Home Fried Radishes with Bacon
Home Fried Radishes with Bacon are my favorite way to prepare radishes – they are so good. Sort of like smothered onions and potatoes but low carb!
Maybe it’s the southern girl in me, but frying my radishes in bacon grease with onion is my favorite way to prepare them. I mean, I do love me some smothered onions and potatoes. So, giving radishes the same treatment just seemed to make sense to me.
I tried it out many, many moons ago and it still ranks as my top favorite way to eat a radish.
Keto is real big right now, so if you are watching your carbs – this is a great recipe to have up your sleeve. This is also Whole30 friendly if you use a compliant no-sugar bacon.
What ingredients do you need to make Home Fried Radishes with bacon?
You can find the full recipe to print (or screenshot) at the bottom of this post along with an instructional video from me! 🙂
Here’s what you need. It’s only 3 ingredients, plus salt and pepper!
- 16oz of radishes, root ends trimmed & the radish diced into small pieces
- diced onion (red or yellow – about 1/2 cup or to taste)
- bacon (6 slices)
- salt and pepper to taste
You can also add a sprinkle of cayenne pepper to it if you want a little spice on your radishes. It’s super good.
How do I make them?
Simple as can be, y’all.
Fry the bacon in a skillet until crisp, then remove it from the skillet to drain on a paper towel lined plate. Add the diced radishes to the hot bacon grease in the skillet, and toss to coat in the grease. Fry on medium high heat for 10 minutes. Next, add your diced onion. Season with salt and pepper and reduce the heat to medium. You can also season it to taste with some cayenne pepper if you are wanting some spice. Cook for another 10 minutes. Crush the bacon that you fried previously and stir it in. Remove the home fried radishes from the skillet and drain on a paper towel lined plate. Serve immediately.
Scroll down for an instructional video from me – and the printable recipe.
Home Fried Radishes with Bacon
Ingredients
- 16 oz radishes root end trimmed & diced into small pieces
- 6 slices bacon grease reserved
- 1/2 cup diced onion (red or yellow)
- salt and pepper to taste
- cayenne pepper to taste optional
Instructions
- Fry the bacon in a skillet until crisp, then remove it from the skillet to drain on a paper towel lined plate.
- Add the diced radishes to the hot bacon grease in the skillet, and toss to coat in the grease. Fry on medium high heat for 10 minutes. Next, add your diced onion. Season with salt and pepper and reduce the heat to medium. You can also season it to taste with some cayenne pepper if you are wanting some spice. Cook for another 10 minutes.
- Crush the bacon that you fried previously and stir it in. Remove the home fried radishes from the skillet and drain on a paper towel lined plate. Serve immediately.
I have eaten roasted radishes before and enjoyed their mellow flavor. It suddenly struck me that fried radishes with onions and bacon would probably be great. I decided to try it after reading your recipe and a few reviews from others that had tried frying radishes. The only radish I could find at the time ere watermelon radishes. I bought a pound determined to try this. I used the ingredients suggested, cooked the bacon 1/2 way and fried the thinly sliced radishes in the resulting bacon fat I cooked them for about 35 minutes then added the chopped up bacon back in and cooked on low and covered for another 10-15 minutes – just like I make my fried potatoes. They were soft with some carmalized areas and were sensational! I am trying Daikon radishes tonight and will try peeling them as I read this takes away the spicyness.. The watermelon radishes tasted almost like fried potatoes with no spiciness at all. My whole family loved them.