Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: jolly jen on November 28, 2009, 16:04
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just dug my artichokes up today,,some nice big fat ones there,
1st time i have grown then,
I always thought there were brown ,they were when i planted then,
any advice please and how do i cook them ,,peel them put them in a stew?
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I think some of the tubers do have a bluish tinge, now I come to think of it. I take it you do mean Jerusalem artichokes?
You can cook them like carrots, mash or bake them. I use mine to make carrot and artichoke soup from the Delia soup book http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/soups/carrot-and-artichoke-soup.html . It is absolutely delicious. One problem though - J artichokes give you the most horrendous wind. Not particularly smelly, just noisy and copious :) So think about what you might be intending to do a few hours after you consume said soup. The effect lasts about 24 hours.
If you are planning to reserve a few tubers to replant next year, don't bother. Like potatoes, you can't avoid leaving a few 'volunteers'in the soil and they will come up next year for sure. Hope ths helps.
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thanks ,yes they are jerusalem ,my are quite purple,,all thou the ones i have seen in the shops are brown ,thats why i wondered what had happened,i roatsed some with my spuds last night....they really have no flavour at all, my two boys spotted them out sraight away and refused to taste them....
i will make a soup this week and put them in with carrot and butternut squash.
cant say im fussed on them thou.
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making a soup today with them ,thanks for the tip,,i nake it in the slow cooker so i can just get on with other bits while it cooks
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Ther are two sorts of Jerusalem artichokes: a purplish variety, and another that's moremore yellow/pale brown. We had the purple sort, but got rid of em because they're smaller and a lot more knobbly, so difficult to prepare. The yellow ones seem to taste better, too.
Try slicing em and then gently frying in butter: great :happy:
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We grow the variety Fuseau which is less nobbly - but just as invasive!
Cheers,
Gillie
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thanks,,
well i was given these but they were a brown colour when i planted them,so inless they have changed variety i dunno.lol
there not too bad to peel,but there is a lot of waste,
made a soup with BN squash ,carrots pumpkins,carrots chilli, coconut milk,,artichokes.nice n spicy