Sunchokes are starchy tubers similar to potato and can be used similarly. Sunchokes are closely related to sunflower, and will often be call ‘Jerusalem artichokes’ for unclear reasons. Roasted sunchoke until tender is always nice. A favorite, but laborious, of mine is to make sunchoke chips to use as a gorgeous crunchy topping for a salad.
The scale that Nichols is at enables them to harvest enough storage crops in the fall to last through all of winter. These sunchokes are one of those storage crops, harvested last fall but still tasting great. Sunchokes are starchy root similar to potato, and can be used similarly. Roasted until tender is always nice. A favorite, but laborious, of mine is to make sunchoke chips to use as a gorgeous crunchy topping for a salad.
