It is easy to make fava beans sprout balls. Purchase organic sprout-able fava beans. In a bowl soak 2 cups dry fava beans in 5 cups of filtered water for 12 to 24 hrs. Then, rinse and drain for 3 days. Peel the outer rubbery skins off. Rinse again being careful not to brake off sprouts.
CUT AWAY ANY BAD SPOTS..and discard. They should be nearly white and pretty. Then steam for 6 minutes (about a cup at a time). They are ready to eat at this point or make them into sprout balls or freeze as is and eat as needed.
1 sprout = approx 2 mg l-dopa
Ingredients for Fava Beans Sprout Balls:
Warm 3/4 Cup Stevia Tea (recipe below)
Add one 16 oz jar natural Smuckers Peanut Butter (without hydrogenated oil)
2 TBS sorghum molasses
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
Mix
Add 1 Cup ground raw pumpkin seeds and a little ground oatmeal to help stick it together. Ground pumpkin seeds help with tremors also.
Add finely mashed steamed fava sprouts. This reduces the need for other ingredients if a lot were bad.
Mix well. Form into one inch bite size balls. Freeze in single layers in a container with wax paper between layers or in ziplock bags for easy access.
I now eat 2 to 3Â fava beans sprout balls a day in addition to taking my tincture from the tops of fava beans.
Recipe for STEVIA TEA:
Use dried stevia leaves or powder. Herbal Advantage carries them. Place 2 teas crushed leaves or powder in a 16 oz jar. Fill jar with boiling water. Cover steep 20 min to make tea. Strain. Use liquid as a sweetener replacement in recipees.
TWEEK SPROUT BALLS TO SUIT YOUR PERSONAL TASTE. Add what you like to eat.
God Bless………….
Happy sprouting
Aunt Bean
Dear Aunt Bean, God has guided me to you, helped by google 😉
Thank you for your precious researches, the power of the fava beans seems totally unknown in France…
I would like to know why you steam the sprouted fava beans, can not we eat them raw ?
Thank you for your reply
Mireille (France)
Dear Mireille, I steam the sprouted bean for just a minute , after peeling the outside skin off and rinsing the bean sprouts. There is a toxin in the bean before sprouting, that may still slightly be there after sprouting. This is not something just in fava beans , but in most dried beans…that is why beans are soaked at least 12 hrs / rinsed and cooked in a couple changes of water before the major cooking time begins. There is definitely a sort of slimmy substance under the protective skin. Anyway, I feel better about eating them that way. It may be perfectly alright to peel, rinse and not steam them. I would at least dip them through hot water. Hope this answers your question.