Daikon Sarada – Japanese daikon radish salad

A fresh Japanese radish salad is one of Japan’s simplest and most flavourful raw vegetable salads. The salad is enhanced with a mild vinegar dressing, toasted sesame seeds and a little Nori. It makes a delicious side dish for all meals, dishes, seasons and times of day.

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Daikon Sarada (daikon salad) is a very popular side dish in traditional Japanese restaurants and even in simple neighbourhood pubs. However, daikon salad is just as often prepared at home in Japanese households.

The white daikon radish is used in a wide variety of dishes in Japan: this very long root vegetable is not only used in salads (often combined with carrots), but is also used to make agedashi Tofu (deep-fried Tofu) or as Tempura .

Enjoy trying out the recipe for Daikon Sarada:

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Daikon Sarada

Serves 4 | 10 minutes

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A fresh Japanese daikon radish salad is one of the simplest and most flavourful raw vegetable salads in Japan. The salad is enhanced with a mild vinegar dressing, toasted sesame seeds and a little Nori. It makes a delicious side dish for any meal, occasion, season or time of day.


Ingredients (serves 4)

350 g radish (preferably the Daikon variety)
1 tbsp Shoyu (im Shop ansehen)
1 tbsp rice vinegar (im Shop ansehen)
1 tbsp sesame oil (im Shop ansehen)
1 tbsp sesame seeds (toasted) (im Shop ansehen)
1 tsp sugar
1/2 sheet Nori (im Shop ansehen)


Preparation (10 minutes)

Japanese radish salad Ingredients

Step 1

Get the ingredients for the Japanese radish salad ready.


Japanese Daikon Radish Salad Step 2: Cutting the daikon

Step 2

Then carefully separate the daikon radish from the thin end using a sharp knife or vegetable peeler, peel it and then cut it into long, very thin strips (about 10 centimetres). The finer the radish is cut, the better it will absorb the dressing.


Japanese radish salad Step 3: Prepare the dressing

Step 3

Now mix together the soya sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, sesame seeds and sugar in a medium-sized bowl.


Japanese radish salad Step 4: Dress the salad

Step 4

Next, add the sliced radish to the bowl and fold it in using forks, spoons or chopsticks so that the dressing is well distributed.


Japanese radish salad Step 5: Serving

Step 5

Divide the radish salad between small serving plates and garnish with Nori cut into fine strips (ideally using a clean, dry pair of kitchen scissors). Done – Itadakimasu!

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