Sunchokes Aren't Bad!
We got another big (!) bag of sunchokes in the veggie drop last week (this makes three weeks out of four) so I finally broke down and tried cooking them up.
I used one of the recipes from Deborah Madison's "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone" and--imagine my surprise--they were good!
All you do is scrub them really well, then slice into quarter-inch "coins." Saute these in a little mild oil (she recommends sunflower oil--sunchokes are the "roots" of sunflowers). In about 5 minutes they get golden and crispy.
Add toasted sunflower seeds, fresh thyme, fresh parsley, salt and pepper.
They're good! Crunchy like waterchestnuts, but nuttier. And starchier. I had them with fried eggs (in place of hash browns). I was amazed.
But I'm still pissed off at the CSA guy, because it's ridiculous to give me all those bags of sunchokes and only a few handfuls of everything else.
(Illustration from "A Whole World," by Couprie and Louchard.)
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