Author Topic: TURNIPS, RECIPIES AND WHO EATS THEM? (Read 4847 times)

hillbill · « **on:** November 13, 2008, 01:35:18 PM »

i planted sum turnips this year in my food plots, shame to waste them,Ive been eating them with beans, green and pinto.in roasts, pork and beef. mix in them with taters. anybody have any good recipes for them? taters gettin high doll er run here.love to hear yualls recipies if you eating them too.

briarpatch · « **Reply #1 on:** November 13, 2008, 01:59:29 PM »

I love turnips and the greens from them. My mom would fry a little salt pork (fat back) in a pot, about half what you would use for a pot of pinto beans she would slice up several big turnips and throw them in the pot with the salt pork and cover with water. Salt and pepper to taste, bring to a boil, reduce heat, let them cook until tender. While they were cooking she would make a big pan of corn bread. I would take the corn bread and break it up in a plate and dump the turnips and juice over it and feast.
She would take the greens, clean and boil them until tender, drain them and squeese the water out of them, fry them in a pan she had fried salt pork in. Just toss them around and heat them through in the pan with salt pork grease. Nothing better.
Always, always eat them with corn bread.,,
This may not be what you are looking for but to me it is good eating.

CannonKrazy · « **Reply #2 on:** November 13, 2008, 04:27:51 PM »

Nope you are wrong about one thing.That's not "good" eating.Its "excellent" eating.
I don't have any recipes other than pull the turnips up and wash them good,peel the skin off the bulb and cut them up.If they have green tops then clean them and cook along with the roots.I like to boil them in a little water with seasoning meat.Sometimes if the turnips are strong tasting I will add some sugar to help take the bitterness out.
If the turnips don't have green tops on them I will cook the bulbs the same way.This is fine eating. I have eaten the bulbs raw before in salads.

GRIMJIM · « **Reply #3 on:** November 14, 2008, 10:31:13 AM »

My wife makes a mean oxtail soup with turnips and parsnips in it. I'll have to ask her for the recipe.

JBlk · « **Reply #4 on:** December 24, 2008, 02:33:29 AM »

peel and dice your turnips and boil in some salted water until tender.Make a white sauce and add some grated cheese.Heat the white sauce and blend in the cheese until melted.Pour over the turnips and mix.

hillbill · « **Reply #5 on:** December 28, 2008, 02:32:58 PM »

ive been eating a lot of them mixed with taters either boiled and mashed or fried in a cast iron skillet.its been down to 3 degrees here and they still seem to be good to eat.cant ask for more than thAT.ive also latley added them to beans and hocks. very tasty.

embalmer883 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 28, 2008, 03:26:57 PM »

I eat the turnip but love the greens. Boiled with a little bacon fat. (by the way they are better after they freeze, i.e. in the field)

Tunaman · « **Reply #7 on:** January 06, 2009, 04:55:47 PM »

Try browning some whole ducks in bacon fat. When the ducks are browned, add some finely sliced onions and some diced turnips. When the onions are soft put the ducks back in the pot and add enough red wine to cover the bottom of the pot. Cover and roast in a 350 degree oven for about an hour and a half. When done, remove the ducks and thicken the gravy with a little roux. The turnips will get real sweet and you will have a great meal. I have substituted small deer shoulders as well. Btw, I usually salt and pepper the duck or deer pretty liberally before browning.

Buck-Ridge · « **Reply #8 on:** March 21, 2009, 06:49:08 PM »

I love turnips. I peel them and cut them into squares and boil them till tender in water with a couple of beef bullion cubes or a spoon of beef base.

sr sawyer · « **Reply #9 on:** June 04, 2009, 12:43:20 PM »

Turnip slaw:

4 cups of peeled and grated turnips
1/4 cup chopped bell pepper
1/4 cup thin sliced green onion
1/4 cup mayo
1 Tbs vinegar
2 tbs sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper

Mix all together and serve instead of cabbage slaw or as an appetizer with crackers.

A little late for your past crop but its almost time to plant again

mechanic · « **Reply #10 on:** June 04, 2009, 03:32:47 PM »

Just put a little salt pork in them. Cook until done. Then cook some more. Nope, thats not enough yet.

Another hour.

