It is unfortunate that a root crop such as turnip, so popular in ancient times in Russia, has been undeservedly forgotten. What only was not prepared from it - porridge, cabbage soup, kvass, pies. Nowadays, many do not even imagine what taste this product has. The presented article describes two recipes from which you can learn how to cook turnips in the oven and slow cooker.
Both ways are similar to the fact that dishes are served in the form of "pots" stuffed with various fillings. Before filling the ingredients, turnip must first be boiled until half-cooked, and then freed from the internal pulp, carefully scrubbing the cavity with a pointed teaspoon, leaving the wall thickness about 1.5-2 cm. Only after this preliminary stage you can fill the unusual “cups” with various minced meat. How to cook turnips tasty? Use completely different products - from sweet cereals to meat and mushroom ingredients. A dish prepared in a natural "pot" with any of the fillings is aromatic and soft!
How to cook turnips deliciously : recipe with fried mushrooms
To stuff three medium-sized turnips, you need the following regular components:
- 250-300 g of fresh mushrooms or pickled;
- 2 onions;
- 2 tbsp. l any vegetable oil;
- ½ faceted glass of hot tomato sauce or juice;
- salt and spices to taste.
Peel the mushrooms and chop finely with a knife along with the onion. Fry the mass in a hot frying pan in oil, immediately seasoning with spices. The fire should be medium, so that the liquid from the fungi evaporates quickly, and they brown. Mix the resulting frying with chopped scraped up pulp of turnip and fill with a piquant mass of the workpiece. Put the stuffed "pots" in the mold and pour in tomato sauce. How to cook turnips tasty to get a different taste? You can replace tomato sauce with sour cream or milk. Then bake the dish in the oven at medium temperature, covering with foil on top, for about 15-20 minutes.
How to cook turnips in a slow cooker
To fill the bowl with a capacity of 2.5 liters, take 7-10 pcs. turnips. Stuffing is prepared from the following products:
- 300 g of ground pork or any other stuffing;
- 100 g of boiled and washed rice;
- 2 small cloves of garlic;
- a bunch of fresh or frozen parsley;
- 1 cup of any vegetable oil;
- 1 cup sweet tomato puree from fresh fruits;
- seasonings, salt.
Fry onions and garlic and mix with minced meat, rice and chopped herbs. Fill the prepared turnips with the resulting mass. Pour vegetable oil into the bottom of the multicooker and lay the semi-finished products on top. How to cook turnips tasty? First turn on the device for 5 minutes by selecting the “Baking” mode. Then pour on top of turnips with tomato puree diluted with a small amount of water. The next step is 40 minutes in the same “Baking” mode. To make the turnip juicy, if necessary, you can pour it with a small amount of sauce in the process. In conclusion, select the "Extinguishing" mode and let the dish obscure for another 10 minutes. Fragrant turnip is ready! Serve it on the table with boiled potatoes or mashed potatoes.