Recently, we featured daikon radish as our seasonal ingredient. Here’s an original recipe to get you started experimenting with this healthful, delicious root vegetable.

We learned that daikon is used in both cooked and raw dishes and is common in Asian cuisines, so here’s my riff on the addictive pickled daikon-based relish that is used in Vietnamese báhn mi sandwiches. Think of this dish as a deconstructed sandwich but with rice noodles standing in for the bread. This version is all vegetable (though not vegetarian as it contains …

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It’s not quite a parsnip nor a great white carrot, but the daikon is a mild-flavored radish that wintertime locavores are probably quite familiar with. High in fiber, vitamin C, digestive enzymes and magnesium, daikon’s not a bad addition to your wintertime meals. The name daikon comes from a Japanese word simply meaning “great” or “large root,” and some varieties grow up to 3 feet long!

Although daikon is best known as a root crop, the leaves are also delicious and contain more nutrients …

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