Beetroot is a delicious and very useful vegetable for humans. Previously, it took more than an hour to boil beets, today, with the spread of steamers, it has become easy to cook it, this can be done without losing the vitamins and nutrients it contains.
Instructions
Step 1
Peel the beets and rinse. Peeling raw beets follows the potato principle. It is necessary to wash the beets after cleaning so that small particles of soil (they may not be washed off the peel) do not get into the finished dish. Crunching the ground on your teeth, you see, is not very pleasant.
Step 2
Cut the beets into strips. You can also cut it on a combine using the appropriate attachment. A shredder on a combine is perhaps the easiest and fastest way to cut the beets without getting dirty. You can use a regular grater or a Cinderella-style grater with a fastener for vegetables for slicing. You can chop the beets by hand.
Step 3
Transfer the chopped beets to the steamer. Cook it in it for 20 minutes. Since many steamers don't keep accurate time, set the timer to 30 minutes for accuracy.
Step 4
Look at the beets in a double boiler, if they become translucent at the ends, then they are ready (more precisely, they are slightly overcooked, but there is nothing to worry about, since the nutrients of vegetables cooked in a double boiler are preserved).
Step 5
Remove the beets from the steamer and use as directed. For example, you can make a salad with prunes, a salad with garlic, or the famous herring under a fur coat. You can be sure that the beets are ready and they have retained all their beneficial properties.
Step 6
Wash the steamer immediately after transferring the beets. This vegetable tends to drain a lot of juice into the bottom pan of the steamer. If you leave everything for a day, then it can turn sour, and there will be an unpleasant smell in the kitchen. In addition, warm beet particles are much easier to remove from the steamer than cold and frozen ones.
Step 7
Don't be afraid to use a double boiler to cook beets. Change your habits, as boiling beets in a saucepan is inconvenient and takes a long time. Do not experiment or cook whole beets in a double boiler. Cooking time will take a lot, and the middle may not be boiled to the end.
