Sprouting?

rawperasinger

Do you have to sprout flax, sesame, and sunflower seeds before eating?

These are the seeds I just bought and I am not quite sure what to do with them… or rather, I have plans for them, I am just not sure if I need to sprout/soak them!

Thanks for your help… today is my first day raw! Coinciding with the first day of school, its really interesting.

rawperasinger

Thanks!

VeggiePrincess

I would love some advice on sprouting garbanzo beans! I have tried twice now and failed miserably. I haven’t had a problem with any of my other sprouting, and I generally have a green thumb… But not with this, at least not yet! I am in dire need of hummus…usually I just break down and use canned garbanzo beans but I am really trying to be 90-100% raw vegan (I’ve been about 75% raw for 3 weeks now). Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated! As a side note, does raw tahini go bad quickly once opened? I opened my jar the other day and it was horribly bitter? Quite a shock since I am accustomed to tahini lasting forever in my fridge!

Thanks!

Cherre

@ VeggiePrincess – I actually have found it very easy to sprout garbanzos. But sometimes I do accidently get a dead batch of beans, grains, whatever, from the grocery store. My last big purchase of barley was all dead, never sprouted. At least I think that’s what the problem was because I’ve sprouted barley before no problem. Maybe the store you are buying from doesn’t replenish its stock frequently enough on garbanzos and it’s not fresh?

VeggiePrincess

Hi Cherre,

They start to sprout…then they get REALLY funny smelling…and taste bitter and BAD. Usually only about half to 3/4 of them sprout (probably a replenishing issue). Thanks!!

Wysteria

osoniye

My experience with sprouting chic peas (I live and work in Ethiopia, so some peas on the shelf that you buy can be quite old…) is that I need to rince them often in lots of water and pick through them daily, once the sprouting has started for ones that are “dead” and thus rotting rather than sprouting. If I keep up with that the bad smell goes away and the sprouts are fine and good in hummous!