Radish Salad Recipe
Updated Mar 08, 2025, Published Apr 25, 2024
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This bright and zesty Radish Salad recipe with red onions, creamy feta cheese, and fragrant fresh dill is a lively addition to your table. It comes together quickly, and with a tangy lemon vinaigrette, it pairs perfectly with crab cakes and rich, creamy dishes like seafood casserole.
Why This Recipe is a Keeper!
With crisp radishes, zesty red onions, creamy feta cheese, and fresh dill, this Radish and Red Onion Salad celebrates spring with simplicity and sophistication.
This refreshing side dish, in which radishes take center stage, comes together quickly and pairs perfectly with grilled fish, seafood, and chicken recipes. Add a can of drained and rinsed white beans or a can of tuna or salmon, and you have a delicious salad for an easy, healthy lunch.
This radish salad recipe is:
- So good! The mild, spicy flavor of crisp radishes pairs perfectly with the assertiveness of red onion, tangy feta cheese, and fragrant fresh dill.
- Quick and easy! This radish salad recipe comes together in under 30 minutes.
- Light and low in calories.
- Versatile! Add drained and rinsed canned beans, tuna, or salmon for protein.
How to Make Radish and Red Onion Salad:
Recipe Ingredients:
Here’s everything you’ll need to make this radish salad recipe. The exact quantities are on the recipe card below.
Ingredient Notes and Substitutions:
- Radishes: This radish salad recipe uses standard “table” radishes. Try other types of radishes, like French breakfast radishes, which are milder and sweeter than common red radishes but still have a peppery, mustardy piquancy.
- Red Onion: Also known as purple onions.
- Dill: There’s no substitute for fresh dill! Fresh mint will also work in this radish salad recipe.
- Lemon Juice: Like fresh dill, there’s no substitute for fresh lemon juice.
- Dijon Mustard: You can’t go wrong with Grey Poupon, which is widely available in every supermarket. Grey Poupon originated in Dijon, France, in the 1800s. Although Kraft Heinz now owns it, it has authentic roots. Maille is also excellent and genuine, but it’s pricey.
- Red Wine Vinegar: Red wine vinegar and lemon juice have two different flavor profiles. Although an acid, red wine vinegar adds depth to the bright acidity of lemon juice to keep the vinaigrette from tasting “one-note.”
Step-By-Step Instructions:
- Gather and prep all the ingredients.
- Combine the lemon juice, red wine vinegar, garlic, and Dijon mustard in a small bowl.
- Drizzle in the olive oil, whisking constantly until combined and the vinaigrette is fully emulsified.
- Season to taste with salt and black pepper.
- Combine the sliced radishes, red onion slices, and fresh dill in a bowl.
- Pour the vinaigrette over and stir to coat.
- Transfer to a serving bowl and gently stir in the crumbled feta cheese. Serve immediately, garnished with fresh dill sprigs.
- That’s it! A lovely, lively spring-inspired radish salad!
Chef Tip:
- Use feta cheese that’s still in block form. Although crumbled feta cheese will also work, it looks messy, and the smallest particles tend to dissolve into the acidic dressing.
Recipe FAQs:
This radish salad can be made to the point of adding the vinaigrette. Store the vegetables and the vinaigrette separately. The acidic dressing will soften the radishes substantially, reducing the crunch factor.
Cucumbers would work well in this salad, as would a handful of blanched green beans.
Storage:
- Store any leftovers in the refrigerator and enjoy within one day. The radishes will soften up substantially.
Serve with:
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Radish Salad Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 large bunch red radishes, or 2 small bunches, trimmed and sliced (approximately 3 cups)
- 1 small red onion, halved and thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh dill
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice, (approximately 1 large lemon, juiced)
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 1 large clove garlic, minced
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
Instructions
- Combine the lemon juice, red wine vinegar, garlic, and Dijon mustard in a small bowl.
- Drizzle in the olive oil, whisking constantly until combined and the vinaigrette is fully emulsified. Season to taste with salt and black pepper.
- Combine the sliced radishes, red onion slices, and fresh dill in a bowl.
- Pour the vinaigrette over the radishes, red onion, and dill. Stir to coat.
- Transfer to a serving bowl and gently stir in the crumbled feta cheese. Serve immediately.
Notes
- Can use fresh mint in place of dill.
- Use feta cheese that’s still in block form. Although crumbled feta cheese will also work, it looks messy, and the smallest particles tend to dissolve into the acidic dressing.
- This radish salad can be made to the point of adding the vinaigrette. Store the vegetables and the vinaigrette separately. The acidic dressing will soften the radishes substantially, reducing the crunch factor.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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