Perfect as a delicious side dish recipe or a soup to start, Rutabaga is a must for your holiday table! This collection of Thanksgiving Rutabaga Recipes contains easy recipes that you can throw together quickly for Thanksgiving dinner. A very popular vegetable, rutabaga is a great substitute for potatoes on a low carb or keto diet.
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1 ❤️ Why you will love cooking rutabaga
3 🧡 Rutabaga Side Dishes
4 🍲 Rutabaga Soup Recipes
5 😋 More Thanksgiving recipes you will love
❤️Why you will love cooking rutabaga
- Easy to make: Once it’s peeled and chopped into large chunks or sliced, you can either boil, air fry, roast, or bake rutabaga on a baking sheet in a single layer.
- Great alternative to potatoes: If you’re looking for a low-carb substitute for potatoes, the humble rutabaga is an excellent choice for your Thanksgiving table or Christmas dinner. Rutabagas only have 6.7g net carbs per 100g. You can load it up with butter, sour cream, and cheese to make it even more low-carb!
- Perfect anytime: This is one of my favorite side dishes to have any time of the year. Seasonally, the time of year they appear most often is in Autumn and Winter. They are harvested in October or November and you can find them in the grocery store or farmers market until around March.
❓What is the difference between a Rutabaga, Swede, & Turnip?
All members of the brassica family (brassica rapa), swedes, rutabagas, and turnips are all turnip cousins. Rutabaga tastes similar to turnip and depending on where you are, the names may overlap between the different vegetables. Here is what they all are:
- Rutabaga: A rutabaga is a large root vegetable with yellow flesh and tough outer skin.
- Swede: Also known as a swedish turnip, neep (in Scotland), Irish turnips, and turnip, these yellow turnips are the exact same thing as American rutabagas. It’s just the British and Commonwealth way of referring to it.
- Turnip: A turnip (or white turnip) is a smaller root vegetable with a white bottom and purple top. It also has white flesh inside as opposed to yellow.
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🧡 Rutabaga Side Dishes
1
Easy Mashed Rutabaga
Prep Time 10 minutes Total Time 25 minutes
This simple and quick Mashed Rutabaga recipe is buttery, bright, and comforting! With just 3 ingredients this side dish is so easy to make, and perfect for family dinners or special occasions. Perfect for most diets: vegan + keto + whole30 & paleo option.
2
Rutabaga Au Gratin (Gluten Free & Low Carb)
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This recipe for Rutabaga Au Gratin is everything you would hope for in a casserole-style dish: creamy, cheesy, and comforting. Topping the creamy rutabaga with almond flour breadcrumbs lends abuttery, nutty flavor, as well as a crispy, gluten-free texture to this often overlooked and under-appreciated vegetable.
3
Parmesan Bake Rutabaga Recipe
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This delicious root vegetable side dish is a hybrid between baked rutabaga stacks and roasted rutabagas. It's cheesy, crispy, and has very little hands-on time.
4
Roasted Rutabaga
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This easy, healthy roasted rutabaga recipe is a lower carb side dish similar to potatoes. Made with just 3 ingredients in half an hour, it's the perfect side for meat, chicken, or fish.
5
Roasted Swede (Rutabaga) with Herbs
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This roasted rutabaga recipe is a great side to serve during the holidays. Simple, delicious, and the perfect way to utilize seasonal veggies.
6
Rutabaga Fries
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Healthy oven-baked rutabaga fries with a great crunchy exterior, and a fluffy interior. Making these fries is a great way to incorporate more veg in your diet, and they’re keto-friendly too!
7
Easy Honey Roasted Rutabaga with Fresh Thyme
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This roasted rutabaga recipe is a favorite because it is easy to make, healthy, and delicious. You can use this recipe for any root vegetable or mix different root vegetables together to change things up.
8
Instant Pot Rutabaga Mash
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Instant Pot Rutabaga Mash is the perfect side dish for your meal. It is quick and easy to make in the Instant Pot. Delicious and satisfying, the whole family will enjoy this tasty dish.
9
Swede and Carrot Mash Recipe
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Buttery Swede and Carrot Mash is a simple yet delicious British dish that complements perfectly a variety of meat dishes, especially the roasts. This simple and colorful side dish is a great alternative to Pomme Purée (Creamy Mashed Potatoes) andprovides one of your five-a-day vegetables. It’s budget-friendly, easy to make, and packed with nutrients.
10
Rutabaga Mash with Fried Garlic
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A good mash doesn’t have to be boring or an afterthought. This vegan swede (rutabaga) mash is a bowl of sweet, nutty goodness topped with lightly golden crispy fried garlic and a dash of delicate walnut oil.
11
Air Fryer Rutabaga Fries
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Air Fryer Rutabaga Fries. How to cook delicious Paleo rutabaga fries in the air fryer. So easy to make and the end result is tasty crispy rutabaga fries that you will want to eat over and over again.
12
Instant Pot Rutabaga (Swede)
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How to steam instant pot rutabaga. Also known as swede or neeps, rutabaga is delicious served with some butter for the ultimate veggie side dish or transformed into a veggie mash.
🍲 Rutabaga Soup Recipes
1
Roasted Rutabaga Soup
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Healthy roasted swede soup made in under half an hour. This soup contains your 3 a day, and it’s made with very simple ingredients. It’s a wonderful winter warmer! So creamy, tasty, and cozy!
2
Creamy Roasted Rutabaga Soup
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This creamy soup made from roasted rutabagas is the perfect healthy addition to your repertoire of delicious soup recipes! It's rich, creamy, and comforting – what more could you possibly need from a soup?
3
Swede Soup
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Take this swede soup recipe and jazz it up to your taste. For best results you can roast the root vegetables first for extra sweetness.
4
Rutabaga and Carrot Soup
Photo Credit:mydinner.co.uk
Behold! Warming, filling, and healthy swede and carrot soup. This vegan soup recipe will absolutely satisfy your craving for warmth and nurture.
5
Scotch Broth (Scottish Soup)
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Scotch broth is a hearty, delicious comforting soup that is very popular in Scotland. It's chock full of root veg including rutabaga for a soup that's as nutritious as it is tasty!
😋More Thanksgiving recipes you will love
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- Juicy Thanksgiving Chicken Recipe
- Keto Green Bean Casserole
- Keto Stuffing
- Roasted Citrus Turkey Recipe
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