Vegetables for thickening a casserole?

[percypat]

I've just find a pork and apple casserole I'd like to make and apart from a potato for thickening, the recipe is Whole 30 compliant.

Can anyone recommend an alternative for the potato which isn't a sweet potato? My husband hates them.

Cheers!

Edit: Here's the recipe: http://ayorkshirecook.com/pork-and-apple-casserole-in-the-slow-cooker/

[Tom Denham]

I frequently use turnips instead of potatoes. Rutabaga would work too and might be more floury as the recipe wants.

[percypat]

Awesome, thanks Tom!

[Beets]

I know West Indian cooking uses pumpkin to thicken. What about taro? I'm guessing you can get that in your part of the world. I lived in the South Pacific for a bit (Palau) and the people there ate a ton of taro. Very traditional people's diet-y, and they are very bland.

[percypat]

Bit harder to get the more exotic stuff in Western Australia than on the east coast ...

Saw taro a lot in NZ but never here ... If I do come across it, I will buy and give it a whirl though

And omg, Palau! Husband has been talking about going there for ages ... He wants to go to that jellyfish lake!

[Beets]

And omg, Palau! Husband has been talking about going there for ages ... He wants to go to that jellyfish lake!

It is really beautiful. I was teaching English on a remote island with no running water or electricity. We ate a lot of fish, taro and Spam. (!) I got Dengue fever and thought I was going to die there.