Friday, July 30, 2010

300 Radishes? Are you CRAZY!

My newest "follower" (Hi! Thyme2gardennow) very nicely questioned my decision to plant over 300 radishes! And I was about to respond that I have a great recipe posted about last year's radishes...but after a quick search I realized that I never posted the recipe! So, to explain why I would plant so many radishes...I planted about 60 last year. They all were ready at the same time. Unable to eat more than just a handful I went in search of a recipe. I found a great one called Rosy Radish Relish posted by gardenlad at gardenweb

I was just learning how to can and loved the ease of this recipe.

Rosy Radish Relish

3 cups stemmed radishes
2 large ribs of celery
1 large red onion
2 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
1 tbls mustard seed
2 tsp dill seed
1/2 tsp celery seed
1 cup vinegar
2 tbls prepared horseradish

Put radishes, celery, and onion through course blade of grinder (or chop
finely). Mix with remaining ingredients and let stand for 3 hours.
In large pot, bring to boil and cook for 10 minutes. Pour into hot jars
(pints or 1/2 pints) leaving 1/2 inch head space. Apply lids and
process jars in hot water bath for 20 minutes.


It's a very simple recipe and even a newbie at canning will be able to complete this recipe. My 60~ish radishes made just one batch last year. The relish was such a hit that within just a couple months it was completely gone. This time, Hubby wants enough to last the whole year.

9 comments:

thyme2garden said...

Thank you for posting this recipe! I've never thought about making relish with radishes, but I can imagine that it would be tasty. Hmm... I might have to go plant more radishes for this fall. So far, I only have about 20 planted.

Island Gal said...

love gardening myself and radishes seem to be one plant i can produce without fail.

I just started my blog, I came from the 70-80's so this is fresh and really new to me. "Heck" I just accomplished Face book now its blogging!

Marty said...

Boiled Radishes are great! I use this recipe and instead of water, I use chicken broth. Yummy and would probably can easily too.
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1650,147177-231203,00.html

Tobias said...

Nice story and recipe, I have not made a radish relish before have done many others including green tomato chutney, red tomato chutney, plume chucnie, pear chutney cucumber relish will try your recipe next year

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Mmmm, radish, one of the most easiest and overlooked veges there is. There once was a day when everyone had radishes in their garden but that may have just been a kiwi thing as we were taught to grow them at school.

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