BeetRoot Cooking Food with Benefits

Beetroot is a vegetable of choice for those people who like great food.

Its rich taste, deep color and ease of use puts it on top of the list when it comes to preparing most enjoyable memorable meals with lots of health benefits of pure natural food. 

Cooking beets is not a very complicated process and the final product is very pleasing and satisfying in taste, appearance and nutritional content.

The many ways to use and prepare natural beetroot. Food with benefits.

There are many ways to prepare beetroots and no extensive kitchen experience is needed to create a masterpiece that is full of vitamins and easy on the eyes with the help of the red or golden beets.

Although it is hard and dense in its raw pure form beets can be eaten raw and they are wonderfully crunchy and not hard to chew. You can grate or juice them and you have an even faster and softer meal that you can have any time during the day.

Raw beets should be consumed in moderate amounts to benefit from their amazing health food qualities.

Cooked beets are also an awesome and wholesome food with many health benefits for people of all ages.

Beets should not be cooked for a long time as longer cooking time decreases its vitamin content and does not add any improvements to their already great taste.

Quickly cooked beets are the best ingredient in many appetizers or salads for you to enjoy.

You don’t need to peel your beets before cooking them, their outer skin is thin and soft when cooked and it contains good health food properties as well.

You may wish to peel and discard the beet skin if you like after cooking them, it’s a matter of choice, in this case you don’t even need a vegetable peeler or a knife as it's very fast and easy to do just by hands due to the softness of the cooked beetroot.

There are several ways to cook beets, every method has its beneficial qualities and all of them are simple and rather fast.

Ways to cook beets:

1. Boiling
2. Steaming
3. Baking
4. Grilling
5. Frying
6. Roasting

Types of meals to prepare using beets as the main ingredient:

1. Grated beets
2. Beet salad
3. Beet soup called borscht
4. Smoothies
5. Sandwiches
6. Juices
7. Veggie  burger
8. Pancakes
9. Cakes
10. Muffins
11. Pizza
12. Stuffed buns
13. Snacks
14. Appetizers

Ways to use raw beets:

1. Raw beet salad
2. Raw beet snack
3. Grated beets
4. Juicing
5. Cultured beets

To boil or steam beets you only need a minimal amount of time enough for the beets to get softer and lose their crunchiness. This can take less than 10 minutes for small or cut beets. The longer you cook your beets the more decrease you get in the vitamin content. So you may not want to overcook your beets.

The water from boiling or steaming beets does not need to be discarded, it contains good beneficial qualities that were obtained from the process of cooking the beetroot in it and you can just drink it as is or reserve it for making soup or add it to you smoothies.

Watch the videos here for more ideas and help to prepare your wonderful delicious healthy meals and dishes using pure natural fresh colorful beetroot!

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Keep butter fresh Sandwich ready Easy to spread Save money too

Fresh butter, easy to spread and sandwich ready, and lots of it more, is a good thing for any fridge.

I don't use a lot of butter in my house but when I do, I like to have it fresh, of course, and easy to spread.

I always keep a good amount of butter in my refrigerator so that I don't suddenly run out of it and I never know when I might need it. Sometimes I don't need it for weeks because I might want to use other things in my food like olive or sesame or some other oils, or I might favor some natural mayonnaise for a while or soy sauce and tomato sauce.
Having enough butter on hand if I want to bake some fatty cookies is important also.

If I used butter every day, to always have it soft, sandwich ready and easy to spread I could keep a small piece on the counter, outside of the refrigerator at room temperature but that is not an option because that piece would stand a good chance to go rancid long before I would get to it again.

The simple solution for this situation is to keep all my butter in the freezer except for a small piece that I put in a plastic container with a lid and keep it in the fridge. The container I use is the one I actually reuse, it initially contained some other food that came in it from the food market. It turns out to be just perfect for butter, the glass could possibly get scratched or chipped by the knife.

The important thing here is to cut the butter into small cubes before putting it in the freezer so that a small piece could be taken out whenever needed.
Also this way I can save some money by buying the butter in a bigger size package. It is cheaper per oz or gram and the butter stays good and fresh in the freezer for a really long time.

Another good part in all this, and this is actually the best part besides everything else, that by cutting butter into small cubes/ portions and keeping it in the fridge in that size pieces it makes it very easy to use and spread. It almost instantly gets soft when you take it out of the refrigerator because of the piece's small size. If you want it really soft you only need to wait for a very short time before it gets to that state. A bigger piece would take much longer and you'd stay hungry and angry at that butter that would not be sandwich ready and crumble instead of spreading.

The picture bellow has the butter on it that is left from a 1 lb brick of butter on it's original wrapper and it's kept in the freezer in the same wrapping paper it came in. You can cut the butter right on that paper - less mess, wrap it back and put it in a plastic bag, it keeps the cubes together neatly and they are still easy to separate when frozen.



pic: Butter cut into cubes before being put in the freezer.



pic: Soft small cubes of butter in the plastic container that is kept in the refrigerator.

This butter keeping technique is as simple as it is useful.
Amazingly, it serves not one but 4 purposes:

1. Save money on butter
2. Keep butter always fresh
3. Always have a sandwich ready piece of butter
4. Always have lots of butter to bake the fattest cookies you might desire

And now it's time to go make that perfectly buttery sandwich with some whole wheat bread, nutmeg and... nothing else really. Hibiscus tea comes along with it. Or Green tea - that's always welcome too.

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