My latest recipe, Creamy Radish Cucumber Garden Salad, comes straight from my Steamboat Springs garden. Inspired by my bumper crop of radishes, this creamy salad is so refreshing and dairy free! Perfect for your next dinner, gathering or picnic, you will enjoy the simplicity of the 6 simple ingredients and how tasty it is as a side dish to accompany your favorite meal.
Radishes are a favorite of mine for many reasons, but mostly for its crispy crunch it adds to our daily salads and even to my sandwiches. This stand-alone salad not only has been on repeat all summer, the leftovers also have garnished my dinner or lunch salads as a wonderful complement! I also love paring this creamy radish cucumber salad with any salmon or chicken recipes too! It’s perfect to keep in the fridge for a grab and add to any meal.
Another important reason I love eating radishes, is for their amazing nutritional and detoxifying benefit! IF you enjoy drinking a cocktail, make radishes your best friend. Radishes help our liver detoxify! And not just excess fun, food and spirits, they help to maintain a well-loved and healthy liver ☺. Radishes contain a special compound that actually helps the liver detoxify. Radishes also contain one of my personal favorite antioxidants, anthocyanins. Anthocyanin is something I make sure I eat daily as it also helps my body process glutathione our master detoxifying compound in our bodies.
Am I geeking out here too much, perhaps… however, these are really important benefits to know about from the foods that help protect us in this day and age of constant bombardment of chemical and environmental toxins. We need glutathione to help us as we also need our liver to function at its best to help us rid the ever-growing accumulation our body has to deal with…Curious about detoxifying your body? We have the best, easiest means for helping your body detoxify, and we do it with food! Have you tried a detox before? IF you want to check it out we have a free 3-day and a 7-day to test the waters! See how in 7-days just how freaken amazing your body feels and responds to a little reboot from our bigger anti-inflammatory program! Besides its delicious just like this Creamy Radish Cumber Garden Salad!
More great reasons to eat radishes:
Add Radishes into your daily meals for these important reasons.
- Radishes are high in potassium which can help lower blood pressure
- Contains Vitamin C which helps maintain a healthy immune system and regulates our metabolism
- Helps keep our digestive system moving with its high fiber and roughage contents
- Besides anthocyanins radishes also contain flavonoids that help keep our heart healthy.
- With its high water content, it’s considered a hydrating food! We all know keeping hydrated is important for maintaining healthy kidneys, skin, weight and brain function.
- Radishes contain an enzyme that acts as an anti-fungal and helps kill common funguses such as candida that can causes yeast infections!
- Radishes as I mentioned above are masterful detoxifiers and part of the ever-important cancer prevention food group, cruciferous family. These foods are known to help rid and prevent cancer development.
Radishes are the super star of this new recipe, but I’ve included other beneficial ingredients such as cucumber, another hydrating food source. But if cucumbers bother your tummy or “repeat” as we say for burping them up, choose kohlrabi! Another wonderful vegetable Americans haven’t fully discovered! This recipe is a great opportunity to try it out and enjoy it’s crisp and crunchy texture! You can find kohlrabi at your local farmers markets and they come in green or purple! They are great peeled, eaten raw and great to use to dip into your favorite dips, or add to your stir fry!
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Creamy Radish Cucumber Salad (Dairy Free)- Perfect for a radish bumper crop!
My latest recipe, Creamy Radish Cucumber Garden Salad, comes straight from my Steamboat Springs garden. Inspired by my bumper crop of radishes, this creamy salad is so refreshing and dairy free!
- Total Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 bunch red, purple, daikon, or breakfast radishes, sliced (choose a variety or just one)
- 1 small cucumber, Persian, hot house, peeled regular cucumber
- 2 Tbsp. fresh chives, minced
- 2 Tbsp fresh Dill minced
- 1/4 cup Red onion, finely diced
- Lime + Olive oil Vinaigrette
- 1 heaping TBSP. or more Plain and Simple coconut yogurt
- Sea salt and fresh ground pepper to taste
Instructions
Grab a medium glass bowl with a lid preferably.
- Wash cut and ready the radishes at least a cup or more, set aside.
- Wash cut and ready the cucumber and set aside.
- Wash and finely dice fresh herbs and red onion
- In a medium glass bowl, whisk together the juice of 1 lime, more if needed, to the same amount of olive oil. Add 2 pinches of sea salt and fresh ground pepper to taste.
- Add all the ingredients into the vinaigrette bowl and toss until well mixed and coated.
- Store covered in your glass bowl refrigerated for 1 week.
Notes
Notes:
Great to pair with fresh fish, chicken, steak or in a Buddha Bowl!
Great to top over lettuce greens.
Variations:
- Swap kohlrabi for cucumbers
- Swap a different herb for the dill: tarragon, basil, cilantro or parsley
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
WE hope you enjoy this refreshing salad! We would love for you to comment below and if you make this delightful salad to let us know how it turned out for you! Even post a picture would be awesome so we all can be inspired in our Curry Girls Kitchen community!
If you liked this recipe, here are a few more salads you might enjoy!
Gluten Free Tabbouleh great using quinoa, brown rice, even make it grain free with riced cauliflower!
All these salads are easy to put together in minutes and are great for a family or friend gathering, BBQ or picnic!
IF you’d like to improve your gluten free kitchen skills check out our self-guided Damn Good in the Kitchen Video course! It’s fun, educational and inspiring to watch our dear friend Sarah Herron transform her kitchen and pantries into a gluten free safe space for her husband! And we also cook up some foundational gluten free recipes too! Check out this wonderful video course!
With hogs and quiches,
Pegs and Megs