Neeps & tatties

Neeps & tatties

'Neeps' are better known as swedes, the traditional Scottish accompaniment to haggis

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preperation and cooking times

Ready in 1¾-2¼ hours, including reheating

Method

  1. The day before you want to serve, preheat the oven to fan oven 200C/conventional 220C/gas 7. Put the potatoes into a pan of lightly salted water, return to the boil and cook for 5 minutes. Drain the potatoes, put them back into the pan and place it back on the heat for a couple of minutes to dry out.
  2. Meanwhile, pour the oil into a large roasting tin (you may have to use two) and heat it in the oven until smoking hot. Now stir the potatoes into the hot oil and return to the oven to roast, turning occasionally, for 55 minutes.
  3. Cook the swede in boiling salted water for 50-55 minutes, or until very soft. Drain and add to the roasted potatoes. Roughly mash everything together, keeping quite chunky, then cool, cover and keep in a cool place.
  4. To serve, preheat the oven to fan 180C/conventional 200C/gas 6. Uncover the potatoes and swede, dot with the butter and put in the oven to reheat for 25-30 minutes, stirring now and again until piping hot. Serve with lots of butter.

229 kcalories, protein 3g, carbohydrate 25g, fat 14 g, saturated fat 4g, fibre 3g, salt 0.17 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2004.

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Taste team comment

'This is perfect for a January meal. It's the obvious dish for Burn's Night and easy too, as it cooks whilst you are doing other things.'

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  • 24 January 2008

    shezzie7707 commented on this recipe

    so tasty , makes a change to plain potatoes.

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  • 29 January 2008

    Jill commented on this recipe

    This was WONDERFUL!and received enthusiastic comments all round! Such a delicious change from the usual bland mash version, and we will be using it again and again. For stage 4, I simply re-heated it in the microwave for a few minutes - saves a lot of energy by not heating the oven up!

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  • 12 February 2008

    Denise Perry commented on this recipe

    A great up-date on the traditional neeps and tatties and one we all enjoyed, even those normally not so keen on mashed neeps!

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  • 07 May 2008

    Stevie B commented on this recipe

    love this but still like them mashed

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  • 06 October 2008

    pleisure commented on this recipe

    Tates good ....However neeps and tatties i dont think so should be potatoes and turnips!

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preperation and cooking times

Ready in 1¾-2¼ hours, including reheating

Ingredients

  • 8 large baking potatoes , washed, peel left on and cut into 2cm x 4cm chunks
  • 6 tbsp light olive oil or sunflower
  • 1 swede weighing about 675g/11⁄2lb, peeled and roughly chopped
  • 50g butter , plus extra for serving
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229 kcalories, protein 3g, carbohydrate 25g, fat 14 g, saturated fat 4g, fibre 3g, salt 0.17 g

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