Five-Spice Roasted Turnips
2
Points® value
Total Time
35 min
Prep
10 min
Cook
25 min
Serves
6
Difficulty
Easy
This underused vegetable makes a fabulous side dish to poultry and meat, yet is hearty enough to stand on its own as a vegetarian main dish. Cooking turnips brings out their sweet, peppery flavours. We've seasoned them here with Chinese five-spice, a blend of cinnamon, cloves, fennel seeds, star anise and ground peppercorns to amp up their flavour, and also add a little bit of honey to the roasting pan to tame the turnips' sometimes bitter kick. If you've previously shunned this humble winter root, now is the time to give it a new, inventive try. You won't be disappointed! To make the sesame seed garnish shine, toast the seeds rapidly in a hot, dry skillet, until they just begin to colour.
Ingredients
Cooking spray
2 spray(s)
Uncooked turnips
2 pound(s), peeled and cut into 1/2-inch chunks
Vegetable oil
1 tbsp(s)
Honey
1 tbsp(s)
Five-spice powder
1 tsp(s)
Table salt
½ tsp(s)
Sesame seeds
1 tsp(s)