[Celery]

How do you freeze them please, I seem to have a glut of them?

[Trillium]

This is a lovely freezeable recipe for carrot parsnip mash.

http://www.allotment-garden.org/recipe/92/recipe-for-carrot-and-parsnip-mash/

[Val H]

They are better combined and mashed if you want to freeze them. This may be useful to you for other methods of storing them - Storing Root Vegetables

[muddywellies]

Oh dear, we just chopped up a load of them and bunged them in the freezer this weekend :oops: Are they doomed do you think Val?

[Val H]

As long as they were blanched they should be OK. Probably better for combining with another root veg into a mash when they come out.

[muddywellies]

They weren't even blanched I'm afraid    Never mind, there are plenty still up the plot. Thanks anyway  

[Val H]

Storing the Surplus - Blanching and Freezing - for when you dig up some more! Trim and peel and cut into narrow strips and blanch for 2 minutes.

[Celery]

THThank Val I now have about ten bags of parsnips in freezer.

[sunshineband]

I've had quite good results from blanching them cut into long quarters, then roasting them once thawed (or even from frozen if you forget to take them out of the freezer in time) brushed with oil. Maple syrup is pretty good drizzled on them about 15 mins before they are cooked.

[Stripey_cat]

I often just peel them, chop them up and freeze as they are without blanching.  They're fine boiled for mash that way (I've not had good luck with frozen mash - it tends to go gluey), or chucked into soups and stews.

[Beejay]

Blanch 3 mins. Freeze. Roast when required in goose fat or beef dripping. Deeelish

[Celery]

I have got some to get out the ground. I think they might be a bit woody.
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[sunshineband]

If you can get them up, try just cutting the core bot out as the rest might be OK, even if only for soup. Parsnip soup is excellent!

[Paul Plots]

If you can get them up, try just cutting the core bot out as the rest might be OK, even if only for soup. Parsnip soup is excellent!

Parsnip soup?? Sounds interesting.......

[sunshineband]

Parsnip soup is one of the best  - no particular proportions but includes onion softened in a bit of oil/butter, peeled parsnips sweated with it, then stock (veg or chicken). Cook up until parsnips are soft then blitz. Can put apple in too, which is good. Season, pour in some milk and hey presto  Parsnip soup. Sometimes put some curry in for variety.
Just go for it!