daikon recipes

My easy Pickled Daikon is a delicious accompaniment to so many dishes. Its crisp, mild texture is perfectly complemented by the tangy and slightly sweet pickling liquid.

Pickled Daikon

500 g daikon (See Note 1)

rice wine vinegar (See Note 2)

water (See Note 3)

sugar

tbsp coarse sea salt (See Notes 4 and 5)

red chilli (optional)

Sterilise the jar or jars you&#039;ll be using to store the daikon.Choose glass jars with an airtight, metal lid and ensure they have been washed by hand in hot soapy water then rinsed well. Check that the metal lids do not have rubber inserts. Preheat the oven to 130 Degrees C (270 F) and place the jars in the oven for 15-20 minutes.

To Sterilise the Jars:

Peel the daikon, and thinly slice.

Combine the water, sugar, vinegar, salt and chilli in a non-reactive saucepan.

Over a medium heat, stir to dissolve the sugar. Increase the heat, and bring the mixture to a boil. Boil for 3 minutes.

Turn off the heat, and add the daikon.Let the mixture sit for 5 minutes.

Using tongs, place the daikon pieces into your prepare jar, and pour over the brine.

Allow to cool on your kitchen bench for 30 minutes, and then refrigerate.

For the Daikon:

Daikon radishes are earthy but versatile vegetables that can be eaten raw or cooked. If you want to learn how to cook it, here are 12 Japanese daikon radish recipes to help you get started!

Japanese Daikon Radish Recipes

Daikon radish

Pick a recipe from these Japanese daikon recipes(Daikon Salad with Sesame Dressing, Pickled Daikon, Honey Daikon, Daikon Oroshi, Daikon Oroshi Mochi, Daikon Leaves Green Smoothie, Daikon Nimono (Simmered Daikon), Daikon Miso Soup, Daikon Skin Stir-Fry, Fried Daikon, Daikon Leaves Furikake, Kiriboshi Daikon Salad)

Follow the recipe instructions and enjoy the delicious dish!

Daikon is the hero of this Simmered Daikon recipe because it is just a daikon cooked in soy-based broth. This is one of the simplest looking dishes, yet it is so tasty with a knob of wasabi as a garnish.Cook Time is long as you need to do pre-boiling for 15-20 minutes. But you can stop at this point and re-start cooking the next day if you want.Use konbu dashi to make this dish vergetarian.

Simmered Daikon (Daikon Fukumeni)

500 grams/1.1lb daikon cut to 3-4cm/1⅛-1½" thick discs ((note 1))

tbsp rice rice

500 milliliters/1.1pt dashi stock ((note 2))

tbsp light soy sauce

mirin

salt

Wasabi paste

Peel skin of each daikon disc thinly, then remove the round edges (mentori) of each disc.  See the section MENTORI (面取り) for details.

(Optional) If your daikon discs are thick and large, make cross incisions on one side of each daikon. The depth of incisions needs to be ⅓ to ½ through. See the photo in the section KAKUSHIBŌCHŌ (隠し包丁). This will cook daikon pieces faster.

Place daikon pieces in a pot (note 3) without overlapping, flat side up.

Add water with 2 tablesponns of rice or white liquid to cover the daikon pieces about 1-2cm/¼” above the daikon.

Bring it to a boil. Reduce to low and cook for 15-20 minutes until the centre of daikon pieces are cooked through (I use a bamboo skewer to poke daikon in the centre to check it).

Remove from heat and leave to cool a bit. Rinse daikon pieces and remove stickiness from the surface of daikon (note 4).

Place daikon pieces in a pot, flat side up without overlapping. Add the Fukumeni Flavouring ingredients.

Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium, place a drop lid (note 5) on and cook for 20 minutes.

Transfer the daikon to a zip lock bag without overlapping, then add the liquid in the pot to the bag (note 6).

Remove the air as much as possible from the bag (note 7), seal the bag and leave it to cool. Best to leave overnight.

Serve (cut side down if you made incisions in step 2) with some broth and a drop of wasabi in the centre.

Thanks! It was delicious. My daikon vegetable itself was not the best, a little bland and not very sweet, but still tasty once braised. Mine was a Korean daikon. Perhaps the other slimmer kind seen in Chinese greengrocers is sweeter?

