Sunday, January 13, 2008

Vegetable cooking ( the old method of cooking vegetable)

Vegetable cooking.

Fill a pot with water.
There must be plenty of boiling water to cook the vegetables, add salt.
Put the vegetables in the boiling water, cook until you can break the vegetables when you press the vegetable with a knife or finger. Remove the cooked vegetables, to prevent the vegetatable changing colour, by putting the vegetables in ice water( by putting in icy cold water the vegetables will not be over cooked and stay green).

Using baking powder
To cook vegetables in boiling using baking powder the vegetable will stay green.
When the vegetables are cooked, put the vegetables in icy water to prevent further cooking.

To serve the vegetables
Reheat the vegetables in boiling water, drain the water.
Using a saute' pan, heat the pan to hot, throw in the butter and vegetable and toss the pan until the favour of the butter gets into the vegetables, season with salt, and check your season, you get used to the amount of salt,using your finger or tea spoon to measure the amount.

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