Turnip & maple potage (vegan). Benefits of turnips include their ability to improve bone health and heart health, boost the immunity, prevent cancer, reduce inflammation, and regulate metabolism. Turnips are cool-weather vegetables that can be grown both in spring and fall, avoiding the hot summer months. Turnips are hardy biennials usually grown as annuals by the home gardener.
Bush, only smarter - a turnip knows enough to keep its mouth shut. Turnips are popular, nutritious root vegetables. They are round, tuberous roots grown in many parts of Europe, and Asia as one of the cool-season vegetables. You can cook Turnip & maple potage (vegan) using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Turnip & maple potage (vegan)
- You need of turnip, peeled and cut in small cubes.
- Prepare of medium shallot, minced.
- You need of water.
- You need of maple syrup.
- Prepare of avocado oil or any neutral vegetable oil.
- You need of dry sage.
- Prepare of fresh ground black pepper.
- Prepare of unsweetened almond or cashew milk (I've used almond).
Turnip is the common name for a root vegetable, Brassica rapa var, rapa (Brassica rapa rapa). This plant is grown in temperate climates worldwide for its bulbous, edible root, and the leaves also are consumed. From turnepe, probably from turn + Middle English nepe, from Old English nǣp, from Latin nāpus. The component turn may be due to the round shape of the plant as though turned on a lathe, or because it must be turned and twisted to be harvested.
Turnip & maple potage (vegan) instructions
- In an extra large pot, heat up the oil at medium high heat..
- Add the minced shallots and cook for two minutes or so, stirring frequently, making sure it doesn't get brown. Lower heat if necessary..
- Add the turnip cubes and cook for two minutes or so, as above..
- Add the water and bring to boil..
- Reduce heat, add the maple syrup, the sage, fresh ground black pepper and stirr well..
- Cover and let simer for one hour..
- Put aside (or outside 😜) and let cool down..
- Once it's cooler, use a hand mixer, blender or food processor to make purée..
- Add the nut milk and mix well. You may add more or less milk to get consistency desired. (I personnaly prefer thick potage).
- Taste and adjust seasonning if needed..
- If not freezing some, put back in pot and reheat..
- Serve hot and enjoy!.
Turnip, hardy biennial plant in the mustard family, cultivated for its fleshy roots and tender growing tops. Learn more about the turnip plant, its origins, physical description, uses, and cultivation. Turnip root is a low-calorie vegetable rich in nutrients, antioxidants Turnip greens are rich in other free radical-scavenging antioxidants too, such as vitamin A, lutein, zeaxanthin. These delicious and nutritious turnip dinner recipes are so easy to make, and they're beyond flavorful too. Your whole family will love these unique and yummy dishes—yes, including your kids!
