Beetroot is widely used in cooking. Bright root vegetables serve as the basis for a huge number of salads and snacks, is a dressing for the first dishes and a fine vegetable garnish for meat. No less widely and a variety of methods for preparing beets: it can be fried, dried, or baked in the oven, cooked and steamed, but the method we will talk about in this article will help to replace more than half of the above. Today, we will figure out how to make beets in a microwave oven.
How to bake beets in a microwave?
Before cooking, you need to select medium-sized beets (to cook faster and more evenly), wash and place in a special microwave oven. We select the maximum cooking power and bake the root vegetable 10-12 minutes. After the time has elapsed, we check the root crop for readiness and, if necessary, add another 2-3 minutes. Baked beets in this way is good already in itself, but it can be supplemented and turned into a full dish. To do this, the root vegetable cooked in the oven is cooled, cleaned and cut into cubes. We take a single bulb and cut it in the same way. Mix the vegetables and fill them with butter, leave to bake for 2-3 minutes.
While vegetables are baked, in a separate plate mix 1.5 cup sour cream a tablespoon of flour. Salt and pepper sauce and ready-made vegetables, add a little vinegar to the sauce. Fill the sour cream sauce with beetroot and onion and continue cooking at half the maximum power for another 6-7 minutes.
So, now you have learned from your own experience how to simply bake beets in a microwave oven.
How to cook beets in a microwave?
With the help of a microwave it is possible not only to bake, but also to boil the beets and even use for this several different ways. For the first method, we will cook the beets in the microwave in a bag, or in the sleeve.
Again, first we select a medium-sized root crop to make cooking faster. Wash the beetroot in a bag, or sleeve and do the last few punctures to exit the steam. Now the package can be tied up and placed in a microwave oven at maximum power. How much to cook a beet in a microwave it is for certain impossible to tell, after all all depends on capacity of the device and the sizes of the fruit, but for the beginning of 10-12 minutes will be quite enough.
Unlike the previous method of baking, in this case, the beet will be cooked due to the abundance of steam that occurs in the package. After a while we check the vegetable for readiness and, if necessary, add a couple of minutes. We leave the beetroot in the package until it cools down completely, to allow it to finally boil off the remains of heat.
In the same way, you can prepare and small slices of beet, in order to speed up the cooking process.
Together with large slices of beets in the package we send dried herbs (the harvest from the Provençal herbs will suit perfectly),
The preparation of beet in a microwave oven by the following method implies the use of special dishes for a microwave oven. A whole and washed root is placed in a bowl and poured onto its bottom with 125 ml of water. Now we send the beets to prepare 10-12 minutes at full power. After a while, if the water has evaporated completely - top it up again and turn the beet by the other side. We cook another 10-12 minutes in the same mode. Now the beets should be taken from the oven, covered with foil and left to cool completely.