Been a while since my last post. I hope everyone is doing well. Still avoiding going out of the house so I decided to do a mung bean sprouts project.
Being in a jar makes this easy since you need to water it very often. I based this on a few videos I had watched before. This sprouting jar video by Self-sufficient Me and Maangchi’s mung bean sprouts video.
I mixed the two processes and grew some mung bean sprouts (also known in the Philippines as “togue”) using a DIY sprouting jar. Nothing as fancy as the video I linked but still worked. It took me a maximum of 4 days to harvest. I do live in a tropical country so that maybe why the growth is a lot faster than Maangchi’s.
DIY Sprouting Jar
I used a large empty plastic jar, a piece of cheese cloth, and a rubber band for my sprouting jar. If you don’t have cheese cloth, you can also use a sieve. I prefer the cheese cloth because I can keep it on the jar.
If you have the cheese cloth, put it together like so:
My jar can accommodate 1/4 cup of mung beans. I initially used a much smaller jar but ended up having to change to this larger jar because of how much the mung bean sprouts had grown.
Growing Mung Bean Sprouts by Sprouting Jar
You will need 1/4th cup of mung beans. You will need to soak this in water for 24hrs. Keep it away from sunlight. I have mine in the shadows right next to a sink.
Once the 24hrs has passed, you will now need to remove the water. This is where the cheese cloth\sieve will help. To “water” this, you have to put water in again after 3-4hrs but you must strain the water out after. I tried to water only twice a day but the sprouts didn’t come out as good.
We usually put this in spring rolls or just stirfry it with some beef or shrimps. You may remove the green seed coat if you want.
