Can Cherry Radishes Be Eaten Raw? A Detailed Guide to Eating Methods and Incompatible Food Taboos
Cherry radish is a new type of small radish, named for its cherry-like appearance. It is rich in mineral elements and various vitamins, and regular consumption can have benefits such as strengthening the stomach, relieving cough and reducing phlegm, and promoting urination. Therefore, many people like to eat it as a cold dressed dish. So can cherry radishes be eaten raw? What are the eating methods and consumption taboos? What should they not be eaten with?
1. Can cherry radishes be eaten raw?
Yes, regular consumption can increase appetite, promote gastrointestinal motility, and help digestion. Generally, after eating too much greasy food, eating a few cherry radishes can help cut the grease.
2. How to eat them?
1. What are the eating methods?
(1) Refreshing cherry radish
Ingredients: 200 g cherry radishes, 100 g celtuce. Seasonings: 100 g wild mountain chili peppers, 20 g salt, 500 g water, 10 g white vinegar.
Method:
① Wash the cherry radishes and celtuce, and cut them into strips 5 cm long, 1 cm wide, and 1 cm thick for later use.
② Put water, wild mountain chili peppers, and salt into a pot, bring to a boil over high heat, let it cool after turning off the heat, then add the cherry radishes, celtuce, and white vinegar and soak for 24 hours; remove and serve.
(2) Sugar-soaked cherry radish
Ingredients: cherry radishes, lemon, white sugar, salt
Method:
① Wash the cherry radishes and cut them into thin slices, keeping the stem end uncut.
② Grate the lemon zest, then cut the lemon in half and squeeze out the lemon juice.
③ Add the lemon juice, soft white sugar, grated lemon zest, salt, and water and mix evenly, stirring thoroughly to dissolve the white sugar and salt.
④ Pour the radishes into the mixed liquid and stir evenly. Put them into a sealed fresh-keeping box and place in the refrigerator to pickle for 1 day. During this time, turn the radishes once so they absorb the flavor evenly.
(3) Cherry radish sandwich
Ingredients: 16 slices original-flavor toast, 100 g cheese, 6 cherry radishes, 1 small onion, 200 g smoked ham, 3 eggs, 100 ml milk, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/3 teaspoon white pepper powder
Method:
① Wash the cherry radishes and small onion and cut into slices. Wash the smoked ham and cut into dice. Crush the cheese and put everything into a bowl and mix evenly.
② Beat the eggs in a bowl. Put the milk, egg liquid, white pepper powder, and salt into a bowl and mix well.
③ Take 8 slices of original-flavor toast and coat them with egg liquid, place them on a baking tray, put the filling on the toast respectively, then coat the remaining toast with egg liquid and add the filling.
④ Put the baking tray in the middle of an oven at 200 degrees and bake for 20 minutes, then it is ready.
(4) Stir-fried beef with cherry radish
Ingredients: 2 cherry radishes, 250 g beef slices, appropriate amount of minced garlic, appropriate amount of salt, appropriate amount of cornstarch, appropriate amount of cooking wine, appropriate amount of light soy sauce, appropriate amount of dark soy sauce, appropriate amount of raw oil
Method:
① Wash the cherry radishes, peel them, and cut into slices.
② After washing the beef slices, marinate them with appropriate amounts of salt, light soy sauce, cornstarch, raw oil, and cooking wine for 2 hours.
③ Put a small amount of oil in a pot. After heating, add a small amount of minced garlic. After it becomes fragrant, add the beef slices and stir-fry until cooked, then set aside.
④ Put a small amount of oil in a pot. After heating, add a small amount of minced garlic. After it becomes fragrant, add the cherry radishes.
⑤ Add an appropriate amount of dark soy sauce and clean water, cover with the lid, and simmer until the sauce is almost reduced.
⑥ Add the beef slices and stir-fry evenly, then it is ready.
2. How to make a tasty cold dressed dish?
Ingredients: cherry radishes (other vegetables can be added, such as cucumber, bell pepper, pea shoots, garland chrysanthemum, purple cabbage, etc., but then it seems it should be called a large mixed salad) aged vinegar, sugar (vinegar and sugar 1:1), sesame oil, chicken essence, salt
Method:
(1) Wash the cherry radishes, slice the radishes, and cut the radish leaves into sections
(2) Mix all the seasonings evenly according to taste
(3) Mix the radishes evenly with the seasonings and sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds
3. Can cherry radish leaves be eaten?
From an edible standpoint, cherry radish leaves can be eaten. There are also many ways to eat them, as follows:
(1) Stir-fried
Method: Add a little garlic, oyster sauce, and other seasonings to wake up the taste buds
Comment: The flavor is even better than cherry radishes.
