Health Benefits:
Beetroot also known as the table beet, garden beet, red beet or informally simply as beet. Beetroot’s main benefits are that it contains no fat, very few calories and is great source of fibre. Beets provide a carbohydrate boost and almost no fat, along with plenty of different vitamins and minerals. Beets even contain folic acid an important component in the diets of all pregnant women.
Beets can be cooked by differnet ways by oven roasting, stir fry, boiling, baking, steaming.
Steaming and boiling are also ideal for rapid cooking of vegetables and greens which minimizes their loss of colour.
Boiling will soften vegetables faster and more thoroughly. However with steaming vegetables are not exposed directly to turbulent water, which helps retain their flavour, colour and nutrients. So that’s the reason most of healthy cooking recipes call for steamed vegetables, rather than boiled.

Makes: 3-4serving
Cooking time: 30-35mins
Preparation time: 10mins

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