This fun recipe uses on of my favorite techniques—salt-baking vegetables (check out my recipe for salt-roasted beets)—to create a pilaf out of root vegetables. It works great as a side vegetable, or also as a nice, hearty substitute for a starch like potatoes or rice.
Sometimes vegetables like turnips, rutabagas, parsnips and beets get a bad reputation due to the generally unexciting boiled and mashed versions many of us grew up with. Roasting these veggies brings out their sweet and sometimes nutty flavors and will surprise event the most hardened critics with their deep, layered and complex flavors. These veggies…