Hakurei & Other Salad Turnips - Coming Soon

Coming Soon

Salad Turnip—aka Hakurei Turnip or Tokyo Turnip—is a subtle, crisp and tender Japanese style turnip, with edible leaves if the weather is right. Don't judge these sweet beauties by the dense, thick "turnipiness" of the old storage turnips that you see in the supermarket. Salad turnips are light and refreshing!

My favourite way to prepare these for salads is to finely slice them with a mandolin and just toss them in with everything else. The pink ones have a little pink centre too: stunning!

As far as cooking goes, I practically lived on roasted turnip, beetroot, pumpkin, spuds, garlic and meat this past winter, and have really missed having turnips in my meals. Just cut them into a similar, or slightly bigger size as your spuds, toss in some olive oil and fresh herbs and cook them for the same time as everything else. 

I'm told that Hakurei turnips are divine fermented too, but I have not tried it yet. Please let me know what you think if you try it.

We have a few different varieties of salad turnip growing on Leroyd Street, but the Hakurei (the white one) will be most common.

Bunches will be mixed colour depending availability.

These are a specialty item and you probably won't see them as seconds sorry. 

• Gourmet - uniform, clean and crisp roots with edible tops ~5 roots
• Market - less uniformity and tops may have some damage, but still useable ~ 8 roots
• Seconds - mismatched sizes, probably no tops and may have some damage ~10 roots

At the time of writing this, I couldn't find salad turnips neither locally nor online. I found storage turnips at $2ea though. 

Locally & Organically grown in Murgon, Queensland.

These guys are individually priced and sold by the kilogram. $2/kg