Too many people often discard the leaves of fresh daikon they buy at the market and it is a shame as they are a great source of healthy ingredients.
Here is one simple way to prepare them as an appetizer for all priorities! The recipe can be applied to all kinds of vegetable leaves!
INGREDIENTS
-Daikon leaves: 1 daikon
-Garlic: 2 cloves/sliced
-Aburaage/Japanese fried tofu: 2
-Olive oil: 1 tablespoon
-Soy sauce: 1 tablespoon
-Mirin/sweet Japanese sake: 1 tablespoon
-Japanese sake (if not available, dry white wine): 1 tablespoon
-Rayu/Hot sesame oil: 1 teaspoon
RECIPE
Cook the daikon leaves in boiling water till they are ready to your liking. Take out the leaves and drop into cold water to stop the cooking and cool them down completeley.
Drain as much as you can. Press water out if necessary.
Slice the garlic cloves.
Cut the aburaage across into strips 1 cm wide.
Cut the daikon leaves into strips 1 cm wide.
Heat olive oil and fry the whole rapidly and not too long.
Add soy sauce, mirin, Japanese sake, rayu and stir fry a couple of times and serve!
So simple and great with a beer!
The point is that you will make use of a great ingredient that is usually thrown away. Cooked this way the daikon leaves will not emit any sour taste!
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I tried stir-fried radish green some time ago and it came out tasty. I didn’t tell my husband what he was eating and it was okay with him too. I always wonder why we western people waste the greens. Do you know about using carrot green? I mean that one which is sold with young carrots in bundle.
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Actually back in Fance we used nice soups and potages with fresh carot leaves!
I know a top-class French restaurant in Shizuoka serving organic carrot leaves mousse!
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Lovely to see a recipe making use of daikon leaves! I just very recently wrote a logn post about using the whole radish, from top to toe, because so often people discard the leaves and it’s such a waste as they taste good and are also relaly nutritious! i went for a more western approach though, making pesto with the leaves to pour over the pan-seared roots, this is a great idea to try too. lovely one!
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We seem to totally agree!
More daikon leaves recipes to come!
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Robert-Gilles, this is another excellent idea! Do you remember the daikon leaves furikake recipe you have given me last year? I loved it (http://www.withaglass.com/?p=5642 ok the photo is awful, I must remake it this year 😉 Thank you once more!
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Glad to hear you like it!
More furikake recipes to come!
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using the daikon leaves, that’s a great idea! thanks 😀
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More coming doon actually!
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