Turnip/Swede?

You could mash it with carrot and lots of butter and pepper? :drool:


That's about all I do with it really, or mash it with potato occasionally, or cube it and add to soups/stews

arkonite_babe wrote:

I have a turnip (or swede as you call it on the mainland!) any ideas on how I can make it interesting? Usually I boil it then mash or I cube and boil it then fry it.
Would like to use it up tomorrow with Sunday lunch. (Having roast chicken)

Thanks!

a_b

Only thing that I can think of at the moment is adding to soup.
Making a potato and turnip mash, or carrot and turnip mash, or a threesome -of course you can always add a bit of cream/fromage frais/greek or plain yoghourt if you have it, instead of milk. And/or try adding little bit of spice/herbs. Depends what you have and what your family will eat, but just a tiny bit, might give it that little extra kick.
Saw a recipe somewhere for boiled diced turnip with bechamel sauce, but have never tried it.
What about my favourite recommendation? Roasting! Am a great one for roasting veggies, the flavour is so much better, but never done turnip.
Must try that out sometime. Although, I do suspect that will have to be roasted for a much longer time than other root veg.

Anne_Marie wrote:

..... What about my favourite recommendation? Roasting! Am a great one for roasting veggies, the flavour is so much better, but never done turnip.
Must try that out sometime. Although, I do suspect that will have to be roasted for a much longer time than other root veg.

If you par-boil it first (like roast potato) it'll roast beautifully (you can do the same with parsnip)

arkonite_babe wrote:

I have a turnip (or swede as you call it on the mainland!) any ideas on how I can make it interesting?
a_b

When I was a kid, we used to carve these out like pumpkins for halloween, you couldn't get pumpkins at the local shops like you can now. Not exactly what your after but would definitely be interesting.

Just curious, how do you pronounce "Swede", I knew someone who pronounced it "Suede". As I understand they are Swedish turnips so obviously should be pronounced as such.

We always called them turnips ooop north too and it wasn't until I moved south that I even heard of swede

I wonder what your version od swede is over in NI then :think: ... we feed "beet" to cattle, which is also a root crop pretty similar to turnips I suppose.

There's another root veg in the family too called rutabaga or something? I wonder if that's more like a swede