Often ribs are boiled or oven-steamed before grilling to help tenderize the meat. To oven-steam ribs, place ribs in a large baking pan, fill with about 1 inch of water, cover with aluminum foil and bake for about 50 minutes in a 350-degree oven. The recipe here includes instructions on how to boil ribs before grilling.
Another use of radish is as cover or catch crop in winter or as a forage crop. Some radishes are grown for their seeds; daikon, for instance, may be grown for oil production. Others are used for sprouting and both roots and leaves are sometimes served cooked or cold.
Radish fruit: Kapha Vatajit â Balances Kapha and Vata Doshas. Radish seed is useful in productive cough, digestive, bloating. It is mild purgative, useful in constipation and a very good diuretic. Its seed paste is administered in a dose of 1 â 3 grams per day to treat amenorrhea. Dose: Radish juice â 25 â 50 ml, in divided dose per day Seed powder: 1 â 3 grams. Moolaka for Swedana (sweating treatment) â Radish is one among the herbs used in Nadi Sweda (Charaka Sutrasthana 14th chapter). It is boiled in a pot along with other herbs and the steam generated is directed towards particular part of the body.