Kohlrabi

I have kohlrabi coming out of my ears. Can I can them or would they be better frozen. I’m not sure what to do with them.

Polly Miller
Neshkoro, Wisconsin

You can use kohlrabi in a pickle recipe, in place of cucumbers. But they really don’t can up nicely. I’d freeze the rest. One of our favorite kohlrabi recipes is diced in a cheese sauce. Mmmm. Or sliced on a salad. Darn, now I’m hungry! — Jackie

Bread and butter pickles

I made your bread and butter pickle recipe. However, I did not rinse the cucumbers/onion mixture after soaking them with the salt and ice. The taste seems salty to me. Should you rinse the cukes/onions as the recipe only says to drain well? What about other recipes that use salt to remove excess water in pickles or summer squash?

Jacqueline Scott
Nampa, Idaho

I don’t rinse my pickles, but I do kind of swish them around to make sure the salt is well mixed with the water. If you wish to rinse them, you certainly may. I don’t find my bread and butter pickles salty and as we don’t use much salt, I am quite sensitive to it. — Jackie

6 COMMENTS

  2. gem.

    Yes, you can pickle them and they stay crisp. Use just about any pickle recipe to get the flavored brine/syrup you want from dill to bread and butter.

  3. Gen, I made a sauce/dip very much like this that used radishes, cucumber and something else, maybe green onion or regular onion – have lost the recipe and if anyone has it would appreciate having it again. Pickled daikon radish is excellent and you can grow them yourself. You might want to try growing black radishes too if you dad likes radishes. They can be eated raw, cooked or pickled.

  4. I’m going a bit off subject again, but it’s about a small ? vegetable ? that seems to get woody if left in the ground too long. It’s about RADISHES.
    I have a radish recipe, for those with too many to just munch on, found in a 1984 Southern Living recipe book. I am hoping it might be of interest to Miss Jackie and the rest of you. I don’t see many recipes to use up radishes, other than to slice in a salad or roast them in the oven. I wonder if you can pickle them? Dad loves radishes, I’m thinking if you could pickle them, it might mellow out their spiciness a bit, but would they get mushy?
    gen

    Fresh Radish Spread
    1 C mayonnaise
    1 C minced radishes
    1/2 C commercial sour cream
    1/2 tsp. salt
    Combine all ingredients, mixing well.
    Chill at least two hours.
    Serve on party rye bread, with crackers, or as a vegetable dip with a slight kick.

    This recipe was in the pre low fat diet time, but I see no reason that light mayo and low fat sour cream couldn’t work just as well, but I haven’t tried them. I have a daughter we have to worry more about keeping some weight on, then keeping it off. Would that I had a metabolism like hers.

  5. We eat most of our Kohlrobies raw. Peel and slice and mabe put out your favorite dipping sauce. Our grand children call them “green cookies”. They keep whole in the refridgerator quiet a while.
    Howard

  6. Polly, they do freeze well, including the tops. Just slice and blanch them as you would any other vegetable. You might want to put a little of the blanching water with them. I like them steamed with peas, which you can do with frozen vegetablers, with butter and cracked pepper. There are several varieties of small, fast maturing kohlrabi that hold well in the ground and don’t get woody or split so you don’t have to rush to harvest them. I had several that decided to grow to tennis ball size, thought they would be inedible, but they were just as sweet and tender as the smaller ones.

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