How to Make Fresh Sprouts | Live Free or Die: How to Homestead

I would like to show you how to make fresh clover sprouts. It's one of the things that Tony and I have a hard time getting in the winter: our fresh vegetables. One solution to that is to make sprouts. Here I have a whole bunch of clover seeds. Just take a couple tablespoons of sprouts and put them into a clean jar.

Next thing I'm gonna do is pour some water in, and I'm just gonna pour, you know, about a cup. So that's enough to cover the seeds and swirl it around. Make sure all the seeds are down under the water. I'm gonna let this sit overnight; that's going to start the germination process.

So after 12 hours, I'm going to drain the water. We have a screen, and it fits right into a mason jar lid, so I'm going to dump this out, and you want to let it drain. I'm going to find a spot to let it sit, so a dark area is perfect. I don't want it to be too cold, so I'm just gonna set it on the counter here.

While this jar is sitting, it needs to be rinsed twice a day, and that's really important because if you don't rinse it often enough, the sprouts and the water will get kind of smelly. You will notice after a few days that the sprouts will start to make little tiny roots.

So this is another jar of sprouts, and these ones have been sprouting for about four or five days. You can see they've got roots, and they also have some tiny light green leaves forming. So once your sprouts are done sprouting, you can put them in the fridge, and that will stop the sprouting process.

In order to make sure that you don't get any bad bacteria in your sprouts, you can spray them down with vinegar and then rinse them off. But my favorite way to eat them is to put them on salad and to make like a little salad dressing to put on top.

I'm gonna try a little by little. Hmm, very good! I was a really fresh spring kind of flavor.