Turnip and potato gratin

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Richard Corrigan Cookbook

By Richard Corrigan

Published 1999

  • About

Turnips have no starch, so to make a gratin they need to be combined with potatoes. Otherwise, the gratin would fall asunder.

Ingredients

  • 8 slices Parma ham, cut into fine shreds
  • 400 g large turnips, peeled
  • 250

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C/gas mark 3. Preheat the grill.

Grill the shreds of Parma ham until crisp. Set aside.

Thinly slice the turnips and potatoes on a mandoline - you want slices no more than 3 mm thick. Put them into two bowls, keeping the turnips and potatoes separ