Rice with Radish Leaves / 大根菜飯 Vegan Gluten-free

 

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The autumn is a beautiful season.

The leaves of the trees are still yellow, orange and red though some have started falling.

The lake near my home is surrounded by those trees, and looks so elegant. 

When I visited there yesterday, the leaves were dancing with the wind, falling onto the lake, floating and drifting on the water.
It was such a lovely scene !!

Precious moment that I would not be able to see at least next one year.

I am sharing some of the photos that I took recently.
Some are the one taken a week ago, and some are the ones taken yesterday.

 

My house is also covered with colored ivies which started climbing on the wall about two years ago.

They turned to yellow, orange and red, and transformed my humble small house into the one of a fairy tale.

They look graceful to me, though I’m not sure if others also would think the same way as I do.

 

In fact, I did not do anything, just let them climb the way they want.  
I am pleased that they chose my house for them to grow when there are other bigger houses with more spacious surfaces in my neighborhood.

 

 

 

The recipe for this month is “Rice mixed with radish leaves” as the season of Daikon, white radish has started.

It is juicy and sweet unlike the radish of the hot seasons.

It is perhaps the most popular winter vegetables for Japanese.

But people tend to eat only its body.

Daikon grows with its leaves, and the leaves are nutritious having the nutrients that white body parts do not carry.

We say “Ichibutu Zentai 一物全体” in Macrobiotics, which means whatever the nature blessed us in this world are being themselves with all the things they consist with.

Nothing is useless. 

This philosophy can be adapted to all the creatures including the plants, animals and humans.

Therefore it is better to eat the whole food rather than a part of it.

The radish is a radish with its body and its leaves.

You can cook and eat the leaves the same way as you do with any other leafy green vegetablem, and make it into salad, soup, sauté and pesto.

“Daikon Nanmeshi” is very tasty when you mix the leaves with the newly harvested rice which is softer and juicier.

Enjoy this seasonal easy recipe during the winter !

Daikon Nanmeshi / 大根菜飯 /

Rice mixed with Radish Leaves

 

Ingredients

Cooked (steamed) rice

Radish leaves

salt

* All amounts are not fixed, you can adjust the amounts to your preference.

Procedure

1.   Tear off the radish leaves from the stems.

*We do not use the thick parts of the stems for this recipe, use thin parts only.  You can simmer the thick parts till soft for other cooking.

2.   Blanch the leaves in the boiling water for 1~2 minutes.

3.   Prepare the cold water in a bowl, and take the blanched leaves out to the cold water.

4.   Drain the water and then chop the leaves and thinner stems fine.

5.   Take the hot cooked rice into the bowl, add the chopped radish leaves and salt, and then mix.

*Mix in a slicing motion so that you will not mash the rice.

6.   Take it onto the rice bowl, or make Onigiri rice balls or any other ways that you wish to eat it.

Take in a rice bowl and eat with other dishes.

 

Make into Onigiri rice balls.

 Mix with eggless oil-free scrambled egg.

 Make the tiny rice balls in this way. 

It can be a pretty one plate of dish for a special occasion.

As for the white body parts, you can cook in many ways as Daikon is a versatile vegetable.

I simmered it to “Furofuki Daikon”.

 

Pickled with salt, vinegar and sweetener, and also with the plum vinegar.

 

I prepared the autumn lunch set with Daikon dishes, and decorated them with the autumn leaves.

information

Daikon radish is said to be effective for detoxing as it has power to eliminate the excess fat and old salt accumulated in your body, and it can also break down the protein and carbos of the food that you eat together with when it is grated.  

It also works as a medicine to bring down the fever when one is feverish, again in a grated form.

Daikon is going to be even juicier and sweeter in December, so enjoy this super vegetable especially during cold season !

Another radish leaf recipe that I introduced before.

Happy cooking!

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