Background

If you’re on a diet, particularly on the Food Combining Diet, the recipe for this root vegetable mash will come in very handy! Because it’s “neutral”,  it can be served with either protein-rich or carbohydrate-rich dishes. I normally make it using 3 to 5 different root vegetables – but you can use as many more or less as you like. Carrot, parsnip, swede, celeriac, turnip and beetroot are all good examples -  but not potatoes or sweet potatoes because they're starchy and therefore not neutral! The mash can be served as a side dish or used as topping on a pie (such as Shepherd’s pie or Cottage Pie). I also use it for fishcakes instead of mashed potatoes.