Fresh beets, Parsnips, and Turnips

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  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,720 Member
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    Parsnip purree is great. You can mix with mashed potatoes.

    Otherwise I agree with recommendations to roast.
  • Bechard05
    Bechard05 Posts: 231
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    Thank you all for the wonderful advice!!!! I roasted the turnips to go with dinner tonight and yum. I will be using turnips a lot more now :) tomorrow I am going to try the beets and am going on a hunt for goat cheese. I've never heard of it before and am interested in trying it. I love love love salad and am always looking at new ways of preparing salad so it was great to learn about the beet leaves!
  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,473 Member
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    yum, I have beets every day, I put them in everything
  • sallydurkin
    sallydurkin Posts: 211 Member
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    Keeping this one on file for some ideas.... farmers markets today may need to pick up some other veggies..... LOVE roasted parsnips and carrots with onion.... beet salad sounds tasty.
  • tishtash77
    tishtash77 Posts: 430 Member
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    God I could eat several plates of roasted parsnips on their own and sod the rest of the meal. Love them. Something I do now that I have to watch my portions of things like white potatoes is add in a root vegetable to them. This bulks up the meal so visually I feel I am getting a bigger meal still and adds another vege to the plate, handy with my 4 year old being anti veg apart from carrots! The usual one I add is rutabaga or turnip, but have done it with sweet pots, carrots, squash, parsnips too.
  • Corjogo
    Corjogo Posts: 201 Member
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    Beets make a change-up hummus. Haven't tried parsnips (which I love) in hummus - but I see a future adventure here. Don't know if you have tried fennel, but I like cooking with it as well, soups, salads, roasts, raw - adds another dimension.
  • MiloBloom83
    MiloBloom83 Posts: 2,724 Member
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    Parsnips i've never had. I only eat turnips raw, right out of the garden. Beets can go straight to hell.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
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    Parsnips i've never had. I only eat turnips raw, right out of the garden. Beets can go straight to hell.

    YES! Go to hell, beets! And take the brussels sprouts with you!
  • missy_girl001
    missy_girl001 Posts: 53 Member
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    I find that keeping it simple with these works great. Peel (if you wish), cube them, toss them with some olive oil, salt, and pepper, maybe a little cayenne. Place them in the oven at 400F until done...similar to french fries.

    This and try it with a bit of balsamic vinegar. Being summer, I also love to do these in a similar fashion but in packets on the bbq with blackened bell peppers!
  • Cinflo58
    Cinflo58 Posts: 326 Member
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    I love beets and beet greens. I just discovered candy striped beets that are sweeter than regular (delicous) beets. I made sauteed beet greens wth garlic and beet salad with goat cheese. SO GOOD!

    I boile or roast beets in their skin and then the skin comes right off.

    The only problem is the candy striped beets won't turn my pee as pink. I like pink pee.

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