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  1. Try adding various sprouted items to fruit smoothies. Also try using sprouts as part of a spread for an open faced sandwich. Using a food processer, whirl together sprouts, cooked beans, ground nuts and fresh greens along with your favorite spice/herb blend. Use arugula if you want to give it little kick. If you want to give it a Mexican twist, substitute fresh peppers and nopales for the beans and nuts. Then spread it thickly over toasted bread.

  2. Yum this is my very first time sprouting anything. I’m very excited as overnight the tails formed 🙂 …I’m doing a raw quinoa salad for Easter

  3. I love to reuse and repurpose stuff around my house. for the mesh screens I have used the mesh bags that garlic and shallots come in. I cut them to fit the lids of the mason jars and voila! There are varying sizes of mesh on various produce so pick the size that works with the seed. The quinoa was challenging. I have a few gift bags (small drawstring bags) in which jewelry and other items come in. I have found that useful for quinoa. Hope that helps.
    Note that quinoa has a little ring around the seed that comes off during soaking or cooking. When you see that, it is not the same as the quinoa being sprouted.

  4. Hi.. I have set my quinoa to sprout. It is the third day today and I rinse every 12 hours. I am yet to see any sprouting… is there something I need to do? It is very cold, and the quino easy sprouter sits on the kitchen counter…there is no window open.

    Do help..

    1. Perhaps your grain was too old and therefore wouldn’t sprout. I had some old chia seeds I had laid out in a thin layer on the bottom of a jar and sprayed them lightly. They should have started to sprout the very next day but they didn’t. I waited 2 days and still no tails. I guess they were to old. Hope this helps.

      1. How do you dehydrate it? They are to small to be put in trays for a dehydrator, or do you have som very fine, mesh trays? Can they put on a plate and let to dry at normal room temperature?

  5. I’m astonished by what happened today. I washed 1/2 cup organic Red Quinoa with boiling hot water then added another cup of hot water to the Quinoa in a descoware (enameled cast iron) pot and simmered it for 15 minutes and just turned the heat off without opening. 5 hours later at room temp when I opened it the Quinoa had sprouted! And was also cooked and ready to eat delicious! I just find this amazing.

    1. You didn’t sprout it, you cooked it. After you cook Quinoa, you will see the germ (a tiny spiral) separate from and curl around the quinoa seed.

  6. Much cheaper to make your own mesh screen lids. You can use the lids that come with the Mason Jars (pack of 12 quart sized jars from Ace hardware cost me about $14) and then for screen use needlework (knitting) canvas/lattice found at craft stores for about 70 cents per sheet. Better yet, when at the local hardware store buying the jars see if they have scraps from their bulk nylon and metallic window screen rolls. My local Ace gave me a bunch of scraps and I made the screens essentially for free

    1. I recycle my old splatter screens for sprouting. Mark the screen with the Mason jar ring and cut inside the line…perfect fit and food safe.

    2. That’s what I did – had a bit of nylon screening leftover and just cut squares out of it. It’s soft, so you don’t even have to cut exact size. I would worry about the needlework canvas developing mold. Perhaps the plastic canvas if the holes are not too big

  7. Can you use the sprouted, uncooked quinoa in a homemade granola recipe? I like to make granola and wanted to add quinoa to it – but I wasn’t sure if I should add it as is, sprout it or cook it first – any thoughts?

    1. I usually have the sprouted quinoa slightly cooked, that way it’s a little easier to digest, but you can also eat it raw.

    2. I am raw vegan and use sprouted quinoa in recipes all the time … add to salads, chopped veggies, in cereals. It is delicious.

  8. Hannah,

    Thanks for sharing this useful information on sprouting quinoa. It makes the quinoa so much more nutritious and easier to digest. I will share this info on my FB page and Pinterest.

  9. Thank you for the post.
    Are you using this Mesh Sprouting Screen? it doesn’t have good rating so I thought I would ask you before ordering. Thanks for the info
    https://www.amazon.com/Down-To-Earth-Sprouting-Screen/dp/B000N05GJW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1370192669&sr=8-3&keywords=sprouting+lid+mesh

  10. I have some quinoa in the pantry and was wondering about sprouting it. Thank you I think I will get onto this tonight!

  11. Love your recipes but could you please make a print format so I can put your recipes in with my collection? It is such a waste of ink to have to print all the advertisements to the right.

    Much appreciated!

    1. I just sprouted my first grain, green lentils. I am now planning to sprout everything! *I cut and paste posts into a Word document. I clean it up and make sure that I note where the article came from under the title… just so I can give credit where credit is due!

    2. If you highlight the text you want and then choose print, there is an option for printing the selected text only, bypassing printing the ads.