It can be cooked too - try steaming it on its own, grate it over Japanese-style fish or add it to stir-fries. In Chinese and Japanese cookery daikon is used for vegetable carving as well as cooking.
Add crunch and tanginess to this inspired coleslaw or this healthy take on pad thai. If you want to expand your vegetable repertoire, look no further than F&W's guide to daikon.
Cooking expert Setsuko Sugimoto will shed light on these two top winter vegetables, the daikon radish and turnip, in a four-part series. First in the series is “buta-koma daikon” (pork slice ...