Crisp Celery Root Salad with Peanut French dressing & Apple

This julienned celery root salad is energetic and crammed 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 seed. 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.

An overhead shot shows a celery root salad in a wide bowl. The salad also features celery, kale, cabbage, apples, peanuts and raisins. All of the fruit and vegetables are julienned fine. A checked napkin is seen to the side.

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Celery root is one in every of my favourite greens, and it goes so effectively with apples and peanuts. As I used to be work procuring this salad, I began fascinated about the ants on a log snack of my youth (celery sticks crammed with peanut butter and raisins). The thought 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 strange addition to your vacation desk. The construction jogs my memory of this Chopped Apple, Kale & Parsnip Salad—a lot of positive shred cuts! I discover that smaller minimize veggies make a salad rather more interesting to people. You will get slightly little bit of all the pieces in a single chunk and the presentation is spectacular.

I like to recommend utilizing a mandoline slicer to make sooner work of this celery root salad recipe! For the dressing, you merely must shake up all the pieces in a sealed jar (apple cider vinegar, peanut butter, and some others).

When you do this, you gained’t be capable of get sufficient of uncooked celery root. I like to recommend branching out to my Celery Root Radicchio Salad with Warm Date Dressing & Pistachios subsequent.

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An overhead shot shows bowls filled with julienned celery root, julienned apple, shredded cabbage, chopped peanuts, sliced kale, and sliced celery.

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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 wonderful and strange chilly climate facet dish.

An up close, overhead shot shows a celery root salad in a wide bowl. The salad also features celery, kale, cabbage, apples, peanuts and raisins. All of the fruit and vegetables are julienned fine.

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Complete Time: 30 minutes

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 positive

Notes

I like to save lots of the leaves within the interior 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

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.
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 prime and shake to mix. Put aside.
Prep the salad. Slice the celery root on a mandoline after which use a chef’s knife to julienne these slices earlier than inserting 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.
After getting all of the greens and fruit within the bowl, add ½ of the peanuts and the entire 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 additional celery seed in the event you like. Get pleasure from!