so get crazy with your salads and get your hit of super foods with homegrown sprouts.
Here's a simple how to guide, if you are unsure…
What you will need:
A sprouter
Stock of seeds, specifically for sprouting (Organic if poss - you'll find them fairly cheap online
A clean spray bottle for watering
Method:
Soak about 1 tablespoon of each seed in separate little bowls of water for 8-12 hours
1 layer at a time, tip your seeds into sprouter tray (the ones with the holes) and spread them out a little - the very bottom layer/dish will catch the water - make sure you've stacked them so they have the gap for light if your sprouter is like mine.
Mist spray seeds with water twice a day
Ready to harvest in around 4-12 day
Keep them moist, keep water in the bottom tray and it is recommended to wash sprouts before eating.
If you can, use good clean, filtered water for all parts of the process.
ENJOY your nutritious sprouts in salads, sandwiches, wraps, as a garnish etc
THEY ARE SO GOOD FOR YOU 🌱✌️🌿
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