Marinated Turnips With Orange and Pumpkin Seeds

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Baby turnips are perfect for this antithetic dish; they are saccharine and don't request to beryllium peeled. If you can't find turnips with their greens, beet greens marque a bully substitute.

It’s bully to person a mandoline for slicing the turnips.

The turnips request to beryllium successful the dressing for 1 hr earlier serving.

Ingredients

For the dressing

1/4 cupful plain atom vinegar
2 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
2 dashes blistery sauce
2 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoonful grated, peeled caller ginger root
1 spoon minced oregon grated garlic
1/4 spoon salt
1/4 cupful thinly sliced scallions (white parts only)
Finely grated zest of 1 seedless orange, positive the foodstuff of 2 seedless oranges
1/4 cupful extra-virgin olive oil

For the turnips

Salt
1 1/2 pounds young/small turnips, preferably with greens attached (may substitute astir 5 ounces different greens; spot headnote)
1/2 cupful orangish segments (from 1 seedless orange; spot NOTE)
1/2 cupful roasted, salted pumpkin seeds

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
320
Fat
22 g
Saturated Fat
4 g
Carbohydrates
30 g
Sodium
700 mg
Protein
8 g
Fiber
5 g
Sugar
17 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes From My Corner of the South,” by Vivian Howard (Little Brown, 2016).

Tested by Jane Black.

Published November 6, 2016

Updated March 15, 2026