Potatoes delivered to Russia at the time of Peter I still remain one of the most popular products. There is a huge number of dishes from potatoes. It is worth noticing that not all these dishes are equally useful. For example, when cooking potatoes it is necessary to follow some rules.
Rules of preparation of potatoes
Before lowering potatoes in water, it is necessary to wait that water well began to boil. If not to make it, then various enzymes will begin vitamin C oxidation, and potatoes will lose the useful properties.
When water begins to boil already with potato, it is necessary to make fire average and to cover a pan. It is necessary in order that starch inflated evenly. If to cook potato on big fire, then it will boil soft outside and will remain crude inside.
When it is necessary to make quickly potatoes, it is necessary to add a tablespoon of margarine or vegetable oil when cooking.
That tubers of potatoes didn't boil soft, it is necessary to add a little apple cider vinegar to a pan.
In salty water potatoes cook long enough therefore to salt it stand up to the end in 5-10 minutes of cooking.
Preservation of vitamins and nutrients
The most part of useful substances, minerals and vitamins B potatoes contains under a peel. Therefore when cleaning potatoes the knife has to adjoin slightly to it, cleaning off it as it is possible more thinly.
It is also useful to cook potatoes unpeeled. The peel in the course of cooking allows to keep all useful properties.
As potatoes are considered the dietary product containing very small amount of carbohydrates, it is recommended to be used together with fish dishes.