How to keep Topinambur

How to keep Topinambur

The Topinamban plant serves as a substitute for potatoes and contains many vitamins and minerals. In the cultivation of "Earth Pear" unpretentious and frost resistant. In this article you will learn how and where to properly store the tubers of this plant.



1
Topinambur storage in the refrigerator

At the time of winter, tubers can be stored in the refrigerator for two or three weeks. After this period, they will begin to deteriorate. Before removing, mine and put on packages, and then put in boxes for vegetables.

In the refrigerator "Earthly pear" can be stored in dried in glassware.



How to put on Topinambur

  1. We select high-quality tubers, mine, clean.
  2. We cut into thin slices.
  3. Lay out onto the sheet and leave in a well-ventilated room. Optionally, it is possible to dry in the oven: it will take a long time drunk in salt water, after which we leave in the oven heated to 60 ° C for three hours.

2
Topinambur storage in the freezer

In the freezer of Topinamburba can be stored for a longer time. You can freeze both whole tubers and packed by packages, grated, washed and peeled vegetable.

3
Storage of Topinambur in the cellar (basement)

In the presence of large volumes of harvest, the house storage is not suitable. In this case, you can rescue the cellar at home.

  • Topinambur lay down on wooden boxes or bags.
  • I fall asleep there with land or raw sand.
  • We put root corner in the cellar.

The most favorable conditions: temperature from + 2 ° C to + 4 ° C, the presence of high humidity. It is better not to remove the whole ground from the dug up bush, but to store with it. So the vegetable will remain more fresh.

4
Topinambur storage in trenches

In the absence of a cellar, they dig a small hole in the ground where the container with prepared vegetable is placed. Top covers everything with fir branches and fall asleep the earth. This method will be useful for people living in private homes.

5
Topinambura salad

For the preparation of salad you need:

  • 1 kg of refinambur.
  • 500 g of carrots.
  • lemon.
  • salt.

Vegetables cut, mix with grated lemon and salt to taste. After the ingredients give juice, we declare into banks and pasteurize up to 30 minutes.

6
Jam from Topinambura

For cooking jam you need:

  • 1 kg of refinambur.
  • 1 kg of pumpkins.
  • 1 lemon.
  • 250 g of sugar.

Wash ingredients cut, mix. After the mass is imagined, boiling for 5 minutes. We break up the prepared jam on the beams, cover the blanket for a day.

There are many storage options Topinambur: you can store it both in the fresh form in the cellar and in the form of various billets in the refrigerator. Vegetable is very nutritious and exceeds many others by the number of useful substances in their composition.

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