# Can Radishes Be Cooked ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 3, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-radishes-be-cooked/315449 "2005-08-03T18:25:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-radishes-be-cooked/315449/1 "2005-08-03T18:25:44Z")
OK , so it’s not one of the more important questions of our time . I am curious , dammit ! I just made myself a nice salad for lunch , and while I was cutting up the radishes , which I LOVE , it dawned on me , I have never had them anyway but raw . This leads me to the title question . Can radishes be cooked ? If so , how ? Recipes using radishes , please . ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-radishes-be-cooked/315449/2 "2005-08-03T18:31:22Z")
Sure. I cook them up in sesame oil for stir fry all the time. They’re tasty cooked. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-radishes-be-cooked/315449/3 "2005-08-03T18:42:37Z")
Oooh… I was planning a stir fry for dinner this evening . Stir fried radishes here I come ! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-radishes-be-cooked/315449/4 "2005-08-03T18:42:50Z")
Okay, your question got me curious, too. So I googled up “cooked radishes.” Whadayaknow? Your American is showing. It looks like cooking radishes shows up in cookboods in Europe. Cooking 'em with peas and butter seems to be a popular method of accomplishing the deed. The heat takes a lot of the bite out of the radish. But every recipe warns not to overcook them. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-radishes-be-cooked/315449/5 "2005-08-03T18:56:58Z")
Huh! Crazy! I’m going to have to try that. I wonder what the texture is like . . . mayhap like fresh waterchestnuts? Mmmmm. . . ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-radishes-be-cooked/315449/6 "2005-08-03T19:08:12Z")
Sauteeing also seems to be an option: [Sauteed Radishes and Sugar Snap Peas with Dill](http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/109402) I have a friend who also likes to boil the radishes and eat them with butter. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-radishes-be-cooked/315449/7 "2005-08-03T19:15:57Z")
> [@fluiddruid](#): > > Sauteeing also seems to be an option: > > [Sauteed Radishes and Sugar Snap Peas with Dill](http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/109402) > > I have a friend who also likes to boil the radishes and eat them with butter. Oooooh… THAT sounds YUMMY ! I will have to try the radishes with sugar snaps for sure ! Thanks ! Keep 'em coming ! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-radishes-be-cooked/315449/8 "2005-08-03T21:15:38Z")
> [@Podkayne](#): > > . . . > > I wonder what the texture is like . . . mayhap like fresh waterchestnuts? Mmmmm. . . Nope - have you ever had a cooked turnip? Radishes are closely related to turnips, and taste similar when cooked. They’re just a little more delicate. I like them in stews in place of turnip or rutabaga. ---
**Author:** ![BlakeTyner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@BlakeTyner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlakeTyner)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-radishes-be-cooked/315449/9 "2005-08-03T21:19:19Z")
My father, who was raised dirt poor on a farm in the '30’s, would eat baked turnip/radish for supper. It’s basically the same prep that you’d do for a baked potato. I never tried it myself, but he inhaled the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-radishes-be-cooked/315449/10 "2005-08-03T22:06:44Z")
OK , just finished my simple stir fry with radishes … and it is YUMMY !!! I didn’t have sesame oil , so I used olive oil , thinly sliced breakfast steak , minced garlic , sugar snap peas , onions , frozen peppers , chopped cabbage , and yes , radishes . Sprinkled on a little terriakki sauce , dumped it over rice … Mmmmmmmmmm… good eatin’ ! I’ll be doin’ this one again ! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-radishes-be-cooked/315449/11 "2005-08-03T22:41:43Z")
Mooli is just a big radish; ordinary radishes are great cooked, but best only cooked lightly, IMO - tossed into a stir fry so they retain most of their crispness.