How to Cook Beet Root

hi I'm de gartenstein with quirky Gourmet and today I'm going to show you how to cook beetroot or beets now uh they're tasty root vegetables you can get them either trimmed like this or you can buy them in bunches they come with the leaves on if you going to do that you can cut off the leaves and use them separately you can just cook them with a little bit of garlic and olive oil salt and pepper just tasty dish of greens so you will need to peel your beets so they have a tough outer skin on them and there's a number of ways that you can peel a beat you can peel a beet with a pairing knife you take off the bottom and the top and then you just cut around and take off the peel like this you can do the same thing using a vegetable peeler see like that just comes right off you'll notice that I'm wearing gloves the reason I'm wearing gloves is because a beat will turn your hands red now probably the easiest way to peel beets is to pre-cook them before you peel them so to do that you just take them and drop them in a pot of boiling water and that will usually take maybe 45 minutes or so it depends on the size of the beet if you're doing a bunch of beets together it's a good idea to choose beets that are all the same size so that they cook in about the same amount of time okay so the beets will cook for about 45 minutes or so and the way you know that they're done is the skin will separate will SE the skin will separate relatively easily from the Beet and if it's too hot to handle you can hold it under cold running water and try to rub it that way if it's not ready you put it back in and cook it until it is ready so once you've cooked the Beet until it's soft enough that you can easily rub the skin off you just have to go ahead and rub the skin off just like that a little bit of pressure comes right off see how brightly colored the inside is bead is a beautiful vegetable much maligned but high in iron very tasty here you go there's a peeled cooked beet

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