Instructions: Steaming vegetables has distinct advantages over cooking them in boiling water. More of the precious nutrients are retained and more texture colour and flavour too. Its a particularly good method to choose when as in the recipe for Mixed vegetable curry you want to cook or partly cook several types of vegetables at once.

To give the vegetables even more flavour try steaming them over chicken stock and use it afterwards for soup or sauce.

You can buy an inexpensive collapsible steamer that fits any saucepan or improvise by fitting a colander into a large pan.

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