I am a fraggle.
Thanks to a message-board query from a gardener who wanted to know what to do with all her radishes, I have learned that radishes can actually be cooked. This may seem weird if all you know about radishes is salad, veggie platters, and grated daikon, but it's actually pretty good. Cooked radishes lose all their 'bite' and are delicately sweet, with a flavour that's almost like cabbage but is much less pungent.
So far I've tried two ways of doing it.
1. Roasted radishes. I tossed mine in balsamic vinaigrette dressing and roasted them in an open pan (with carrots and mushrooms) for twenty minutes at 400 F. The dressing didn't do a whole lot for them, other than keep them from drying out. I could have cooked them a little more, because they were still a bit difficult to stick a fork into.
2. Radishes in stew/curry. I sliced them into thick half-coins, and added them to a pot of vegetables with Glico curry gravy (one of my guilty convenience-food pleasures). Then I dumped the whole thing into a pie crust and had a vegetable pot pie. After being stewed and then baked, the radishes looked soft and limp, but still had a very nice non-mushy texture.
I've also heard that radish greens are edible, although I haven't tried those yet. When it's time to thin out the radishes in the garden, I'll give that a shot.
What else do people do with radishes?
So far I've tried two ways of doing it.
1. Roasted radishes. I tossed mine in balsamic vinaigrette dressing and roasted them in an open pan (with carrots and mushrooms) for twenty minutes at 400 F. The dressing didn't do a whole lot for them, other than keep them from drying out. I could have cooked them a little more, because they were still a bit difficult to stick a fork into.
2. Radishes in stew/curry. I sliced them into thick half-coins, and added them to a pot of vegetables with Glico curry gravy (one of my guilty convenience-food pleasures). Then I dumped the whole thing into a pie crust and had a vegetable pot pie. After being stewed and then baked, the radishes looked soft and limp, but still had a very nice non-mushy texture.
I've also heard that radish greens are edible, although I haven't tried those yet. When it's time to thin out the radishes in the garden, I'll give that a shot.
What else do people do with radishes?