I love simple dishes like this daikon recipe very good for my 90+ parents who dont have teeth but enjoy good tasting simple &amp; healthy recipes like yours tqvm

Yumiko, 
   Thank you so much for this wonderful recipe. I had it at a Japanese friend of mines house and have been craving it ever since. Thank you so much I will be using this recipe regularly. arigoto gozaimasu.

Daikon Steak with Garlic Soy Butter Sauce is quite a filling dish, although the main ingredient is just daikon. The daikon is very tender and nicely browned on both sides (like a good steak). The garlic-flavoured soy-butter Sauce goes so well with the daikon. See the Video.Use plant-based butter to make it a vegan dish.

Daikon Steak with Garlic Soy Butter Sauce

garlic (, thinly sliced)

butter (, diced (note 3))

soy sauce

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Cut the daikon into four 3cm (1⅛”)-thick discs. Make sure the cut surfaces are flat and not bumpy so that the daikon browns evenly with no uncooked patches.

Peel the skin from each daikon (do not discard the skins) and trim the round edges of the daikon discs (mentori).

Score a criss-cross pattern on the flat surfaces of the daikon on both sides. The scoring should be about 5mm / 3⁄16&quot; apart and 5mm / 3⁄16&quot; deep.

Cut the peeled skins into square pieces.

Prepare Daikon

Put 4 daikon discs, dashi stock, and chopped daikon skin pieces in a pot. Bring it to a boil.

Reduce the heat to medium, place a lid on and cook for about 30-40 minutes until the daikon pieces become tender (note 5).

Transfer the daikon pieces to a tray or plate. Put the dashi stock through a sieve and reserve it for later use.

Pre-cook Daikon (note 4)

Put the oil and garlic in a frying pan and heat over medium-low heat for about 2½ - 3 minutes, until the edge of the garlic slices start browning. Remove the pan from the heat.

Put the oil through a sieve lined with kitchen paper and collect the oil. You should get minimum of 1 tablespoon of garlic-infused oil.

If there are brown bits of the fried garlic in the pan, wipe them off.

Put the garlic-infused oil into the frying pan and heat over medium heat.

Place the daikon pieces in the pan, flat side down, and cook for about 3 minutes, until the bottoms of the daikon pieces are well browned or almost charred (note 6).

Turn them over and cook in the same way.

Add the butter to the pan and cook for about 30 seconds. Turn the daikon over and cook for a further 30 seconds.

Add 200ml / ⅘ cup / 6.7fl oz of the reserved dashi stock, mirin, cooking sake, and soy sauce to the pan. Cook for a couple of minutes with a lid on, then remove the lid.

Continue cooking for another couple of minutes until the liquid reduces to about 3-4 tablespoons. Baste the liquid over the surface of the daikon pieces while cooking.

Remove the pan from the heat, transfer two pieces of daikon to each serving plate. Pour the garlic soy butter sauce over them. Serve while hot.

Make Daikon Steak

This simmered daikon recipe is a must-try for daikon lovers! It’s a simple, flavorful dish of daikon and tofu simmered in a savory miso sauce with a little kick.

Daikon Simmered in Spicy Miso Sauce

⅓ daikon radish (about 250-300 grams)

g tofu (drained)

scallion (finely chopped)

Tbsp sesame oil

kombu dashi powder

1½ Tbsp miso

½ tsp doubanjiang (spicy chili bean paste)

garlic

½ tsp grated ginger

water

½ Tbsp potato starch

Preparation: Cut the daikon into 1.5 cm cubes. Finely chop the scallion. Mix all the sauce ingredients in a bowl.

Stir-fry: Heat the sesame oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Crumble the tofu into the pan and stir-fry until most of its moisture has cooked off. Add the daikon and stir-fry briefly.

Simmer: Pour in the sauce. Bring it to a simmer, then cook over medium heat for about 10 minutes, until the daikon is tender.

Thicken the sauce: Reduce the heat to low, mix the potato starch and water, then gradually pour it into the pan while stirring. Cook until the sauce thickens.

Serve: Transfer it to a bowl and top with chopped green onion.

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