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Vancouver, BC | It’s summertime and who wants to cook? Sprouting offers an easy, nutritious way to get your grain on without the need for heat. After all, it’s hot enough outside. This is the time of year when it’s natural to crave more raw foods, and home sprouting offers easily digestible whole foods nutrition for pennies. Plus, they taste pretty damned good added to your favourite salads. To join us in the sprouting revolution, follow this easy, no hassle guide.
What you need
Grain (see chart for exact amounts)
1 one litre mason jar
1 piece of cheese cloth or screen
1 elastic band
Method
Rinse and drain the grain: Rinse grain thoroughly and drain using a strainer.
Soak the grain: Put grain into a bowl and cover with water. Leave grain to soak for 8 hours or overnight. Drain and rinse thoroughly.
?Place grain in a jar: Place grains in the jar and cover with cheesecloth and secure with elastic band.
Invert the jar: Turn the jar upside down and prop up in a bowl to allow water to drain and air to circulate. Keep the jar somewhere with good ventilation and be sure it’s not resting in the water that has drained out.
Rinse and drain: Fill the jar with water and swish it around to wet all the grain. Drain and invert again. Do this 2-3 times per day.
Wait and watch: The grain has sprouted when little tails appear out of the grain. This can take anywhere from 1-5 days.
Refrigerate: Once all the grain has sprouted, cover the jar with a lid and keep in the fridge. Be sure the grain has drained for at least 8 hours before putting them in the fridge or the sprouts may become moldy.
We love these sprouts mixed into green salads, or other grain salads. Sprouted lentils for example are excellent used in place of steamed lentils in our Quinoa Picnic Salad. The following chart will help you sprout all of your Canadian dry goods.
SPROUT AMOUNT (for a 1 litre jar) | SOAKING TIME | SPROUTING TIME?
Lentil 3/4 CUP | 8 hours | 2-4 days
Quinoa 1/2 CUP | 4 hours | 1-4 days
Chickpeas 1 CUP | 8-12 hours | 3-4 days
Wheat Berries 1 CUP | 8-12 hours | 2-3 days
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Co-founders
Janna Bishop, Product Lead
Shira McDermott, Sales & Communications
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ABOUT GRAIN
GRAIN is a new Vancouver-based wholesaler and retailer of Canadian, farmer-direct grains, pulses and seeds and a miller of fresh, whole grain flours.
GRAIN founders Janna Bishop and Shira McDermott source Canadian products exclusively, choosing high quality grains with total traceability, offering a complete story to customers looking for a stronger connection to the farmers growing their food. Realizing that Canada’s best dry goods are either exported or canned, GRAIN has set out to disrupt the traditional food supply chain by giving local consumers a taste of the prairies, supplying top-quality, nutrient-rich, Canadian dry goods with a story behind them. They offer classic Canadian grains like Hard Red Spring Wheat and durum, ancient grains like Khorosan and spelt, pulses like kabuli chickpeas and green lentils and seeds like Canadian golden quinoa.
Janna and Shira are constantly building new relationships with farmers across Western Canada, looking for new products — and the stories behind them — to bring to market. They are now packing retail and wholesale bags in their East Vancouver warehouse, eagerly awaiting the delivery of a hand-crafted stone grist mill from the Tyrolean mountains of Austria. When it arrives, GRAIN expects to immediately begin milling whole grain flours, offering healthy, fragrant and flavourful flour, rich in antioxidants, vitamins, protein and healthy oils.