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Seasonal Eats: 5 Recipes for Rutabagas
Rutabagas at the Hollywood Farmer's Market (Heather Parlato/LAist)
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Call me a bad Swede (I'm only one-quarter anyway) but I've never even had a rutabaga until this week, when I wandered over to one of my farmers' market sellers to ponder this turnip-like root vegetable.
Rutabagas are actually related to turnips, originally created by crossing turnips with cabbages. As a hearty root vegetable, rutabagas are often used alongside potatoes, turnips and other roasting vegetables. They have a sweetness similar to sweet potatoes, and are a nice treat to slice up and eat raw, with a flavor close to raw sweet potato. When selecting yours, the rule of thumb is: the smaller, the sweeter, and stick with smooth, unblemished roots (the ones shown in the photo above are a little rough around the edges).
As far as cooking, they can be mashed, baked, boiled or roasted and used similar to sweet potatoes, though cooked rutabagas are both sweet and bitter, which may limit their use for most tastes. Cooked rutabaga does well with its root vegetable cousins, and with seasonings like vinegar, ginger, and chili pepper to expand its flavor, and dairy to soften the bitterness. With a glycemic load of 4, rutabagas are a good source of Thiamin, Vitamin B6, Folate, Calcium, Magnesium and Phosphorous, and a very good source of dietary fiber, Vitamin C, Potassium and Manganese.
5 recipes for rutabagas:
- Keep it simple and raw with a crunchy refreshing rutabaga, apple & carrot salad.
- Try out a hearty, mixed-root breakfast topped with tangy pesto: root vegetable hash with poached eggs and parsley pesto.
- Mix up your usual potato fritters and latkes with a rutabaga twist: german rutabaga fritters.
- Start your dinner off by using the richness of the root vegetable to showcase bright chipotle: rutabaga chipotle soup.
- Roast up a delicious mix of root vegetables and spices as the perfect side to any entrée: roasted parsnips, turnips and rutabagas with ancho-spiced honey glaze.
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