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Daikon?
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by Rachel
on June 18, 2010
I just got home from the farmer's market with lots of yummy things...I also brought home an enormous Daikon! Was feeling adventurous at the time...but now am a bit intimidated. What on earth do I do with this thing? Can you eat it raw? Put it in salads? Stir fry? Help!
I used it in a big pot of vegetable soup. It tasted great in the soup! My mom also likes it in a salad (tastes a lot like radishes). I don't particularly care for it raw, but many people do.
I also used it in a big pot of soup. I put cut up leeks, diakon, and carrots in a small pot, brought it to a boil, put it in my blender and puree'd it. It was actually quite good, and the creamy texture was just what I needed :)
I use it all ways and eat it often....
Raw in salads or in Tabbouleh
Raw with Hummus
Top brown rice with grated raw diakon
In soups (I always chop it up and put it in my Miso soup and in Udon soup)
Chopped and cooked with lentils (along with onions, carrots and bay leaf)
In stir fry's
And braised (recipe in the Kind Diet)
Yum! Thank you all so much for the recommendations! Those all sound good...and I think I have all the ingredients for soup (I bought some yummy fresh carrots last night too), so that might be dinner tonight...plus that would give me an excuse to try out my immersion blender :) Do you keep the Daikon in the refrigerator? Or perhaps only once you cut it? Treat it like radishes?
Hi Rachel,
I keep mine in the fridge but not sure if im even sopposed to! definitely make the braised daikon from TKD, it is delicious and is a great side dish to any meal. Also, the daikon is a bit bitter when raw but i really like munching on raw daikon and hummus. I sneakily added raw daikon slices to a platter of carrots and cucumbers meant for dipping into hummus and everyone was like-what on earth is this white crunchy stuff and why is it mysteriously bitter yet yummy? 2 points for raw daikon yay!
I just learned a lesson...it does need to be refrigerated...I went to use it last night and it was soft - after less than 24 hours, it went limp. bummer :-(
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