Daikon recipes?

Question

What are your favorite recipes using daikon? So far I've used it in stir-fry and in rice, raw.

For those inquiring, Daikon is a root vegetable found in many asian stores. It looks like a giant white carrot. You can eat the root or the greens. It is similar to a radish, beet, or carrot.

Answer 1

You can cook it and mash it like potatoes, shred it and make cole slaw, or slice and dip in your favorite salad dressing.

Answer 2

I like to pickle it with rice wine vinegar, sugar and a touch of turmeric to add colour, in Japan it is made into about 100 products, and they come up with more all the time.

Often it is used with fish or chicken in a one pot meal with shittake mushrooms and other vegetables. I like a good "Chanko", it is a dish mostly reserved for Sumo wrestlers, but is similar in many ways to fondue, you make a stock and have a number of different things including daikon, meat, mushrooms, cabbage, shrimp and fish, you dip these things into the broth and allow them to cook and consume the broth along with the food, drink sake all the time.

So what ever you can think of daikon fits in the dish, look at it like turnip, radish or cucumber. Anything you might do with those veg you can use with daikon, if you have a Japanese or Asian area in your town check out some of the products there, even the Korean people do many things with it to, if you lke spicey that the way to go.

Answer 3

All fruits are fresh vegetables. A "vegetable" is a plant, any part of which can be used for food.

Answer 4

In the superstore, fruits are usually selected much too soon. Some are rocks, many are wrong. Some of the fruit and vegetables are generally right (zucchini, onions, garlic, lettuce, greens, and a few others) so I'd have to go with vegetables.