Sprouted Buckwheat: The world’s healthiest-nutrient-packed seeds!

Sprouted Buckwheat is one of the world’s healthiest seeds. It’s gluten free, and people can rely on for amino acids, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants!

I grew up eating Japanese soba noodles made with buckwheat, but I had no idea what buckwheat really was. However, trying to eat everything healthy the right way, I came across buckwheat. The first time I saw real buckwheat, I thought it was grain, but it is actually a seed!

Knowing about phytic acids in whole grains, nuts and seeds, I do a lot of fermenting and sprouting of these things before I cook them, and buckwheat is something I like to sprout too!

Sprouting anything sounds difficult, but don’t let the sound of it stop you. To me, sprouting buckwheat is even easier than other kinds of seeds or beans. I’m writing this post while living abroad, and I didn’t have all the equipment I used back home, so I am sprouting buckwheat with a recycled jar, and a basic strainer, and the result is great!

Once buckwheat sprouts, I toast it in a frying pan. I use Sprouted Buckwheat with my salad, mixed into and sprinkled on top of coconut kefir, smoothies, and for any kind of food I want a nutty & crunchy taste.

Would you like to sprout buckwheat now? Let me show you how

Things you need for Sprouted Buckwheat:

1. About ¼ cup (85 g) of buckwheat groats. Note: Feel free to adjust the amount you want to do, and watch the video below on a different way of sprouting.
2. Filtered water
3. A medium size glass jar, strainer, a container to catch water

How to sprout it:

Note: I published the post 2 years ago abroad using the equipment I had, and I made the video after I moved back to my house that is more equipped. Feel free to use either method or adapt your own way of sprouting them.

1. Put the buckwheat groats in a jar, and rinse them thoroughly. Fill the jar with water halfway and let it soak for one night.
2. After the first night, drain and rinse them well. Place the jar and tilt it in a container, and put it on a quiet spot for 2 nights, but rinse it thoroughly every day.
3. You can see tiny sprouts everywhere–it’s all sprouted!
   

   buckwheat after being soaked for one night

   

   rinse and drain thoroughly after soaked

   

   put soaked buckwheat in a glass jar and tilt using a strainer as a lid

   

   sprouted buckwheat in the glass jar

How to toast it:

1. Rinse the sprouted groats thoroughly, and let it drain well.
2. Place it in frying pan with one layer on low heat and toast it ‘til dried and look crispy. It doesn’t take long, probably about 10-15 minutes!
3. Roughly grind some and put it in a jar for later use. Enjoy!
   

   toast it in a frying pan

   

   sprouted buckwheat after being toasted

   

   roughly grind some after toasted

   

   store sprouted-toasted buckwheat in glass jars

Have you done Sprouted Buckwheat before? Please share it with me, I’d like to hear about it!