Turnip Greens

[Sean Gadhar]

Well I just never have had turnip greens :idunno:

So when the wife got a bunch of packs of last years seeds at 10 cents a pack, I laid the turnip seeds down thick.

Thinned one of the two 8 foot rows today, and came away with about a bushel of greens. Brown diced bacon & an onion, add greens and a little chicken stock. Season to taste.

I'm cooking them as I would Mustered Greens.

is there a better/different way to cook them?

 

[Alden]

I think I like turnip greens. Yes, seem to recall they are prepared with bacon grease. Don't recall any bacon though...

 

[Katahdin]

any way you cook green's is fine.Steamed,boiled are both good.

 

[Billnpatti]

Yeah, you can cook turnip greens just like you cook mustard greens. I like to cube up the turnips and add them to the pot.

 

[Eric Krewson]

I know a little about cooking greens, I plant this patch every winter, a mixture of turnip greens, collards, spinach and kale;



I wilt them down in a big pot, add a little olive oil, garlic salt, pepper and a clove of garlic chopped finely then cook until tender. After they cook I salt to taste and add about a half teaspoon of sugar to mellow them out.

I get drafted to cook the greens for every huge family gathering, usually between 35 and 45 people, there are few if any leftovers from the huge pot I cook so I guess I am doing something right

Most folk here in the south like their greens with canned jalapeno pepper sauce sprinkled on them. in this case pepper sauce and canned jalapenos. Best served with fried deer tenderloin, corn and beans out of the garden.

 

[Katahdin]

That reads like a fine mixture of greens I like mine cooked and then in a bowl with just a little cider vinegar and salt,,cooked with some fine smoked bacon doesn't hurt my feelings either,I even like them raw as a salad sometimes.

 

[crockett]

Cook them like spinach. Put bacon bits (less fat) or bits of smoked ham in for flavor.
On the planting. I followed the directions and made neat little rows. My uncle (Farmer) took a look, laughed, and asked if I had a "mini-cultivator" I planned to run between the little rows. Ha ha. He got me sowing the seeds so you have a solid patch of turnips. more turnips and less weeds. Plant in about 4' by 4' patches. You can do the same with carrots, etc.
In the south they often will take the root (turnip) and cut it up about the size of rolling dice and have that and the greens together. I'm told it was Andy Jackson's favorite veggie.