Radish Recipes

Here are some great tips if you want to incorporate daikon radishes into HelloFresh meal plans but are unsure how to proceed:

1. Remove the stem of the white or daikon radish you’re preparing with a sharp vegetable knife. Although it is edible, the stem isn’t often used in cooking.
2. Use a potato peeler to remove the tougher outer layer of the Chinese radish. That way, you'll only consume the more flavoursome flesh.
3. To boil a daikon radish for a meal accompaniment, slice it reasonably thinly —about 2 or 3 mm— and carefully place the slices into slightly salted boiling water for 8 to 10 minutes.
4. If you want to stir-fry a daikon radish, then heat a frying pan or wok with sesame oil or walnut oil to get the authentic flavour combination.
5. When frying a daikon radish, cut it into batons rather than slices, making them as thin as matchsticks so that they cook quickly once they go into the pan.
6. Fried daikon radish tastes great with carrot, so prepare one the same way and try cooking them together.
7. For boiled or fried Chinese recipes using daikon, add a little soy sauce after cooking, resulting in an even more pungent combination of flavours.

Ready to put those radishes to good use? Consider making seared miso steak with radish and soba noodles. Prefer salad? Try putting together an Asian-style roast pumpkin & radish salad. If you need to freeze radishes for later use, simply chop them, boil them for a couple of minutes, and then plunge them into ice water (a process known as blanching). Then, dry them well and lay them out on a baking tray, covering with cling film. Once they’ve frozen (overnight should do it), transfer them into a freezer bag and use them within six months.