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Here’s a traditional elegant French snack: radishes with butter and salt. Use the highest quality butter and sea salt to make the radishes shine!
Radishes with butter. It might seem an odd combination to us Americans, but it’s actually a classic French snack popular in the springtime. This year, Alex and I decided to give it a try with our new garden radishes (and radishes abounding at the farmer’s markets). And we found it’s one of those things you have to taste to understand. The balance of the creamy butter, peppery radish, and hint of sea salt are the epitome of simple elegance. No wonder the French have been eating it for years! Keep reading for the “recipe”, if you could call it that.
Making radishes with butter: a few tips
This is truly not a recipe, but rather an idea. Still, we have a few tips for that make for the best radishes with butter:
- This is a case where high quality butter shines. We don’t consume much butter in our household, but find this way to enjoy the newest fruits in our garden to be a worthy cause. We used a high quality French butter. In case you’re of the vegan or dairy-free persuasion, you could substitute vegan butter if you’d like.
- Spring for sea salt. This is a time when sea salt makes a difference. Most of the time we use kosher salt, but the sea salt adds a satisfying crunch.
Alex and I have decided to make radishes with butter a new spring tradition! We had a radish and butter date the other day to celebrate the start of garden season. Sometimes, we forget to have dates. So this was a good excuse for one. This is one of the easiest ways to enjoy radishes. Give it a try for an effortless snack!
Looking for other radish recipes?
If you’ve got a bunch of radishes, here are a few more radish recipes to use them up:
- Roasted Radishes Throw radishes into a hot oven in this unique easy side dish recipe: they come out vibrant and juicy, with a sweet, mild flavor!
- Simple Radish Salad Quick, fresh and delicious, pairing chickpeas and herbs with this crunchy veggie!
- Radish Salsa Can you make salsa with…radishes? Absolutely! Throw this zesty lime radish salsa on tacos and it puts them over the top.
- Radish Toasts This radish toast recipe is a simple, yet elegant breakfast or brunch option that takes just 5 minutes to make.
This radishes with butter recipe is…
Vegetarian. For gluten-free, use gluten-free bread.
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Radishes with Butter and Salt
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 4 to 6 1x
Description
Here’s a traditional elegant French snack: radishes with butter and salt. Use the highest quality butter and sea salt to make the radishes shine!
Ingredients
- 1 baguette
- 1 bunch radishes
- 1 handful fresh oregano (or substitute parsley, dill, or chives)
- High quality butter
- Sea salt or kosher salt
Instructions
- Thinly slice the baguette and the radishes. Roughly chop the oregano.
- On each slice of bread, spread some butter. Top with radish slices, a few grains salt, and fresh oregano.
- Category: Appetizer
- Method: Raw
- Cuisine: French
Keywords: Radishes with Butter, Radish Recipes, Recipes with Radishes, Appetizer, Quick Appetizer Recipes
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It’s true: I used to eat radishes with bread and salted butter every week at my school cafeteria!
Had this in Brooklyn last fall as an appetizer, and have been hooked on this since then! I would never think that this would be a good combination, boy was I wrong!
I never though of eating radishes this way, sounds intriguing, but delicious! And those radishes are beautiful!!!
Radishes and salt are absolutely well worth it. So simple & so good!
I just discovered this combination last summer and I loved how simple and fresh it was. I have some radishes in my fridge now, so I might make this tonight! (although I can’t find local radishes yet – I can’t wait until they are available!)
Love radishes with peanut butter!
I’ve been doing this now for several years, prompted by my cousin’s tale of her visit to France, trying this snack out and falling in love. It’s nice to see others finding out the pure pleasure of it. Being from Minnesota, we’re no strangers to some amazing butter, and I’m so looking forward to Spring radishes!
Yum, sounds great. -will try soon. Have you tried s&p cucumber slice on rye cracker or appetizer size bread, with a little sour cream and lots of dill. Russian, not American also, but It’s great!
I made this tonight as part of the appetizer spread for my son’s “pre-Prom” festivities. It was a total hit- absolutely delicious!
Grew up on these as an afternoon snack. Like Suzy, suggest you also try persian cucumbers with neufchatel on a baguette with a little cracked pepper. You can also mix in watercress for a really green fresh flavour