For those who are tired of the tedious long cooking of beets, we will tell you how to shorten the cooking time in a saucepan, using small tricks that many housewives successfully use in their kitchen.
How fast can be cooked beets whole?
There is a fairly common quick way to cook beets. Initially, a well-washed root is placed in cold water and put on a stove. After a full boil, we reduce the intensity of the fire to a minimum and cook the medium-sized beets - thirty minutes, the middle - forty minutes, and the larger roots - one hour. Then the water is drained and then we put the vessel with a hot vegetable under a stream of cold water for about fifteen minutes. A temperature difference is created, which brings the beets to readiness.
Some landladies prefer to apply the method of temperature difference somewhat differently. The pan is somewhat larger than what is actually needed in order to boil a certain amount of vegetable put together with it on the stove. Pre-pour the water so that it barely covers the contents. After boiling, we pour a little ice water into the bowl, and each time again we give a good boil. Thus, the beets are cooked as much as in the case of previous recommendations according to the size of the root crop.
How quickly and tasty to cook in a saucepan of red beets on a salad?
As you know, for beetroot it is better to bake beets in a microwave oven or in an oven, and then all the gustatory qualities of the vegetable will be at the highest possible level. His flesh will remain sweet, juicy and extremely saturated with vitamins and various elements. But if there is no desire or opportunity to use an oven or microwave oven , then you can achieve the same effect simply in a saucepan. It will not be difficult to do this.
So, rinsed thoroughly from the ground and the contamination of root crops put in a sealed tight plastic bag and tightly tied it to avoid ingress of air and moisture. Place the workpiece in a saucepan of cold water and place it on a stove. After boiling, cook the beetroot in the package with a moderate boil from one to two hours, depending on the size. Time will certainly require more than what I would like, but the taste of the vegetable will stay on top and with vitamins will be complete order.
Note that this option of cooking beets in a pan is preferable not only for reasons of preserving the flavoring properties of the vegetable. It is important that the pan after the process of such preparation is completely clean, in contrast to the effects of traditional cooking.
How to cook large beets quickly?
We will not offer barbarous ways of cooking large beets, which simply cut the vegetable into several parts. Even an inexperienced cook is clear that in this way the vegetable is in many respects
So how to be in this case? The temperature difference method may not work here due to the impressive thickness of the fruit. In the center, the flesh of the vegetable can remain moist. But there is another effective method, with which you can significantly speed up the process of cooking large beets. At the initial stage, add a few spoons of vegetable oil together with the vegetable. As you know, the boiling point of the oil is higher than water. Thus, adding oil to the water, we will increase the average temperature of the medium in which the beets will be cooked, which will facilitate its faster cooking.