FREE: ADZUKI BEAN SEEDS, 8 SEEDS

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ADZUKI BEAN (Phaseolus angularis), also known as Chi Dou and Chinese Red Bean, is an ancient (dating before 1000 BC) Asian specialty bean that is highly nutritious and very digestible. Versatile in culinary use, it is most popular in Western cuisine as a sprout; in China the dried bean is ground into a paste for use in a variety of dishes; in Japan it is popular in deserts and festival rice (it will tint the rice pink). The small round maroon bean has a white ridge. The flavor is rich, nutty and sweet. It has a relatively fast cooking time compared to other beans and doesn't require extensive soaking prior. Bush habit, 100 days. 25 seeds.
ABOUT SPROUTING: Sooooo easy and so much safer and healthier than buying store bought, which have been linked to e coli an salmonella outbreaks. Don't have a sprouter? Don't really need one. A strainer of any kind set into a bowl will do. Remember that you'll need twice the space as the amount of seed you start with as volume will double. Rinse your beans twice a day and then put in clean, preferably filtered cold water that covers well. When sprouts have reached desired size (they are soft and edible after just 24 hours of soaking), rinse one final time and refrigerate. They'll keep for a week, but better to sprout very small batches more frequently.