How to clean artichokes. Artichokes are a perfect ingredient for preparing healthy seasonal dishes. The advice is to buy fresh artichokes, perhaps directly from the farmer or at the zero-kilometer market. To be able to taste these vegetables, a somewhat boring operation will await you: cleaning the artichokes. Here are some helpful tips.
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HOW TO CLEAN ARTICHOKES - I artichokes they are a perfect ingredient for preparing healthy seasonal dishes. The advice is to buy fresh artichokes, perhaps directly from the farmer or at the zero-kilometer market.
To be able to taste these vegetables, a perhaps a bit boring operation will await you: clean the artichokes. Here are some helpful tips.
Don't be put off by the need to clean the fresh artichokes before being able to cook them or eat them raw, perhaps cut into strips and seasoned with oil and lemon. Remember that artichokes are rich in beneficial properties. They contain vitamins, mineral salts such as iron, potassium and calcium, and flavonoids.
Here how to clean artichokes step by step:
1) To prevent your hands and fingers from turning black while you clean the artichokes wear gloves or rub your hands with lemon juice. You can squeeze fresh lemon juice directly onto your hands.
2) It is useful prepare a bowl with water and lemon where to immerse the already cleaned artichokes as you proceed with the operation so that they do not oxidize and therefore do not blacken. Keep half a lemon handy to rub on your fingers while cleaning the artichokes.
3) Cut a part of the stem of the artichoke with the help of a knife. Grab the artichoke with one hand and start with the other remove the outer and hardest leaves one by one with decisive movements.
4) As you will notice that towards the inside the leaves of the artichoke become lighter and lighter. You are approaching the heart of the artichoke.
5) At this point you can cut the tip of the artichoke and the leaves at the base.
6) Clean the outside of the stem of the artichoke. Rub the artichoke with the lemon juice and divide it in half (or slice it differently, depending on your recipes to follow). Clean the inside of the artichoke e away dip the sliced artichokes that you will use in the kitchen in water and lemon waiting for cooking or other preparations.
Everyone has their own tricks for cleaning artichokes to the best. Here are a few video useful for learning them.
Marta Albè
Photo source: steamykitchen.com
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