Steamed turnip (La Cucina Italiana YBD 50-90)

Category: Vegetable and fruit dishes

Kitchen: Russian

Steamed turnip (La Cucina Italiana YBD 50-90)

Ingredients
Turnip	200 g

Cooking method

We take turnips
Mine, clean
We cut into slices
We put on the bottom of the saucepan, add water - a little, 2 tbsp. l., otherwise the turnip will be boiled, not steamed.
We put the chicken on the closed valve for 6 minutes, then on the heating mode for another 6 minutes.
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The dish is designed for

1 serving

Note

Simpler than a steamed turnip - an expression that everyone knows. Why? They baked bread in a Russian oven, took out the bread, and put a turnip in a pot in a half-cooled oven. They didn’t do anything special with her, she quickly rebuked herself in the pot. I don't have a Russian oven at home, but the pressure cooker did an excellent job with the control function.
Well, the taste, of course, is not for everybody - you can add honey and remember what our ancestors ate before potatoes.

Phraseologism “simpler than a steamed turnip” is a derivative of the expression “cheaper than a steamed turnip”, which was widespread until the beginning of the 20th century, which arose on the basis of the usual everyday ideas about turnips as a cheap and affordable product.
The cannons were loaded with a steamed turnip in the battles of amusing regiments at
Peter 1.
The expression "cheaper than a steamed turnip" is often found in classical literature:
"Really, you have a human soul like a steamed turnip"
(N.V. Gogol, Dead Souls)
“For a penny for a book, and you also favor a change! You want to buy a steamed turnip cheaper! "
(M. Pechersky, On the mountains)
"What kind of product, not raisins, but I concede at half price, the remainder is cheaper than a steamed turnip"
(I. T. Kokarev, Fomin Monday)
The marginal degree of cheapness of a steamed turnip corresponds to the concept of worthless.
In this sense, the expression cheaper than a steamed turnip is used by V.G.Belinsky:
"In St. Petersburg, literary fame is cheaper than a steamed turnip, you just have to work for nothing in some magazine"
In the 20th century, along with the expression "cheaper than a steamed turnip", the expression "simpler than a steamed turnip" began to be used.
With the gradual decrease in the diet of people of the steamed turnip, the apparently initially unmotivated neoplasm "simpler than a steamed turnip" displaces the expression "cheaper than a steamed turnip" and is used in a very simple meaning.

Steamed turnip (La Cucina Italiana YBD 50-90)