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Can vegetables be blanched by steaming instead of by heating in boiling water?
Heating in steam is the recommended blanching method for
a few vegetables (grated summer squash and sprouts). For
broccoli, pumpkin, sweet potatoes and winter squash,
both steaming and boiling are satisfactory methods.
Steam blanching takes about 1 and 1/2 times longer than
water blanching. Refer to GH 1503, "Freezing
Vegetables," for specific times.
Barbara Willenberg, Nutritional
Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia
Last update: Tuesday, May 05, 2009
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