Looking for the best kohlrabi recipes? Want some tips for making a kohlrabi salad or slaw? Try our ideas below, then check out more great salad recipes, white cabbage recipes and red cabbage recipes. Look out for kohlrabi in veg boxes and greengrocers – it looks like a pale green turnip and is a member of the cabbage family.

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What is kohlrabi?

Also known as German turnip or turnip cabbage, kohlrabi looks otherworldly but its taste is refreshingly familiar – a hint of apple with the pepperiness of radish. It’s just as good raw as it is cooked – cut into matchsticks and toss into a salad.

When is kohlrabi in season?

UK kohlrabi season starts in August and ends in November.


Kohlrabi recipes

Kohlrabi salad with apple

Crisp and fresh raw kohlrabi is joined by slices of apple in this fresh and vibrant salad. A quick and easy starter or side for vegetarian entertaining.

Raw Kohlrabi Salad

Sweet potato and kohlrabi fries with wasabi mayo

Oven cook these sweet potato and kohlrabi fries for an easy alternative to your everyday potato fries.

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Baking tray of sweet potato and kohlrabi fries with a ramekin of wasabi mayonnaise.

Kohlrabi salad with crab

Check out our punchy Thai-inspired salad recipe which pairs kohlrabi with crab. This simple salad is easy to make, low in calories and ready in just 15 minutes.

Thai Crab Salad Recipe with Kohlrabi

BBQ pork buns with kohlrabi slaw

Crisp, raw kohlrabi is the perfect pairing for succulent, rich slow-cooked meat. These buns are a great way to feed a crowd for a weekend get-together.

Spicy BBQ pork buns with kohlrabi slaw

Soy-braised chicken with kohlrabi salad

We've come up with a punchy kohlrabi salad to go with sticky, succulent chicken. This easy recipe is both sweet and salty, and makes for a flavoursome midweek meal.

Soy Sauce Braised Chicken with Kohlrabi

Kohlrabi and celery remoulade

kohlrabi makes a fantastic remoulade, which is usually made with celeriac but works a treat here with this combination of celery and kohlrabi and goes particularly well with smoked salmon.

Kohlrabi Remoulade Recipe

Bagna cauda (anchovy and garlic sauce)

This warm anchovy and garlic dip from Piedmont makes an easy starter or sharing platter to serve with drinks. It's a great way to use up a tin of anchovies.

A serving pot of bagna cauda sauce, on a sharing platter of crudites

Whole roast mackerel, leeks, kohlrabi and Jerusalem artichokes

Wow your dinner party guests with this easy and impressive whole roast mackerel with Jerusalem artichoke crisps by chef Jackson Berg, from moveable restaurant Xiringuito in Liverpool.

Whole Roast Mackerel Recipe with Leeks, Kohlrabi and Jerusalem Artichokes

Roast kohlrabi with ranch dressing

Replace ordinary potatoes with sweet and crispy kohlrabi and top with ranch dressing for a summer salad that makes the most of this seasonal produce.

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Roast Kohlrabi Recipe with Ranch Dressing

Soy-glazed, blackened cod loin, pickled kohlrabi, pak choi and shiitake mushrooms

Impress your friends by replicating The City Barge pub's best blackened cod recipe, which is marinated in miso with pak choi and shiitake mushrooms, before being topped with a zesty pickled kohlrabi.

soy-glazed, blackened cod loin, pickled kohlrabi, pak choi and shiitake mushrooms

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