Oven-roasted radishes are mellow, a little sweet, soft on the inside, yet crispy on the outside. They make an ideal unique side dish with your favorite protein like roast chicken, pork chops, or a steak. If you haven’t yet tried roasted radishes, it’s a must!
Roast radishes are a terrific substitute for potatoes if you’re trying to cut back on starchy carbs, these are the closest thing to keto potatoes you can eat! The garlic roasted radishes are also gluten-free, paleo, and vegan too.
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Roasted Radishes
We roast A LOT of vegetables at our house, it’s truly our most popular cooking method and we rarely steam, saute, or boil vegetables.
Oven baking vegetables at a high heat caramelizes them, which brings out their flavor, and other cooking methods just can’t accomplish that as roasting can.
After hearing that cooked radishes take on a totally different taste and texture than raw, we wondering “can you roast radishes” and how do they compare to our other favorite vegetables using our standard go-to roasting method?
As a food blogger, I often cook numerous recipes in one day and roasted radishes happened to be what I was cooking the day my son had friends here for a sleepover. I seriously wondered what they thought when I had them taste test oven-roasted radishes, cheesy green beans, and sugar-free creme brulee all at the same time haha.
All 3 recipes got two thumbs up from the boys! Yes, even the radishes!
If you’re sticking up your nose, thinking “ewww” radishes….roasted radishes do NOT resemble the raw ones at all. Compare it to a raw potato….nasty, right? We wouldn’t eat raw potatoes but cooked potatoes are super tasty and very popular.
This oven-roasted radishes recipe yields radishes that are mild and sweet flavor with a “very close” texture of roasted potato. Seriously! The only way you’ll find out is by actually making this recipe.
Keto Roasted Radishes
If you’ve been following our food blog for a while, you probably know that my husband is on a keto diet to help jump start weight loss. If you’re curious, I’m not on keto but I can’t have gluten or sugar, so we regularly eat low carb in our household.
Being that he’s part German and German’s love their potatoes, we knew we had to try keto roasted radishes and I admit, we were TOTALLY surprised at how the classic bitter, crunchy radishes transform when baked in an oven.
Move over cauliflower! The closest thing you’ll get to a roasted potato if you’re on a keto diet are these roasted keto “potatoes.”
Radishes are considered one of the lowest carb vegetables and a 1/2 cup of sliced radishes only has 2 net carbs! Compare that to a potato with 13 net carbs per 1/2 cup. Yet they take on a very similar taste and texture when cooked.
The fat in this recipe comes from the olive oil, if you need to increase it a bit you can always add a handful of shredded cheese and broil them for 2 minutes like we did with cheesy roasted green beans or you can drizzle them with our popular keto cheddar sauce.
Ingredients for Oven Roasted Radishes
To be honest, our plan was to make simple red roasted radishes, which are the variety most commonly found in grocery stores. We were at Trader Joes and the only kind they had that day were a mixed variety of organic radishes that were already trimmed.
The colored radishes are super pretty but they all taste like the common red radish. But seriously, who knew you could even buy purple radishes and white radishes too? Their color is so vibrant and serving colored radishes on a holiday table, makes them appear even fancier.
- 2 bunches radishes, halved or quartered
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 tsp garlic salt
- 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
If your radishes are large you’ll want to cut them into halves or quarters, if they’re small you can make whole roasted radishes. Since we used a mixed variety of radishes, some were left whole and others needed to be cut smaller.
The key is that you want to make them a uniform size as possible.
We use garlic salt on almost everything, we are total garlic lovers at our house. Feel free to swap regular sea salt if you don’t have or use garlic salt. That being said, garlic roasted radishes are so dang flavorful, a little bit of garlic adds a really nice touch.
Roasted Radishes Recipe
How to roast radishes in the oven is actually a super easy concept and one we’ve already used in numerous roast vegetable recipes on our site. The key with all oven-baked vegetables like oven-roasted radishes is to cook them at a high heat so they get soft on the inside, yet crisp on the outside. Cooking at a lower temperature doesn’t yield the same results.
Preheat the oven to 400 F and position the rack to the center position.
Spread the trimmed and cut radishes on a baking pan covered with parchment paper. Parchment paper isn’t critical, but it makes for easy clean-up of baking pans.
Drizzle the olive oil, salt and pepper over the top of the radishes and mix up right on the pan with a large spoon or spatula.
Flip the roast radishes after 15 minutes, and continue baking the oven-roasted radishes for about 10 more minutes, for a total cook time of 25 minutes.
Start checking the radishes for doneness after a total cook time of 20 minutes, oven temperatures can vary and the size of your radishes might not be the exact same size as mine.
Remove from the baking sheet and sprinkle with fresh herbs, if desired.
Enjoy!
Serves 6 as a side dish.
Other Baked Side Dish Recipes You’ll Love
- Cheesy Roasted Green Beans
- Roasted Broccoli with Garlic
- Roasted Brussel Sprouts
- Keto Cauliflower Casserole
- Brussel Sprouts Casserole with Bacon
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Oven Roasted Radishes Recipe
Oven-roasted radishes are surprisingly mellow, sweet, soft on the inside, crisp like a potato on the outside. Roast radishes make an easy and unique side dish with your favorite protein. They're low carb, vegan, paleo, low carb, and keto (aka keto potatoes).
Ingredients
- 2 bunches radishes, halved or quartered
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 tsp garlic salt
- 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 F and position the rack to the center position.
- Spread the trimmed and cut radishes on a baking pan covered with parchment paper.
- Drizzle the olive oil, garlic salt, and pepper over the top of the radishes and mix right on the pan with a large spoon or spatula.
- Flip the roast radishes after 15 minutes, and continue baking the oven-roasted radishes for about 10 more minutes, for a total cook time of 25 minutes.
- Start checking the radishes for doneness after a total cook time of 20 minutes, oven temperatures can vary and the size of your radishes might not be the exact same size as mine.
- Remove from the baking sheet and sprinkle with fresh herbs, if desired.
- Serves 6 as a side dish.
Notes
Any kind of radishes work for this recipe, feel free to use red radishes or a mix of colored radishes.
Adding a 1/2 cup+ of shredded white cheese and broiling for 2 minutes at the end makes for a nice variation.
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Nutrition Information
Yield 6 Serving Size 1Amount Per Serving Calories 41 Total Fat 5g Saturated Fat 1g Trans Fat 0g Unsaturated Fat 4g Cholesterol 0mg Sodium 133mg Carbohydrates 2g Net Carbohydrates 0g Fiber 0g Sugar 0g Sugar Alcohols 0g Protein 0g
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