Day 5 of the New Year: Come and Try Radish Sashimi
After a few days of rich, heavy meat dishes, why not switch things up? How about some crisp, refreshing radish! At the Beijing Organic Farmers’ Market, every farm’s radish has its own flavour. The terroir differs, the growing methods differ, and the taste each one develops has its own character — yet they all share one thing in common: they are delicious. And the method is remarkably simple — why not try it today!
Ingredients:
Daikon or green radish from the farmers at the Beijing Organic Farmers’ Market
Soy sauce (take it or leave it)
Method:
1. Wash the radish; do not peel it
2. Cut into strips about the thickness of a finger
3. Pour a little soy sauce into a dish and set it beside the radish
Notes:
The radish skin is not unpleasant — peeling it only robs you of flavour.
Do not slice thinly: a thick-cut is what delivers that clean, sweet satisfaction.
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Time to eat! This New Year, enjoy good flavours from real, traceable sources.
Foodthink, together with the farmers at the Beijing Organic Farmers’ Market, presents a “New Year Recipes” series made from their own produce.
In this collection, there are no recipes precise to the gram or the minute, no elaborate or fussy techniques.
What there is, is a quiet confidence in the ingredients and humble instructions, given as you would to family.
Thoughtfully grown produce does not demand you rack your brains. A clean, easy technique, just the right heat — that is all it takes.
In this collection, behind every dish stands a real person — the farmers know exactly what makes their produce good, and they know how to honour that goodness in the cooking.
When a block of tofu can name itself, a chicken has a résumé to show, and a radish dares you not to peel it — good flavour simply follows.
From the second to the seventh day of the New Year: six farmers’ dishes, one per day.
Day 2 of the New Year: Aromatically Steamed Free-Range Mountain Pork
Day 3 of the New Year: Ultimate Stir-Fried Chicken
Day 4 of the New Year: Sauce-Braised Tofu
Grow with care, cook with ease, eat with trust.
