How To Clean Parsnips
Author: Leticia Celentano
Time for reading: ~1
minutes
Last Updated:
August 08, 2022
CHAPTERS (Table Of Contents)
Parsnip is a tasty and healthy vegetable. We use parsnips more as a spicy crop. Parsnip roots have a peculiar, interesting spicy taste and aroma.
How to clean parsnips
Parsnip is a tasty and healthy vegetable. We use parsnips more as a spicy crop. Parsnip roots have a peculiar, interesting spicy taste and aroma. In terms of starch content, parsnips surpass even some varieties of potatoes, which is why it is often used to make mashed potatoes. Also, parsnips can be stewed with other vegetables and meat.
Often parsnips are used in canning vegetables as one of the components. The hostesses dry it, and then add it to the first and second courses. Young parsnip roots can be grated raw and added to a salad. For the preparation of all these dishes, parsnips are pre-cleaned. And since the parsnip root has an uneven surface with tubercles and depressions, young housewives often have a question: how to clean a parsnip and is it worth it to clean at all?
Our advice will help you deal with this issue. Also remember that peeled parsnip root darkens when exposed to air, so keep it in water lightly acidified with lemon juice until added to the dish.
Recipes with parsnips
- Parsnip
- Knife
- Cutting board
- Tin brush
How to clean parsnips step by step instructions with photos
Step 1
For work, we need a parsnip root, a knife, a cutting board, a tin brush.
Step 2
Wash the parsnips and clean off the small side roots with a knife.
Step 3
Cut out damaged areas.
Step 4
Cut off the upper part - the place of attachment of the stems.
Step 5
Now, under running water, using a kitchen tin brush, remove the top layer of the skin. Rinse well again.
Step 6
Pasternak is ready to go. Remember: if the parsnip root turned out to be old, then the core should be removed from it by cutting the root in half.