How and how much to cook the patch beans frozen and fresh in the soup, for salad?

How and how much is the patch beans fresh, frozen, for soup or salad.

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Podchki beans are a food product rich in vitamins and other beneficial substances. Meanwhile, it is not recommended raw. Not only is the raw asparagus beans hard and rough, it is also difficult to digest the gastrointestinal tract. In addition, pods absorb harmful substances from the environment. It is necessary to thermally process them, namely, cook.

How to cook patch beans?

Cook the patch beans in a pan, microwave or double boiler.
Before moving directly to the heat treatment process, the pods must be prepared.

Before use, any plant product should be washed. It is good to pour the pods of French beans into a pan or a bucket, pour water, rinse and throw it on a colander. Repeat this procedure several times
The ends of asparagus beans are rough, they contain hard plant fibers that should be removed.

The time of cooking fresh beans depends on their size.

It is known that the cooking time of the product depends on its size. Pitch beans are of different lengths. Therefore, it should be cut into the same pieces that are cooked evenly. Cut it with a knife or scissors (this option is faster).
If the asparagus beans are boiled on the stove in the pan:

pour pods
pour them with water so that they are covered 3-4 cm
boil water over high heat
salt as necessary
for the required amount of time, cook pods, covering the pan with a lid

Important: if the pods of beans are boiled pre-boiled, like a workpiece for some other dish, it is not necessary to salt water.

You can add salt, pepper, bay leaves to the water for cooking asparagus beans.

Today there is a microwave oven, probably in every house. You can cook the patch beans in it:

prepared pods are laid out in dishes suitable for use in the microwave
pour them with boiling water
cook with the power of the device 800-900 watts
salt the already finished patch beans

The French beans prepared for a couple retains its attractive dark green color and turns out to be crispy. It is prepared in it a little longer than in a pot of water.

How much to cook a fresh beans

The time of boiling fresh asparagus beans depends on:

its size
her "age"

In a pan with water, pods are boiled:

young in size 3-4 cm-3-5 minutes
young 5 cm or more-5-7 minutes
old and hard-10-12 minutes

In the microwave, fresh and young beans are boiled for 5 minutes, old - 10 minutes.
Fresh beans are prepared for a couple of pods for 20-30 minutes.

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How many minutes to cook the patch beans frozen in a soup?

Before freezing, bean pods almost always blanch, so the time of its subsequent heat treatment is slightly reduced and amounts to 3-4 minutes.

Soup with French beans is prepared on meat or vegetable broth, pods are added at the very end, indicated for 3-4 minutes before it is turned off.
You can also separately boil the pods, slightly let them in butter and add to the soup before serving it.
In the workpiece for soup-puree, frozen pods are added when the hardest vegetable begins to soften (as a rule, this is potatoes), but no later than 5-7 minutes before its full readiness. Otherwise, the pods will remain rigid and it will be difficult to bring them to a homogeneous state.

Important: the longer the French beans are cooked, the less useful substances remain in it. Therefore, for a soup-puree, it is recommended to immediately pass it through a meat grinder and already in this form boil with the rest of the vegetables for only 3 minutes.

How and how much to cook the chipped beans frozen for salad?

It is important that in the salad of the pitch beans looks presentable. It should be green and elastic. After freezing, boil its laid 3 minutes, and after: