We’re in the thick of winter, and the nights and early mornings are definitely quite frosty. But that doesn’t mean there’s not delicious fresh produce hitting our supermarket shelves all over the country.

It’s the root vegetables’ time to shine, with the likes of carrots, beetroot, sweet potato, potato, pumpkin, turnips, and parsnips all in season. These root vegetables make a hearty ingredient to any meal, such as soups, stews, roasts, mash, or even a nice healthy salad.

What can you use to compliment these root vegetables? Here’s the fruits and vegetables also in season this month:

Fruit

• Avocados
• Custard apples
• Fuji apples
• Grapefruit
• Kiwifruit
• Lemons
• Limes
• Mandarins
• Nashi
• Navel oranges
• Pineapple
• Pink lady apples
• Pomegranates
• Quinces
• Red delicious apples
• Rhubarb
• Tangelo
• Nuts

Vegetables

• Beetroot
• Broccoli
• Broccolini
• Brown onions
• Brussels sprouts
• Cabbage
• Carrots
• Cauliflower
• Celeriac
• Celery
• Chinese greens
• Dutch carrots
• English spinach
• Fennel
• Gai lan (Chinese broccoli)
• Garlic
• Ginger
• Jerusalem artichokes
• Kumara or sweet potatoes
• Kale
• Leeks
• Olives
• Parsnips
• Peas
• Potatoes
• Pumpkin
• Silverbeet
• Spinach
• Turnip
• Witlof