This julienned celery root salad is vigorous and stuffed with crunchy textures. Kale, cabbage, celery, roasted peanuts, and apples fill out the remainder of the bowl, all bathed in a peanut maple French dressing with a touch of celery salt. It’s a real celebration of celery and celery root! No cooking is required and this hearty vegan salad solely takes about half-hour to make.
Celery root is considered one of my favourite greens, and it goes so properly with apples and peanuts. As I used to be work purchasing this salad, I began excited about the ants on a log snack of my youth (celery sticks stuffed with peanut butter and raisins). The concept to incorporate apple cider-soaked raisins got here to me, and I’m so glad that it did. Amidst the sweet-salty crunch and freshness, you get little tangy raisin pops. So easy however pleasant!
This attractive salad can be a enjoyable and weird addition to your vacation desk. The construction jogs my memory of this Chopped Apple, Kale & Parsnip Salad—a number of advantageous shred cuts! I discover that smaller minimize veggies make a salad way more interesting to of us. You may get a bit little bit of every thing in a single chew and the presentation is spectacular.
I like to recommend utilizing a mandoline slicer to make quicker work of this celery root salad recipe! For the dressing, you merely have to shake up every thing in a sealed jar (apple cider vinegar, peanut butter, and some others).
When you do this, you gained’t be capable to get sufficient of uncooked celery root. I like to recommend branching out to my Celery Root Radicchio Salad with Heat Date Dressing & Pistachios subsequent.
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Crisp Celery Root Salad with Peanut French dressing & Apple
Crunchy and satisfying, this celery root salad with a barely candy maple peanut French dressing, salted peanuts, and apples is a superb and weird chilly climate facet dish.
Servings 6
Elements
Raisins
- 2 tablespoons raisins
- ⅓ cup apple cider
Peanut French dressing
- 2 tablespoons easy peanut butter
- 1 ½ tablespoons maple syrup
- ¼ teaspoon celery seed
- ½ teaspoon Tamari
- salt and pepper, to style
- ¼ cup apple cider vinegar
- 5 tablespoons olive oil
Salad
- 1 small celery root, peeled
- 2 sticks celery
- 4-5 leaves lacinato kale
- ½ small head inexperienced cabbage
- 1 apple (honeycrisp or ambrosia are nice)
- ⅓ cup roasted and salted peanuts, chopped advantageous
Notes
- I like to avoid wasting the leaves within the inside coronary heart of the celery for ending a salad like this. Simply slice them up a bit and sprinkle excessive.
- If you happen to don’t have apple cider readily available, water additionally works nice! You simply need the raisins to be plump and juicy.
Directions
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Place the raisins and apple cider in a microwave-safe bowl and cook dinner within the microwave in 15 second increments till the cider is tremendous sizzling. Put aside in order that the raisins can plump up whilst you prep the salad.
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Make the dressing. In a jar with a lid, mix the peanut butter, maple syrup, celery seed, Tamari, salt, pepper, apple cider vinegar, and olive oil. Shut the lid on high and shake to mix. Put aside.
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Prep the salad. Slice the celery root on a mandoline after which use a chef’s knife to julienne these slices earlier than putting in a big bowl. Slice the celery sticks skinny and add them to the bowl. Take away the stems from the kale and slice thinly earlier than additionally including to the big bowl. Shred the cabbage with the mandoline after which add it to the bowl. Take away the core from the apple and slice it tremendous skinny earlier than including to the bowl.
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Upon getting all of the greens and fruit within the bowl, add ½ of the peanuts and all the French dressing. Season with salt and pepper. Toss with tongs to mix. Prime the salad with remaining peanuts, the cider-soaked raisins, and a few further celery seed if you happen to like. Get pleasure from!
