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Please help me to identify this vegetable?!

carinska
carinska Posts: 87 Forumite
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Sorry in advance, I am so thick...

Got our organic box delivered this weekend, and there is an item in it I have never seen before! It is quite little about the size of a big cooking apple, covered in a thick light green "skin" kind of like a very tightly packed cabbage. It has 4 or 5 shoots with leaves coming out of the top, they look like turnip leaves. It is definitely a root vegetable of some sort... I think.

Does anyone know what it is?!!
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  • black-saturn
    black-saturn Posts: 13,937 Forumite
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    Artichoke? Can you do a pic?
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  • black-saturn
    black-saturn Posts: 13,937 Forumite
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    Is this it?

    ArtichokeD.jpg
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  • carinska
    carinska Posts: 87 Forumite
    Thanks, but no that is not it! (I know what an artichoke looks like now though!)

    If you picture a small turnip with it's leaves on, but instead of the yellowy skin it has green thick cabbage like skin.

    I am so embarrassed, it is probably a very common item! I am ashamed to say I gave it to my mum to deal with so can't send a pic!
  • kazzaw
    kazzaw Posts: 717 Forumite
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    Is it kohl rabi? Trying to insert a pic for you but there are plenty on Google.
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  • Pollen
    Pollen Posts: 171 Forumite
    I think it may be Kohl Rabi

    http://www.marions-kochbuch.de/index-bilder/kohlrabi.jpg

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  • kazzaw
    kazzaw Posts: 717 Forumite
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    Is this it? If so it's kohl rabi

    June%2025th%2046%20Kohl%20Rabi.jpg
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  • peskie_pixie
    peskie_pixie Posts: 427 Forumite
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    could be Kohlrabi have a look at this link and see.

    Bit difficult with out a piccy


    edit Looks like we all got it at the same time
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  • carinska
    carinska Posts: 87 Forumite
    kohl rabi is EXACTLY what it is! Thank you SO much!! Are they very common and I have just never noticed them before?

    Thanks again so much, I'm off to seach for recipes now!
  • Pink.
    Pink. Posts: 17,650 Forumite
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    carinska wrote:
    kohl rabi is EXACTLY what it is! Thank you SO much!! Are they very common and I have just never noticed them before?

    Thanks again so much, I'm off to seach for recipes now!

    There are some nice looking recipes on the Able-Cole websiteand some suggestions on this Old Style thread: how to cook kohl rabi?

    Pink
  • Lizzieanne
    Lizzieanne Posts: 476 Forumite
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    I love kohl rabi cooked simply - peeled, cut into small chunks, boiled or steamed and then tossed in a little black pepper and butter. Yum!
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