Any rutabaga growers/lovers out there?? How about low-carbers?
I love potatoes, one of the two things I miss the most going low carb (the other is bread!). A decent substitute for potatoes is rutabaga. Except for a baked potato, you can do almost anything with a rutabaga you can do with a potato - mash, slice for scallop, shred, cube, etc.
This particular recipe for scalloped rutabaga (there are many online) looked pretty easy so I gave it a try this past week. Oh boy, was it ever good! It was good enough that I would serve it to company! Rutabaga can have the slightest taste of turnip; however, I didn’t detect any hint of ‘turnip’ with this recipe.
Recipe notes from making it:
Calls for 3 cups rutabaga - I used one large [cut in half & peeled, then thinly sliced ... for huge slices, I cut them in half again]
Calls for 9 x 13 pan - I used an 8 x 11
Calls for baking about 45 minutes - I baked for one hour* before the rutabaga was tender & the sauce had reduced down so it wasn’t soupy.
*I don’t have a mandolin to get really thin slices so I made them as thin as I could with my chef’s knife, thus requiring an hour. Using thin mandolin slices, the 45 minutes per the recipe should be good.
Other than the above, followed the recipe exactly (except for serving with fresh dill). Here’s the link:
https://hip2keto.com/recipes/keto-scalloped-potatoes/
Plant Sun Chokes (Jerusalem Artichoke) if you want 'potato' uses without the carbs. They look like big Sunflower plants, but you dig up the roots in the Fall and use them instead of potatoes. They store well; even longer than taters!
My Aunt always grew them. She gave me a 5-gallon bucket of them one Fall so I learned all about them. This is the same Aunt that used me as an 'Indentured Servant' on her farm each summer when I was a kid. She also taught me to make 'Green Beans with BACON' and I am forever grateful for THAT! Chokes can spread like wildfire if you don't get all the chokes dug up each season, but if you have the room and enjoy the look of Sunflowers, they are a good veggie substitute for taters. Full sun. Plant in a long row that is all by itself on the south-facing side of the garden.
Grated and made into Pancakes with either grated onion or fresh Chives in the mix? Hello! :)
Liz: Your mission, of you should choose to accept it, is to find some Sun Choke recipes. ;)