Turnip recipes

Braised root vegetables served chilled with a reduced cooking-liquid vinaigrette. Carrots, leeks, turnips, and parsnips dressed in dill and coriander.

Hearty Cantonese soup with gelatinous pigs' tails, tender peanuts, and preserved turnip simmered for hours. This traditional comfort soup is rich, nourishing, and deeply savory.

An old-fashioned root vegetable stew with salt pork, cabbage, carrots, turnips, parsnips, and potatoes slow-steamed until fork-tender. Farmhouse cooking at its most honest and filling.

Pisnyi borsch is a traditional Ukrainian meatless beet soup with dried boletus mushrooms, root vegetables, and beet kvas for a tart, jewel-toned broth served with vushka dumplings.

Basque lamb stew simmered with carrots, turnips, thyme, and rosemary in a chicken-stock gravy. A make-ahead, freezer-friendly stew with a lamb shoulder base that splits into batches for the week.

Russian-style boiled beef simmered low and slow with marrow bones, root vegetables, dill, and a spice bag. Fork-tender rump roast in a rich, fragrant broth that serves 10.

Tregaron Granny's broth simmers shin beef and bacon with cabbage, carrots, parsnips, turnip, and potatoes for a Welsh farmhouse one-pot, thickened with oatmeal and finished with leek. A rib-sticking valley classic.

Boeuf en ficelle steams a whole filet mignon suspended by string over boiling beef broth with root vegetables. A classic French technique for rare, intensely beefy tenderloin.

Traditional Chinese Buddhist vegetarian stir-fry with wood ear mushrooms, lily buds, bean curd, bean thread noodles, and fresh vegetables in dark soy and sesame oil. A Lunar New Year classic.

Irish boiled dinner with feather dumplings: corned beef simmered low with potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, onions, and cabbage. Fluffy steamed dumplings cook right in the briny pot likker for the ultimate one-pot St. Patrick's Day spread.

Hearty cure-all chicken noodle soup simmered 3 hours with a whole chicken, turkey wing, root vegetables, and garlic. The pureed veggies melt into a rich, silky broth that heals what ails you.

Traditional Viennese beef soup simmered from scratch with chuck, marrow bones, leeks, celeriac, turnips, and cauliflower. Rich, clear broth with tender meat and root vegetables.

Traditional Chinese rice porridge simmered until thick and creamy. This comforting congee with ginger and tangerine peel is endlessly customizable with toppings and proteins.

Bacon and bean soup simmers slivered bacon with kidney beans, carrots, celery and turnip in a thyme-scented beef broth. A hearty winter soup that tastes even better the next day.

Light vegetable eggplant soup with carrots, celery, turnips, and canned tomatoes in chicken broth, seasoned with basil, thyme, and oregano. A clean, brothy soup ready in 40 minutes.

Curried chickpeas with steamed broccoli, turnips, and pearl barley tossed in curry powder, lemon juice, and fresh chives. A quick vegan bowl that comes together in minutes.