Turnips, Boiled
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Peel the turnips very thinly.
Soak them in cold water until ready to cook.
Boil and serve
Bring a pot of water to a boil and add a pinch of coarse sea salt.
Add the turnips to the boiling water.
Boil for about 20 minutes until tender.
Serve plain or with a white sauce, butter sauce, or Dutch sauce.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Young turnips
- The main vegetable, which softens and turns tender as it boils in water.
The step that matters
Boil until tender. Turnips need to be cooked through. Undercooked pieces stay firm and starchy, while overboiling makes them soft and waterlogged.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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