How to Use rutabaga in a Sentence

rutabaga

noun
  • Swap half of the potatoes for sliced rutabaga and heavy cream for milk.
    — Emma Ashe, Southern Living, 15 May 2026
  • Brook trout with maitake mushroom, rutabaga, and dashi cream.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Add the rutabaga and season with salt and pepper.
    — Holly Riordan, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Parsnips, turnips, and rutabagas are all very earthy, sometimes bitter, and tend to be quite strong.
    — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Add the eggs, radish (or turnip or rutabaga), cabbage and tofu and return to a boil.
    — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Listen, there are other things that are better than rutabaga.
    — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Sow seeds for head lettuce, parsnips, rutabaga, beets and turnips directly in the ground.
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 14 July 2017
  • Add the cabbage, carrots, rutabaga, water, broth, bay leaf, thyme and salt to the pot.
    — ExpressNews.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The meat, potatoes, onions and rutabaga baked in pastry made a filling midday meal.
    — Katherine Rodeghier, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The rest of the plate is rowdy, with a rutabaga mash below the porterhouse and plenty of char on top of it.
    — Coastmag, Orange County Register, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Try the pork shoulder with kale, rutabaga, Tasso sauce, golden raisin, red beans and rice buff.
    — Carolina Gusman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Our Test Kitchen used milk instead of heavy cream, and swapped half of the potatoes for rutabaga.
    — Krissy Tiglias, Southern Living, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Peel rutabaga and cut it into roughly ½-inch-by-1-inch batons.
    — Charlotte Druckman, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Your carrots, beets, turnips, parsnips, and rutabagas will be fine through a light frost, and may keep growing if the weather warms.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Plant lettuce, carrots, beets, radish, turnips, English peas and rutabaga by seed.
    — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Root crops, including beets, carrots, radish, parsnip, rutabaga and turnip, must be grown from seeds sown in the garden.
    — NOLA.com, 4 Nov. 2017
  • It's served with mashed potatoes, a carrot and rutabaga puree seasoned with thyme and local honey.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2018
  • When presented with many small rutabaga cubes, the elephant inhaled air through her trunk for suction to pick them up.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2021
  • This cheesy side dish gets a little lighter and healthier by swapping half the potatoes for rutabaga and the heavy cream for milk.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The chef serves it with charred radicchio and mashed rutabaga, along with pickled cranberries scattered all about the plate.
    — Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register, 4 Apr. 2017
  • This hand pie is stuffed with a generous serving of lamb, potato, rutabaga, onion and fresh mint and served with a side of red wine gravy.
    — Lauren Saria, azcentral, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Simmer vegetables in that same broth—go rogue with butternut and collards, or rutabaga and kale—for an all-in-one meal.
    — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appetit, 15 Feb. 2018
  • So Kenny the Jest, along with having egg on his face, wore splotches of banana puree and rutabaga.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • This silky, smooth roasted vegetable soup calls on the heroes of the root cellar—namely sweet potatoes, rutabagas, and parsnips.
    — Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2024
  • In this dish, cider helps to complement rutabagas’ inherent sweetness.
    — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
  • One shot shows rutabaga roasted in coffee, goat’s milk and Mexican chocolate.
    — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Lehto’s ships their beef, chicken, and vegetable pasties that include potato, onion and rutabaga — a hallmark of a true pasty — in the filling.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Hold back on gathering carrots, turnips, rutabagas, beets, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and kale.
    — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Lehto’s offers beef, chicken and vegetable pasties that include potato, onion and rutabaga (a hallmark of a true pasty) in the filling.
    — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Remember how Fox News lost its mind over Nanny State rutabaga?
    — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025

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