How to cook beets for salad?
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What is important for a hearty and festive herring under a fur coat? - Of course, soft, sweet, bright beets. A few simple knowledge will help us get just this.
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To preserve the rich color of the finished beets and the salad was bright, vegetables must be cooked whole in an ordinary plastic bag.
Root vegetables will be cooked at the same time if the beets are selected of the same size.
- If you cook whole beets, then medium root vegetables are cooked in a saucepan for 45-55 minutes. The larger one is cooked for 1.5 hours. If at the very end of cooking it became clear that the beets were not sweet enough, then to improve the taste of the vegetable it is better to sweeten beet cubes.
- Beets can be boiled quickly - cut into pieces, they are boiled in a saucepan with a lid for 20-30 minutes.
- When beets for salad need to be cooked quickly, they are boiled by cutting them in half in a microwave at a power of about 800 watts, cook for 5-8 minutes, checking every 2 minutes for softness with a fork.
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