What I like to do with the daikon radish itself is to chop it up and add it to a pork/ginger/garlic/green onion mixture. Then I use that to stuff eggplant or delicata squash or to make steamed dumplings or potstickers. You can cut it up and roast it, you can slice it onto your salad,…
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And finally, my plan for the daikon is to adapt this recipe. I was introduced to Lee’s Bakery on Buford Highway which the New York Times once declared had Atlanta’s best banh mi sandwiches. I don’t know about that, but I do know they sell their crusty rolls for 30 cents each. I bought a bag full. I’ve been growing lemongrass in a container and so will finally harvest my first stalk.
Ok, what are you doing with all those daikon radishes? These days I’m slicing them onto sandwiches and stirring them into soup. I’m planning to experiment tomorrow with dicing the daikon and combining it with diced avocado, then making a dressing featuring sesame oil and trying that as a bruschetta-type topping. How about you?
Here’s another idea for your radishes – using them in potato salad. This recipe is from Scott Serpas of Serpas Fine Food. He made it for a demo at the Peachtree Road Farmers Market. Great now, great next spring.
Seeing all the radishes in the box reminded me of a wonderful recipe I’ve made for years. It’s a radish salad adapted from Jane Brody’s Good Food Cookbook. Here’s my version which is about as loose a recipe as it’s possible to have. Use the green onion tops from your pretty onions in this week’s box, and add a few garlic scapes if you’re so inclined.
And finally, our boxes had radishes, radishes, radishes, so here’s a radish soup recipe. Make pesto from the radish greens – using any pesto recipe you like – and dollop that on top of the soup. Perfect way to enjoy both the French breakfast and daikon radishes we found in our box.
This recipe was published in Bon Appetit in September and comes from Taste by Niche, a restaurant in St. Louis. Their words: A quick sauté tames the bite of the radishes and gives them a lush texture.
