What Is The Secret To Cooking Vegetables?
Posted by Harry Barber in healthy food, tags: beverage, cooking, Drink, food, food and beverage, Food and Cooking, Food and Drinks, Food and Nutrition, Health, Health and Nutrition, Health Recipes, healthy food, Nutrition, recipesVegetables are essential to the human diet. We get a great deal of our daily vitamin content from vegetables. We need to make sure that how we cook them does not drain vitamin contents and benefits of consumption.
Cooking vegetables can be tricky. Over cooking can make vegetables bland and soggy. My belief is that vegetables should not be boiled. Boiling is one way to turn vegetables to tasteless and lifeless forms and rob us of their vitamin content.
So how do you proceed if you can’t boil them?
A good choice would be to steam your vegetables. Your vegetables will be full of life if you steam them. Crisp and colorful is how they’ll turn out. Also, their vitamin content won’t be depleted.
By rule of thumb, vegetables will only need a few minutes in the steam.
For those who do not have official vegetable steamers, an easy steamer can be fashioned out a of pot, a metal colander, and a pot lid. A small amount of water is to be placed on the bottom of the pot. Fit the metal colander into the pot. Start to boil the water. You will begin the see the steam rise. Place your vegetables into the metal colander and place the pot lid over the metal colander and pot. You can steam your vegetables using this collection of kitchen items.
Another good option is to cook your vegetables in a wok. The secret to the wok is that it cooks quickly at a very high temperature. Aside from vegetables retaining their colors, flavors, and textures, their loss of nutrient will only be minimum.
My favorite wok recipe for vegetables is to cook broccoli, carrots, bok choy, and snow peas in a very light garlic sauce. The garlic adds the right amount of flavor and the vegetables remain crisp. This combination can be served with any cut of meat.
Now you know that not over cooking is the secret to cooking vegetables. Full color and remaining crisp is what vegetables should be. Once you’ve discovered different tricks to bring life to your vegetables, they’ll become a popular request on your dinner table.
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