Sprouting Buckwheat Groats

Sprouting buckwheat groats are very easy. I have them on hand stored in glass jars for cereal, dessert bars or cookies plus you can grind the groats that have been dried into a flour for many great recipes. The cereal you can add some buckwheat groats, dried fruit, nuts or seeds and top off with some raw almond milk and you have a quick and easy raw breakfast that is amazing.

Sprouted buckwheat is an amazing food because it tastes like a grain but it is gluten and wheat free and not a grain at all. It is one of the most complete sources of protein on the planet, containing all eight amino acids. Sprouted buckwheat also cleanse the colon and alkalizes the body. Sprouted buckwheat is also high in iron so it is a good blood builder.

Nutritional info:

Vitamins A, B, C and E

Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Selenium, Niacin, Phosphorus, Potassium

All Amino Acids

Protein: 15%

Sprouting Buckwheat Groats

Start by soaking over night.

After the sprouts have soaked overnight this next step with be the only hard part. RINSE, RINSE, RINSE!! The sprouts soaking water becomes thick and you need to rinse the sprouts until the water runs clear and isn't thick anymore. The sprouts won't sprout the best if you don't. I say this is the hard part, it isn't that hard it's just a very important step and the rest of the sprouting time is easy, easy!

Here are the buckwheat groats all rinsed with my spouting lids and ready to invert and just let them do their work. 

Here you can see the buckwheat groats are inverted in my sink. I do this right in my sink because it works great there. You might have a rack you can store them on inverted. What ever works best for you to get them inverted and draining. I rinse them 2-3 times a day. At this stage they sprout in a day. 

I dry my buckwheat groats in a 13 x 9 casserole dish. I stir them a few times especially in the beginning of the drying process. It at least takes 24 hours for mine in the dehydrator but I do huge batches to store so I don't have to do it so often. 

This close-up photo you can see the buckwheat groats tails on them. They even sprout a little more in the beginning of the drying process.