SPROUTED MOONG CHAAT

Preparation time: 2 days

Cooking time: 2-3 minutes

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

1 cup moong beans

1/2 tsp cumin seeds

1 tbsp olive oil

1 chopped onion

1 chopped tomato

1 chopped boiled potato (optional)

1 or 2 green chilies

salt as per taste

1/2 tsp chaat masala

juice of one lemon

1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves

Method:

1. Soak the whole mung beans overnight. 
2. Drain out excess water from the soaked moong beans next day.
3. Take a damp cloth and keep the soaked moong beans in the cloth. Tighten this cloth and keep this cloth with the moong beans in a container.
4. Keep it in a container for 1 or 2 days.
5. You will see small sprouts after first day and they will grow after second day. For longer sprouts, you can keep these for one more day. These sprouted beans stay fresh in the fridge for 1-2 days. So you could keep them in the fridge after they have sprouted.
6. Or put the moong beans in a strainer and put some water in the container, now keep this in such a way that the water touches the base of the strainer. Keep rotating the seeds after every 2-3 hours.You can do it in  microwave idli cooker as well.
7. Put bean sprouts in a big plate or thali and check if there are any un-sprouted beans or hard beans, discard these.
8. Wash the sprouted moong beans and drain out excess water.
9. Heat oil in a pan and add cumin seeds. 
10. When they start to crackle add sprouted moong and saute for 2-3 minutes or till they become tender.
11. Put this in a mixing bowl and add chopped onion,chopped tomato,chopped boiled potatoes,green chilies,salt , chaat masala ,coriander leaves and lemon juice and mix well.
12. Serve it like that or you can serve it in fried canape cups.