Now eat.

scootrd · « **Reply #11 on:** June 04, 2009, 05:24:47 PM »

When I was in the service I picked this up in Thailand
Som Tam (Thai) summer salad
3-5 chili or Thai peppers (or fresh chilies), 3 cloves garlic, 1 chopped tomato, 1 Turnip (sliced very very paper thin like thin paper french fries. You can also use eggplant, Rutabaga and Parsnips. 1 crab or 1lb crabmeat, 1 handful chopped papaya, 3 tbsp. fish sauce or squid sauce
(Its lighter than soy sauce) 2 pieces lemon 1 tsp. sugar.
1. Pound chili peppers and garlic together. Add tomato, Turnips, and crab meat. mix it with fish sauce, lemon, and sugar.
3. Put papaya in and mix it with a spoon.
4 Chill in refrigerator for 30 minutes
6. serve with fresh sliced cucumber, Rice, and a leg or rack of lamb off the grill.
7. Kick back on deck with friends and enjoy

(The Cucumber is good for taking away some of the Bite of the thai peppers)

JBlk · « **Reply #12 on:** August 03, 2009, 04:01:19 AM »

You can always let them grow big and make ruben from them.You make it the same way you make kraut.

Doug B. · « **Reply #13 on:** August 03, 2009, 10:32:04 AM »

Love them raw. Can not stand them cooked.

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #14 on:** August 03, 2009, 10:34:26 AM »

salt !
peel shake on a little salt and eat like an apple .

Graybeard · « **Reply #15 on:** August 03, 2009, 10:39:39 AM »

I've heard rumors deer eat them but I don't think humans do.

Fer dang sure this one don't.

mechanic · « **Reply #16 on:** August 03, 2009, 10:44:04 AM »

Quote from: Graybeard on August 03, 2009, 10:39:39 AM

I've heard rumors deer eat them but I don't think humans do. Fer dang sure this one don't.

I ain't for sure I'm human, but I am sure I eat turnips. Just cook them to mush, add cornbread and pepper sauce. Mighty fine...........

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #17 on:** August 03, 2009, 10:45:12 AM »

GB back when i was younger we bird hunted anywhere we wanted as everyone let us hunt . Now this was before bottled water . Some days we walked miles and only shot covey shots what a time . Well if a spring or well wasn't close and we happened past a turnip patch we would pull one peel it and eat it , if we had a packet of salt so much the better . I have pulled then when a dusting of snow was on the ground and only the tops were sticking out , don't get excited we were deer hunting then.
You really should give one a try .

Graybeard · « **Reply #18 on:** August 03, 2009, 11:16:25 AM »

I've survived 64+ years without trying one. I see no reason to do so now.

jadek · « **Reply #19 on:** August 03, 2009, 12:01:39 PM »

My Dad used to raise the little white purple tops. Just like an apple.. Also was in Savannah Ga. a few years back and had turnip FRIES.. Damn were they tasty... I've not had luck doing it though. Shouls have asked how they did em..

hillbill · « **Reply #20 on:** August 03, 2009, 02:09:35 PM »

i raised sum turnips this spring and there really was a distinct difference in them and the ones i raised last fall. they just didnt seem as good as the ones that had seen a little cold weather. i know i must of ate a bushel of them last winter out of my deer plots.most of them i either cooked with green beans i had frozen or mixed with taters.i just planted a fall crop so maybe they will be as good as last years.come to think of it the majority of them i ate was after the frost. dont know if that made them better or what.

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #21 on:** August 04, 2009, 10:03:49 AM »

GB , never to old to try new things .

AtlLaw · « **Reply #22 on:** August 07, 2009, 09:27:38 AM »

I got fed 'em when I was a kid, but now the only time I eat them is when I cut them up in the greens!

Or don't y'all eat turnip greens either!?

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #23 on:** August 07, 2009, 10:26:00 AM »

you add ham hocks ?

AtlLaw · « **Reply #24 on:** August 07, 2009, 11:27:26 AM »

Why of course!

You got to have some meat in yo greens!

But they mostly for seasonin'

mechanic · « **Reply #25 on:** August 07, 2009, 12:22:26 PM »

It has been my experience in the past, that persons of northern persuasion coming south talk "funny". The best cure for this is to feed them greens, both collards and turnip greens. To speed the process, add turnips to the greens.

Ya'll have a fine day now,

Ben

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #26 on:** August 08, 2009, 02:36:25 AM »

Of course you know that's what turns them into DA- Yankees

GRIMJIM · « **Reply #27 on:** August 08, 2009, 07:50:48 AM »

I happen to be a Yankee that loves turnips and parsnips and rutabaga.

AtlLaw · « **Reply #28 on:** August 08, 2009, 10:12:43 AM »

Quote from: GRIMJIM on August 08, 2009, 07:50:48 AM

I happen to be a Yankee

That's okay pal. Nobody's perfect.

pastorp · « **Reply #29 on:** August 08, 2009, 01:18:02 PM »

Like AtLaw we eat the greens with the roots cut up in them. Really any greens works. I also use them in a pot roast instead of potatoes. Pot roast, turnips, onion, and carrots. Lots of cayanne prpper sauce. It's fine eating.

Regards,