Sprouted Lentils

Fri, 04/17/2009 - 17:50 — admin

Description

There are a number of ways to do this. Here is one of the easiest. Add a little dressing to the lentils and eat them or add them to salads. Or give them a very quick sauté until barely heated and mix them to cooked brown rice, cumin or curry and cubes of meat or fish

Ingredients

Instructions

Pick over 1 cup of dry lentils and remove any stones for broken lentils. Rinse the lentils, drain, then soak then in four cups of water for about 6 hours or overnight.

Drain and rinse lentils, and drain in a colander or strainer. Put lentils in a jar, pushing loose lentils stuck to the sides of the jar to the bottom. Leave jar on countertop. Rinse and drain twice a day until sprout tails are about ½-inch long.

Store in the refrigerator. Use within a week.