Easy radish recipes
Radishes, one of spring's first veggies to appear at farmers' markets, are easy to grow, easy to cook and easy to eat.
Here are our favourite ways to prepare the small, round gems of flavour:
Easy radish recipes: Soups and salads
Radish Greens Soup
Serve the soup either hot or chilled and garnish with chopped chives, chervil or parsley.
Fish and Radish Thread Soup
This Chinese soup is both quick and fresh-tasting, as all the ingredients are flash-cooked by pouring boiling broth over them.
Miso Soup with Radishes and Green Soybeans
Three kinds of soy products – miso paste, green soybeans (edamame) and tofu – grace this spring soup. Choose radishes with nice fresh greens.
Watermelon, Radish and Cucumber Salad
A beautiful and delicious salad that's the ideal starter for a family get together.
Chicken and Radish Salad
This salad is a satisfying early summer meal all by itself or served with some good crusty bread. You can use leftover chicken or roasted deli chicken for convenience.
Glazed Radishes
A sweet and tangy side dish that is as beautiful as it is delicious.
Sweet-and-Sour Broken Radishes
Radishes – daikon, black and occasionally red – are another northern-Chinese salad favourite.
Sweet Daikon Threads
To julienne daikon, stack thin slices of peeled radish, then cut into thin sticks.
Goat Cheese and Radish Spread
This simple goat cheese spread suits children's taste buds and is a good offering when your other appetizers are more strongly-flavoured.
Poached Chicken with Radish Sauce
Silky poached chicken breasts are topped with a richly flavoured radish sauce.
Braised Monkfish with Daikon
With their meaty texture, monkfish or grouper lend themselves well to braising. If daikon radish is unavailable, use white turnip or whole red radishes.
Poached Salmon with Red Radishes
This beautiful pale pink poached salmon with a rosy pink radish sauce is perfect for a romantic dinner for two.
Farmer's Salad
This salad and spread in one is a traditional springtime treat in Polish and eastern European Jewish traditions. Serve it with fresh dark rye bread or with hard-cooked eggs for a wholesome lunch.
Vegetarian Cold Noodles with Sesame Sauce
This vegetarian salad calls for seasoned firm tofu. You can buy it already made and packaged at Chinese grocery stores or you can easily make your own.