Advance Prep Veg - have I overdone it?

[AlwaysaLittleBitTired]

Anybody have experience with freezing par-boiled parsnips?

In a bid to get ahead I prepped carrots and parsnips, par-boiled and froze them a couple of days ago. The carrots are fine, but the parsnips were really soft and I am worried that they'll turn to mush when I defrost them (overnight in the fridge). They probably had longer than the 3 mins par boil, as I put them in a pan with boiled water from the kettle and brought it back up to boiling. I drained the carrots first, so the parsnips might have been in the water for 6-7 minutes total.

Is that likely? Do I need to buy new parsnips? Gah!! I don't cook parsnips at any other time of the year - so I don't really know how they behave. Doh.

I would just chuck them straight in hot oil from frozen and roast them. Should be fine. If you defrost first, they will likely turn to mush.

Could always turn them into mash, that's what I do with swede or turnip anyway.

Roast from frozen, they'll probably be the best roast parsnips ever!

Don’t worry, do them in a hot oven with lots of oil.

I find that roast parsnips usually dry out too much so it’s probably good that they’re starting off a bit moist.

Thank you so much - I had a complete blank on this! I'm going to roast them from frozen and hope for the best. Mash was a great idea, but I suspect won't be a favourite with some of the fusspots at the table - even though I think that would make a lovely mash too.

I'd make soup with them with a good stock.

Frozen veg loses flavour when frozen, and develops a nasty "wooly" texture.
I wouldn't want them in a christmas dinner.

Parboiled/frozen/cooked from the freezer potatoes are better than normal ones so I’d be hopeful the parsnips might be great. They certainly won’t be awful. But I definitely wouldn’t defrost them

Be very very careful. I had to get the Oven cleaner man to clean my 3 week old oven after I put frozen potatoes in with my meat which was in fat. Safer to brush the parsnips with oil and put them on a baking tray than to put them in hot oil.

So would I, but that's because I loathe parsnips and can only just about stomach them roasted. Boiled is the pits even when they aren't mushy.