Description of the composition and health benefits of black radish. Harm and contraindications to its use. Recipes for cooking delicious dishes with this vegetable and all its secrets. Note! Root juice is much healthier than pulp, and there are practically no important substances in the peel at all.
Harm and contraindications to the use of black radish
This vegetable is only useful when consumed in moderation. Passing this line can result in sharp abdominal pains, nausea, belching, colic. This is due to the fact that the pulp and juice contain active substances that irritate the walls of the stomach and intestines. That is why in no case should you eat it on an empty stomach - before that you need to at least drink water, or even better put something more "serious" in your mouth.
Do not joke with black radish in the following cases:
- Gastritis … It is dangerous only if it is accompanied by high acidity. In this case, sour belching, nausea, severe pain in the stomach area may occur. At the stage of extinction of the disease, you can still eat a little bit of the product, but with an exacerbation, it is better to completely abandon it.
- Colitis … Here everything is the same as with gastritis. In the chronic form, without severe pain syndromes, you can only afford a little boiled, stewed or baked pulp. Juice, especially raw juice, is categorically contraindicated here.
- Acute inflammatory processes … This applies to absolutely all organs - liver, stomach, intestines, kidneys, bladder, etc.
- Stomach and duodenal ulcer … There can be no indulgences from doctors here. Any, even boiled radish can cause a strong attack and aggravate the current situation.
Lovers of this root vegetable should take care of their teeth, as it is capable of destroying enamel. This is especially important if it is weak, lacks calcium and fluoride. To protect yourself from this, you need to use a mouthwash immediately after a meal.
Black radish recipes
To make the dish tasty, you should choose fruits with a dense, intact skin. It should be free of any mold or stains. It is important that the tail is solid and the size of the root vegetable reaches 7 to 13 cm in diameter. These vegetables, being bitter, are best supplemented with other ingredients. They go well with carrots, beets, herbs, onions, cabbage. The most popular are salads, which help out great in the cold season. But it is worth preparing all this only after making sure that the contraindications of black radish have nothing to do with you.
Below we will offer several recipes for completely different dishes:
- Salad … This is a quick and dirty option! You will need to wash and peel 2 each of the young beets, carrots, white onions, and the main vegetable. Now cut all this into thin strips, combine, pour with corn oil and apple cider vinegar to taste. Add a little salt and sprinkle with grated hard cheese, which will be enough and 100 g. Spread the salad into large plates and garnish with cilantro umbrellas on top.
- Okroshka … Boil 3 peeled potatoes and 2 eggs and then peel them. Next, cut both as small as possible. Now chop two cucumbers, peel the radish (1 pc.) And grate the root vegetable. Then add 1 tsp. apple cider vinegar, 3 tbsp. l. mayonnaise or sour cream, salt to taste. The last step is the infusion of kefir, kvass, whey or water, whichever you like best. The volume of liquid is chosen at your discretion. Stir the finished okroshka, cover and refrigerate. Add green onions and dill before serving.
- Stuffed eggs … They will need to be boiled, you need 5-6 pcs. Next, the eggs are cooled, divided in half, and the yolk is taken out. Grated peeled radish (2 pcs.), Mixed with the same carrots (1 pc.) And salt are placed in the formed depression. Sprinkle dill on top of the dish.
- Pies … Buy ready-made dough or make it on kefir (1 tbsp liquid + 3 tbsp flour + egg, 3 pinches of salt and dill). Let it lie for 2-3 hours under a napkin, divide it into several parts, roll it out and start filling. To prepare it, you need to wash, peel, grate and fry the radish (2-3 pcs.). Next, the mass is salted, placed on circles cut out from the dough and rolled out and closed, pinching the ends. Then they are rolled out with a rolling pin and fried in a large amount of refined oil. The pies are placed on the table along with sour cream.
- Kimchi soup … Cut pork meat (300 g) into cubes and rub with garlic. Then cut 1 carrot into strips, radish cubes and 1 onion rings to be fried. Further, without removing the pan from the stove, add the meat that has absorbed the smell of garlic into it and keep it on low heat for 30 minutes. After this time, pour all the ingredients with boiling water (2.5 liters) and cook for 20 minutes, then add grated tofu (120 g), green onions, ground pepper, soy sauce (2 tablespoons) and salt to taste. This dish turns out to be very spicy, so it can only be eaten with a healthy stomach; it is of Korean origin.
- Canned salad for the winter … To roll up 10 half-liter cans, you need to take 10 pieces. radishes, 4 carrots, 3 beets and one head of white cabbage. Wash, peel and chop all this. Then crush the mass with clean hands, salt to taste and add sugar (0.5 tbsp.). Then leave the mixture to drain for 3 hours and after this time, pepper, pour in 5 tbsp. l. wine vinegar, add chopped onion and 10 cloves of garlic twisted in a meat grinder. Then wash and sterilize the jars and metal lids, dry and fill the salad to the top. Roll them up and place them in a warm place under a blanket for 3 days, after which, transfer them to the refrigerator. This salad can be served along with mashed potatoes, cereals, pasta and any other dishes.
- Stuffed radish … It needs 5 pcs. The vegetables are washed, peeled and the pulp is taken out of them, leaving 2-3 cm at the walls. Then they are rubbed with salt and filled with a mass of boiled rice (120 g), a bunch of dill, grated hard cheese (100 g). Next, the radish is spread on a greased baking sheet and sent to the oven for 30 minutes.
It is very important here that you can stock up on such a vegetable in advance. It is perfectly stored both in the basement and in the refrigerator, but at high temperatures it deteriorates in just 2-3 days, starting to rot. The same can be said for peeled root vegetables, which should not be left even under suitable conditions. In this form, they quickly turn black, become more bitter and harsh. To prevent this from happening, you need to wrap them in plastic bags with 2-3 holes.
Important! This vegetable is a source of healthy and quite tasty juice. If there is no special equipment for its preparation, it will be enough to twist the peeled fruits in a meat grinder and squeeze the liquid through cheesecloth.
Interesting facts about black radish
This variety is much more often grown in gardens in the CIS than Daikon, although not as tasty as the latter. It is believed that he is less fastidious in care and can grow calmly for himself even without watering and feeding. Despite this, you can hardly find it in the supermarket, the store shelves are filled with a white analogue.
Black radish tastes like a radish because it is just as bitter. In rainy weather, it grows sweeter, and in drought - with an unpleasant, pungent aftertaste. It is rather not the pulp that gives it, but the peel, which is therefore not customary to eat. The plant loves black soil, although it can also be seen on loamy soils.
The wonderful properties of black radish were used by the ancient Egyptians during the construction of the pyramids. They said that this root vegetable gives them the strength they need to work, soothes, satisfies their hunger well. There is also one legend that when Apollo was asked what this vegetable is useful for, he compared it to gold and ordered it to be exchanged for this metal.
Radish is not grown in greenhouses, as it keeps well from summer until harvest. It is not popular in the market and is not expensive at all, although it is an ideal candidate for a winter menu.
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Considering how different and interesting recipes for black radish are, you definitely shouldn't go hungry by choosing it. Of course, it cannot claim to be the most delicious and healthy vegetable, but it will completely diversify your menu!
