Nowadays people are more health conscious and forever on the lookout for healthy food that tastes nice. One of the best options is to work sprouts into your diet.
Here are a few recipes using moong sprouts.
Moong dal sprout dosa
It's a healthy and tasty breakfast choice.
Ingredients
Green gram sprouts: 2 cups
Soaked raw rice: 1/2 cup
Green chilli: 2 or 3
Jeera: 1/2 tsp
Salt for taste
Method
Soak raw rice for half an hour. Grind all the ingredients finely in a mixer-grinder till it attains dosa consistency. Now make dosa with this batter and serve along with chutney and sambar.
Raw banana moong sprout curry
Add sprouts to whatever vegetable dish you are making to give it an extra dimension.
Ingredients
Raw banana: 2
Green gram sprouts: 1 cup
Chopped onion: 3 tsp
Chopped ginger: small piece
Chopped green chilli: 2
Chopped tomato (optional): 1
Salt as required
Coconut: 3 tsp
Oil (for seasoning): 2 tsp
Mustard seed: 1 tsp
Urad dal: 1 tsp
Curry leaves: 1 sprig
Method
Cut the raw banana into two halves. Pour water in a kadai and boil the banana along with its skin. Leave the banana to cool. Remove the skin, grate the banana and keep aside. Heat oil in a kadai.
Add mustard seeds and when it splutters add urad dal. When the urad dal turns red add chopped green chilli, ginger, onion, curry leaves and sauté. Now add tomato and cook till it becomes soft. Add the sprouts and sauté. Sprinkle a little water to cook the sprouts. Now add the grated banana and add required salt and sauté again. Mix nicely and add the grated coconut mix. Serve hot.
Sprout snack
Here is an easy-to-make snack using sprouts.
Ingredients
Green gram sprouts: 1cup
Chopped onion: 1
Grated carrot: 1 cup
Chopped ginger: 2 tsp
Chopped capsicum (green, red, yellow): 1/2 cup
Chopped tomato: 1 cup
Chopped cucumber: 1 cup
Cashew nuts (optional): a few
Groundnut (de-skinned): a few
Salt as required
Lemon juice: 1 tsp
Pepper powder: 1 tsp
Puffed rice: 1 cup
Chaat masala: 1 tsp
Method
Mix all the ingredients except puffed rice. At the time of serving add puffed rice. You can try variations of the same by omitting or a adding few ingredients. For children you can add sev and tomato sauce, sweet chutney, boiled potato and so on. If you don't want raw sprouts just steam it for three minutes and it will become soft, or microwave cook all the vegetables for one or two minutes.
