Nuts contain inhibitors that protect them naturally until the growing conditions are perfect. Inhibitors, however, also prevent your body from accessing its nutrients. Soaking walnuts before eating them causes them to release most of their vitamins, which allows those nutritious and healthy substances to be more easily absorbed by the body. Familiarize yourself with the walnut soaking process to receive the greatest health benefits from them. Learn how to soak fresh or uncooked nuts to release enzyme inhibitors, eliminate gluten and reduce the amount of natural acids that prevent your body from absorbing vitamins.
Steps
Step 1. Bring the walnuts to room temperature
Step 2. Measure the amount of nuts you want to make
Step 3. Rinse them thoroughly
Step 4. Put the washed walnuts in a bowl or jar
Step 5. Add water to the bowl
You will need twice as much water as walnuts.
Step 6. Cover the bowl
Take a clean cloth and lay it over the container as a cover. This type of lid allows the contents of the bowl to breathe.
Step 7. Soak the nuts according to their density
The harder a walnut is, the longer it will take for it to absorb water.
- Soak the almonds for 8 to 12 hours.
- Soak the cashews for 2 to 3 hours.
- Soak the flax seeds for 6 hours.
- Soak the chickpeas for 12 to 48 hours.
- Soak the walnuts for 4 hours.
Step 8. Drain the water, wash the walnuts and fill the bowl with more water
Every 3-4 hours, the water in the bowl must be replaced. It contains all the enzymes, acids and byproducts you are trying to remove from nuts by soaking them. Place a colander or sieve over the opening of the container to drain the water.
Step 9. Store uncooked walnuts after soaking
If you plan to use the nuts in a few days, place the bowl or jar of nuts in the refrigerator.
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To store walnuts for a longer period, dry them in single layers at a low temperature (below 46 degrees Celsius) in the dehydrator, and then refrigerate them. Dehydrating walnuts gives them back their crunchiness.
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