These tips will definitely come in handy when preparing salads!
- Vegetables are boiled in salted water to give them a better taste and retain more nutrients.
- The larger the vegetables, the less they lose substances during cooking.
- Steaming retains more soluble substances in vegetables than boiling in water.
- In order for green peas to retain their color during cooking, a little sugar must be added to the water.
- It is better to cook vegetables in an enamel or aluminum dish than in a copper or iron one, because vitamins are better preserved in them.
- Vegetables should not be ground in a meat grinder; it is better to use an aluminum (plastic) grater.
- It is better to cut raw vegetables on a plastic board, as the wooden one absorbs juice.
- Fresh vegetables, herbs and fruits are best immersed in boiling water, while vitamins are better preserved.
- It is better to cut vegetables for cooking the same thickness, so they will cook at the same time.
- Mayonnaise salad and vinaigrette will be more delicious if you put lemon peel in them before use or add a little lemon juice.
