What do YOU do with radish greens?

[Dawgluver]

I minced some up and threw them into the taco meat last night. I grow organically, and hate to waste anything. Just wondering if anyone else had any ideas?

 

[justplainbill]

Garnish green salad.

 

[CWS4322]

Salad. I also mix them with other steamed greens. You can also steam kohlrabi tops if you grow kohlrabi, and don't forget pea sprouts are lovely in salads.

 

[kadesma]

I minced some up and threw them into the taco meat last night. I grow organically, and hate to waste anything. Just wondering if anyone else had any ideas?

Dawg try making soup of them they are really good in salad I use the whole thing radish and leaves, for the soup I chop them then saute with sliced green onions,garlic and several potatoes that I bake then cut into dice mix all together with a small can of chicken stock and some milk and half/half yummers.I mix the leaves with orange or lemon zest, some evoo, arugula or curley endive or even watercress or all three, add fresh chopped parsley, tarragon, a few thyme leaves sweet onion or shallots, avocado, heirloom tomatoe chunks. Hope this helps.
kadesma

 

[CWS4322]

Just a note on radish greens--they are best when the radishes are most tender--as the radish gets woody, the greens get a bit prickly. The other thing I do with them is grind them (raw) for the dog veggies...

 

[Dawgluver]

Just a note on radish greens--they are best when the radishes are most tender--as the radish gets woody, the greens get a bit prickly. The other thing I do with them is grind them (raw) for the dog veggies...

The radishes are the size of marbles now. I sliced and mixed them up with the greens and the lettuce volunteers and we had a very nice taco salad!

My beagle would love them in her biscuits!

 

[Dawgluver]

Dawg try making soup of them they are really good in salad I use the whole thing radish and leaves, for the soup I chop them then saute with sliced green onions,garlic and several potatoes that I bake then cut into dice mix all together with a small can of chicken stock and some milk and half/half yummers.I mix the leaves with orange or lemon zest, some evoo, arugula or curley endive or even watercress or all three, add fresh chopped parsley, tarragon, a few thyme leaves sweet onion or shallots, avocado, heirloom tomatoe chunks. Hope this helps.
kadesma

Thanks, Kadesma! I will also try this with the wild nettles in my wild flower garden!

 

[kadesma]

Thanks, Kadesma! I will also try this with the wild nettles in my wild flower garden!

Let me know how it goes. I love all things green for salads and fixed like we do spinach.
kades

 

[BreezyCooking]

There's a French bistro-style soup that uses radish greens, but for the life of my I can't find my cookbook that has the recipe. While there are a number of cream-type radish-green soups online, the one I'm thinking of is tomato-based. If I can find it, I'll post it.

 

[CWS4322]

Nettles--I have lots of those, and we thought we'd try them one spring...no thanks--must be an acquired taste. (I found that they taste like "manure" because that is what they smelled like to me when cooked). But I love milkweed buds...those are worth the time it takes to boil, drain, boil, drain, boil again.

 

[taxlady]

Nettles--I have lots of those, and we thought we'd try them one spring...no thanks--must be an acquired taste. (I found that they taste like "manure" because that is what they smelled like to me when cooked). But I love milkweed buds...those are worth the time it takes to boil, drain, boil, drain, boil again.

I have never tried nettles. How did you cook them? I think nettle soup is a traditional Danish dish.

Oh yeah, milkweed buds, those really are tasty.

 

[CWS4322]

I steamed them. I boiled them. And after two tries, I gave up. They typically grow where there is high nitrogen in the soil. Kind of makes sense re: the odor...

 

[Dawgluver]

I steamed them. I boiled them. And after two tries, I gave up. They typically grow where there is high nitrogen in the soil. Kind of makes sense re: the odor...

I cooked the heck out of them. Can't remember what I did, think I sauteed, then boiled. Or reverse. You need to get rid of the formic acid. They were actually quite passable, used them like spinach in a vegetable soup, froze some, and now I can't find them.

 

[taxlady]

I was looking at Scandinavian recipes for nettles and they all say to use just the tops - the tender leaves and to wear gloves while picking them.

Then I remember picking them with other kids, while I was in Denmark. I must have had something with nettles, since we had been sent to the woods to pick it. It must have tasted okay, or I would remember it.

 

[Dawgluver]

I was looking at Scandinavian recipes for nettles and they all say to use just the tops - the tender leaves and to wear gloves while picking them.

Then I remember picking them with other kids, while I was in Denmark. I must have had something with nettles, since we had been sent to the woods to pick it. It must have tasted okay, or I would remember it.

Yes, def need gloves. And only spring, with the tender tops. If it would quit raining I would go out and get some.