28 November 2023 , 14:56
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If there is anyone to trust with cooking it is Mary Berry - who has shared how to create the perfect flavoursome parsnips to leave your Christmas dinner guests drooling this Christmas season.
At this time of year parsnips are at their best; ready for harvest and perfect for plenty of winter dishes. The roast dinner staple adds that extra bit of sweetness to your feast.
The wonderful former Bake Off star Dame Mary Berry has all the advice and tasty recipes you need for dishing up the perfect parsnips to your friends and family on Christmas Day. Mary, 88, says semolina helps parsnips to become "extra crispy" in the oven. She also used thyme for flavour.
Sharing her recipe on Love To Cook, the cooking legend said: "Crunchy sweet parsnips – the perfect side dish. The addition of semolina gives them a lovely crispy outside."
She added: "With the addition of semolina, these golden parsnips become extra crisp in the oven. Throw some in with your roast potatoes for something a bit different this Sunday."
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Her recipe serves between four and six people. Ingredients include four large parsnips - peeled and cut into 2 inch strips, three teaspoons of sunflower oil, 25 grams of semolina, one teaspoon, and one teaspoon of chopped fresh thyme.
Method
Mary says she adds thyme and semolina to her parsnips (BBC/Sidney Street/Banijay UK/Craig Harman)Mary has shared her instructions for the perfect parsnips. As follows:
- Cook in the parsnips in boiling water for four minutes
- Drain and leave the parsnips to cool
- Preheat the oven to 200/220C at gas 7
- Add one tablespoon of the oil to a roasting tin
- Place the tin in the oven for five minutes to get hot
- Add the remaining oil to a bowl
- Season the parsnips with salt and black pepper and toss in the oil to coat
- Mix the semolina, paprika, and thyme together in a small bowl - add to the parsnips and mix well to coat them in the mixture
- Place the parsnips in one layer in the tine with the hot oil and roast for about 20 minutes
- Turn over halfway through the cooking time, until golden and crispy
Mary Berry previously told Mirror Online that although many view Christmas cooking as a challenge, it is "really one meal". She added: "It is well worth doing as much preparation and cooking in advance as you can so that you have as little to do as possible at the last minute."