DEANNA - Monday the 7 th. - celery root/celeriac

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Hi Deanna,

 

 

Celery root/celeriac (knolselderij in Dutch) is extremely popular in Holland

and one of the favourite ways of serving it is as a simple but quite

delicious salad. It really is worth the trouble of struggling with a

vegetable which is notoriously reluctant to co-operate with your efforts to

peel it. (LOL)

 

 

 

 

 

Celeriac Salad

 

 

Serves 4

 

 

400 g celeriac (peeled)

 

 

250 ml mayonnaise

 

 

2 teaspoons mustard (mild or hot, as you prefer)

 

 

Fresh parsley (chopped)

 

 

Cut the celeriac into matchsticks or grate on the coarsest grater. The

celeriac will discolour very quickly so as soon as you have cut/grated it,

put it as you go into a bowl of water with a tablespoon of either lemon

juice or vinegar. Don't wait until you have finished cutting/grating to put

the celeriac into the acidulated water, or the portion you have done first

will already have started to go brown by the time you finish.

 

 

Bring a saucepan of plain water (no vinegar/lemon juice) to the boil.

Strain the celeriac and add to the saucepan of boiling water. Allow water

to return to the boil then pour celeriac into a large sieve. Rinse celeriac

with cold water and dry well on a clean tea towel.

 

 

Mix the mustard well with the mayonnaise and stir the celeriac into the

mayonnaise/mustard mixture.

 

 

Garnish with chopped parsley. Serve cold.

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers from Marie in Haarlem, Netherlands