Bean sprouts are the most familiar sprouts, which can be fried or boiled, and are rich in nutrition. Although the price of bean sprouts sold on the market is not high, some consumers think that the bean sprouts sold in these markets use a lot of fertilizers, which is not conducive to the health of the body, thinking that there is any way to cultivate bean sprouts at home?
In fact, raw bean sprouts are very simple, and you can easily cultivate high-quality bean sprouts at home. Today I will teach you a trick to easily cultivate bean sprouts at home.
One: soak the beans
Choose the plump and undamaged soybeans first, wash them first, and soak them in warm water at about 40 degrees. The soaking time is determined by the temperature, and it usually only needs to soak for about 12 hours in the summer, while in the winter, it needs to soak for about 24 hours. Soak the soybean until it bulges and the germ on the soybean can be seen with the naked eye.
Two: germination
Place the soaked soybeans in a clean plastic dish, you can put a damp towel on the soybeans, in the process of germination, avoid the soybeans from touching any cooking oil, and place the soybeans in the pot without standing water. The germination time usually takes only about 8 hours to see that the germ of the soybean has been extended, and then the raw bean sprouts can be prepared.
Three: cultivate bean sprouts
Find a clean plastic pot, the plastic pot is the highest is deeper, in the pot with about 50 cm thick sand, the germination of soybeans evenly sprinkled on the sand, and then covered with about 5-8 cm thick sand, and finally, covered with a layer of sponge. Pour some water on the sponge every day, and the sand under the sponge becomes wet. Basically, it only takes about five days for the sprouts to grow.
Four: Precautions
To cultivate bean sprouts at home, it should be noted that soybeans cannot be exposed to condiments, and contact with condiments can easily lead to soybean spoilage and rot. In the process of cultivating bean sprouts, we must pay attention to the humidity situation, if the humidity is not enough, the sprouts sprout slowly, and the stem of the sprouts produced is weak; it is also necessary to avoid the humidity is too high and leads to water accumulation, and the occurrence of standing water will lead to rotten roots of the bean sprouts.