Radish, outside the salad bowl

After distribution, we were chatting about our veggies at my house. My roommate wanted to know if there were any good ways to use our radishes besides in a salad. I have roasted up a serious amount of daikon radishes (the white japanese variety) but i hadn’t done much more than toss the red ones into a green salad, pickle them, or snack on them raw with a dash of sea salt or spritz of lemon juice. So, we put the word out and we got some good non-salad ideas from our members:

• Grate & use like a horseradish
• Bake into chips; Baked Radish Chips
• Use the whole bunch; Sauté quartered radishes with salt, pepper, butter, and olive oil for 8-10 minutes. When the radishes have reached the crisp-tender point, add the radish greens and heat until greens wilt. Can use a variety of greens – mustard greens, watercress, kale, etc. – in place of, or in addition to, the radish greens. Sauteed Radishes w/ Radish Greens
• Works great as a side; Romano Risotto w/ Radishes
• As an app; Slice radishes very thinly, salt them, and then eat them on buttered bread as an appetizer.
• Pickled!; Quick pickled radishes
• Roast; Roasted radishes w/ Soy Sauce and Toasted Sesame Seeds
• Red Radish Stri Fry; Laal Mulyachi (Partun) Bhaaji
• Great as a garnish; Steak w/ Radish Salsa & Fish Tacos w/ Mango-Radish Salsa and a Pink Chipotle

Cooked or raw, the red radish has many ways to make a meal. Add your favorite ways to rock out the red radish in the comments.