Recipe: Yummy Simmered Daikon Radish & Squid

Simmered Daikon Radish & Squid. Check Out Daikon Radish On eBay. The daikon radish, simmered with juicy chicken and a touch of citrus yuzu sauce, tastes sweet, light, and refreshing. This dish is not only easy to make but also pack with many health benefits.

Simmered daikon is served as a side dish and can be enjoyed both hot or cold. It's made of daikon radish that has been peeled and sliced, and then simmered a savory dashi broth for an hour. The daikon pieces get so tender and soak up all the dashi flavor. You can cook Simmered Daikon Radish & Squid using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Simmered Daikon Radish & Squid

1. It's 10 cm of daikon radish(peeled and cut into 2cm round slices, cut in half).
2. You need 1 of squid (gutted, cleaned, cut into 5mm round slices).
3. Prepare 2 g of dried bonito flakes (put in a tea bag).
4. You need 2 tbsp of sake.
5. You need 1 1/2 tbsp of soy sauce.
6. You need 1 1/2 of mirin.
7. Prepare 1 tbsp of sugar.
8. It's of Grated ginger for topping.

It's an incredibly flavorful dish, and yet so unassuming looking. Place Daikon in a saucepan, add water just enough to cover and add Dashi Powder. You can use your home-made dashi stock for this. Add seasoning ingredients and bring to the boil. (Thinly sliced Ginger, Chilli can be added if you like.) In this dish thick rounds of daikon radish are simmered in water with a piece of kombu seaweed until tender then served with a miso sauce and garnished with yuzu zest.

Simmered Daikon Radish & Squid instructions

1. Put the daikon radish into cold water and bring to a boil until tender (about for 15-20 mins). Wash it with water..
2. Put daikon radish, squid, bonito flakes, sake, sugar in the pot and pour in enough water to cover. Simmer over low heat for 5 mins..
3. Add soy sauce, mirin and keep simmering for about 20 mins. Place a small lid directly on the food when simmered. Let them cool..

Simmered Daikon Daikon Radish is so sweet and juicy when in season. I often cook this dish, sometimes with fish or beef, but Daikon itself is very nice. Many Australians don't cook radishes, but they are so beautiful when simmered, stewed or even stir-fried. Braised Japanese daikon radish, known simply in Japanese as " daikon no nimono " is a very common dish that is served in the winter when daikon is typically in the season. Slowly simmering the daikon brings out its natural sweetness and highlights the mellowness of this root.