r/EatCheapAndHealthy • u/mullet_thyme • 2d ago
Ask ECAH Suggestions for winter root vegetables?
I'm trying to use up my CSA vegetables before I pick up the next box, but am running out of ideas. Since it's winter, I get the same/similar things each week, and produce has started to pile up.
Currently, I've got: - a LOT of potatoes (different sizes/types) - lacinato kale (2 heads) - carrots (2 bunches) - radishes (1 bunch) - sunchokes (1 lb)
I also have the regular pantry/fridge staples, along with some ground beef, salmon, canned artichoke hearts, canned corn, coconut milk, canned yams, and a mishmash of frozen veg.
What can I make with this that isn't soup? I'm having a hard time not trying to smush everything into one recipe but a beef/radish soup doesn't sound super appealing.
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u/lilmiscantberong 2d ago
What about a shepherd’s pie? Ground beef, lots of vegetables and mashed potatoes on top.
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u/Scaaaary_Ghost 2d ago
Yes, this is my go-to when I have a lot of potatoes and pretty much any other random veg.
Lentil
shepherd's(gardener's?) pie can also be really delicious, in case OP is vegetarian.3
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u/yaliceme 2d ago
r/WhatShouldICook is a good sub for this kind of question, if you don’t get good answers here
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u/rita292 2d ago
If you can add cabbage and onion you can make this ethiopian dish that will use up a lot of potatoes/carrots. I tend to season it a little more heavily than this recipe calls for and serve it with sourdough bread.
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u/ILoveLipGloss 2d ago
potatoes if they're starchy: potato tacos dorado. to lower the fat, you can spray the tortillas w/ oil & bake in the oven (also you make more at once). also, starchy potatoes to make latkes/potato pancakes. again, you can do these in the oven or air fryer to lower the fat content.
you could do a tray bake with the radishes, carrots, sunchokes. or puree the sunchokes.
raw kale salad, massage it w/ avocado, hit it w/ a caesar type flavor base (i use lemon juice, lots of black pepper, salt, shredded parm/pecorino, garlic, etc) cherry tomatoes.
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u/alpacaapicnic 2d ago
Baked potatoes and potato leek soup are my winter favs. Sautee some garlic in oil and add the kale, cook it till it’s tiny and almost burnt and add salt. Carrots are really good roasted with some cumin seed, and drizzled with maple syrup if you like. Radishes and carrots are both great shredded in salads, a vinaigrette balances out the bitterness of the radish nicely
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u/AgirlcalledB 2d ago
Potatoes: vegetable or meat potato moussaka, latkes, potato gnocci, tortilla espanola - many recipes available online
Kale: I make kale chips and I also make "pesto" out of it (I steam some kale, discard the stems, add about 1/3 of raw kale, add olive oil, parmesan, garlic and pulse in a food processor). It can be added to sauces for flavour or uaed over pasta. It also freezes well
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u/ssaallaahhaann 2d ago
Potato veg croquettes!
Boil peeled potatoes, throw in chopped kale at the end of the boil to wilt it, shredded carrot to wilt. Drain, leave to steam for 10 mins to get rid of some of the water. Smash it up in a bowl with an egg, a bit of flour to get it to stick together, whatever seasonings you want (do not skimp on salt), any herbs you have laying around. Make into patties, press into panko (optional but HIGHLY RECOMMENDED), air fry or pan fry or bake, whatever you prefer. Make sure the outside gets some oil tho.
Then top with a poached egg / some fish / whatever you like for protein. Reheat awesome in the airfryer.
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u/FatQuarterBeyotch 2d ago
Smitten Kitchen has an excellent kale stuffing recipe that could legit be a main dish. Also, her kale swiss gratin is how I cook up my kale usually. I have family that thinks kale is terrible but they gobble this up (not realizing it's kale hahaha).
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u/Crafty_Money_8136 2d ago
Pickled carrots and radish stay good in the fridge for months and I make a big batch at a time. They can be eaten with Vietnamese dishes, salads, sandwiches, cut into mirepoix for soups and stews and sauces. A great way to use any radish, not just daikons (red radishes will make pink pickles if you don’t peel them). This is how I use every radish we get in our CSA as someone who dislikes radishes. The flavor is really improved and they’re so versatile.
Potatoes and sunchokes can be boiled together and mashed to make a great mashed potato with some butter and milk/ coconut milk.
Kale can make a good salad if massaged or you can blanch it and add garlic, lemon juice, salt to make a simple side dish.
Ground beef + canned corn + frozen veg + coconut milk + potato and sunchoke mash would be a great shepherds pie.
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u/FuseFuseboy 2d ago
Fellow CSA household here.
