So I bought a few bags of frozen Cauliflour and Broccoli at Walmart recently. I know that since frozen vegetables are flash frozen they maintain much of their nutritional content, possibly even more than 'fresh' vegetables (depending on the time of the year). But the cooking instructions call for boiling them in hot water for 6-8 minutes. This seems kind of dumb and pointless since much of the nutrients will leech into the water during that 8 minute period. And unless you use the water, you may be getting a fraction of the nutrients.
So instead what I did was place two cups of the frozen vegetables in the hot water for about 60 seconds, just enough to kind of defrost them, then I removed the majority of the water and steamed them for another 3 minutes. Does this seem like a better method to anybody as far as retaining the nutrients goes? Does that initial soak strip a lot of nutrients? I know microwaving is best for frozen vegetables but I do not currently own one. Even though I can get one very inexpensively at walmart. I just thought I would see if other methods would work before resorting to nuking food.
Also, any other suggestions would be great. Thanks.
By the way does anybody know why frozen vegetables are smaller than their fresh counterparts?