(2) Eaten raw
Method: Mix with vinegar and white sugar, or dip directly in sauce, or mix into salad
Comment: The radish leaves are a little spicy, but quite tasty.
(3) Eaten alone as a cold dressed dish
Method: Blanch briefly in boiling water, then crush a clove of garlic and dress it cold to stimulate the taste buds
Comment: Although the method is simple, the taste is very good, and you will want more after eating it.
(4) Eaten as a cold dressed dish together with other vegetables
Method: Mix and eat together with cucumber, tomato, cabbage heart, carrot, green pepper, lettuce, purple cabbage, fried peanuts, dried tofu, then add garlic, chili oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, monosodium glutamate, and sesame oil
Comment: The taste of Northeast large mixed salad, you know it.
3. Cherry radish consumption taboos:
1. Suitable groups for cherry radishes
(1) People with dry mouth, dry eyes, insufficient sleep, excessive worry, or excessive talking can eat them, and regular consumption can bring some improvement.
(2) People with throat problems can eat them. Regular consumption has a good moistening and physical therapeutic effect, is helpful for healing local inflammation, and can relieve local itching, thereby blocking the cough reflex.
(3) People with weak spleen qi can eat them, and regular consumption can effectively relieve symptoms such as loss of appetite, abdominal distension and fullness, loose stools, and limb fatigue and weakness.
2. What is good to eat cherry radishes with?
Cherry radishes are suitable to eat with pork, mutton, silver carp, nori, white wood ear, tofu, brown rice, chicken, goose, cabbage, and so on.
(1) Cherry radish + pork: Can promote food digestion, achieve a laxative effect, and has a very good effect on treating constipation.
(2) Cherry radish + mutton: Can lower blood lipids and reduce phlegm, which is very beneficial to our health.
(3) Cherry radish + chicken: Has a very good protective effect on our cardiovascular system.
(4) Cherry radish + goose: Can moisten our lungs and also have a cough-relieving effect.
(5) Cherry radish + silver carp: Because the two together have a very high water content, they can achieve a diuretic and swelling-reducing effect.
(6) Cherry radish + nori: Can clear lung heat, treat cough, promote fluid production, and stimulate appetite.
(7) Cherry radish + white wood ear: Can eliminate heat and also detoxify to a certain extent.
(8) Cherry radish + tofu: Can promote the absorption of our stomach and intestines and has a very good promoting effect on our stomach and intestines.
(9) Cherry radish + cabbage: Very good for our skin and has beauty and skin-nourishing effects.
(10) Cherry radish + brown rice: Can digest food, is very good for our stomach and intestines, and can also relieve cough and reduce phlegm.
3. What should cherry radishes not be eaten with?
(1) Cherry radish + He Shou Wu: Can easily cause diarrhea symptoms and is unhealthy for our body.
(2) Cherry radish + prepared rehmannia: The nutrients between the two will conflict, causing the medicinal effect to disappear.
(3) Cherry radish + cordyceps: After the nutrients between the two conflict, the medicinal effect will be reduced, which is unfavorable to our body.
(4) Cherry radish + pork kidney: Eating the two foods together will affect digestion and lead to constipation.
(5) Cherry radish + carrot: Eaten separately, the two are very nutritious, but eaten together they reduce nutritional value, which is not conducive to our body's absorption of nutrients.
(6) Cherry radish + lotus root: If the two are eaten raw together, they are rather cold in nature and will produce unhealthy effects on our body.
(7) Cherry radish + cucumber: Eaten separately, the two foods have very rich nutritional value, but if eaten together they reduce the body's absorption of their nutrients.
(8) Cherry radish + black wood ear: The nutrients in them will conflict, which can induce some diseases. Cherry radish + He Shou Wu: physical discomfort.
(9) Cherry radish + snow pear: The nutrients in them will conflict, which can induce some diseases.
(10) Cherry radish + peach: Eaten separately, the two foods have very rich nutritional value, but if eaten together they reduce the body's absorption of their nutrients.
(11) Cherry radish + persimmon: Eaten separately, the two are very nutritious, but eaten together they reduce nutritional value, which is not conducive to our body's absorption of nutrients.