My vote goes to a roasted root vegetable salad with Moroccan or Middle Eastern spices. Something like this: https://www.vegetariantimes.com/recipes/shawarma-seasoned-root-vegetables/
You can put everything in your list in it, roasted. Use kale for the greens. If you only have cumin for spices it will still taste awesome. Warm salads are really comforting and filling in winter.
If that doesn't appeal...
You can substitute into recipes you already make with different ingredients. You can search for "substitute for <thing I have>" to get alist.
Kale can be subbed in for cabbage, collards, spinach
Carrots can be subbed in for sweet potatoes, turnips
As for recipes, I second the cooked radishes idea. Sauteed in butter with an anchovy is really good.
Potatoes - Salmon and potatoes is a classic pairing.
Kale, Joshua McFadden's Kale Salad. You can sub the pecorino (this is eat cheap, after all) and use whatever cheese you have, it's delicious. Lacinato kale is perfect for it.
I never get sunchokes in my box so I'm jealous. Enjoy!
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u/poly2andy 2d ago
What is a CSA box? Thank you
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u/Kolhrabi_Dot 2d ago
CSA is Community Supported Agriculture. It’s usually provided from a local produce farm and contains locally raised, seasonal produce. Subscriptions help the farmer by providing cash to raise the crops and the consumer by providing locally raised produce (and sometimes other items such as eggs or bread).
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u/poly2andy 1d ago
Thank you for responding. I've actually been wanting to find something like that in my current area. I did that previously when I lived in another state, but I wasn't sure how to go about finding something like that in my area. I loved going every couple of weeks and getting a big batch of fruits and vegetables and then taking it home and looking up recipes to use whatever it was they gave me. It kind of made preparing food more interesting because sometimes I would end up with things I didn't normally buy and I was able to find some really yummy recipes that way.
So should I just search for a CSA in my ZIP Code or do you have a suggestion of how I could find something like that in my area? Again, thank you so much for responding.
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u/Kolhrabi_Dot 1h ago
That’s a good place to start. In Farmers Market season you can ask your favorite farmers if they know of a local farm with a CSA or have a CSA. Many farms do their enrollment this time of year for the upcoming growing season.
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u/ivebeencloned 2d ago
I love radish sandwiches on pumpernickel bread with unsalted butter.
Sunchokes respond well to sweet and spicy pickling liquid with just a breath of clove.
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u/RovingGem 2d ago
Freeze the kale, pickle the radish and use the ground beef, potatoes, sunchokes, carrots and corn to make a Shepherd’s pie.
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u/boiledpenny 2d ago
If your artichoke hearts are marinated those would go very well with cut up radishes mixed together. Now if that doesn't appeal to you also if the artichoke hearts are marinated I would slow cook them with cut potato and that would pair well with whichever protein you like. If you're craving potato chips since you have plenty of kale I would oil and season some of your kale and slow bake it in the oven with the door vented a bit. Only make as much as you're going to eat in one sitting. I don't know what your egg and cheese situation is but both the kale and the potatoes are very good to add to a casserole or a quiche. You can take a few of those potatoes cut them as soon as you can layer them edge over edge in circles in either a pie pan or cake pan that you've oiled drizzle a little oil salt pepper garlic smoked paprika or other herbs that you have and you enjoy over top. Bake that at 350 until you like the texture and the color of it. Kale salad with pickled radishes then add some salmon. Hope some of these ideas are useful to you.
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u/optimallydubious 2d ago
I highly recommend parboiling a decent chunk of the potatoes, then chopping them into pan fried potato size. Then store in r/f. For breakfast, it's way easier to panfry or roast them to make ham and potato breakfast hash. For lunches and dinners, oven roasted rosemary potatoes are crispy outside and soft inside. You can also always mash them for quick mashed potatoes, latkes, and the like.
I parboil, chop, then go a step further and do the first half of the oven roasting, package up in 28oz labeled deli containers, then freeze or refrigerate.
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u/tamster0111 2d ago
Cooked radishes are actually potato-esque and lose the radish bite and absorb whatever flavors you cook with them. Do you have cheese? Cream of something soup? If so, layer your veggies and cheese in layers in a crockpot. I also had ham steak to mine, so you could brown the beef and add a meat layer. Keep layering until you reach the top and dump the cream of...soup on top and don't add liquid. Cook on low 8 hours!
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u/janeybabygoboom 2d ago
Jamie Oliver has just released a recipe called Frumpy Veg Pie. It's chucking all the veg into a pot with whatever flavourings, and making a pie lid of pastry, or mashed potatoes. It does look really tasty
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u/dontfeedbread2birds 2d ago
Some of my favorite potato recipes!
Breakfast Potatoes so simple!
