Top chef Healthy radish leaves are a good accompaniment

Tasty and healthy: use radish leaves as a side dish
Many health experts recommend consuming at least five servings of fruits and vegetables daily. It is ideal if you can rely on regional goods. At present, radishes are one of them. They are low in calories and still delicious. Even the leaves can be processed into tasty meals. Even top chefs know that.

No useless green
Vegetable lovers are usually advised to use seasonal and regional produce. Among other things, crisp radishes are currently to be found in the supermarkets. These are not only delicious, but are also good for your health. Even the radish leaves are not a useless green that you simply cut off, but can be eaten. Even top chefs use the healthy leaves for delicious dishes.

Crunchy radishes are currently in season. The vegetables are not only delicious, they are also healthy. Even the leaves can be processed into tasty meals. (Image: oksanka8306 / fotolia.com)

Mustard oils make radishes hot
Crunchy radishes contain not only water but also important ingredients that the human body needs. This applies to both red and violet, white and yellow tubers. Mustard oils provide the sharpness of the radish and also have the property of binding fat.

The bright red tubers are effective against bacteria, are urinary and cholinergic and release cramps. In addition, the ingredients contained in the radish, as well as many other phytochemicals are natural blood pressure and cholesterol depressants.

Radishes have very few calories
Radish but mainly contain water: In 100 grams of vegetables stuck 94 grams of it. Radishes are especially figure-friendly with just 14 calories.

In addition, they contain the important minerals potassium, calcium and iron as well as vitamins A, B1, B2 and C. Many know radishes only as red, round tubers, but there are also light red, purple, white and yellow varieties as well as oblong-oval shapes called icicles.

Radishes taste raw and come sliced ​​on bread or in the salad.

The leaves can also be consumed
But not only the tubers but also the radish leaves are healthy and can be consumed.

The radish green can be used like fresh herbs and is suitable among others for the refining of soups, sauces and for the preparation of pesto. Salads can give the finely cut leaves that certain something.

And if they are fried in a hot pan in foaming butter, the radish leaves develop a very special aroma. According to Maximilian Lorenz, a member of the Jeunes Restaurateurs, an association of top chefs, they make a good supplement.

The head chef, who owns the restaurant L'Escalier in Cologne, said in a message from the news agency dpa, what makes the Radisheschengrün so healthy: "The leaves have a high iron content and contain a lot of vitamin C." (Ad)