This isn't what I wanted to cook tonight. I had a fancy for chicken with chestnuts, but the two supermarkets I tried had no chestnuts. Unusual.
Instead I picked up this
It's called 香萝卜 xiāng luó bó in Chinese. That means "something like "appetizing radish". It is a large colour reversed radish, red on the inside and whitish-green on the outside. They don't have the peppery nature of the small ones. The one I bought is 8cm (just over 3"") in diameter. If these are as common as bananas where you are, please forgive any sense of my being patronizing - it's just I had never encountered them until I came here in China.
Anyway, I made slow-cooker chicken legs with onions, garlic, bay leaf, mustard and the radish. Served with boiled spuds and a side of spinach to alleviate the redness. Forgot to photograph the spinach, but you know what it looks like. Not red.
