Ok, when I say ‘pimped-up’ salad, I mean that it’s a little extravagant but by no means complicated or difficult to make. In simple fact, it’s as effortless as earning a standard coleslaw but as a substitute of making use of cabbage (which some people today come across tough to digest in its raw condition), I am making use of crunchy, creamy celeriac. I pimped it up with a little crispy pancetta, sweet apple and toasted pine nuts, which just take this humble slaw to the up coming degree.

This is a magnificent salad to serve at a supper bash or on a Thanksgiving or Christmas table in summer time, you can impress your mates at a BBQ get-collectively. If you cannot come across celeriac or it’s not in period, shredded cabbage will work just as perfectly.

If you’ve by no means cooked with celeriac, listed here is what you have to have to know. Effectively, it’s the root of the celery plant and it seems like a huge, knobbly root (see down below). It is usually spherical or somewhat elongated, and even though it may show up incredibly ‘meh’ on the outside the house, it’s absolutely gorgeous on the inside. The flesh is creamy still crunchy with a subtle flavour of celery and possibly parsley that is also a little nutty. It can be eaten raw, roasted or braised. Grate it in a salad these types of as this a single, boil it for a creamy mash or roast it with herbs and spices.  You can usually come across it in outlets and at the markets all 12 months around even so, it is in its primary in autumn and winter. Celeriac retains for two-three months and it’s incredibly inexpensive.

Cook’s notes

• You can use any form of apple in this recipe. Pear would be interesting as perfectly.


• Purple onion can be omitted or you can use chopped spring onion/scallions as a substitute.


• If celeriac is not obtainable, use crimson or white cabbage or a mix of each. Kohlrabi root would also operate perfectly.


• Pancetta is an Italian bacon produced from pork stomach meat that is salt remedied and then thinly sliced. You can use prosciutto or standard bacon as a substitute. Omit for a vegetarian variation.


• Pine nuts have a magnificent sweet, buttery and somewhat woody flavour but as they are not the most affordable of nuts, come to feel totally free to use almond slivers or pumpkin seeds as a substitute.


• If keeping away from eggs, omit the mayonnaise from the dressing and use more olive oil as a substitute.

Pimped-Up Celeriac Slaw with Pancetta & Pine Nuts

 

Writer: Irena Macri

Recipe form: Salad

• three tablespoons of pine nuts
• one hundred g / three.five oz. of pancetta slices (or bacon rashers)
• one massive celeriac root, peeled and grated
• two medium carrots, peeled and grated
• ½ medium crimson onion, thinly sliced
• one medium apple, grated or thinly sliced
• ⅓ cup mayonnaise
• Zest of one lemon
• Juice of one lemon
• one teaspoon onion salt
• ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
• ⅔ teaspoon salt
• Generous pinch pepper
• two tablespoons olive oil

1. Warmth a frying pan in excess of medium-superior warmth and add the pine nuts. Pa-fry for two minutes, stirring a several moments, until finally golden brown. Remove to a cutting board and chop into smaller parts
2. Increase the pancetta to the frying pan with a little coconut oil or ghee. Pan-fry until finally crispy on each sides and take away to a bowl. Pancetta is thinner than bacon so it will just take a lot less time to brown.
3. In the meantime, peel the celeriac and minimize it into quarters. Working with a meals processor a traditional grater, shred the celeriac root into thin strips and add to a mixing bow.
4. Grate the carrots and apples and add to the celeriac collectively with crimson onion. Increase the rest of the components, as well as pine nuts and pancetta (reserve some of every for decorating the salad). Combine the salad definitely perfectly, until finally almost everything is perfectly coated in the dressing. I like to use my (thoroughly clean) arms to toss the salad through.
5. Serve on a massive platter with some of the crispy pancetta and pine nuts scattered in excess of the major. You can add a several thin slices of apple and chopped inexperienced onion or some fresh herb on major.

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