What to do with a turnip? - polite answers only please!

Dare I ask? - did swedes originate in Sweden?
(I was brought up to think turnips were the big ones that are used as sheep and cattle food, and swedes are the smaller lighter coloured ones.)
I was born just before ww2 and we ate both types in stews and pasties along with lots of carrots and potatoes.

Microwaved tinned potatoes once in a bowl with a plate on top. Plate flew up in the air and exploded potatoes everywhere!

ExDancer

It seems to depend on what part of the country you come from as to which one you call a turnip or a swede.
Confusing or what!

I suppose there are quite a few foods which are like that though - let's not even start on the 'bread roll' debate! Or how do you pronounce scone?

It seems to depend on what part of the country you come from as to which one you call a turnip or a swede.
Confusing or what!

Crossstitchfan

it’s ok saying chop it up! How?! I have tried before and come to the conclusion I’d stand a better chance trying to chop a house brick! Any tips please?

I expect you have a swede there.
Turnips in my opinion are small and white with a purple blush.

I think we have discussed them before.

Allira

Grandmabatty

Because the skin is hard and the flesh fairly dense, be careful with it in the microwave. Prick with a fork generously.

Yes!

Exploding turnips or worse.

The only good turnip is an exploding one💥

I beg to differ it haggis tatties and neeps which are turnips in Scotland

I made a veggie stew with it and some tomatoes and cauliflower - very tasty. Trouble is I have enough to last me all week and only a tiny freezer!

Marg75

Allira Here in Cornwall there is an ongoing debate on the difference between turnip and swede. Believe you me, the women in my family going back very many years put turnip in pasties! Anyone want a real recipe I can give it to you, complete with how to crimp!

I am Cornish. The Cornish call swedes turnips. That is what goes into pasties. Not the white variety.

Marg75

Boil, mash with a little butter, pepper and salt. If you're into making Cornish pasties, chopped up with meat, potatoes, onion and skirt beef!

Either will freeze, so you could do these and portion up

Make soup with it, adding some other veg, then freeze in portions.

If I get one in a stew pack, I just peel, chop it up, and add to stew or curry

Grandmabatty

Because the skin is hard and the flesh fairly dense, be careful with it in the microwave. Prick with a fork generously.

Yes!

Exploding turnips or worse.

Because the skin is hard and the flesh fairly dense, be careful with it in the microwave. Prick with a fork generously.

Big decision? Is it a turnip or a swede?

Peel and boil until tender then mash leaving it fairly chunky and thicken with butter flour and milk. Add a bit of sugar to the water when boiling rather than salt. You can also fry the boiled turnip sliced with onion in butter with poultry seasoning sprinkled over.

I am going to be busy!

But in the main I don't have the suggested herbs to hand, as I am on my nown and there is no point in buying food that I will use rarely and finish up throwing away.

One of my favourite dishes is baked cauliflower, so I might microwave the turnip a bit, slice it up and add it in with that and see what it tastes like.

I am also on low fat so all these joyous cook in butter recipes are off the table for me!

Dice and put in soup,dice and freeze in portions,mashed potato and turnip

Chop off the skin, dice it & boil with twice as much potatoes (smaller pieces cook faster) then mash the lot. Or freeze diced turnip for later.

Cook mash portion and freeze

Astitchintime

ViceVersa

Astitchintime

If it is of the parsnip variety I would put it in the compost bin.

A parsnip is totally different from a turnip!

Well, I do beg your pardon ViceVersa but in some areas of the UK, the word turnip is used as a general term to define any root vegetables that aren’t carrots or potatoes.

Really?

I've never heard that.

Peel,slice very thinly. Cook in butter in a pan with the juice and zest of a lemon add salt and pepper a little coriander,when soft mash finely with more butter and a tablespoon of double cream . Serve as an accompaniment to braised lamb cutlets.

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From Florida. Turnips here are a Southern veg. They are the root of greens. The greens, collard greens or mustard greens, are boiled with some sort of ham. The turnips are cooked with the greens and the greens and turnips are served over white rice. Pickled vinegar is usually on the table to top off the dish for those who like it. This is a dish that isn’t served much anymore as only us old folks know about it. It is hard to find fresh turnips today. We like them.

What are turnips?
Turnips are creamy white in colour with a lovely purple, red or greenish upper part where the taproot has been exposed to sunlight. Like swedes, turnips are a root vegetable and member of the cabbage family. They’re a good source of vitamin C and, before the arrival of the potato, turnips were one of the main sources of sustenance for the English peasantry.

May be you fill find a good idea here
www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/collection/easy-turnip-recipes/