_Vegetables: To blanch


Serves: 5

Ingredients

Directions:

Wash, peel and cut up vegetable. Then pour boiling water over, stir once or twice, and drain at once in a colander or sieve. Rinse the vegetable immediately with cold running water. (This will stop the cooking action.) Drain again.

Or: Bring the water to a boil in a large pot and add the cut-up vegetable. Turn off the heat at once and let the vegetable stand a minute or two. Then drain rinse immediately with cold running water and drain again.

NOTE: These techniques of blanching and parboiling are sometimes also used with meat, poultry and seafood as specified in certain recipes.

The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook. ©1994 by Gloria Bley Miller.

This _Vegetables: To blanch recipe is from the Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook Cookbook. Download this Cookbook today.


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