Drain the beans and put them into the planter on the paper towel. The next day, place the mesh net on the bottom of the planter and add a paper towel over it.Wash and drain and soak the beans in cold water for 24 hours. Pick out any broken or blemished beans.mesh net pouch (I get one when I buy onions).You can get this at a hardware store or on Amazon Plastic planter, 11 inches in diameter, 8½ inch tall.When I think about my grandmother, I’m sure she must have felt the same way as I do. It’s a one-week commitment but it gives me a lot of happiness. When I wake up during the night, I rush to my sprouts to water them: “Oh my babies, you must have been thirsty!” If I go out, I keep thinking about how my sprouts are waiting for me to water them. I’m always excited while my bean sprouts are growing. Over time, the sprouts grew owing to my grandmother’s care. She was always watering her beans by scooping some water from the basin over top of them. She used to make a huge amount in a large basin, with a wooden platform across it, on top of which she grew the beans in a traditional Korean siru (시루), an earthenware pot with holes in the bottom used for steaming rice cakes. She had them in a corner in the room where we slept. I used to be woken up by the sounds of her dripping and trickling water over the sprouts at all hours of the night. I used an old black t-shirt over top of my planter to keep them dark.Īs I mentioned in the video, I have strong memories of my grandmother growing soybean sprouts when I was young. Also, be sure to keep them out of the light, so they grow yellow, not green. They are pretty simple to grow, but you need patience and you need to be sure to water them often, or else they won’t grow long, plump and crispy, they’ll be thin and stringy. Now that I grow them at home I eat them a lot more often, and they are also cheaper and more delicious than what I can buy in a store! Korean cuisine uses mung bean and soybean sprouts in many dishes (like this mung bean sprout side dish). I’m pretty excited to release this video! A couple years ago I made a video on how to grow your own soybean sprouts, and since then I’ve been experimenting with growing my own mung bean sprouts.
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