Polish celeriac and apple salad with walnuts: wintry, creamy, in a quarter of an hour
In winter, when tomatoes taste of water, celeriac returns to the table: the root grated fine, splashed with lemon, with apple, walnuts and a light dressing of mayonnaise and yogurt. The fine grater isn't fussiness: coarsely grated celeriac is hard and fibrous, finely grated it turns creamy on its own. With roasts, cutlets and fish, fifteen minutes of work.
Your own work in that: 15 min.
- Peeling and grating 10 min
- Dressing 5 min
- Resting 15 min
Step by step
0 / 4 donePeel the celeriac
Wash the celeriac and peel it thickly with a knife until only white flesh remains; the skin and brown hollows are bitter and fibrous. Cover the raisins with hot water for 5 minutes, chop the walnuts coarsely.
Ingredients: 1 pcs celeriac · 1 pcs apple · ½ pcs lemon, juice · 40 g walnuts · 30 g raisins
TipChoose celeriac that is small and heavy for its size: large ones can be hollow and spongy inside. Firm, no soft spots, smelling of celery at the base.
Thickly, down to the white fleshGrate fine and splash with lemon
Grate the celeriac on the fine side of a box grater straight into the bowl and mix at once with the lemon juice. Grated celeriac browns quickly; the lemon prevents it and adds the acid the salad needs.
TipCoarse holes give a salad as hard as raw carrot. Fine holes or a julienne grater: the celeriac softens in the dressing and turns creamy without cooking.
Fine grater, lemon at onceAdd the apple and extras
Peel the apple and grate it on the coarse side, add to the celeriac with the drained raisins and the walnuts. Mix.
Apple coarse, walnuts, raisinsDress and rest
Stir the mayonnaise with the yogurt, mustard, salt, pepper and sugar until smooth. Pour over the salad, mix thoroughly and leave 15 minutes: the celeriac softens and soaks up the dressing. Taste, add salt or more lemon. With a roast, schabowy, fish. Keeps 2 days in the fridge.
Ingredients: 2 tbsp mayonnaise · 2 tbsp natural yogurt · 1 tsp mustard · ½ tsp salt · ¼ tsp black pepper · 1 pinch sugar
Mayonnaise, yogurt, mustard, a quarter-hour rest
Before you start
With carrot
Half the celeriac and one carrot grated fine: more colourful and sweeter, the children's favourite version.
Without mayonnaise
A dressing of 3 spoons of Greek yogurt, a spoon of olive oil and a teaspoon of honey: lighter, sharper, for fish.
Celeriac remoulade
Celeriac in thin matchsticks on a mandoline instead of grated, a dressing of mayonnaise with Dijon mustard and capers: the French version, for cold cuts and sandwiches.
