How to cook beets in a pan 🍠

Kitchen appliances and utensils: pan with a lid, knife, brush, stove.

Ingredients

Beet	4 - 6 pcs.
Water	1,5 - 2 l

Step cooking

Beet selection and preparation

1. In order to get a tasty and healthy dish from beets, you need to choose young root crops - they are softer, sweeter and tastier. For cooking, we select small medium-sized root crops, dense, with thin skin, dark red in color, without any signs of damage and rot. My beets under running water. You choose the quantity yourself, the one you need. It is better to wash the beets with a brush to remove the remnants of the earth. No need to apply force, so as not to damage the structure of the shell.
   

Beetroot Cooking

1. Pour so much water into the pan so that when the beets are immersed, water completely covers it. If your pan does not have enough water, and a small part of the beets is above the water, then the beets will have to be turned over during cooking. Put the beets in a pan with cold water. Put on fire, cover, bring to a boil.
   
2. When the water boils, reduce the heat to a minimum, but so that the water continues to boil.
   
3. Cook over low heat for 40 to 60 minutes. Open the lid, check the beets for readiness. If the beets are ready, it is pierced well with a knife. We pour out hot water from the pan.
   
4. Pour the finished beets with cold water in the same pan, after which it will be cleaned well and will not lose its color.
   

Beetroot is ready. You can prepare salads from it or eat just like that, in a purified form.

Useful Tips

• Do not trim the tails before cooking. If you cut them, then with a fresh cut, juice and useful properties will be boiled.
• The water in the pan should be 5 centimeters above the level of beets.
• Beetroot is better to be slightly undercooked, as it will retain more useful properties.
• Always finish the cooking process with cold water.
• Baked beets are sweeter than boiled. Therefore, it is recommended to use it in recipes for salads and vinaigrettes.
• You do not need to salt the beets at the beginning of cooking, since part of the salt will still evaporate, and only the outer shell will have to be salted, which will have to be cleaned. In addition, salt will make the vegetable hard, which means it will increase the already long cooking time. Salt directly the beetroot dish itself.

Video recipe

In this video, you will see how to properly cook beets so that they do not lose color and are well cleaned.

Beet - A useful, domestic, low-calorie product rich in vitamins, minerals, amino acids. The set of elements contained in beets is no longer found in any other vegetable. You can use it raw and baked, fried and boiled. This vegetable is very popular in beetroot diets for weight loss. Beetroot also contains a large number of substances that are not subject to destruction during heat treatment. Beetroot is a unique vegetable, and it cannot be replaced by any other in the human diet.