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How to prepare turnips

Here's a method for obtaining ready-to-cook turnips from fresh turnips, and how to trim, peel and carve them.

409

15 min.

Easy

1.30 €

1 kg 500 g ingredients

1 Ingredient

Last modified on: May 21^th 2025

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For 1 kg 500 g, you will need:

1 1 kg 600 g turnip
Total weight: 1,600 grams

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250 g 375 g 750 g 1 kg 500 g 2 kg 250 g

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Times for this recipe

Preparation: 15 min.

Step by step recipe

Stage 1

Ideally, of course, you should have fresh, beautiful radishes with their tops.

Stage 2

Start by cutting off the tops.

Note that you don't necessarily have to throw them away or compost them. You can use them in a recipe for turnip greens soup or pesto, for example.

Stage 3

Once the tops have been removed, a small piece of stalk remains on the turnip, which can be kept on small turnips that will be cooked whole.

Stage 4

If not, cut off the top of the turnip.

Stage 5

There's going to be a little bit of green left, that's normal, we'll deal with it later.

Stage 6

Turn the turnip over and cut out the root.

Stage 7

No green this time.

Stage 8

Peel around the turnip using a vegetable peeler.

Stage 9

If you want to keep a small piece of stem (small turnips), turn around it with the peeler...

Stage 10

...or peel it all off.

Stage 11

Remove the green part from the top, best done with an apple scoop or, failing that, a small spoon.

Stage 12 - 15 min.

That's it, your turnip is ready, do this with all the others, then wash and dry them.

Your turnips are ready to use in your recipe.

Remarks

When turnips are fresh, some chefs believe that you don't need a peeler to peel them, that the back of a spoon, slipped under the skin, is enough. But for us amateurs, the peeler comes in very handy.

Keeping: Bake during the day.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	20 RDI=6 %	110 RDI=10 %	0	510 RDI=30 %	2,140 RDI: 30 %
Per 100 g	1 RDI=0 %	7 RDI=1 %	0	30 RDI=2 %	130 RDI: 2 %

The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman Change to a man

How much will it cost?

For 1 kg 500 g : 2.60 €

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