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Radishes! Aren't they beautiful? They're just red as can be.
They're available all year round. So you can get them in the stores, you know
during certain times of the year they might look prettier than others but
they are delicious. They have vitamin C and they're full of water. And you can
eat them raw or cooked. So we're going to talk about the red ones today and I'm
going to show you how to do raw and cooked. Let's see how we can buy them at
the store. Down here is a bag. A lot of times now, there is a bag and it'll have
the different,
well, you know there's a variety of sizes and when you're doing your cooking and
stuff, you might need a variety of sizes.
So you want to be sure that they're hard. When you feel the bag, be sure they're
hard. Now it's the best thing to test for because if once they get soft, they've
been around for a while. So this is the bag, the nice thing about buying it in
the bag, you can bring it home and put it in your refrigerator because this is
how you store radishes after you've taken the tops off.
And then over here, we have the ones with the tops on. And how they come, is usually
in a little bundle. And they have the leaves on, they'll have a tag that tells
you the country of origin. And then they have a rubber band in here and you have
to find it. And then I use my scissor and cut it. So I don't mess up my leaves or my
bulbs when I take the band -- take that rubber band out. Oh that one's really hard
but, so that way to you don't have it in the food, you don't have to worry about
somebody eating this. Okay, now the best way to get them ready to be used as
raw, I use scissors, I don't cut it. I just cut off the end and you can go a
little bit into the meat, and there I don't have a root anymore, and then I
turn it around and I cut this one off.
And I don't have any root-- any top anymore and then I just put them in water,
cause they will have some-- little bit of dirt on them but they're not as dirty as
they use to be. The stores have gotten a lot cleaner. Now, you can actually eat
these greens and if you'll notice, this one has about two good ones out of
four. So you take off the leaves that are wilted or if they were yellow.
And then I put these in water also. So that's how I would prep this. I would go
through and I would cut them off at both ends.
Put that in the bowl and then I'd pick out my leaves that are good because I'm
going to eat those too. They're like a green. Now some people say you can eat
them raw, I don't like them raw. They're too tasty, I guess is a good word for it.
So let me show you have to cut them. So if you take one,
the thing I always like to do is be sure you can have the kids in the kitchen with
you. So I always try to get a flat spot
so then you have it so it stands up and doesn't
roll around anymore. And then, I don't know if you can see that but you need to
cut down one way or the other.
You can just cut it into quarters and eat them. And some people don't like the
taste because they say it's too spicy and some will be more spicy than others. At
certain times of the year, they seem to be more spicy than others. And then you
could also slice it.
And use them sliced. Now, I want to show ya that you can cook them. The best way,
my favorite way to do it, is just to saute them in butter. You could also
add it to stir-fry.
At, you know, at the, after you, when you're putting the ones in that don't
take as much time. So let's put these over here and I want you to see that you can
cook the radishes.
And, I know some people are probably wincing right now, they're going "cooking
radishes?" Cause when I tell people I eat them cooked, I think they just don't
believe me. But I do! I eat them cooked. And this is also a good way if they are a
little spicy, this is a good way to use them up because then you can put them
in dishes. You could also add this to a stew at the end or a soup.
Eating them by themselves cooked is fine with me. I usually put them in a little
pile rice. For some reason, I like that. But you want to cook them around.
Now, they are solid. Now, as you know, they're raw, you can eat them raw so it
doesn't really matter how long you cook them. So if you want them to be crunchy,
you don't cook them as long as if you wanted them to be soft.
I've even used these really diced up, really small and put them into a relish.
You know, just to add some color if nothing else. And as you know with the
raw ones, you can put them in salads and eat those. So this is our,
cooked radishes here. And I could also,
cook the greens. Now this is my favorite way to cook the greens also. It's just to
put them in with a little butter. You could use your oil. You could mix these
greens with other greens like collard greens and those will just add a little
more flavor. And if you didn't want to have the whole leaves cause they don't
shrink quite as much as the mustard greens and collard greens shrink after they've
been cooking. So what I would do is you wanted to have it so you didn't really
notice it too much. I would put them on the board,
and I would slice them up. And I would do it with the little stems and all. And
then you've got this. You could add this to stir-fry. You could add this soups.
You could add this as a topping on a soup, you know, how you put the little
things to make it look nice. We have that. And so we just put those in there.
Now these don't take as long to cook as the radishes do. The other thing that's
nice about getting, you know make the leaves and test them and see how you
like 'em. Because, what, otherwise you just throw all this great vitamin A away.
Because we don't want eat, cook the leaves cause we've never seen that done before
but now you have.
And you know, I am an easy cook. I don't do things too fancy. I just do basic
cooking, but isn't this pretty when you put their leaves together with the
radishes, you have got a beautiful dish!
And, you know, you could have made the radishes smaller, cut them smaller.
I like to cut them bigger cause it's easier. But if your family, you know, if
you think your family would rather have them smaller, cut them up. And this ends
up making us a really healthy dish! And radishes are cheap. They are one of the
cheapest vegetables you can find at the store. So you definitely want to try this.
Now, there's another way you can cook it which we do very often at my home. And
that is, I put them on skewer and put them on the grill. Now, of course, you
could put other things on here, like onions or you could put the bell peppers,
zucchini squash, put it on the grill. Now you want to put these on pretty soon
and you want to be sure that the object that you put with it takes a little while
to cook but, as you know, you can eat it raw so it doesn't have to be like a
certain temperature or anything like meat, you just eat it. And you just stick
these on the grill. You can do it on the indoor grill too cause, you know, I like
grilling. So I put that on there. And then the other thing to do is to serve these
little pieces.
You know, I've diced these up already. And this way, I could put it on a
sandwich. One of the best sandwiches, is this with butter on a piece of bread. To
die for. So go to my website and check out more information about radishes
and I'll see you next time.
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