Beetroot is a tasty and very useful vegetable for humans. Earlier, it took more than an hour to cook beets, today with the spread of double boiler it was easy to cook, it can be done without losing the vitamins and nutrients it contains.
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Instruction manual
1
Peel the beets and rinse. To clean raw beets follows the principle of potatoes. After cleaning, beets should be washed so that small pieces of soil (they may not be washed from the peel) do not get into the finished dish. You must agree that crunching the ground on your teeth is not very pleasant.
2
Cut the beets into strips. It can also be cut on the combine using the appropriate nozzle. The shredder on the combine is perhaps the easiest and fastest way to cut beets and not get dirty. You can use a regular grater or a Cinderella type grater with vegetable mount for slicing. You can chop the beets with your hands.
3
Transfer the chopped beets to a double boiler. Cook it in it for 20 minutes. Since many steam cookers do not accurately count the time, set a timer for 30 minutes for accuracy.
4
Look at the beets in the double boiler, if it has become translucent from the end, then it is ready (more precisely, it has been slightly digested, but this is not a big deal, as the nutrients of the vegetables cooked in the double boiler are preserved).
5
Remove beets from a double boiler 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 useful properties.
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Wash the double boiler immediately after changing the beets. From this vegetable, as a rule, a lot of juice flows into the lower pan of a double boiler. If you leave everything for a day, 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 a double boiler than cold and frozen ones.
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Do not be afraid to cook beets in a double boiler. Change your habits, because cooking beets in a pan is uncomfortable and very long. Do not experiment or boil whole beets. Cooking time will take a lot, and the middle to the end may not boil.
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