If the hostess decided to make a salad orvinaigrette, the ingredients of which are cooked root crops, and time is extremely short for cooking these, then you can use the microwave. Roots, cooked in this way, remind to taste baked and very tasty. So all the same, how to cook beets in a microwave, potatoes and carrots?
For cooking, rinse and dryvegetables, wiping them with a tissue or paper towel. Since it is possible to cook beets in a microwave oven in two ways - with or without water, then first let's consider the way of cooking in water. Use special dishes designed for this type of oven.
So, how to cook beets in a microwave oven?In the container should be added the necessary root vegetables and add one hundred grams of water. It will be better if the vegetables are in the middle of the dishes. Do not forget to cover the container with a lid! And consider the fact that the lid does not close tightly, otherwise it may burst from pressure.
Baking beets usually occurs within seven minutes. Then it is necessary to check the knife readiness, and if necessary, repeat the procedure, but with less time.
Some cooks offer anhydrous methodcooking vegetables. This method also requires special utensils. This can be a glass container for microwave ovens with a lid that does not fit snugly to the dishes. Also suitable is a cover - a hood for microwave, which has a valve for steam output. But you can also use a plastic container for microwave cooking with a lid, which has a special valve for the release of vapors.
It is impossible to specify the cooking time exactly, sohow it varies depending on whether we take large vegetables or not. A huge role is also played by the microwave power, the volume of dishes and even the season. Yes Yes! The time of the year is in the yard! Why? Yes, because in different seasons the vegetables have different humidity.
For example, potatoes laid in one rowquite freely, will be prepared in microwave power 1000 W for 7-10 minutes. Carrots are brewed a little longer under the same conditions - 10 - 12 minutes. Since it is also necessary to cook beetroot in a microwave for a longer time than potatoes and carrots (this is noticeable even with regular cooking!), Then this process will take us somewhere between 13 and 18 minutes.
The large size of vegetables increases the baking time, and small vegetables, on the contrary, need less time to cook. However, do not cook very few vegetables, for example, one carrot should not be baked.
Also, one should take into account the moment of "tastes".That is, root crops after the termination of work still continue to "reach" to readiness. Therefore, it is better to get the vegetables slightly not baked, than to keep them inside the oven. We check the readiness as usual - a match or a wooden toothpick.
Since to weld beets in a microwave oven to us,for example, for vinaigrette is not enough, then most cooks need to put in it, in addition, also potatoes and carrots. Therefore, it is worth talking about this.
If there are enough roots in the container,many, they have to be stacked not in one, but in several rows. Of course, they need to be cooked longer than packed in one row. In the middle, it is necessary to put the smallest fruits, since there the action of the waves is the weakest. Also it is necessary to take into account the category of products. That is, it is best to put the potatoes in the middle, because it requires less time for cooking.
Setting the microwave time to 8 minutes, after ityou should check the vegetables for availability. In parallel, the rest is turned over, taking out the ready ones. If necessary, you can put the microwave for another 4 minutes.
And we act: 5 minutes - check.We remove ready-made vegetables. Again - 5 minutes. Again check. After the container is taken out of the oven, it should never be filled with cold water - it may burst. Vegetables are recommended after cooking in cold water in specially cooked dishes with water in order to cool them. Now you know how to cook beets in a microwave oven - then you are well prepared!
