Salata z Rzodkwi

Chunks of hot radish can be as invigorating as chillies, with a different sort of heat. This salad is a classic Polish one; if black radishes are not available, use white daikon, or red and white radishes.

When I was a child my grandmother served a bowl of crisp, hot-flavoured radishes in sour cream at almost every meal. Sometimes she would accompany it with chopped spring onions or with several whole spring onions on the side that we could bite into inbetween bites of the radish an