Planting green peas at home

Do you know how green peas (kacang hijau is what I normally called) or the actual name is greenish capped mung beans [1,2] look in their pods and the plant?

Green peas in their pod

Close up on the green beans

Green peas in pods

Since normally the ones sold in the supermarket or shop is the peeled version. I myself never see green peas plant since little. Therefore, I am planning to grew one myself for own experiment and self consumption.

The green peas that I forget and leave it in the jug since last Sunday, 11 September 2016. Happens that it survive and grew

The green peas before moving it into soil. This stage it already become bean sprouts and could be consume. Can leave longer if you wanted it to grow longer like the one sold in markets

Using the existing soil for it to grew more before deciding the suitable space

Normally people would germinate the beans to make bean sprouts or in Malay tauge and use it stuffed tofu (tauhu sumbat) or in cooking. Other delicacies that could be made from this green peas is green peas porridge, kuih kasturi, and etc.

Green peas or mung beans also have plenty of health benefit such as [3]:

1) Can help lower high cholestrol and protect against heart disease,

2) Can help lower high blood pressure,

3) Contains antioxidants that fight cancer development,

4) Can help prevent or treat Type 2 diabetes,

5) Provide high source of protein,

6) Boost immunity and protect against infections and viruses,

7) High source of vitamins and minerals like folate and magnesium,

8) Help to fights obesity and helps weight loss,

9) Can help decrease PMS symptoms,

10) Easy to digest compared to many other beans

Hopefully my experiment will works. This is because green peas or mung beans have 212 calories [3] which is 85% more than in bean sprouts.

For update on the growth of my green peas plant, click here.

References:
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_sprout
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mung_bean
[3] https://draxe.com/mung-beans-nutrition/