Turnips can be boiled, steamed, and stir-fried. Cook turnips until they are just tender-crunchy–less than seven minutes or so for a young turnip. The flavor will be mildly sweet and crisp. Steamed and boiled. Toss steamed small turnips with butter and parsley and serve. Boiled turnips can be mashed with butter and cream or puréed…
Turnip Greens
How to Grow Turnips
Turnips grow and taste best when they come to harvest in cool weather. For a late spring harvest, sow turnip seeds directly in the garden 2 to 3 weeks before the average last frost date in spring. Sow turnips in late summer for autumn harvest; in early autumn for late autumn harvest; and in late…
Turnip Greens: Kitchen Basics
The tenderest of turnip greens are those harvested before the swollen stem we call a turnip ever develops. You often will find these in bunches at your farmers’ market. But if you’ve brought home a bunch of turnips with their greens attached, don’t cut off the greens and throw them away. If the greens are…
