Hope everyone had a wonderful Diwali celebration!!! After a short break today I am with a healthy homegrown Horse gram sprouts / Kollu sprouts at home. Also I have added a small proportion of whole moong dal with it. I used those sprouts in several recipes that I will come up in next posts, so stay tuned!!! Meanwhile I have sprouts based recipes do check here. Old post updated with recent pictures and a video.
Ingredients
Kollu/Horse Gram – 1 Cup
Green Gram/Moong Bean – 1/4 Cup (Optional)
Learn to make Horse gram Sprouts
- Wash the horse gram and green gram.
- Kollu sometimes has stone so remove those and soak them separately for 8 hours at least or overnight.
- Drain the excess water; here i placed the soaked grams over the sieve (Pic 1), also I placed it over a glass bowl to drain water completely (Pic 1).
- Once drained well, pat dry in a cotton cloth for 15 minutes at least (Pic 2).
- Mix both grams or either one and place in the same sieve (we say jalladai in tamil) over a glass bowl (refer video) or tie in a light wet cloth by piercing some hole all over it or muslin cloth.
- Leave it as it is in a dark warm room for 6- 8 hours, after 6 hours you can see sprouts as shown in picture 3.
- On and off you can lightly wet the cloth, depends on the temperature the sprouts grow, once the cloth dried out completely just sprinkle some water.
- You can increase the timing like 10 hours to get lengthy sprouts (Pic 4).
- Once done use it immediate or refrigerate for 1-2 days in Ziploc bag, for longer use you have to freeze it.
- I never freeze sprouts, plan and make needed quantity and for me its good in refrigerator for 4 days.
Print Version
Horse Gram Sprouts
Course:
Salad
Cuisine:
Indian
Servings: 6
Ingredients
- Kollu/Horse Gram - 1 Cup
- Green Gram/Moong Bean - 1/4 Cup Optional
Instructions
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Wash the horse gram and green gram.
-
Kollu sometimes has stone so remove those and soak them separately for 8 hours at least or overnight.
-
Drain the excess water; here i placed the soaked grams over the sieve (Pic 1), also I placed it over a glass bowl to drain water completely (Pic 1).
-
Once drained well, pat dry in a cotton cloth for 15 minutes at least (Pic 2).
-
Mix both grams or either one and place in the same sieve (we say jalladai in tamil) over a glass bowl (refer video) or tie in a light wet cloth by piercing some hole all over it or muslin cloth.
-
Leave it as it is in a dark warm room for 6- 8 hours, after 6 hours you can see sprouts as shown in picture 3.
-
On and off you can lightly wet the cloth, depends on the temperature the sprouts grow, once the cloth dried out completely just sprinkle some water.
-
You can increase the timing like 10 hours to get lengthy sprouts (Pic 4).
-
Once done use it immediate or refrigerate for 1-2 days in Ziploc bag, for longer use you have to freeze it.
The sprouts has come so good..
Good post . Thank u for sharing.
nice post. Thanks for sharing..
I can eat it as it is , just some lime juice and chat masala.
healthy payaru
Nice post…love sprouts salad's.
Good post,nice explanation
Sprouts have come out really well, great post!
Very well sprouted!