Competent heat treatment of any products affects not only their gustatory qualities, but also useful properties. Especially it concerns some fruit and vegetables. Beet - vegetable which is used in preparation of many dishes for this reason each hostess needs to know how many on time it is necessary to cook this root crop that thermal treatment didn't affect its gustatory qualities and in it remained as much as possible vitamins.
Beet is used in preparation of very many dishes, this product and in dishes of healthy food, and all is irreplaceable because it contains huge amount of useful substances. It is possible to eat this root crop in the raw, however most of people prefer to eat exclusively boiled beet. If you wish to make tasty and useful boiled beet salad, then you need to know how many on time it is necessary to cook this vegetable to keep in it the maximum quantity of vitamins.
How many on time to cook beet
Time of cooking and ways of boiling of this vegetable depends on its size and age. So, for example, it is necessary to cook absolutely young root crops of the small sizes in the boiling water no more than 20 minutes, large it is better to bake in a foil in an oven within minutes 30-40.
How to cook beet quickly
If at your disposal there is no oven, but you need to boil large beet quickly, then I advise you to use the following method: put the washed-up beet in a pan and fill in it with abrupt boiled water then at once put on fire (water has to cover completely vegetables). Thus boil thoroughly beet in the boiling water of minutes 10-12 then drain hot water and quickly fill in vegetables with ice water. Keep beet in cold water five minutes then replace water with boiled water again and boil thoroughly five minutes. The root crop is ready, now it can be used in preparation of any viands. It is worth remembering that when cooking large beet don't cut at all it as in this case vegetable will lose a large amount of vitamins at thermal treatment and its color will become less bright.