How To Cook How And How To Cook Different Vegetables - Recipe

Vegetables are an integral part of the Bulgarian menu and find a place on our table in various forms: as a salad, stewed, roasted, cooked, in combination with meat or cereals, stuffed, breaded, fried and canned, of course. A variety of juices, smoothies and cocktails are prepared from vegetables, which are undoubtedly a healthy choice. We have listed a number of options to make a vegetable dish or drink, one of the ways of heat treatment is cooking. We will pay attention to it in this article, giving information on how and how much to cook different vegetables . The length of the process is important because overcooking usually gives tasteless and poor-looking results. So just keep reading.

How long to boil beets

• The beets are boiled for 40-50 minutes, peeled beforehand, and the tail is not removed. It is correct to put in boiling unsalted water, it is better to salt the already prepared dish. Boiled beets are soft when pierced with a knife. During cooking, the water level in the pot should be monitored: it is necessary to cover the beets completely and, if necessary, to top them up. Once cooked, you can put the vegetables in ice water, so it will be easier to clean. Do not throw away the decoction - it is an excellent diuretic and laxative, has a healing effect on the liver, purifying it. Thus, all harmful substances are excreted naturally.
• What beets to choose: it should be of medium size, its color should be dark red. If you can estimate the thickness of the bark, know that it must be thin.
• Boiled beets are stored in the refrigerator for 2 days (maximum 3 days), then it begins to lose its taste, qualities and dries.

How long to cook fresh cabbage

• Chopped fresh cabbage boil for 15-20 minutes depending on the age of the vegetable.

How long to cook broccoli

• Fresh broccoli is boiled for 5-7 minutes in a small amount of salted water, and frozen - 10-12 minutes after boiling the water.

How long to cook cauliflower / cauliflower

• It takes 10-15 minutes to cook the cauliflower, and it is divided into "flowers" in advance. Boil the vegetables for 7 minutes before frying.
• Frozen cauliflower cook for 15-17 minutes without thawing.
• It is better to boil this vegetable in an enameled dish. If you want to give it a snow-white color, boil it in an open pot, adding some of the following products: fresh milk (300 milliliters per 2 liters of water), 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, a few crystals of citric acid, vinegar.

Boiling brussels sprouts

• Fresh Brussels sprouts are boiled for 5-7 minutes, and frozen - 10-12 minutes.

How much is boiled seaweed (type of seaweed)

• Put frozen seaweed in a bowl of cold water, bring to a boil and cook for 10-15 minutes. Then wash and boil once more in clean water. The procedure is done for the third time. In this way the seaweed becomes delicious and the unpleasant odor is removed.
• Canned sea cabbage is boiled for 5 minutes after boiling the water. If the product is dried, soak in cold water for 10-12 hours, then boil for 20-30 minutes.

Cooking carrots

• It takes 20-25 minutes to cook a carrot. It is believed that it is more useful to peel it not before but after cooking, because it retains more nutrients. Salt is added to the final dish, otherwise it will acquire a sweet carrot flavor. For better absorption of vegetables, it is recommended to consume it with cream or butter.

How long to boil sorrel

• It is correct to boil the sorrel for 3-5 minutes, while preserving all its "beauty". This is more of a blanching, but it is enough to soften the leafy vegetables. If you decide to add spices, you should know that they will "muffle" the delicate taste of the plant.

How to boil spinach

• Fresh spinach is boiled for 3-5 minutes, and frozen 3-7 minutes after boiling the water. How: clean the spinach, put it in boiling and salted water, boil and then drain with a colander, cool with cold water, drain it and press the leaves with a spoon.

Cooking pumpkin

• Boil the pumpkin for 20 minutes in salted water, and to make a mash of vegetables you will need 25 minutes of heat treatment.

Cooking asparagus

• Clean the asparagus from their hard shell, cut off the edges and put in a saucepan in a vertical position (for convenience you can tie them with thread). Boil green asparagus for 5-8 minutes and white asparagus for 15 minutes.

How long do potatoes take to cook?

• If you cook the potatoes whole and peeled, it will take 20-25 minutes. If they are peeled and cut into small pieces (for soup), it only takes 15 minutes to be ready.

• it is better to choose potatoes of the same size, so as not to get one part to be boiled and another - raw or overcooked. If you have different sizes, put the small ones whole and cut the big ones into several pieces; strive for uniformity of size;
• put the potatoes in cold salted water;
• after the water boils, the hob is reduced;
• check the readiness with a fork, the boiled potatoes are soft and when pressed with the appliance they are easily divided into parts.

How much zucchini is cooked

• Whole zucchini cook for 15-20 minutes, pre-peeled and cleaned of seeds. 10 minutes are enough for cooking finely chopped.

Cooking green beans

• Fresh green beans are boiled for 4-5 minutes, and frozen - 5-7 minutes. Salt is added during cooking.

How long does it take to cook alabash

• Alabash is a type of cabbage that is cooked for 15 minutes.

How much to boil eggplant

• The eggplant needs 20 minutes to cook. The vegetables are washed beforehand and peeled afterwards. Eggplant, cut into pieces or circles, boil for 10 minutes.

Boiling turnips

• Turnips are boiled for 20 minutes in salted water.

How long will Zucchini squash cook

• It takes 15-20 minutes to cook this type of pumpkin, and if the vegetables are chopped - 10 minutes are enough.

Cooking tomatoes

• Tomatoes are boiled for 15 minutes if added to soup, 45 minutes - if your goal is to get tomato paste (from 1 kg of vegetables) and 10 minutes - to make juice from a kilo of tomatoes.