Rutabaga

Rutabaga, also called swede in British English, is a root vegetable, Brassica napus, believed to have arisen as a natural hybrid between cabbage and turnip in Scandinavia or Russia sometime in the late Middle Ages. It has a rounder, denser root than turnip, typically with purple-tinged skin over pale yellow flesh, and a sweeter, earthier flavor once cooked. Rutabaga is a hardy, cold-tolerant crop long associated with northern European and Scandinavian cooking, traditionally boiled and mashed, roasted, or added to hearty stews, and it remains a familiar autumn and winter vegetable across the United Kingdom, Scandinavia and parts of North America.