Root crop recipes?

[MeandTK]

Suppose you had fresh radishes,turnips,rutabagas, and carrots: how would you prepare them?

[feather]

Cut them all up in big chunks, toss them with olive oil, put them on a large flat sheet pan or roasting pan, sprinkle with salt, pepper, paprika, and herbs of your choice. Bake at 350 degrees F for an hour, tossing them half way through.

If you have some meat, onion, and potatoes, you could small dice the root vegetables, meat, onion, and potatoes, and make a pasty or cornish pie. Pasties These can be frozen, just cook them for half the time, a parbake, then wrap in foil and freeze.

[Deleted]

Only way I eat radishes is raw, salad or with a sprinkle of salt. The others work great in pot roast or stew....James

[feather]

jwal, we were brought up eating raw radishes with salt but you can only eat so many raw hot radishes. We started cooking them, like many other countries, which originally I'd never heard of, steaming them, serving them with butter and salt and pepper. I like them cooked now.

Radish (raw) and peanut butter sandwiches is good, the radish's hot flavor is mellowed by the peanut butter, and the radish adds crunch to the creamy texture of the peanut butter.

Radish tea sandwiches, like cucumber tea sandwiches, white bread with the crusts cut off, butter, sliced radishes laid out nicely on top, with a sprinkle of salt. A dill dip is also good on these. Here is a picture from serious eats.

[Skandi]

Swede (what you're calling ruta(something) is actually very nice raw, it's great with humous or other dips, it has a mild sweet taste. As someoen already said, if you make cornish pasty they have to be present. Otherwise it can be mashed or roasted, and generaly treated like potato.
Carrots well we eat them nearly every day, raw, boiled, stirfried, in soup, pie etc etc.
Radishes are fine cooked, in soups or stirfrys, it mellows the taste hugely.
No idea what to do with turnips, I don't like them, and they don't grow them here so I am safe

I think overall the mix sounds like stew, fry some chunks of red meat of your choice until brown, brown some onions, cut all the above veg into chunks, stew the entire lot with salt, pepper, stock, a bay leaf and a couple of cloves of garlic for 1-2 hours. add dumplings, or pour over mashed potato to serve.

If you like asian foods, make a vinegar/water/sugar mix, with some star anise for flavour, go easy on the vinegar, and pickle some thin slices of radish and carrot overnight or even just for a couple of hours. really nice served alongside any meat in asweet chinese style sauce and rice.

Now my sand box contains carrots, beetroots and parsnips... same problem different veg!

[MeandTK]

Skandi,
This year I planted a hybrid, White Lady Turnip. It is amazingly sweet, unlike other turnips I've eaten.