Dried beets - how to dry them for the winter at home and how to use dried beets.

Dried beets for a long time not only completely retain their taste and rich red color, but also their healing properties. And beets are rich in many vitamins, fiber, and minerals. This wonderful sweet root vegetable helps remove toxins and waste from the body.

How to dry beets for the winter at home.

First, sort the root vegetables by size and wash them well.

Cook in different containers: cook small beets for about 9 minutes, large ones for 13-15. It’s not difficult to determine when you need to stop cooking: if the skin of the root crop taken for testing is difficult to remove, it’s time to remove the beets from the heat. It cannot be digested.

Dry the peeled and cut beets in the oven at 80-85 degrees until ready, then place them in glass or other storage containers you have and put them in a dry place.

Instead of an oven, you can use now popular electric dryers for drying.

That's all, as you can see, the drying process is simple, although quite time consuming.

All that remains is to tell you how to use dried beets.

And it is very convenient to use such a preparation on hikes or other field conditions, when the quantity and weight of the products you have need to be reduced to a minimum. Feel free to add dried beets to borscht, and after soaking - to vinaigrettes and salads. You can drink tea, brewing a healing miracle root vegetable, or make kvass from dried beets. And children love to eat dried, vitamin-packed, brightly colored slices like chips. Although, rather, instead of sweets - after all, the drying is sweet. In a word, dried beets, no matter how you use them, will be tasty and healthy.