Guangxi Pickled Daikon Radishes

In my home province of Guangxi, pickling food is common: We eat all kinds of pickled vegetables or fruits. This pickled daikon (or Chinese radish) recipe is easy to make and delicious. According to WebMD, daikon radishes are also good for your health.

One of our specialties is recipes unique to Guangxi due to my childhood there. Guangxi cuisine uses a lot of fermentation, to preserve food, and this has real health benefits for those with rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory conditions, according to a recent Stanford University study: “the high-fermented-food diet steadily increased microbiota diversity and decreased inflammatory markers…Fermented foods may be valuable in countering the decreased microbiome diversity and increased inflammation pervasive in industrialized society.”

Before modern refrigeration, the pickling formula was developed to preserve the summer harvest in the warm climate of Guangxi. After you taste it, if you will like it, you will not be able to stop. It can make you have more appetite. Guangxi Pickled Daikon Radish is a healthy preserved food. To make it, you only need to prepare a simple brine. So let us learn how to make Guangxi-style pickled radish. 

Guangxi Pickled Daikon Radishes

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In my home province of Guangxi, pickling food is common: We eat all kinds of pickled vegetables or fruits. This pickled daikon (or Chinese radish) recipe is easy to make and delicious.

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Prep Time 1 hour hr

Total Time 1 hour hr

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Chinese Home Cooking, Guangxi cuisine

Servings 2 servings

Calories 61 kcal

Equipment

• 1 sharp kitchen knife
• 1 medium sized bowl

Ingredients

  

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• 1 Daikon (Chinese white radish)
• 2 teaspoons sugar, white (granulated)
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 3.5 ounces white vinegar
• 8 xiao mi la (millet) chili peppers
• 12 ounces water

Instructions

 

• Wash the radish and cut off the head and tail. Then cut into pieces.
• Add 2 teaspoons (10 ml) of salt to the radish and stir well. Marinate for 1 hour. The salt will leech the moisture from the radish.
  
• Pour out the water from the salted radish and rinse the radish with cold water.
• Chop the peppers.
  
• Add chili, sugar, white vinegar, and drinking water to a bowl. Then stir well.
  
• Add the radish and stir well. Seal with plastic wrap and marinate overnight. You can enjoy it the next day.
  

Notes

Be careful to keep clean kitchen utensils throughout, and do not use oily kitchen utensils. 

Put the daikon in its brine in the refrigerator when it is sealed to keep it cool while marinating.  

Choose the number of peppers according to your own taste. 

Nutrition

Calories: 61kcalCarbohydrates: 12gProtein: 1gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 3535mgPotassium: 423mgFiber: 3gSugar: 9gVitamin A: 530IUVitamin C: 38mgCalcium: 57mgIron: 1mg

Keyword daikon white radish, salt, sugar, white, vinegar, xiao mi la chili peppers

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