Radish is not only tasty, but also a very useful product, which since ancient times has been used in the preparation of various dishes. The simplest option is a black radish salad, which you can additionally fill with carrots, sour cream, and meat. Adding each ingredient produces a different taste.
Easy Carrot Salad
Cooking time: 60 minutes.
Caloric content per 100 g: 90 kcal.
This salad belongs to the lean. Despite the fact that it is best to fill it with mayonnaise, and sour cream, and vegetable oil will do. And the carrot itself "brighten" the bitterness of radish.
Ingredients are as follows:
- 3 small radish;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 chicken egg;
- 1/2 onion;
- 0.5 tsp. sugar and salt;
- 100 ml of mayonnaise (or sour cream).
Making a salad is very simple:
- Thoroughly wash the radish, carrots, onions, clean them.
- Boil and clean the eggs.
- Rub the radish and carrot into different plates and leave for half an hour, drain the juice.
- Mix all the vegetables, salt, send onion and eggs into cubes.
- Add sugar.
- Pour the mayonnaise and mix thoroughly.
Before serving, it is advisable to leave the salad for 15-20 minutes so that it is well infused.
Rich option with meat and black radish
Cooking time: 60 minutes.
Caloric content per 100 g: 155 kcal.
Salads with black radish do not have to be lean, you can easily make a hearty snack with the addition of chicken, pork or beef. For this we will need such products:
- 1 onion;
- 1 radish;
- 1 carrot;
- 150 g of beef;
- 100 ml sour cream.
Preparing such a salad is very simple. First you need to wash the vegetables, peel them. Meat until ready to boil in salted water, after which it to get, cool, chop or tear into fibers. Grate the radish, soak in cold water to remove the bitterness, mix with the fried onions and carrots, pieces of meat. All this pour sour cream and serve.
Quick meal recipe
Cooking time: 40 minutes.
Caloric content per 100 g: 120 kcal.
If guests arrive in half an hour and nothing is ready with you, then such a salad will be an excellent snack, since its preparation takes only 15 minutes.
Ingredients Required:
- 300 g of radish (1-1.5 pcs.);
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 20 ml of vegetable oil;
- salt to taste
Preparation does not take much time:
- First, you should clean the root crop, wash it thoroughly, grate it, then pour the resulting mass with ice water, salt and leave for 5-10 minutes. Water to drain, squeeze radish from moisture - so you can remove the bitterness inherent in the root crop.
- It will remain just to shift the radish into a deep container, add finely chopped garlic, vegetable oil and salt if necessary.
Spicy snack for dinner
Cooking time: 90 minutes (+1 day).
Caloric content per 100 g: 45 kcal.
For the preparation will be needed:
- 2 radishes;
- 3 tbsp. red pepper;
- 2 tbsp. dry granulated garlic;
- 1 tbsp. grated ginger;
- 1 tsp salts;
- 1 tbsp. dry salted anchovies;
- 1 tsp fish sauce;
- handful of sesame.
Cooking is simple:
- First you need to make a sharp dressing, for which hot pepper to steam with hot water. At this stage, in no case use boiling water - the mass should turn out to be as thick as sour cream.
- Garlic, chopped anchovies, fish sauce should be added to the pepper. All ingredients mix. Pour into a glass jar and leave for a day, so that the sauce is infused.
- Wash radish, peel, cut into cubes about 2 cm in size. Then salt the root crop and leave for an hour to remove the bitterness. After this, thoroughly rinse the pieces of root vegetables with water.
- It remains to combine radish with sesame, spicy dressing, ginger. And you need to mix or wooden spoon, or his hands, but not necessarily in gloves.
- The prepared mixture is left under the yoke for 2-3 days. During this time, the snack will ferment, the juice will stand out from it. A couple of days after the start of fermentation, you can serve a snack to the table, and it can be stored in the refrigerator for about three months.
Useful properties and contraindications to the use of black radish
This root is very popular, and it is usually used for medicinal purposes. The fruits are most useful, but you can also use radish juice, the leaves of the plant. And all thanks to a large number of trace elements, among which emit magnesium, iron, potassium, phosphorus, calcium. Also in the composition there are vitamins, including carotene, retinol.
Among the useful qualities note:
- The ability to quickly dissolve slags that can form in the gallbladder and cause difficulties with the passage of bile. Juice especially helps with this, although it is necessary to use a certain amount of radish, so as not to cause side effects.
- Help in losing weight, because radish improves digestion, metabolism. In addition, the use of root vegetables will help remove excess fluid from the body.
- Radish helps with colds, as it is a natural antibiotic. For example, radish with honey will allow you to quickly deal with a cough.
Like any medicinal plant, radish also has contraindications, it can be harmful. For example, you should not consume a salad with black radish during pregnancy, because the juice of this plant can cause the uterus to tone, which in most cases leads to miscarriage. Also remember that this root crop is harmful for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, cardiovascular pathologies.
