How to cook with CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) veggies week 9: radicchio with a fried egg, radicchio with a spicy tuna and corn salad
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August 22, 2020
This week I received lettuce, radicchio, corn, summer squash, parsley, and Italian basil.
CSA week 9 veggies: lettuce, radicchio, summer squash, and corn |
Do you have
a sweet tooth? I do. 😊 As much as many of us like to eat sweet things, eating bitter things
such as radicchio could help our body in balance. According to Eastern medicine, bitter flavor
has its own place. Herbal medicines are
notoriously bitter tasting, however they can heal the body when used appropriately. (Disclaimer: I’m not a trained medical
professional; this is just my observation and experience! 😊) For this reason, when I receive bitter veggies such as radicchio, I try
to eat them as they are, preserving the bitter flavor in so far as I can
tolerate it. 😉
That said,
there are ways to mitigate the bitterness in certain greens. I find that bitter veggies go nicely with food inherently enriched with fats
and proteins such as oils, nuts, beans, pork and some seafood. Sour tastes found in lemon juice and vinegar can also neutralize a bitter flavor.
In today’s post,
I will show you two ways of cooking radicchio simply and deliciously! 😁
Recipe #1:
Sautéed Radicchio with fried egg
Cooked radicchio served with a medium fried egg in a green goddess dressing |
Ingredients:
radicchio (chopped roughly, about 10 cups), egg (fried or poached, preferably yolk
still nice and creamy), extra virgin olive oil (1 TB), garlic powder (1 tsp),
salt and pepper
How:
1. Sauté radicchio in a preheated, oil
coated skillet with a pinch of salt until soft.
2. Add garlic powder and ground black pepper.
3. Serve cooked radicchio with a fried or
poached egg (I like the yolk creamy and runny) as shown in the photo. The dish went well my carrot top green goddess dressing,
and it was very good!
Recipe #2: Sautéed radicchio with spicy tuna and corn salad
Tuna and corn salad on a bed of cooked radicchio |
Ingredients:
cooked radicchio from Recipe #1 (3/4 cup, cooked), canned tuna (5 oz), corn
(cooked corn kernels, ¼ cup), mayo (1TB), mustard (2tsp), siracha (1/4 tsp),
garlic powder and lemon juice (1/8 tsp)
How:
1. Make the salad
dressing by mixing: mayo, mustard, siracha, garlic powder and lemon juice.
2. Mix the tuna (drained of any excess liquid),
corn, and the dressing.
3. Serve tuna and corn salad on a bed of cooked
radicchio! 😊
So there you
have it. Radicchio in two ways!!
Hope you try
these awesome recipes and like them as much as I do!
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CSA recipes
tuna and corn salad
tuna and corn salad served with radicchio
two ways of cooking radicchio
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