Comments on Mooli, (Daikon)?

[IrvineHimself]

So, I've been adding bulk to my single small potato with things like cabbage and cauliflower and looking to add a bit of variety, came across mooli.

Carbs when raw​	Mooli​	Cabbage​	Cauliflower​	Carrot​
Carbohydrates/100g	4.1g​	5.8g​	5g​	9.6g​
Sugars/100g	2.5g​	3,2g​	1.9g​	4.7g​
Dietary fibre/100g	1.6g​	2.5g​	3g​	2.8g​

To a newbie, carbs and sugars appear to compare favourably with my reference vegetables and is very favourable in term of price, about £0.55 for a large root, enough for two meals.

With a plethora of indigenous recipes online, it is very versatile, and being something of a creative cook I have tried:

• Grating some into a salad along with carrot; red cabbage; cucumber; finely chopped garlic and olives; a dash of salt and pepper along with a dressing of olive oil and balsamic vinegar, and served with the two scooped halves of an avocado stuffed with cottage cheese and a sachet of oatcakes
• Cooking it in a microwave with an onion; a tin of chickpeas; a small potato, half a dozen cherry tomatoes, seasoned with cinnamon and ginger and and served with plant based meatballs.

It was very edible and when cooked with my potato looked so much like it, with a roughly similar texture, it psychologically felt like I was eating my usual extra large serving of spuds.Tonight I am thinking along the lines of microwaving it with whats left of my tomatoes; a diced slice of tofu. two large mushrooms; onion; my small potato; maybe a carrot and serving it with a quarter of a fresh, lightly cooked cauliflower.

Any thoughts, recipe ideas, warnings etc are all welcome
Irvine

 

[Leadinglights]

So, I've been adding bulk to my single small potato with things like cabbage and cauliflower and looking to add a bit of variety, came across mooli.

Carbs when raw​	Mooli​	Cabbage​	Cauliflower​	Carrot​
Carbohydrates/100g	4.1g​	5.8g​	5g​	9.6g​
Sugars/100g	2.5g​	3,2g​	1.9g​	4.7g​
Dietary fibre/100g	1.6g​	2.5g​	3g​	2.8g​

To a newbie, carbs and sugars appear to compare favourably with my reference vegetables and is very favourable in term of price, about £0.55 for a large root, enough for two meals.

With a plethora of indigenous recipes online, it is very versatile, and being something of a creative cook I have tried:

• Grating some into a salad along with carrot; red cabbage; cucumber; finely chopped garlic and olives; a dash of salt and pepper along with a dressing of olive oil and balsamic vinegar, and served with the two scooped halves of an avocado stuffed with cottage cheese and a sachet of oatcakes
• Cooking it in a microwave with an onion; a tin of chickpeas; a small potato, half a dozen cherry tomatoes, seasoned with cinnamon and ginger and and served with plant based meatballs.

It was very edible and when cooked with my potato looked so much like it, with a roughly similar texture, it psychologically felt like I was eating my usual extra large serving of spuds.Tonight I am thinking along the lines of microwaving it with whats left of my tomatoes; a diced slice of tofu. two large mushrooms; onion; my small potato; maybe a carrot and serving it with a quarter of a fresh, lightly cooked cauliflower.

Any thoughts, recipe ideas, warnings etc are all welcome
Irvine

Looks like a good option, not something I have thought to try.
Another couple of things for you to try are celeriac and butternut squash or swede.
I make cauliflower, butternut squash and chickpea curry which you can add a hardboiled egg to or some grilled paneer or halloumi.

 

[Drummer]

I used to grow them in the garden - a variety called 'long white icicle' - very easy to grow and a good crop too.

 

[richard_medhurst]

I am a newbie here, so if my info is not relevant I apologise already, I was diagnosed with T2D just before Christmas with a blood sugar count of 24, after a strict regime of healthy eating including certain herbs and roots, I can now eat normal sized portions of potatoes and have bloods sugars at 6, 2 hours after eating, I've also cut down from 4 metformin in and 2 gliclazide a day down to just 2 metformin a day, next week down to 1, it is possible to beat this illness and put it to remission, don't lose faith, research is the key

 

[IrvineHimself]

I am a newbie here, so if my info is not relevant I apologise already, I was diagnosed with T2D just before Christmas with a blood sugar count of 24, after a strict regime of healthy eating including certain herbs and roots, I can now eat normal sized portions of potatoes and have bloods sugars at 6, 2 hours after eating, I've also cut down from 4 metformin in and 2 gliclazide a day down to just 2 metformin a day, next week down to 1, it is possible to beat this illness and put it to remission, don't lose faith, research is the key

Very encouraging, and good to know. Thank you

 

[IrvineHimself]

... I make cauliflower, butternut squash and chickpea curry which you can add a hardboiled egg to or some grilled paneer or halloumi.

I just tried that, I bought a large butternut squash for £1.15 and put half in my my freezer shelf. I basically used your recipe plus my lonely potato and a carrot, with a garnish of a couple of diced chicken breast and served it on a bed of cauliflower rice, (I didn't pulse it just finely diced.)

It was quite tasty; adds a bit of variety; nutritionally similar to sprouts, and, since there was enough curry for two servings, I got the basic bulk for four meals from my £1.15. So it definitely gets book-marked.

Thanks
Irvine