How does one eat a turnip?!


Question: I must admit I have very little experience with turnips and may be confusing them with all those other little veggies like radishes and beets. I just bought one today to try it. Do I need to cook it or can it be eaten raw? What are good ways to cook it? Can the entire thing be eaten or is it normally used just as a garnish or seasoning?

Thanks!


Answers: I must admit I have very little experience with turnips and may be confusing them with all those other little veggies like radishes and beets. I just bought one today to try it. Do I need to cook it or can it be eaten raw? What are good ways to cook it? Can the entire thing be eaten or is it normally used just as a garnish or seasoning?

Thanks!

The turnips tastes like a radish. not as spicy as a regular radish is. Turnips can be treated like any other root vegetable. You can eat them raw or cooked. You can mix them with salads in place of the radish. They can be mashed, steamed, boiled and saute.Try to get the really small ones like the size of a golf balls or medium if you get the bigger ones they are pithy. you can use the bigger ones in soups. Turnips can be mashed and mixed with mashed potatoes,too. Salt, butter or margarine,and milk. They are really good with stir fry,too. You will have fun experimenting with turnips.

I suppose you can roast it,like most veggies..

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you can roast it or boil it just like a potato

Here in the south, we cut them up like potatoes & boil in water until tender like cooked potatoes. We season with a little hot red pepper. For other recipies, you might try the
foodnetwork.com website and search "turnips". Good luck!

2 c. cooked turnips
2/3 c. bread crumbs
1 tbsp. butter
2 tbsp. brown sugar
1 c. milk
1 egg
Salt and pepper

Cook turnips until tender. Drain, mash and then add 1/2 cup bread crumbs, saving rest for top. Add egg, sugar, milk, salt and pepper to taste. Mix together; pour into greased baking dish. Dot with butter and rest of crumbs. Bake 45 minutes at 375 degrees.

it can be eaten raw, it's sweet. Over here in Singapore, sometimes we add raw turnip into our salad or cook it to make some snacks such as this one :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popiah

anyway not sure is your type of turnips the same as the types we have here.. ours has a brown skin.

Peel, cut in chunks, boil 'til tender. Mash a little or lot, depending on your texture preference.

Season with salt and bit of sugar.

I like to sprinkle with pepper sauce.

I like eating it raw it has such a sweet taste to it... You could also cook it... about the same amount of time you would cook a carrot... once it is cooked it will be an orange colour but not as orange as a carrot.

i like them boiled in a homemade vegetable soup. Add parsnips, too!!

Here in Canada, we eat turnips with our roast turkey dinners.Peel, cut up and boil. Mash, just like potatoes-- add butter and brown sugar. Deeeeelicious.

Try raosting it in a slow to moderate oven until its natural sugars caramelise. Or as was also suggested they make a great alternative to hot potato chips/fries/ wedges. Shave them with a peeler and deep fry them and add to a salad. Turnips make potatoes boring.

Don't try it raw! Bake it, boil it, or roast it. You can cut it in chunks, cook it and eat it that way, or go ahead and mash it up like mashed potatoes. Most folks in my experience add it to soups and stews rather than eating it by itself.

Many people cook turnips and put them in stew but unless you grew up eating them cooked you won't like them I love them raw.
I peel the outer layer off slice them and salt them they are a bit like radishes but not as hot..

TURNIPS ARE GREAT EATEN RAW WITH SEA SALT ON THEM

I HAVE FRIED SOME WITH POTATOES

ALSO YOU CAN QUARTER THEM AND QUARTER SOME POTATOES AND COOK IN BOILING WATER UN TILL TENDER .
SEASON TO TASTE WITH SALT AND PEPPER AND SOME BUTTER ALSO VERY GOOD IF YOU ADD SOME BACON TO THE PAN WHEN YOUR COOKING THEM

Hello

Turnip Curry

Required items

1. Turnip Boiled and removed Skin - 250 gm
2.Coconut Grated- 50 gms
3.Red Chillies-3 nos ( Dry Chillies)
4.Coconut Oil - 50 ml ( you can use any Cooking Oil)
5.Salt to taste
6.Mustard seeds- 1/2spoon
7.Curry leaves

Preparation

Heat pan with Cooking oil. Add Mustard seeds, when it spurteld, add Red chillies, curry leaves, Add Grated Coconut fry upto Brown Colou ( or Roast colout) Add the Boiled Turnip and stirr it well.

Now Pleasent good looking, mouth watering Curry Is ready for Eat. You can take with Tea or With Rotti or with Bread.

( Full up the above stuff in between two bread pcs. Toast it in Gas or oven)

Your neighbour will come and borrow his shares.

subbunaicker@yahoo.co.in

s.s.subbu

In the south we eat them just like mashed potatoes...and sugar is a no no....if you dont like the hint of bitterness...eat potatoes...lol...salt.... pepper....butter...and hot sauce!!!!!





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