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Finding some very large swedes in the reduced price bin at Tesco for just 30p, I thought I would buy one and see if I could find a new way of preparing it to make it more interesting.

This is what I did.

Chopped the swede into chunks, and boiled it in salted water until it was just tender.

Drained off water, and added about a tablespoonful of olive oil, two mashed garlic gloves, one hot green chili, finely chopped, two spring onions finely sliced, milled black pepper,  and a large teaspoonful of Patak's Mango Chutney.

I then turned it and simmered it in this mixture for a few minutes until it was well mixed and the chunks of swede well soused in the sauce.

It was delicious with plain boiled rice, and made a very cheap and tasty meal.

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I had some boiled cabbage earlier and it was delicious. Though it sounds plain, the flavour is lovely.

I think boiled cabbage is very tasty too.  Boiled mutton or boiled pork and cabbage, with just perhaps a sliced onion in it is always delicious, and just as simple as can be.

What is Swede?

It's a large root vegetable, almost globular, with pale orange flesh. Not dissimilar to turnip, but less "watery tasting."

Sounds almost like a type of Squash!

When it's cooked, and mashed up with butter, salt and pepper, one of the popular ways of having it, it is quite like the colour of cooked sweet potatoes, a bit less orange and rather less sweet by comparison.

Mashed swede is called "bashed neeps" in Scotland, where it is traditionally eaten with haggis, a stuffed sheep's bladder.

Swede, turnips, and parsnips are what I call "winter roots" - and are the basic stuff - together with meat and onion - of a warming winter stew.

I don't think it's part of the squash family.  Here, take a look at this:

http://www. gardenaction.co.uk/fruit_veg_diary/ swede_brora.htm

I've put a couple of spaces in the URL, join up the breaks to check it out.

Oh, a squash is a sort of gourd, a fruit that grows above the ground.

But a swede is a root or tuber. I believe it is called rutabaga in some countries.

Ok, rutabaga is something I know about, my wife uses it in a pork stew.

Now I know that it's called a "swede".  Thanks!

Peace

oh rutabaga, we thought as children that this vegetable God invented to punish children.  Though all my mother did was boil it, mash it and maybe add some salt.  

This recipe sounds very interesting that my husband, the hater of all vegetables except eggplant, might like it.

MAybe you could try Kohlrabi on your husband , M. It is also purple on the outside and pale on the inside. But in the end it is kind of like swde/ turnip.
becca