sprouted/raw hummus

[tolovemercy]

anyone make this? can you really blend sprouted chickpeas/beans/lentils without cooking them first? i'm afraid to try before hearing from someone with experience.

[Rachel J.]

I think it's recommended to cook most beans and chickpeas although they're much more digestible and possibly even healthier after they've been sprouted. I just made some sprouted black bean brownies :P I know that lentils don't have to be soaked and I have seen them in sprouting mixes so they would probably work okay. Mung beans, too, although I've never tried them so I don't know about their flavor. Perhaps you could do a 1/2 raw, 1/2 cooked, all sprouted hummus. You can easily google sprouting beans and you'll find lists of what beans need to be cooked and which can still be eaten raw.

[Taedareth]

I read in a book called Sprout Garden that most beans contain toxins that do not dissipate after sprouting, only after cooking (and you have to pour off the water they were cooked in). Garbanzo beans were mentioned specifically in this category.

[tamagotchi]

I have eaten raw sprouted hummus that I bought at the farmer's market, and something about its sour, fresh taste gave me such a craving to eat it again or learn to make it... there must be some kind of wonderful enzymes/nutrients in it.

I wonder if there is a way to lightly cook the sprouted beans to get rid of toxins and still preserve the liveliness of the raw sprouted stuff?

[griffin2004]

I made hummus from raw sprouted garbanzos. It was scrumptious. Very tangy, almost peppery.

[tolovemercy]

hm...well, i'm torn now. what would happen if i sprouted, then cooked? i know, i know, i would denature the living enzymes, etc, etc--but, I would have already converted the starch in the beans to a vegetable starch, right? so it would be digested more like a cooked vegetable than just a bean, right? or am i misunderstanding this?

[griffin2004]

There's a recipe for sprouted bean hummus (and, in fact, an entire article on sprouting) in this month's Mother Earth news. The recipe involves boiling the sprouts, but I think it's just to make them easier to blend. They didn't mention anything about toxin dangers.

Here's the linky-dinky-doo http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-...es.aspx?page=4