Tips for Cooking Vegetables

Need to add more nutrition to your diet? One can only subsist on the Joey Ramone-inspired diet of pizza, candy and soda for so long. Cooking is all about variety, and although vegetables find themselves left off the list of most people ten favorite foods lists, veggies can add another dimension of taste to your meal. Knowing how to cook vegetables is the first step to adding them to your plate, and the ability to prepare vegetables in a number of ways is key to keeping them a regular part of your diet.

In this series of free video cooking lessons expert chef Chris Marconi demonstrates three easy methods for cooking vegetables: Steaming, sauteing, and grilling. He starts by showing you how to shop for vegetables, and what to look for when buying veggies at the store. He demonstrates how to steam broccoli, saute a mix of carrots and green beans, and finishes with a great recipe for grilled asparagus. These healthy foods will add vitamins and balance to your diet, as well as a variety of complex flavors.

"Hello my name is Chris Marconi and on behalf of Expert Village welcome to my segment on how to cook vegetables. Today I will be taking you through the steps of steaming, sauteeing, and grilling. The vegetables I have chosen today are broccoli which I would be steaming, French green beans, yellow wax beans and carrots and little bit of red onion which I chose to saute and asparagus which I chose to grill. I will also be teaching you just a few tips of the trade in cooking. On that note let get our self started we will start with steaming."