Dear Daikon,
I love you in my freshly squeezed juices to add a touch of spiciness, but often have left you sitting abandoned in the bottom drawer of my fridge. No longer. I discovered a salad to make you shine! Summer goodness, oh yes.
See you in the salad bowl.
xx
Daikon Radish (Mooli) Salad
Source : inspired by Vogue Entertaining 2000
Cuisine: In the style of Indian/SE Asian
Prep time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 3 mins
Serves: 4 – 6 people, depending how you use it
ingredients
350g daikon (white radish)
1 medium red chilli
0.25 cups coconut (fresh or shredded)
1.5 tspn jaggery (palm sugar)
2 Tblspn good white wine vinegar
salt to taste
1 Tblspn extra virgin olive oil
1 Tblspn mustard seed oil
1 tspn nigella seeds (kalonji)
1 tspn cumin seeds
handful of coriander leaves
method
If using shredded or desiccated coconut, soak it in warm water for 5 minutes and then wring out as much water as you can.
Peel the daikon and slice very thinly, or cut into fine julienne strips. Chop the chilli finely.
Dissolve the palm sugar in the white wine vinegar.
Place the daikon, coconut and chilli in a bowl. Add the sugar and wine vinegar, and gently toss.
Heat the two oils in a small pan over medium heat. Add the nigella and cumin seeds and fry gently until the nigella seed begins to pop. Pour the hot oil and seeds immediately over the salad and toss gently.
Add the coriander, and serve. Enjoy!
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wow looks great!
Michael
Thanks, Michael. Nice blog you have.
What a fantastic salad Ganga. My daikon use is usually limited to grating the raw veg into salads. Not very inspired, but I do like the texture. However this looks like a much more interesting way of eating the big white radish.
Thanks, Kathryn. I love daikon in juices too, adds a nice touch to them.
Beautiful. Cooling, and gently spiced.
Often feel sorry for my lonely daikon fridge dwellers, too. Now I know what to do.
Would you believe, Lucy, that our local fruit and veg do not sell daikon? I have to go into Adelaide Market to get it. I wish I could get it more locally.
refreshing way to eat mooli
Hi Arundati, you like mooli?
ummm yummy
hehehe, thank you!
Happy New Year!
This sounds lovely! I adore Japanese-style mooli salads with rice vinegar and sesame.
Hi Maninas, Happy New Year to you too. Wonderful idea for mooli Japanese style.
i don’t care much for mooli but this is tempting
Thanks, bergamot.
Great recipe.
lovely way to prepare radish.
Hi Tobias! Thank you so much for your comment.
Love the addition of coconut in the salads. Healthy one!
Hi Divya, thanks! I bought some frozen coconut recently and will try the salad using that too.
looks so good to eat. I like white radish, raw…chop them round and have with roti. Now this will be good one to try.
Hi Pravs, eating daikon with roti sounds wonderful.
This is unbelievable..We dont usually buy white raddish but just today on our way back from Panjim I bought a whole lot, just on a whim…all the way back i kept wondering what i would do with them….Now i know!!!!
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Wow, that really is unbelievable. Ah Panjim. Wishing I was there again.
Those are great flavor combinations. Reminds me of an easy Japanese pickle for radish, too. Satisfying and light – what’s not to love?
Hi Manggy, I have just spent a pleasant hour reading your blog. Great!
I made this delightful salad last night – tastes great, and looks stunning. I plan to play around with different types of vinegars and sugars for variation. Thanks for the recipe and the beautiful picture that forced me to try it!
Hi evolvingtastes, that is wonderful. I am so pleased that you like it and will experiment more. Wonderful.
Came by to let you know that this worked with turnips too!
Yay! Wow. Really! Fantastic.
Just made it for lunch, Ganga – second time I’ve made it – and it’s brilliant.
Oh, Lucy, how lovely. I am really pleased that you guys like it.
This salad looks delicious! I often buy daikon (heard so much that is a super healthy one) but I always find a little uninspiring…
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