Tender Braised Lamb with Turnips and Mint

Turnips are a sweet, crunchy, juicy delicacy in Kashmir and root their way into many of this region’s curries. They offer a pleasant backdrop to gamey-tasting lamb. Turnips also retain a lot of liquid, which provides valuable moisture for the meat to braise in. The smaller the turnip, the sweeter the vegetable. Overly large, dried-looking turnips are quite bitter, and people exposed to that undesirable quality once may refrain from using turnips ever again. The vegetable not only has a cham