subject: Sprouting Chickpeas [print this page] Sprouting chickpeas is a very simple and easy practice. There are several ways to sprout chickpeas. Sprouting means to enhance the nutritive values of chickpeas. The practice of sprouting is being popular around the world because of its benefits, easy method of making and inexpensiveness. We can purchase ready made sprouted chickpeas from market but homemade are fresh than market.
Sprouted foods are very much famous amongst the celebrities because they want to be fit and in shape, it plays vital role in diet and due to its high vitamins and minerals content it is good for heavy meal replacement and can be use as snacks. Apart from chickpeas we can also sprout many other things like Nuts, Beans, Seeds and Whole grain (Wheat, Barley, oats, sweet corn etc).
Boiled chickpeas are very much famous and people eat it 12 month due to its availability throughout year. Sprouted beans, seeds, nuts are full of nutritive values and it enhance further the quality of material in the sense of vitamins and minerals. We can eat raw sprouted chickpeas and also make some recipes from it but raw sprouted chickpeas are recommended more beneficial then boiled.
Here is a simple way to sprouting
Chickpeas sprouting time is 3 days so start right now and get benefits from it after three days. Take air tight jar and put two tablespoon of chickpeas then put tepid distilled water in it and leave jar for 18 hours.
Then drain water from jar and rinse chickpeas and again put tepid water and this time leave it for 6 hours.
Repeat practice of draining, rinsing and putting cold water after every 6 hour for two days more and after completion of three days you will find sprouted chickpeas.
(Note: This practice can be extended for one to two days more if needed)
Eat raw sprouted chickpeas with salad and yogurt, enjoy it with your friends and family. You can freeze it if you want to eat it in your own time. Does not matter you can store it.
