How to quickly cook beets: an easy life hack – housewives will appreciate it

To prepare a classic vinaigrette or the famous “herring under a fur coat” salad, you need boiled beets.

Everyone knows that this vegetable takes a long time to cook, but there is a way to speed up the cooking process – you just need to know a culinary trick.

Thanks to a simple life hack, beets will be cooked in just 20 minutes.

Let's figure out how to speed up the cooking process of this healthy vegetable.

How to speed up the cooking process of beets

Here are a couple of ways.

1. Place it in already boiling water – the temperature difference will significantly reduce the cooking time.
2. We pour cold water over the hot beets, but in this case the beets may lose some of their nutrients.
3. To quickly cook beets using the second method, you need to pour water over the root vegetables so that it covers them by 10 cm. Place on the stove, turn on maximum heat and leave for 15 minutes after boiling.
4. After this, we place the beets under running cold water.

Earlier we wrote about how to properly add cabbage to soup.