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Help! What is this veg please?

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Hi guys,
I've just received my first veg box and don't recognise 2 of the veggies!
One looks a bit like a turnip but green, and one looks a bit like purple sprouting broccolli but is white...white sprouting cauliflower?????:confused: :rolleyes:

I'll try and work out how to put photos on here...

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I am assuming that the 'white sprouting brocolli' just needs steaming and eating?
But I have no idea how to cook the other thing.:o If anyone can suggest any ways to use it I'd be grateful.

Thanks all,
Tess
Tess x

Underground, overground, wombling free...
Old Style weight loss so far...2 stone and 7 pounds
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  • Gabriel-Ernest
    Gabriel-Ernest Posts: 1,496 Forumite
    The first looks like kohlrabi - you can grate and fry it, boil and mash it, or roast in chunks. Tastes rather like cabbage - I love it.

    The sprouting broccoli I'd steam.
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  • Pink.
    Pink. Posts: 17,650 Forumite
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    Hi otterspasm,

    It looks like a kohl rabi to me too. Here are some threads with suggestions on how to prepare it:

    Please help me to identify this vegetable?!

    how to cook kohl rabi?

    Also someone on the board recently suggested this website for identifying and finding recipes for things in veg boxes: Veg Box Recipes


    Pink
  • otterspasm
    otterspasm Posts: 338 Forumite
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    Thanks a bunch. I feel a bit stupid having to ask but what can you do?

    Am looking forward to trying the kohlrabi. It great trying out new foods. Kohlrabi could be my favourite food but I don't know it yet!

    Cheers again,
    Tess
    Tess x

    Underground, overground, wombling free...
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  • rach
    rach Posts: 5,476 Forumite
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    do you not get some kind of card with your veg box? i know that riverford and able & cole definitely provide them, they are useful as usually have a recipe on with some of the ingredients!
    Mum to gorgeous baby boy born Sept 2010:j
  • ScoobieGirl
    ScoobieGirl Posts: 488 Forumite
    rach wrote:
    do you not get some kind of card with your veg box? i know that riverford and able & cole definitely provide them, they are useful as usually have a recipe on with some of the ingredients!

    Thanks goodness! It took quite a while last week for me to match them up. I was a bit thrown by the calabrese!

    Riverford have a recipie for kohlrabi gratin
  • kittiwoz
    kittiwoz Posts: 1,321 Forumite
    The one that looks like "white sprouting broccoli" is white sprouting broccoli.

    In Sophie Grigson's Country Kitchen she says,
    When I lay my eyes on a box of white sprouting broccoli down at the market, I reckon I've struck gold. If you live in or around Leicester and a few other blessed spots, you will already know all about it. For a brief period of some three or four weeks round about March, the vegetable stalls in the excellent Leicester central market are piled high with white sprouting broccoli, and it sells like hot cakes. I've watched in amazement as customers fill their carrier bags with the stuff and the piles shrink and shrink in a matter of minutes.

    She says to trim off thicker stems and damaged leaves, then rinse well before steaming or cooking in a little salted water until tender. She suggests it should be well drained and served with butter or olive oil. To serve cold run under the cold tap to stop further cooking and toss in in a lemon and olive oil dressing, with garlic if wished. She says when cooked like that it makes a good bruschetta if roughly chopped and piled onto grilled bread that has been drizzled with olive oil and rubbed with a cut garlic clove. She suggests topping it off with shavings of parmesan.
  • For the kohlrabbi try this its yum:

    BRAISED KOHLRABI WITH GARLIC AND PARMESAN

    Serves 2 as a side dish

    1 teaspoon butter
    1 kohlrabi, peeled and cut into thin strips
    1 teaspoon minced garlic
    200 ml chicken or vegetable stock
    Salt and pepper to taste
    Freshly grated Parmesan

    Heat the butter in a frying pan over a medium heat. Add the Kohlrabi and garlic and sauté them for about 3 minutes. Add the stock, bring it to the boil. Cover the pan, turn down the heat and simmer for 15 minutes, or until the kohlrabi is tender. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and serve sprinkled with Parmesan.

    From: http://www.abel-cole.co.uk/Content/Recipes/Kohlrabi.htm

    Never heard of sprouting cauli, although I love purple sprouting broccoli.
    You learn something new every day. Do tell us what it's like! :)


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  • Penelope_Penguin
    Penelope_Penguin Posts: 17,242 Forumite
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    Hi, I love this *identify the veg* game :beer:

    We eat lots of kohl rabi, peeled, thinly sliced, raw in salad.

    Penny. x
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  • otterspasm
    otterspasm Posts: 338 Forumite
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    Thanks for all of the great suggestions. I've never come across white sprouting brocolli before but it sounds lovely. :j

    I didn't get a list of contents with the veg box but will ask about it when i order next. I do quite like the 'whats this?' process though!:D
    Tess x

    Underground, overground, wombling free...
    Old Style weight loss so far...2 stone and 7 pounds
  • Busybody
    Busybody Posts: 925 Forumite
    looks like turnip to me!
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