Are Peanut Sprouts Expensive? Growing Methods and Nutritional Analysis
Peanut is a food that many friends love to eat, but when it comes to the fact that peanut sprouts are edible, most people are quite surprised. In fact, peanut sprouts are just like mung bean sprouts and can be eaten, and the sprouts grown from peanuts are also very nutritious, but you must make sure they have not rotted. Peanut sprouts have long been eaten among the people, mainly made into pickles, that is, placed in a sauerkraut jar until they turn sour and then eaten. So are peanut sprouts expensive? How do you eat them? Is the growing method difficult?
1. Are peanut sprouts expensive?
About 7 yuan per jin, wholesale price. In supermarkets, peanut sprouts sell for nearly 15 yuan per jin. This depends on the local price of peanuts. Generally speaking, the production process of peanut sprouts is somewhat more complicated and tedious than that of bean sprouts. The price will also be on the higher side. In some places, peanut sprouts have appeared in supermarkets, selling for more than 15 yuan per jin.
2. How do you eat peanut sprouts?
(1) Sausage with peanut sprouts
Main ingredient: Peanuts (200g)
Auxiliary ingredients: Sausage (50g), fermented black beans (1 spoon), dried chili peppers (appropriate amount), garlic cloves (appropriate amount)
Method:
1. In a cold pan with cold oil, stir-fry the ingredients over low heat. (Except the sprouts)
2. Stir-fry the fatty parts of the sausage until transparent, then add the sprouts.
3. Stir-fry over medium heat.
4. Pour in an appropriate amount of boiling water and simmer.
5. When the water is almost boiled away, add salt to taste.
(2) Stir-fried pork with peanut sprouts
Main ingredients: Peanut sprouts (300g), pork belly (150g)
Auxiliary ingredient: Green garlic (appropriate amount)
Method:
1. Heat the pan, add a small amount of oil, and add the pork belly to stir-fry;
2. Stir-fry until most of the fat is rendered out, and when the pork belly is slightly charred, add ginger slices and stir-fry together;
3. After stir-frying until fragrant, add the peanut sprouts;
4. After stirring briefly, add an appropriate amount of light soy sauce, salt, pepper and other seasonings;
5. After simmering briefly, when the peanut sprouts have softened slightly, add the green garlic;
6. Stir-fry evenly and it is ready
(3) Stir-fried beef with peanut sprouts
Main ingredient: Beef tenderloin (150g)
Auxiliary ingredient: Peanut sprouts (300g)
Method:
1. Cut the beef tenderloin horizontally into slices, add an appropriate amount of water;
2. Slowly work the water in by hand; rinse with water;
3. Squeeze out all the water inside, so that the blood water in the beef is brought out;
4. Then add an appropriate amount of salt, cooking wine and an appropriate amount of starch to the beef tenderloin slices;
5. Pour in an appropriate amount of water and work it in by hand; then add half an egg white;
6. Continue working it by hand, and after it is evenly mixed, let it sit for a while;
7. Boil water in a pan, and after the water boils, add the marinated beef tenderloin slices;
8. As soon as the beef slices change color, take them out immediately;
9. Prepare a small bowl of sauce in advance: salt, light soy sauce, shredded ginger, scallion, oyster sauce and pepper;
10. Heat the pan, add an appropriate amount of oil, and add the peanut sprouts to stir-fry;
11. After the peanut sprouts have softened slightly, add the beef tenderloin slices that were just blanched;
12. After stir-frying a few times, add the bowl of sauce prepared earlier;
13. Stir-fry so that the dish is evenly coated with the sauce, and after it comes to a boil, add the prepared scallion sections; stir-fry evenly and it is ready.
3. Growing methods for peanut sprouts
1. Variety: Choose small-seeded peanut varieties, and use new seeds of the current year that are plump, uniform in size, undamaged, strong in germination vigor and high in germination rate.
2. Site: Peanut sprout production has strict requirements for temperature and humidity conditions, and generally does not need light, but requires fresh and smooth air. An idle living room or an old vacant room can be used.
3. Container: Foam boxes of various specifications can be used. Generally, choose a box 60 cm long, 40 cm wide and 25 cm high. The bottom of the box is required to be flat and have drainage and ventilation holes.
Sowing method
1. Seed selection: Use new seeds of the current year, preferably small-seeded white-skin peanut varieties, and choose seeds that are plump, uniform in size, intact and with a germination rate above 95%.
2. Soaking seeds: Soak the selected seeds in clean water for 12 to 24 hours so that the seeds fully absorb water and swell. Then take the seeds out, rinse them with clean water 2 to 3 times, and then germinate them.
3. Germination: Germination should be carried out in seedling trays. Sow the soaked seeds directly in the seedling trays, then stack the trays to germinate. The temperature should preferably be 22 to 25°C.
4. Sowing: Clean and disinfect the cultivation container, and place the germinated seeds in the tray. Sow about 500 grams per seedling tray, but they must be placed in a single layer and must not be piled up.
Growing management
1. Seed culling: 2 to 3 days after peanut sowing, when the sprouts have grown to 1 cm, remove all the seed kernels that have not sprouted.
2. Temperature: The suitable growth temperature for peanut sprouts is 18 to 25°C. In summer, spray more water to cool them down, and in winter, strengthen insulation.
3. Watering: Water 3 to 4 times a day, preferably with clean well water. The amount of water should be enough to wet all the sprouts and soak the substrate through.
4. Light: During cultivation, the room should be kept dim and must not be exposed to light, otherwise the peanut sprouts will turn green, affecting their appearance and taste.
5. Harvest: Under normal cultivation conditions, from sowing to harvest takes 7 to 8 days in summer and autumn, and 8 to 10 days in winter and spring.