Salad turnips also know by their variety name, Hakurei are sweet small Japanese turnips that are delicious to enjoy raw or cooked.

​

If your turnips have the greens on them, cut the greens off from the roots and store them separately in your fridge. The roots without their greens will last for weeks.

​

Salad turnips can be enjoyed raw, cooked or pickled. Slice them raw and eat them as a snack with salt, or add them to a salad. Roast them and toss with miso; braise them with a touch of butter or stock; make them into a curry; or saute them with a little honey.

 

The turnip greens are incredibly nutritious and should be cooked like other hardy greens like kale or chard.  Turnip greens are a common dish in the south cooked with bacon or ham. 

​

Think of this vegetable as a two for one: a root and a green!