Blanching is a great cooking method to add to your toolkit, and it turns out that some veggies are actually better off that way. If you’ve heard about it but you’re not really sure how to do it, ...

Blanching simply means to quickly boil foods (typically vegetables, fruits, or nuts) without fully cooking them. The blanched foods are then placed in a bowl of ice water for shocking (another cooking ...

Blanching—boiling briefly before plunging into an ice bath—is the standard method used to cook vegetables that have a tendency to lose their color and texture if you expose them to heat for too long.