The time for boiling beets in a bag is from 40 minutes to half an hour.
How to cook beets in a bag
You will need – beets, package
1. Wash the beets and put them in a bag – each beet in a separate bag. Release air as much as possible and make a free knot at the very top.
2. Put the beets in a saucepan, add water and put on high heat, after boiling, reduce the heat. The edges of the bag should be sticking out of the water, but the beets were completely covered in water.
3. Small beets (about 200 grams) are cooked in 50 minutes and become pliable for piercing, large beets 400-500 grams are cooked for 2 hours.
4. Check the beets for readiness. To do this, take the bag by the knot, remove it from the pan and remove it from the hot steam on a plate, untie the knot and pierce the beet with a fork: it should pass freely into the beets.
5. Pour boiled beets directly in a bag with cold water and hold for 5 minutes so that they cool down for subsequent cleaning: you just need to pry the skin off with a knife – it always comes off very easily from boiled beets.
Beets cooked in this way are suitable for serving as a side dish, for use in salads or vinaigrette.
About this cooking method
Beets in a bag are boiled for as long as in the usual way. The difference here is only in convenience: there is no need to wash the pan from beet scale, beets do not smell throughout the apartment and have a bright color. In addition, with this method, cut beet peelings are sent in the same package, which is convenient for harvesting.
It makes no sense to try to release all the air from the package – firstly, it is physically impossible, and secondly, the air rises during cooking and does not interfere with the heating process.