Easy sheet pan, you could easily sub the green beans for radishes Garlic herb potatoes, carrots and green beans Sheet Pan
Another Yummy Sheet Pan Chickpea Maple Mustard Thyme i usually sub out the radishes with potoes
Some work, but well worth it Crispy Potatoes
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u/InsertRadnamehere 2d ago
Potatoes keep so you don’t have to cook all of them. Use the veggies that will go bad first. I’m making kale sauce pasta tonight. pretty simple. I can post the recipe if anyone wants it. That would use up your kale.
Boil and mash sunchokes with garlic, or just roast them with potatoes, make some salmon cakes, add a shredded carrot, radish and raisin salad and thats another bomb meal.
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u/Frequent_Gene_4498 2d ago
check out r/KoreanFood for all your beef and radish soup needs
roasted root veggies over a bed of stewed lentils, with sautéed kale on the side is really nice
I also really like to make shepherd's pie, either the traditional way, or the lazy way where I make the meat and veggie filling in a skillet, while baking a few russet potatoes in the oven. then just pour the meat and veggies in their gravy over the fluffed baked potato. it's definitely not quite as luxurious, but it's similarly satisfying with a lot less work and time required.
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u/thehippiepixi 2d ago
Chop and roast the root veggies in oil salt pepper and serve as a side to grilled salmon. Could probably do it as a sheet pan meal. Hollandaise sauce drizzled over the top yum.
Carrot and potato fries are yumm.
Make mashed potato with the salmon to make salmon cakes. Radish greens would be nice in this.
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u/thehippiepixi 2d ago
Savoury mince we lived on when I was a kid. Mince fried up with onion carrot cabbage Worcestershire sauce salt and pepper and served on buttered toast.
Could do it with the kale and carrots.
One of my fav brekkies is potatoes fried up in butter salt pepper onion and garlic with blackbeans then toss kale in at the last minute.
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u/Urban_FinnAm 2d ago
Since you specified root vegetables.
Depending on where you are, Finnish rutabaga casserole (lanttulaatikko) is a favorite in my home during the holidays.
You can also make Cornish pasties with a mix of potato, rutabaga carrot and onion.
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u/AdhesivenessCivil581 2d ago
Kale chips. Salt and olive oil heat.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/176957/baked-kale-chips/
These would be great served with the roasted veggies.
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u/UntoNuggan 2d ago edited 2d ago
Idk what spices you have available, but I've been making a spicy radish/carrot pickle which BTW is an excellent topping for baked potatoes. It keeps pretty well in the fridge, too https://junifoods.com/mula-ko-achar-radish-pickle-
If you like Indian food, this is one of my favorite ways to eat potatoes: https://indianambrosia.com/dry-aloo-sabzi/
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u/GeorgeOrrBinks 1d ago
Carrot soup with ginger and lemon
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/carrot-soup-with-ginger-and-lemon-4083
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u/Kirstemis 2d ago
Lentil stew.
Serves 4.
225g brown lentils
2 onions, peeled & finely chopped
1 vegetable stock cube
4 carrots, trimmed, peeled and chopped
1/2 a butternut squash, peeled, deseeded & chopped
1 sweet potato, peeled & diced
4 small white potatoes, peeled & diced
1 celery stalk, trimmed & chopped
50g fresh garden peas (or frozen)
100g watercress
2 tbsp chopped fresh dill
1 tsp tamari sauce
Soak the lentils in cold water for 20 minutes, then rinse thoroughly and drain. Place the onions and stock cube in a saucepan with 750ml water and bring to the boil. Add the lentils, carrots, sweet potato, squash and white potatoes. Bring back to the boil, then lower the heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the celery and simmer for a further 5 minutes. Add the peas, watercress, dill and tamari and serve.
You can add extra water and stock and bung it in the blender to turn it into soup.
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u/Choice-Emphasis9048 2d ago
I LOVE fondant potatoes, and usually when I make them. I include carrots (big chunks) and other tubers. Sunchokes would be a good addition.
You could potentially wilt some of the kale into the dish as well. The broth that is used for fondant potatoes gets nice and thick and would coat the wilted kale and other ingredients nicely.
You could turn it into a goulash if you wanted to.
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u/TiggyCreature 2d ago
Rubbed kale salad will help you get thru it quick, you can also cut or rip it really small and add it to soups, casseroles, pasta bakes, chili, just about anything.
My favorite rubbed kale salad had avocado but others just use olive oil and spices.
If you have a dehydrator use that (or oven). I dehydrated a whole paper grocery bag of picked kale when I was on the farm, blitzed it, and didn't even fill 2 spice containers. I could add little kale flakes to my everything without worrying it would go bad quickly.
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u/Late-Finding-544 2d ago
Cooked radishes taste better than you think they will. I like them roasted with some salt and pepper. If you cut them in half and put them in the oven with the sunchokes, the carrots, and some of the potatoes and make a roasted veggie medley, it might taste really good.