Dried beans need soaking for several hours before cooking, preferably overnight. Add a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda to speed things up. An even quicker method is to bring them to the boil in ...

Mung beans quickly sprout thick, white, crisp shoots and are a popular source of beansprouts. Unlike other pulses they can be cooked, if desired, without prior soaking, although soaking does ...

1. Wash and rinse the mung beans several times until the water is clear. Soak the beans for about one hour. 2. Soak the dried kelp pieces until they become soft and cut them into thick strips.

Once the bottle is clean and dry, “put about a hundred grams of mung or green beans inside,” Ninh explained while pouring the beans inside a yellow milk carton through a funnel. She then ...