While the approximate housewives bake vegetables for olives, I get perfect carrot and potato cubes in 10 minutes without unnecessary fuss.

Sometimes, you cook strictly according to the recipe, exactly measure the amount of all ingredients, and as a result, the dish is not at all as you would like. Of course, you can blame the quality of the products or the old oven. But sometimes the solution is easier than it seems. You just need to learn the types of cutting vegetables and choose the most suitable from them.



Types of cutting vegetables Cubes This type of cutting is used to grind eggplant, squash, potatoes. So cut vegetables for salads and sandwiches. The size of the cubes depends on the specific case. Small ones are suitable for roasting, mashed soup or sandwiches.



Medium used for salads, vegetable soups, baked goods. At the same time, for hot salads, cubes are made larger, and for salads with mayonnaise dressing, they should be smaller. And how to cut vegetables for Olivier Ilya Latherson, we will tell below.

Large cubes of vegetables are cut for stew, roast, stewing vegetables. To cut, for example, onions in cubes, do not cut the root and make several horizontal cuts from edge to root. Then cut the resulting strips with cubes.

Bars and straws

Cutting with bars is suitable for salads, pilaf, stewing vegetables, stew, roast. Elongated blocks of carrots, zucchini, beets, patissons are used to prepare a variety of vegetable side dishes. Straw vegetables are cut for deep frying, borschy, brine, soups, filling pies.

Slices

First, the vegetables are cut into two halves. And then, putting flat on the cutting board, cut into thin slices. This type of cutting is suitable for tomatoes, beets, radishes.

Circles

This type of cutting is suitable for vegetables that have a round section. These are cucumbers, Bulgarian pepper, carrots, tomatoes, beets, eggplant. For side dishes and stews, the circles make thicker. To decorate dishes, they must be thin.

The secret of cutting vegetables on olives from Latherson In one of the videos on the YouTube channel “Lazon Lazerson” Ilya Isaakovich showed a small trick that reduces the time for cooking olives. It turns out that if you clean and cut vegetables, and only then cook them, you get several advantages at once.



First, potatoes and carrots are easier to cut raw. The cubes are neat, perfectly smooth, do not stick together and do not fall apart. Second, sliced vegetables are cooked faster and more evenly.

And third, as some housewives claim, it improves the taste of vegetables. To do this, Latherson adds salt and sugar to the water. The taste and color, as they say, there is no companion. But at least try this method of cutting salad is definitely worth it.