Potatoes are perhaps the most used ingredient in Czech cuisines. But do you cook them right? Enough people in this are wrong, and unknowingly prepare potatoes for valuable substances. See how to cook the potatoes properly.
Potatoes are considered stars in our kitchens. Whether for lunch or dinner, whether as a side dish or a main course, whether you make it cooked, baked, fried, they are always available and financially undemanding ingredients that are never enough. In spring and summer they are mostly prepared in any form, rather as a main course, for example fried with some home dip, or cooked with some lighter sauce. But in terms of boiled potatoes, many people make a big mistake in their preparation. The potatoes deprive the most valuable substances. Do you know how to cook potatoes properly?
YouTube video, in which you can prepare potatoes in all ways, can be found on the channel Joshua Weissman:
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How to never cook potatoes
Potatoes are great when you need to get something warm in your stomach to feed you, but at the same time you will not feel overwhelming. At the same time, they contain a large number of important minerals such as iodine, magnesium, potassium, manganese, phosphorus and iron, as well as vitamins, such as B -group vitamins and vitamin C. Potatoes are also considered to be a good source of protein. But by cooking them badly, you can lose most of these important substances.
Most people peel and cut before cooking. That’s the fatal mistake. It is preparing not only potatoes, but also vegetables overall, most of their vitamins and minerals that are lost in the water. This happens mainly in vitamin C and potassium, which are two very important substances that the body needs. Vitamin C is absolutely crucial for the functioning of the immune system and many other processes in the body. Potassium participates in the stability of your body environment, promotes proper functioning of both the nervous and muscle system and plays a major role in maintaining normal blood pressure.
How to cook potatoes
So how to cook potatoes to lose as few valuable substances as possible. According to an expert in nutrition, it is best to cook potatoes all and with peel. It also recommends cooking potatoes in the smallest amount of water, but it is ideal for steam. It is also important that the potatoes are in the water for the shortest possible time. Underlined, addressed, use little water, just the necessary time to cook and get rid of the skin only after the cooking process. In this way, the loss of vitamin C and potassium should be reduced rapidly.
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