Moong Edible Bean Sprout Salad ; Meatless Monday

I honey sprouts. I sprout moong beans, methi ( fenugreek)seeds, kala Chana( chick peas), chawli ( adsuki beans), kulith( Equus caballus gram). Often I add together them inwards a salad alongside the sprout beingness the principal ingredient. I stimulate got previously shared alongside you lot the recipe for methi ( fenugreek) sprout salad. Today, I am going to part alongside you lot the recipe for moong edible bean sprout salad that I made for dinner final night. Honestly, I bask these kinds of salads to a greater extent than than the ones that stimulate got greens. These salads are filling, rich inwards poly peptide content together with tin fifty-fifty last used the adjacent 24-hour interval for luncheon without the salad wilting together with becoming all soggy on you. It is too a consummate repast alongside all the essential components of a balanced diet. Last but non the least, it is super-easy to make( I know this is my favorite phrase)! ;)

Servings : 4-6

Ingredients:

Moong- edible bean sprouts: ii cups
Water: 1/2 loving cup ( for cooking the sprouts)
Corn kernels: 1 loving cup ( I used fresh kernels from a corn cob that I steamed).
Cucumber: 1 small, diced.
Onion: 1 small, chopped fine.
Red pepper: 1/2 small-sized, diced
Green pepper: 1/2 small-sized, diced
Spring onion: 2, chopped fine.
Pomegranate seeds: ii tbsp ( optional)
Peanut halves: ii tbsp ( optional)
Lemon juice: ii tbsp
Lime juice: ii tbsp
Salt: every bit per private taste
Black pepper: 1/4 tsp ( tin last adjusted every bit per private taste.

Method:

Cook the moong-beans sprouts inwards 1/2 loving cup H2O alongside a pinch of tabular array salt for 3- five mins. The moong beans should last cooked only together with so much that it is no longer raw. Cook it alone until partially cooked. Do NOT overcook it! Once cooked, drain the H2O together with piece of job on aside.

If you lot prefer to swallow raw sprouts, skip the higher upwardly stride completely!

In a salad bowl, add together the drained sprouts together with all the ingredients listed above. Mix well.

This salad tin last served at room temperature or chilled!

Enjoy. I am linking this salad to Saucy Saturdays.

Cooking made easy:

I stimulate got said this is several times earlier when I stimulate got spoken virtually salads similar chick-pea salad, quinoa dark edible bean salad etc. Ingredients for a salad are non written inwards rock ( unless you lot are next a specific recipe). I know sure that the salads I rustle upwardly are alongside ingredients that are available on mitt together with whatsoever catches my fancy. Out of the ingredient listing provided higher upwardly for this salad, you lot tin add together together with subtract every bit per your preference together with availability. USE WHAT IS AVAILABLE.

Tip for good for you lot living:

Sprouts are real nutrient-dense together with hence render immense wellness benefits. They are depression inwards calories, rich inwards dietary fiber, vitamins B, C together with K. It too contributes to the daily dietary intake of iron. It is of course of written report a skillful beginning of protien for vegetarians.

References:

http://www.medindia.net/patients/lifestyleandwellness/sprouts-the-super-food.htm
http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/benefits-mung-bean-sprouts-5176.html
http://www.livestrong.com/article/505486-green-gram-dal-health-benefits/

Food for thought:

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