Eating Radish Leaves: Ideas For Preparation

Eating Radish Leaves: Recipe for chips made from radish leaves

Radish leaves contain the same ingredients as the tuber itself. The concentration is usually even higher. The ingredients of radishes include vitamins A, B1, B2, and C, potassium, calcium, and iron.

• Ingredients: To make crisps from radish leaves, which can be eaten both as a side dish and as a snack between meals, you only need fresh radish leaves without damaged areas, olive oil, salt, pepper, and other spices as required.
• Preparation: First wash the radish leaves and let them dry or gently dab them dry with a cloth.
• Place the leaves on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and drizzle over the leaves with olive oil.
• You can then season with salt, pepper, and any other spices you like.
• Roast the chips in the oven at 180 degrees for a few minutes until crispy.

Radish Leaf Pesto

A spicy pesto made from radish leaves can be served as a dip or spread, as well as with pasta.

• Ingredients: For the pesto, you need fresh and clean leaves from a bunch of radishes, the same amount of high-quality olive oil (you can determine this by weighing the leaves beforehand), 2 tablespoons of seeds to taste (e.g. sunflower seeds, pine nuts or almonds), a squeeze of lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste.
• Preparation: Wash the radish leaves and put all the ingredients, except for the spices, together in the blender. Alternatively, you can use an immersion blender to puree them to the desired consistency. Finally, you can season the pesto as you like.
• If you put the pesto in a sealable jar and cover the surface with olive oil, you can store it in the fridge for a few days.

Radish leaf soup

Ingredients: For a delicious radish leaf soup you need the leaves from a bunch of radishes, two small potatoes, a liter of vegetable stock, 1 tablespoon of crème fraîche, a medium onion, salt, pepper, and nutmeg.

• Preparation: First wash the radish leaves and cut them into small pieces. The potatoes and onion should also be peeled and cut into small pieces.
• Sauté the radish leaves together with the onion in a little fat and deglaze with the broth. Now add the potatoes until they are cooked and season to your taste.
• Puree the soup before serving. When serving, you can then put some crème fraîche on top of the soup.

Salad with radish leaves

Radish leaves can also be used to prepare green salads and enhance them with their nutty taste.

• Ingredients: For a radish leaf salad you will need a bunch of radishes with leaves, 3 tbsp olive oil, 3 tbsp vinegar, 1 tsp mustard, 1 tsp honey, and other vegetables of your choice.
• Preparation: First, wash the radish leaves and remove them from the stalks. Now cut the leaves into small pieces; you can also slice some radishes yourself if you like and add them to the salad.
• You can also add other vegetables if you like. Cucumbers, tomatoes, or spring onions, for example, go well with the salad.
• For the dressing, mix olive oil, vinegar, mustard, and honey together. Pour the dressing over the salad just before serving.