Turnips with miso butter and turnip and beetroot greens

Serves 4 as a side Starters and mains

Sesame turnip 1594

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Ingredients

  • 750g white purple-tipped turnips
  • 30g butter
  • 1tbsp sunflower oil
  • 1 bunch spring onions, finely sliced diagonally
  • 2tbsp mirin
  • 3tbsp white miso
  • 1tsp toasted sesame oil handful each turnip and beetroot greens, or use kale
  • To serve: roasted sesame seeds shichimi togarashi (Japanese 7-spice blend)

Method

Peel the turnips, except for the purple skin around the tops, and cut into 0.5cm wedges. Melt the butter with the oil in a large frying pan and fry the turnips for around 5 minutes until golden in parts. Add the spring onions and stir to wilt. Mix the mirin, miso and sesame oil together in a bowl and stir into the turnips.

Wilt the turnip and beetroot greens or kale in a pan of boiling water for a few seconds, then drain and add to the turnips.

Serve scattered with sesame seeds and shichimi togarashi.

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Recipe and food styling by Linda Tubby. Photography and prop styling by Angela Dukes.
Sesame turnip 1594
Recipe and food styling by Linda Tubby. Photography and prop styling by Angela Dukes.

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