This often overlooked salad vegetable, that has the crunch and taste of turnips, has a natural affinity with rich, melted butter

Brown butter basted radishes recipe

Ingredients

  • 85g butter
  • 600g radish, trimmed of their leaves
  • juice ½ lemon

Method

  • Put half the butter in a heavy-based frying pan that will fit all the radishes snugly. Heat the butter until it’s just foaming and starting to turn a nut-brown, then add the radishes and turn to coat in the butter.

  • Fry the radishes, turning them every few mins and adding small knobs of the remaining butter as they cook, for 10 mins until they’re glazed and have softened and wrinkled. Turn the heat up to maximum, add the lemon juice, let it sizzle for 1 min, then remove the pan from the heat. Season with sea salt and serve.

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HEALTHY BENEFITS

Worthy of more than just adding to salad,radishes are low in calories, full of fibre anda good source of potassium, which helpsregulate blood pressure. Being a memberof the cruciferous family makes them richin valuable anti-cancer compounds calledglucosinolates. Don’t waste the leaves,because they supply calcium and animpressive amount of vitamin C.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, June 2013

Method

  • Put half the butter in a heavy-based frying pan that will fit all the radishes snugly. Heat the butter until it’s just foaming and starting to turn a nut-brown, then add the radishes and turn to coat in the butter.

  • Fry the radishes, turning them every few mins and adding small knobs of the remaining butter as they cook, for 10 mins until they’re glazed and have softened and wrinkled. Turn the heat up to maximum, add the lemon juice, let it sizzle for 1 min, then remove the pan from the heat. Season with sea salt and serve.

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